The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-06-08


tariff which prospers America first.
l choose the economic policy which
sends the American workingmen to the
savings banks rather than the soup
houses. l commend the plan under
which the healthful glow of prosper
ing business is reflected in every face
from the great captain of industry to
the schooling child of the daily wage
Garner.
Moreover, l like the abiding con-
sistenCy Of our unchanging position
upon this policy. The Republican
Convention Of 1860, which gave to the
nation and all history the nomination
OF Lincoln, made this simple and ample
uttcrance:
That, while providing revenue
for the support Of the General
Government by duties upon i'm
ports, sound policy requires such
an adjustment Of these imports as
to encourage the development OF
the industrial interests of the
whole country; and we commend
that policy Of national exchanges
which secures to the working men
liberal wages, to agriculture re-
munerating prices. to mechanics
ard mann e. o+,IrorS IN ojocnoFo
reward for their skill, labor, and
enterprise. and to the nation COM
mercial prosperity and indepcn-
dercc"
eve might fittingly rcitcratc that
utterancc today. The failure Of rev.
cnues under existing Democratic POL
icy, the necessary resort TO the imro-
sition Of direct and offensive taxation
var taxes on people at peacc-to
meet deficiencies which ever attend
Democratic control, the depression and
disaster which followed Democratic
revision, which were relieved rather
than caused by the European war
all these argue the Republican rcstor-
alton.
''The nations abroad and the Demo
cratic party at home are bearing wit
ness to Republican wisdom. German
industrial self-reliance is the sequence
to hCr adoption of Republican pro
tective tariff, and EnglanG's manifest
conversion TO this fostering plan will
magnify the prophetic wisdom Of
Republican prOtectiOniStS. Even the
Democratic party is penitcnt now and
makes confession in action if not in
words. The proposed destruction of
American sugar has been repealed,
and stimulated grief about the Ameri-
can breakfast table has been put aside.
With that facility for changing posi-
ton which has been made manifest
from Baltimore to Vera Cruz, the
party in power proposes to restore the
tariff commission which it had has
tened to destroy.
This change Of attitude is not be
cause Of it's great and manifest love
of commission alone, but because fail
ure is written across every raragra ph
of Democratic revision and fear is
haunting the White House siumbCrS.
The Wilson administration has sCnsCd
the country's anxiety about industrial
conditions when the rCrcIry in MUM
tons and the immunity granted by
war aye ended. it has made a rcAcc-
tive estimate of the perils Of 1914,
once called psychological, and means
to apply a stolen remedy, with more
concern about the effects than the
ethics involved. We do not oppose a
tariff commission. We favor it. Il is
Il Republican creation. We do not
want one, however. conceived in Demo-
cratic hostility to American industry
or managed in Democratic opposition
to business success. We would hasten
the protective defense against foreign
invasion, to guarantee our industrial
security, and then let Il tariff conf
mission deliberately and scientifically
work out the needs Of American pref
ercnce.
'"The President has said ours is
provincial party. evidently forgetting
the FCdcralist founding CT our nation
atty and Republican expansion to
greater national glory. The Demo
cratic party not only fails to grasp
our immensely and Importance, it is
sectional on the mainland and unhccd-
ing of our island possessions. Its
vision docs not catch the splendor of
Old Glory in the sunlight Of the world.
Right novr when the devouring flames
of war arc burning most fiercely, when
our national view must be Worldwide
to be comprehensive, the Democratic
administration has proposed to set
adrift an island empire, in violation of
our obligations to the world, to the
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