The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-10-13
Editorial Comment
on Current Subjects
SHOULD NOT &c LED AsTRAy
From the PHILADELPHIA Press


From the Democratic stump now
comes the cry that the Tariff question
Is all settled because, rorsooth. 4
Democratic Congress has passed 4
law creating Tariff commission. Dem.
ocratic orators are now singing Inc
refrain that thanks to this commits
sion, tho Tariff is now out OF politics.
This Is an idea that will be impossi.
BILE for Democracy to make the Am.
erican people believe. The Tariff
question will not and cannot be set.
tied and taken out Of American poll.
tics until it has been settled right.
The controversy was re.opened uu.
der"the leadership of Woodrow Wilson
after sixteen years Of the most pros.
porous times our people ever enjoy.
ed. More and more the belief grows
In the United States that Protection
TO home industries should be the per.
manent economic policy of the coun.
try.
The agitation against such a Tariff
law as ID now, upon the statute book
will not cease until the producers OF
America are given back the Protec.
tion which was taken from them. The
laborers of the United States will
never consent to sell their labor in
tho open market in competition with
the labor conditions Of the Old World.
Neither manufacturer, nor miner, nor
farmer will acquiesce in the surreu.
der Of our domestic market to the pro.
ducere of foreign nations. There will
be no compromise with error nor aban.
donment Of sound principles of pullc
policy by the American people. They
will not deliver over to the traders
and spectators Of the world the rcgu.
nations.
This has been the growing and un.
olterable spirit of the great major.
tty Of the American people for fifty
years. That spirit will not down un.
til the Protective system becomes so
dominant In American politics and SO
universally accepted and acquiesced
in. that no political party will dare to
change our monetary system from a
gold standard to free coinage of sill.
ver. The history Of the past half cen.
fury Of American politics shows that
a President OF the United States who
Will array himself against the Ameri.
can system Of Protective Tariff and
attempts to surrender our home mar.
ket to tho traders OF the world. can.
not be reelected. Unless he stands
solidly before the country in the dc,
tense of American labor and indus.
tries, the President and his party 20
down to defeat at the end of one term.
No subterfuges or makeshifts will
be tolerated. Neither President vii.
son nor his party have in the slightest
degree repudiated their anti-Protcc,
ton documents. Alarmed at the de.
preston in business and the unem.
p!oyment Of labor which resulted from
the operation OF the Wilson.Under.
wood law. Mr.. Wilson. in order to Sc.
cure another election. has Of late been
making suggestions which are incou.
sistont with his former utterances. In
him ts apparently the hope that In this
way he may lull the people into feel.
ing OF security during the continuance
of the nporary prosperity in which
we are now living and will live until
the close OF hostilities in the Old
World. II he were sincerely opposed
to child labor in the mills of the United