South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-11-21
sTANDPAT MEDICINE OFFERED
As y PROGRESSIVE ANTIDOTE.

future pdTuSdn Whereabouts IS a mat
ter difficult 70 conceive. but evidently
the republicans surmise that they will
be bone-headed enough TO find it. We
read that
Some progressive leaders doubt
less VIII ind IL ditf'1Clt TO return
10 the republican party after the
abuse they have he@ped upon it.
the poor thing; Just as though the
abuse had all been going in one direc-
ton To put it lightly, the general
observation has been that II matters
Of abuse is to keep the republicans
and progressives apart, it will be the
abuse that the republicans have heap
ed upon the progressives, rather than
the prOgressives upon the republicans.
putting the former. should they con-
sent to amalgamate, in the position
assured by Horace G. Stillwell. of An
derson, viz: that or a whipped dog"
This may be true Of Mr.. StilweIl We
are not prepared to say. Mr.. Stilwell
is considerable OF a politician, and,
perhaps figures that the humility of
such a return will serve TO get him
somewhere. With the rank and file
OF the party, however. progressive
from principle rather than for posi-
ton, we doubt If they are ready to
bow so humbly at the elephants feet.
The progressive party may be dead
but the progressive principles are not,
while the local expositor Of republicO-
bull moose amalgamation virtually
admits that If these are secured
through the republican party. they
will have TO be worked out" Speak
ing of the trust problem, for instance,
it says:
The trust program of the pro-
gressives is exactly opposite that
OF the democrats. The demo-
cratic party is proceeding upon
the theory of regulated cOmpeu-
ton and abolished monopoly. The
prOgreSsives, on the contrary, be-
lieve IN a regulated monopoly.
Here Is a vital economic differ
ence between these parties. The
republican theory is neither one
nor the other,
which is distinctly and emphatically
true, so far as concerns the republican
theory. and leads one to wonder how
they came to confess it.
And yet, there is little need for
wonder after all. The republican
party has every reason to accept the
recent election as an Endorsement of
its standpatism, that is, if it was an
Endorsement OF anything republican
at ALL And so the progressives may
return and swallow the standpat med
icine, offered as an antidote. They are
supposed to be too blind to see that
the distinction between democratic
regulation OF competition and pro-
gressive regulation OF monopoly, is
more a matter OF words and methods,
than OF desired ends, and so they are
told that 1t is something very vital.
The democratic party. by regulat-
ing competition does regulate monop-
oily. the program being pretty much
the same az the progressives would
have to pursue, regulating monopoly
by encouraging competition. The in
PRODUCTION OF IN industrial commission
as means TO these ends is about the
only point OF difference. there being
a positive demand for it on the part
OF the progressives while the dem
ocrats only have such a commission
in contemplation.
And the same with regard TO the
tariff We are told
However kindly the progress
sives may look upon some Of Mr..
Wilson's achievements they rec
ogniZe that between their views
and those of the democrats there
is q wide gulf. The democratic
l.. l.,
progressiveS were prOtectiOnists
from principle. Unless, as some
profess to believe, the time will
come when all government rev.
enue will be derived from income
and corporation taxes and the
theory OF a protective tariff be
upset completely. there is a
chasm between p~ogreSsives and
democrats which cannot be
bridged.
More tariff bunkum, To begin with
the democratic party is not a free
trade party but a tariff for revenue
party. To end with. the chasm be-
tween protectionism and a tariff for
revenue policy can be bridged and
the bridge has already been recon-
mended TO congress by Pres't Wilson,
after a manner not very much out of
accord with the express provisions OF
the progressive platform. That bridge
is in the nature OF a tariff commission.
1t is not claimed even by democrats
that the Underwood tariff is perfect,
as was asserted Of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff by ex-Pres't Taft in his speech
at Winona. Bat it marks the begin
ming OF tariff revision downward. and
Prest Wilson proposes a commission
20 point out where 10 revise next.
No such thing as a tariff commits
sion from the republicans-no never.
II was urged upon them following the
passage OF the Payne-AIdrich law.
while the party was in full control OF
congress, but nothing doing until the
last moment before being ousted from
office. Then the socalled tariff board.
and guch a hoard as il was "A hoa rG