Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1914-07-01

This is true both as regards the
trust question and the tariff question.
As regards both the only wise course
to follow is that set forth in the ma
tionaI Progressive platform The ma
tion should deal with both by contin-
uing executive action through admin
is trative commission OF ample power.
One commission should shape our tar
iff policies so as. with thorough
knowledge disinterestedly acquired to
give proper protection to our wage
workers our farmer and our business
men, The other commission should
exercise strict supervision and control
over big business. We should treat
it with entire justice, drawing the line
not on size but on conduct We should
encourage the big business man who
does wen and who regards his great
abilities as a trust to be exercised as
much in the interest of the public as
his own interests. But we should
check and punish him effectually and
promptly when he exercises those abiS,
tiles to the detriment either of the
smaller business man with whom he
competes or the wage workers who
should share with him the benefits Of
his and their common efforts or of
the general public whom he serves.
"As regards the tariff, I wish espec.
tally to call your attention to the
promises made by President Wilson
and his supporters two years ago.
They asserted that their method Of
tariff reduction would reduce the cost
Of living, and would solve the trust
problem because, as they said, the
trusts were the creatures Of the tar
iff We then answered that their
promises were empty words, that no
Isuch results as they stated could or
would follow from the course they ad-
vocated, and that only by the method
we proposed could either the trust
or the tariff question be dealt with so
as to abate existing evils and at the
same time increase the general well
being. Two short years have proved
us to be right Their promises have
not been kept Their performance has
brought distress upon the nation The
cost Of living had not been reduced
But the ability of the average man to
earn a living has been greatly re-
ducod. Not the slightest progress has
been made toward solving the trust
problem. But the business community
[ has been harassed and harried to no
Purpose and the prosperity of the bus
I iness man has been checked, exactly
/ as the prosperity of the farmer and
the wage Garner has been checked, ex-
actly as the prosperity of the farmer
| and the wage Garner has been checked.
AS FOR the farmer, the present tariff,
/ the administration tariff, was so
formed as to result in the sacrifice Of
| his interests. He had no spokesman,
no friend in high quarters and his well
/ fare was contemptuously sacrificed.
AT every point where his interest was
concerned, he was made TO suffer AS
for the wage workers, the result Of
the tariff was that he suffered even
more than his employer, for he was
thrown out Of employment and lost
the means to earn his livelihood
"As for the employer, some time he
has had to close his shop. In business
in which any Of the big trusts were
concerned, it was the small compet-
/ itors of the trusts who were injured.
and in many cases ruined. Tarin re-
duction as put into practice by the
present administration has chiefly
benefited foreign rivals and competit-
ors
1T is, of course. essential to rebuke
those leaders who by their action
helped to put the present administra-
ton in power, and, moreover, it is Of
vital consequence to the future well
being o four people to drive from
public life all men whose political
activities in state and nation alike
have been such as those OF Senator
Penrose. This is not only political
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