The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-03-29
HELD AUDlENCEF0R Two HOURS
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| stand on the Baltimore platform. which
cNprcssly declared that under the con-
| stitution the government has no power
to levy or collect tariff duties except for
revenue When, ] ask, did the rhetori-
cal president see the light, and how does
he happen to see it just at this particu-
lar time? | have often thought [ would
| inquire whether Professor Woodrow Will
son is u lineal descendant of that other
eminent teacher who, many, many years
ago., sought employment in a certain
I school in Indiana They asked him
! whether he taught that the world was
| fiat or round. He said he could teach it
either way, just as pleased his constit-
uentS.
President Wilson is wrong when he
says there is nothing in these funda-
mental and diamctrcally opposed pr1n-
cipleS of political economy, and II he
were not my president would publicly
say that he knows he is wrong Under
| the circumstances j say it only to my
| self. These principles have been con-
| tested for more than one hundred years
and will be contested till the last FREQ
a non-partisan tariff commission. to dis.
cover facts, but he does not say he will
be influenced any more by the recon-
lmendations of this commission than ne
was influenced by the report of Gov
ernor John Lind Suppose we compare
the United States of America to a great
Sanatorum. 1t now accommodates one
hundred million people. most of whom
We're doing well up to three years ago
and few, if any, are even now seriously
ILL., With good measures or efficiency
it can be made to accommodate five hun
dred millions From the organization
of the institution up to the present time
there has been an ever present contest
for control between two or more schools
of economic practice. The protection
lists whom we might describe as allo-
paths, because they believe in giving
good wholesome doses of certain funda-
mental remedies, have been in charge
of the institution most of the time for
fifty years. In fact the sanatorium has
been largely built under their admins
tration and supervision. The competi-
tionsts, which will designate as
homeopathic because they believe in CIV
ing the same kind of medicine but mi
such small doses that the people Will
never discover they had taken ANYTHING,
ask control. Believers in a tariff for
revenue only. but whom l will designate
as the osteopaths. because they de-
nOunce the practice of both the other
schools as in violation of the charter of
in control. They ask to be continued
and, bursting with this desire, they vol
unteer and promise that, If continued.
they will appoint a non-sectarian COM
mission, consisting of one allopath, one
and one .osteopath-and pre-
one clairvOyant-anl they Will
permit this board to investigate the
facts and everything in any way con-
system of every known drug and every
kind Of manual manipulation and mas
sage and might probably consent that
auto-suggestion and hypnotism be in
cluded in the investigation provided on
~ and always that they remain in con-
Lrol and be not required to adopt any of
The recommendations of the board or act
lpon any of it's findings
halt vSNs tnprSTY C IN ~
&c effective it must be partisan. When
lie republican party is in.contrOl | have
10 objection to Il tariff board consisting
IF experienced, and practical business !
BOARD should coordinate to the end that
We may have a scientific protective tar
IF that will protect all worthy and prac
ical industries. It should not seek to |
give us protection in spots. IF competi-
.ionists ever secure control, they should
ave tariff, board pledged to produce
! scientific tariff that would place every L
American producer in direct and onen
with the producers in some I
foreign country do not know which
measure the difference in the cost of
prod tiDn, plus "a reasonable profit
When the democrats are in control
think they also should have tariff
aw that should give no protection what
ever to anyone, but so adjusted as tol
iield some measure or revenue on each
md every article which the AnlericanI
PRODUCES nsorder to do that. it will
Dc readily understood that the tariffl .
should be so adjusted that VIC will inn
,ort the articles and not produce them, I
Ianifestly and admittedly, so long AS
IF duty is imposed, it will yield no rev.
,nues. The only way to get revenue \
IN steel rails and locomotives and auto ,
mobiles, is to put the tariff low enough
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