Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-02-25
LQNDEN ATTACKS
DEMOCRATIC RULE
DECLARES UNDERWOOD TARIFF
uNsclEKTIFic AND FRAMED
UPON unsouND BASIS.
ABANDoNs PARTY PRINCIPLE
Illinois Colonel TelIs indiana Lincoln
League Wilson Administration Io-
nored and Abolished Tariff
Commission Which 1t Now
Recommends.

Terre Haute. Ind. Feb. 12.--In en-
! address this afternoon before the an
nual convention of tho Lincoln Leagus
/ of Indiana, Col Frank o. Lowden OF
Oregon. ILL.,. practically opened the
Indiana state campaign. Colonel Low
Gen discussed particularly President
Wilson's eeeming abandonment of
Democratic policies and his espousal
OF tariff commission. which he would
not recognize three years ago.
After referring briefly to the or
ganization of the party. OF which VII
liam Roscoe Thayor, the historian.
said. Its principles had the compul-
sion of religion; and rightly 30. be-
cause they aimed at carrying out IN
the sphere of public life the behests
OF private conscience Colonel Low
den said:
Mark you, that we announce prin-
ciple simple, clear. uniform In ITS APP
plication, and upon this principle all
Republicans agree. whether they fol-
lowed the banner of Roosevelt or the
banner Of Taft in 1912. Our Demo-
cratic friends, however. still profess to
believe in tariff for revenue only.
They say that IL you collect duty
Upon an import. such duty Is added
to the price. and the consumer Is there
fore taxed for the benefit OF someone
else. They also say that you not only
raise the price upon the thing that ia
imported TO the extent OF the duty, but
also upon oil similar things made tn
this country which come into compett-
ton with the imported article. Tho
theory. therefore. of the tariff for rev.
.enue Is that you should levy import
duties only upon the things which arc
not produced here.
pvfnoorats Abandon Principle.
Thus there are two principles upon
which q tariR upon imports can be
levied: The one the protective prin-
ciple. as announced before, and tho
farff for revenue principle which I
have Just defined. It Is true that the
Democratic party, though repudiating
the protective principle. has never
Iance with It's own Take the last tarife
bill, for instance: They did not pre-
tend to follow their principle. They
retained duties of some extent upon
The large majority of articles pro-
,duced in this country. Such duties,
therefore. do afford some protection.
They. therefore. violate their own l,rin-
ciple. while the measure of protee n
they offer is wholly inadequate I Y
say that a protective tariff Is robbssry.
and then instead of abolishing It. they
reduce It 20 OF so per cent. II It Ia
unconstitutional, as they assert, to
levy 80 per cent protective tariff. Il
IS equally unconstitutional TO levy
,26 per cent protective tariff. When.
therefore, the Democratic party comes
TO making a tariff. II proceeds without
principle. They dare not follow their
own, and they will not follow ours.
The result Is 1t fails both as to rev.
enue and as to protection. II of neces-
eity is sectional. Whenever, for in
stance. in the last bill they came to
product which was peculiarly south
ern product, the need of revenue
loomed big In their minds and they
levied q substantial duty. Wool,
which Is largely a northern product.
was put on the free list, but when 1t
came to the hair of the Angora goat.
produced almost exclusively in the
South, the Democratic mind suddenly
aroused itself to the need of revenue
and duty was fixed upon the I'm
portation OF the goats fleece. Wheat,
q northern product, was put on the
free list. while rice. produced only In
the South. was protected. A substan-
ual duty was imposed upon peanut oil
for the first time. believe. In the his
tory OF the country, peanut oil being
exclusively southern product. so
all through the list, wherever possible,
the South was preferred to the North.
And I do not intend this as a per-
sonal criticism Of southern Democrats.
for If we Republicans had no principle
by which to be guided in fixing the du-
ties. we would very likely favor the
North as against the South. What
am insisting upon is that we. and we
alcne. do have a distinct and definite
and practical measure OF protection
applicable alike to all industries and
to all sections.
coct Dotorn,locs Tariff.
Many people think that the cply
difference between the Republican