The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1915-05-29

| ana now mucn TO the read1u6tment
necessarily resulting from tariff re-
vision. Is not material. The interests
could AFFORD a small per cent Of loss
on manufactured depression in or
der to restore monopoly profits for
another long high tariff period. But
the revision OF the tariff by the VIII
son administration furnished no sub
stantial reason for business depres-
sion of a radical or general charac-
ter. 1t was in no sense a democratic
tarifr-for-revenue-bill Excepting up
on agricultural products and a few
of the more highly finished manufac-
lures. duties were made to measure
the difference between the cost of
domestic and foreign production.
Setting aside partisan politics. and
taken as a whole. 1t was a measure
which any republican, could honestly
and conscientiously support.
But the trust bosses of the coun-
try have their reasons to be resent
full of recent legislation. A trades
commission was established. This
commission is empowered and direct
ed to prevent the use of unfair meth
DDS of competition in commerce and
industry. The, wise exercise of this
and other powers conferred upon the
commission cannot fail to afford
much relief to the public and to hon
est business suffering from unfair
methods and practices at the hands
of INSCRIPTIONS corporations.
To the extent that it is necessary
10 uproot unlawful practices, to re-
store honest competitive business
methods, those who are engaged in
unlawful practices will always COM
plain. With the predatory interests
believing in the devine right OF mon
tpoiy, they regard the public as their
lawful spoil. Whatever interferes
with their methods or disarranges
their system, is regarded as dis
turbance of legitimate business. So
long as they keep labor employed at
living wage, they maintain their
right to destroy competition and tax
transportation all the traffic will
bear. corrupt government, and de-
stroy democracy. Hence they are
quite as bitter and resentful against
the Wilson administration as though
1t had completely freed the govern
ment from every tyranny. In fact.
1t has only made a beginning. It has
by no means accomplished all that 1t
was authorized to do by the votes
of the electorate of the country
The business of this country has
suffered depression. Thousands of
men have been out of employment.
But one-half of the worlds popula-
ton is at war. During most of the
period covered by this awful conflict
our overseas shipping has been al
most wholly suspended. Our foreign
trade aggregating nearly four thou
sand million dollars has been in an
utterly chaotic condition for nearly
year. The commerce of every neu-
trail nation has suffered enormously.
Who shall say that existing bust
ness conditions in this country are
due to tariff revision or to the legis-
lation enacted to restrain trusts and
prohibit the unfair practices of DOW
erful business organizations?
Republican voters have no cause
to complain of the Wilson admins
tration on the score that 1t has re-
vised the tariff downward Republi-
cans voted for tariff revision down.
ward in 1908, again In 1910. and
yet again in 1912
majority OF the voters of all par
ties have for years demanded that
the power of monopoly be broken
and the markets Of our country freed
from trust control
We must go forward, not back
ward. The next administration must
be more progressive, not less pro-
gressiye.
The standpat republican halls with
JOY the slightest evidence OF business
depression. Reactionary statesmen
who had accepted retirement from
public life as inevitable in 1912, are
looking forward with hope toward
1916. They long for restoration