The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-02-01
PLANS OF REPUBLICAN
LEADERS IN CONGRESS
ARRANGING A LEGITIMATE PRO.
GRAM TO UNITE ALL ELE-
MENTS OF THE PARTY.

Republican leaders in congress after
a series of important conferences, are
taking the initial steps to bring before
congress and the country construct
i've program of legislation which will
be the basis of the republican partys
claims for the support of the people
of the United States in the presiden
tial campaign of 1920.
The theory upon which this move
will not be drawn to the republican
party if it continues as a party of
mere opposition and attack, but will
want to know what the republican
party in the changed circumstances
that have been brought upon the
world by the European war, now
stands for. In other words, 1t is an
ticlpated that the people before they
vote in another campaign will want
the republican party Ito lay its cards
on the table,"
mand powerful forces within the
leadership of the republican party are
saying that the party's representa-
/ tives and senators in congress must
perform; that they must evolve a
concrete and tangible program of
/ legislation and get behind it as one
man and must present this program to
the electors of the country as an earn
est of what the republican party will
do If entrusted with power in legisla-
tive and executive branches.
Agree on Protection.
The republican program, now in
embryo, is to be shaped around the
idea that unless something is done to
protect the United States, the indus
| tries of this country will be paralyz-
ed by an inundation of cheap foreign
made goods after the European war
/ is over and the condition of the AM
erican laboring man will become de-
plorable, indeed. In other words, the
central thought and nucleus of the
movement for a concrete legislative
program is restoration of the pro-
tective tariff--such tariff as was adj
vocated by Lincoln and Mckinley.
1t is proposed to bring in republic
can substitute for the revenue bill,
which the democratic members of the
ways and means committee intend to
propose as a means of anticipating
the treasury deficit of $300,000,000
This substitute, if the plan of the
leaders works out, will be nothing
more or less than a complete tariff
bill, readjusting the schedules from
top to bottom on a protective basis
The leaders take the position that the
country is sick and tired of direci
taxes. with their many inquisitoria
features, and is about ready to re
turn to the indirect taxation provided
in the tariff which, they say, op
presses no one and yet yields bounti
full revenue.
Protection a Harmonizer.
, 1t is believed by the proponents o
, the plan that the movement to brin
, in a complete tariff bill and offer it a
a substitute for the direct taxatio
revenue measure of the democrats wi
act as a great harmonizer of republi
can factions which have been at log
gerheads. 1t is asserted that the on
common principle of faith to whic
all republicans and progressives ad
here is the protective tariff, and the
it will be possible for them to get be
hind a bill of that kind as one mai
+ 1t is hoped Furthermore, that coor
Grafton, shoulder to shoulder, in sur
1 port of a protective tariff will ope
4 the way for a common understandin
e along all other lines.
= In framing the republican tariff bi
the leaders expect Representative
= Joseph w. Fordney of Michigal
= Nicholas Longworth of Ohio and Ell
= enezer ]. Hill of Connecticut to take
d leading part. All are members of tt
= ways and means committee, Fordne
l. being the ranking republican membe
: All are ardent champions of prote'
s. ton. 1t is known in advance,
8 course. that a protective tariff b
70 can not pass the present congress, b'
= it is believed that it will have accom-
ID plished very important party pu
Is pose if it solidifies the republicans al
1t progressives and furnishes the coul
It, try legislative object lesson of VIII
Or the republican party viii do If 1t
returned to power.
l. In the movement to bring out
I'd concrete republican program Senat
In ], E. Watson of Indiana, former VIII
IN of the house of representatives, is ia
g ing a leading part. At his instance
ne number of conferences already ha
tn been held. Former Speaker Joseph
sc Cannon is giving support to the NOV
ly ment. Senator Watson will make
he speech at Lincoln day celebration
ed Louisville, KY, in which he will sou
of the keynote of the movement. F
We subject will be Lincoln, the Prott
of ZIONIST"
ers
Meaning Of Heirloom.
(Brooklyn Eagle)