The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-06-25

OIN LAM, June lb-(I0 the ore
gonian. )-There is no panic in the In
ternal Revenue department at the Port
land custom house. Times are good
there. Our friend Milton A. Miller has
heard of no business depression His
two-column diatribe is the only excuse
for two-column response. In all his
profuse waste of language he does not
designate a single day or hour in the
seven wholly democratic years of the
/ last 81 when we had the faintest SEM
biance of business prosperity. He does
not explain why democratic success
and business depression always go
hand in hand. Political parties ask
support upon their pledge that their
theories will best conduce to the hap
piness and prosperity of the people
If their success does not bring the
promised results then are all their
preachments nothing but political
bunk" Democratic promises never
have worked ou.." They always fail
and the failure Is always charged up
to wall Street" or the gold bugs"
on the ''standpatters," or to some other
stuffed democratic bogie that is kept
in stock for this purpose and the lam
entations of jeremiah are sweet music
compared to the wall of protest they
send up when they are called to ac-
count
The protective tariff is their pet
aversion. but no republican tariff has
ever brought a panic, and no demo-
cratic tariff has ever brought prosper
ity The Payne Aldrich law, with its
. provision for a non partisan tariff
commission when compared with the
Underwood Simmons law, the child of
5 the old political log-rollng methods,
almost shines as a specimen of perfect
l tariff legislation, and the irreverent
4 standpatter derisivey smiles at the
f comparative results. No prudent demo-
/ crat invites comparison with condi-
n tions under Taft. The greatest com
r mercial and Industrial developments OF
" our history have come as a result OF
|, republican policies and under these poll
r cies no nation has. in the fast 80 years
= advanced with greater rapidity to sub
liner heights Today no nation, II We
S bar the unfortunate colored people OF
r the south, can show a larger percent
# age of intelligence, or enjoys in greater
: degree, or in larger proportion, all thu
IS comforts of our modern civilization.
s But Brother Miller says that unde
e republican rule we have had strike
and failures, and that rich men hav
demanded unwarranted profits. un
doubtedly This is not Utopia, and tn
millennium is a long way ahead. Tn
republican party cannot cure all tn
y defects of human nature and preven
:, distortion 1t canot give men the ca
. pacity to insure business success. w
= are told that 95 per cent of those WI
=. enter business fail in the course OF
. lifetime. No political system can saV
them ALL The half column of republlca
- strike data given by Mr.. Miller was fc
- him a pure waste of space. NO prudef
laborer strikes when the democrat
party is making it almost imposslb
=. for him to hold his job. The time
- strike is when times are good and II
- - prosperous business of the employ'
makes a raise of wages possible III
80 prudent man who has a job In the'
=. times is sticking to 1t like a sick ki
of ten to a hot brick.
- And the failures In boom times Il
improvident. the speculator, the pluni
er and the stock gambler figure larg
lv in the list of failures while democra
lC prosperity a SPON-e'~'
er hodv hut takes them all in Under r
publican rule depression is sporadic. =
ne der democratic rule it is epidemic al
no universal. Nothing has played great
lis havoc with democracy than the tart
ng II Is a democratic hoo doc. Among o
at national statesman, Washington, Har
n ilton, Franklin. Webster, Clay, Linco
op blaine Garfield, Mckinley and a he
p of others were stalwart champions
III protection. Lincoln gave expression
Is a fundamental idea of protection wh
Use he said: "If my wife buys a dress
er' England for $40, we have the dress
ne England has the $40. If she buys
Is dress in the United States we have Dc
tie the dress and the $50" Bismarck Oh
said: "It is my deliberate 5udgm'
that the prosperity Of America Is ma
Up. ~ due to her system of protecl
ere laws" But there are scores OF III
ths German professors, who get all TN
op, ia riff knowledge out of the text boo
ial who will tell you that Bismarck
mt an old fool, and there are thousai
tel of crossroads American politicians
asst have the same opinion of Franklin
red Webster and Lincoln.
ds. Let us inquire II a democratic ia
er, ever improved conditions. We had
1t solute free trade from 1888 to Il
up Bolles Financial History of the Uni
ted States tells us that during that u
in Great Britain wiped up every dollar
ton the country, and Webster declared t
ar .such a period of depression foilo'
as the people hardly felt in the sha
est crisis of the war itself" These
AL ditions brought our first protective
a.. iff law, passed by congress and sig
"a bv washington in 1883. The impro
:. rment was immediate and continue
"A but In 1916 and 1913 there. was a
~ mand for a downward revision
: the usual disastrous results. Then c.
ctamor for additionai protection
rom @ the protective sstariff acts. of 1924
.@aI yaas ware enacted. The tide Of p
.~r.4, tunusdiatelY followed and {