Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-05
Tariff Law NOT a Mistake.


There's no installing the meaning
of Roswell A. Benedict In his serving
up of the present tariff, it's inspiration
and the manner Of it's accomplishment
as published by the Home Market
Club Of Boston. He writes:
Most people take too seriously, as
sober attempt at craftsmanship, the
Wilson Underwood Simmons Tarln
Law, which just now is SO heartily
cursing this country and its industrial
employment. The fact is that the law
was not an attempt at craftsmanship
at all but merely one to keep faith
with the people who had used the
Democratic party as their instrument
to destroy our Protective Tariff Wall
and let in the Market Robbers to sack
our industrial city. If the Democratic
party had not thus done what 1t hao
agreed with these Market Robbers to
do, they would have had no more pie
from the Market Robbers cupboard;
and that would have been fatal to the
Democratic party; for the only real
use to which that party is put In these
latter days is to act as a jimmy for the
Market Burglars.
It takes about twenty years for the
old folks to die off in sufficient num-
bers to give the young folks chance
to try the experiment Of trusting the
Democratic party once more with tns
government. A child must burn MS
own fingers before learning not 10
fool with fire. These young folks can
not be taught by the experience Oh
others. They must feel the Hessian
bayonets pricking their own skins be-
fore realizing what the Democratic
party really is when it goes to war;
mercenary, reckless and ravenously
hungry rabble, without principle IN
the world but plumber, hired by Mar
ket Robbers to batter down our Pro-
tectiye Tariff Wall, in order that these
Robbers may get away with our wage
fund and wax wealthy enough to be
able to endure about twenty years in
the wilderness outside Of our Protec-
tive WALL while waiting for the crop
of young fools to grow UP again and
be brihed by pretty talk and deceived
by the ISLANDERS and libels Of the Hes
sian press, paid to villify out Of its
own market successful American Pro-
duction.
When the flattery on one side and
villification on the other has Stimu-
lated the conceit and the Pharisaism
Of the young crop sufficiently for the
purpose, they are enlisted as a clacque
for the Hessians, and together they
carry the city, the youngsters inside
tossing the keys to the city gates over
the walls to the freebooters outside.
This happened in 1892; and twenty
years afterwards, or in 1912 it hap
pened again. The same result will be
due and probably will arrive on time
in 1882. The Democrats are going to
sometime after March 4, 1917, the Pro-
tective Tariff Wall is going to be re-
built; the people Of the United States
are going to get back their domestic
market of which they are being largely
robbed by the party now in power in
the White House and Capitol at
Washington; they are going to wax
fat again with high wages; our wage
fund will get so large that the man
is going tC get about all there is of the
product he helps to make; then the
younger workers will get frisky again
and will take up the Hessian boiler
against wealth and their employers;
the Market Robbers outside Of the
Wall will egg the young sinners on
and the young sinners will swell very
big in their own eyes and become great
Pharisees stuck on Reform with a big
"R." Whom the Market Robbers wish
to swallow whole they first make crazy
on Reform In about twenty years
the crop of fools will be ripe for the
harvest and the crew outside the Pro-
tective Tariff Wall will be hungry
enough for anything: and the crop will
be harvested in the same old way.
Some people refer to the Underwood
Protective Tariff Destruction as a
"blunder," mistake a "misflt," a
''fasco." failure" or by some other
epitnet implying it's want of success.
But there never was thing less a
"blunder." mistake" a ''misfit," a
failure" or any Of these things than
the Underwood Law. Why? Simply
because it was made for the express
purpose Of turning our wage fund out
into the pockets of the adroit gentle
men whdcused the Democratic party as
battering ram for our Protectice Tar
If Wall; and it is doing that very
thing to the Presidents taste. A mis-
take! A failure! A blunder! Not
much! Not any more than the dark
lantern is failure. which lights the
way for the burglar while it hides him
In its shadow. AS Market Robbers
tool, the Underwood Law is immensely
successful And that 10 uho< ~ ,,,o =