South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-11-03
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SLOGAN OUT FOR WILSON.


w pail" slogan I'm the Bryan-McKinley
1896 campaign-David G. Baltic of Los An
geIes-thrcw down the gauntlet, to the re-
publican high prOtectionists, IL must have been
a distinct shock never believed the full
dinner-paI' "A product of the protective tariff"
he said. "My opposition to MFR. Bryan was on
the money issue, not the protective tariff
issue, | am for Wilson on the money issue,
because il makes fun dinner-pails' and on the
tariff commission issue both"
And the tariff comm issiOn is an issue in
this campaign. by constantly declaring for
high protection the republican party presages
a repeal OF the tariff commission law, should
il be returned to power. and this regardless
of its Chicago platform pretenSons. Read II;
.SThe republican party stands now al
WAYS for the policy of protection
and docs regard an anti-dump-
ing provision adequate substitute. Such
protection should be reasonable ana
80 adjusted to prevent undue exactiOns by
monOpOlies and trusts and
in peace IA well i'm will produce ample
revenue We favor the creation
OF a tariff commission with complete power to
gather and compile information for the use OF
congress in all matters relating to the tariff.
or course il made no difference to the re-
publicans in Chicago. that that commission
had already been created, 50 far as concerned
one house of the democratic congress, but that
is not the main question. The tariff commits
sion contemplated by the republicans must
have been one packed with high protection .
lists that would advise tariffs, within their
called ''reasOnabIeness," and Gin peace as well
as war produce ample revenue for the fed
eral government.
Does IL mean the repeal OF the income-tax
law? Surely IL the tariff produce all this
revenue then there will be no need of such
a Iaw-taxing the rich their incomes, that
the poor may be partially relieved from paying
the tariff levied on what they consume? we
wonder too il our republican friends remem-
Der how under the DingIey tariff. internal
revenue taxes were levied by the republicans
on every bit OF business transacted. during the
Spanish American war? William Mckinley
was president then, but now the republicans
would levy a tariff they say, which, apparently
with the income-tax eliminated, would have
provided revenue for the government regard
less of that war. 1t is just another bit OF their
political sOphistry, calculated TO beguile the
unsophisticated public.
the Spanlsh-American war to interfere with
either American imports exports and yet
our imports were insufficient to meet the
enue demands of the government. All Europe
was trading with us, except Spain, and Spain
was pOwerless to interfere. We couldn't take
care of a little army in Cuba and Porto Rico
and modified troops here SOIL
scarcely doubling the guard maintained
internal revenue tax Yet they spout about
the failure of the Underwood tariff to pro-
duce ample revenue for the government
day, when practically all Europe is shut of
from importing anything to Us, except
Germany. with her mdersea craft, the
Deutschland. occasionally slips across and
brings us the things that most sOreIy need.
III there are imports, of course, there
can be no tarih-no revcnue-cOllected from
them. and the republicans know just as well
a. the democrats know. and just David G..
Baltic knows, that the only legitimate pur-
pose of tariffs Is revenue, all protection, in
excess OF that which naturally accrues from
all tariffs. is naught but industrial gIaft-of
no profit TO the workingman whatever.
Dave Baltic. as ne was Familiarity known
for his full dinner-paiI' slogan. believes just
as every student of economics believes. who
has studied these questions without Industrial
lied minds that the best way TO protect
American wOrkingmen against competition
with the sO-called pauperized worlingmen of
Europe. Is not to pauperize Europe Make it
possible for Europeans to- make a decent liv-
ing over there instead of coming to America.
hoping better their condition and by so do
ing enter into competition with the American
IabOrcr and thereby reduce his wages here.
This importation of European workers is
exactly what the American manufacturer al
ways thrives upon, means of keeping
down wages. IL Is because Europe's workers
are at war today and there immigrants
to flood the American labor market that
there i a competition of jobs Instead of men.
and wages have gone up.
II there were more men to be had the COM
petition would force wages down, just as GER
tainlV a. water runs down hill.