The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-17

states of the great west The grain
states OF the west had the difference
of weeks between it and the Pacific
Coast Thus we were as far from
each other i'm the days of those pre-
JUDGES as We are today from foreign
nations-in point of time Of travel.
1t is now seen that all general com
merce to be successful, must be regu-
lated by some one rule which applies
to all the states alike and to all parts
of the nation alike in order that every
part OF the nation may feel that il is
| having the same privilege and oppor-
tunity as any other part of the nation,
and and that the operators Of com
merce may feel that they can address
/ themselves to methods and issues
which will apply in all parts of the
country as to any part. Thus they
economic and harmonic their efforts
and expenditures and at the same
| time produce the highest degree Of
efficient results to that citizen who in
his new conception of his rights is
| demanding full service from the gov
eminent and Of those who serve the
nation.
This has removed the possibility
of further conflict between states in
the matters of local government where
the local regulation would touch sub
! ject matter which applies to all of
the states or to many states alike.
Ia,
question Of what is the best method
for the nation, through her central
! Legislation, to serve the public in the
quickest manner with those things
necessary to the largest volume of
commerce and the greatest prosperity
OF the citizen. Upon this we have the
national ideas of railroad regulation
by Congress or railroad ownership by
the nation; telegraph and postal regu-
lation by the government or ownership
by the nation; business regulation by
the government through direct laws
or supervision of the private citizen in
his affairs through commissions
named by the government. All of
these are addressed to to single OBJ
ject of securing for the citizen the
greatest liberty of action and the
highest prosperity of business. The
new generation engaging in this con
test took none of these things from
the fathers. Thirty years ago these
issues would have been regarded as
revolutionary and the proposals as
do Of hn 9 ho Ia
lie.
"Thirty years ago the idea Of a
protective tariff as a political issue
placing an embargo on all imports
generally without regard to what they
were, as against the other ideae of
tree trade of allowing all imports in
to our country without regard to what
they were, possessed the nation as
political distinction and made polite
al parties. Today the tariff cannot
be arranged in any manner upon any
number of things by which distinct
set Of men can be lined on one side
of the whole conteItion and another
distinct set Of men upon another con
tention
To-day all Of our citizens admit
that the tariff is a matter of business
adjustment Each man engaged in
any business recognizing that this ad-
justment is subject to change at any
hour caused by either droughts
which shorten crops, or deluges which
drown them. or by wars which cut off
manufactures, or by inventions which
produce new demands. Therefore, the
present generation demands that the
tariff should be placed in the hands of
a body Of men who would adjust these
thing, as the condition of each year
might make necessary, just as the
tariff rates Of a railroad are made nee
essary in their changes by the yearly
conditions of the country The tariff
instead of being now a political issue
between individual parties, is a mere
competitive economic agency between
individual men and companies en-
gagged in competitive enterprises, the
object at all times being to have the
tariffs so adjusted so as to afford the
greatest opportunity for our people to
make and sell from which the great
est gain could be brought forth. To
the extent we may have to obtain from
others that from which we may wish
to make other things, remains also
as much of a question as the extent
to which we should have opportunity
to sell after we have made. Thus it
will be seen that in this present day
the tariff is no longer a party issue,
but a business agency.
Now that the war in Europe will
make new demands on America for
the supplying of all of the countries
of Europe to make up the deficiencies
of the next twenty years, new issue
Of business relations between our
selves and Europe will have to be en-
tered upon. Also since the war has
destroyed the European manufac-
tories this has forced upon America
the new duty of making for herself
that which heretofore she had wholly