Show WHAT DO THEY MEAN DEMOCRATS ARE straddling ON THE TARIFF QUESTION baile of texas says protection Is necessary but declares that it Is a perversion of government power and a dowar robbery in his speech in brooklyn aug 26 senator bailey of texas said it is the drivel of an idiot to talk about any party in this country pro posing to repeal all tariffs and to es cablish free trade with the expends expendi tures of the federal government al ready so enormous as to stagger the imagination and growing greater every ear under the reckless ex trava gance of those BOW in they cannot hope to materially reduce the present rate of duty under the necessity of raising rev denue to support the government the democratic party will continue to levy tariff duties and it perfectly under stands that those tariff duties will at ford a protection to american mauu facture rs against their foreign corn peti tors g alone this would class as a moderate sane and reassuring statement of the democratic attitude and intention regarding future changes in our tariff system to be sure it is rather hard on some of mr bailey s like champ dark and bourke cockran who have in fervid oratory again and again avowed their detestation of any and all custom house restrictions or charges but that Is another story dark and cockran are told that they have been talking the drivel of an idiot and they must deal with joe bailey accordingly we are however just now conald ering bailey all by himself there Is much to consider there Is bailey the moderate the sane the reasonable THE PIED PIPER OF ESOPUS and there is bailey the radical the iconoclast the destroyer one of these ballets says that until we can obtain a constitutional amendment authorizing an income tax and a dl tax on all property we must stick to the tariff as a revenue producer with incidental protection that shall guard american manufactures against foreign competition turn we now to the other bailey earlier in the same speech the texas senator said our republican friends seem to be fiercely aroused because we have dared to say that protection is a rob bery of the many to enrich the few any law which levies a tax not tor the purpose of raising revenue to sup port the government but for the pur pose of compelling an american citi zen to pay more for the goods which he must buy is a perversion of gov eminent power and a downright rob bery it congress could raise revenue to support the federal government by levying an ad valoree valorem tax of uniform rate on all the property of this coun try then the question of tree trade would become a debatable one but as the constitution stands to day and as it will always stand in this respect because it would be utterly impossible to obtain a three fourths vote of all the states tor an amendment to this provision we can never levy a direct tax without such great inequality as to render such a tax impossible ex capt in extraordinary emergencies here we suspect speaks the real bailey here we hae the free trade bailey any law marh you which goes beyond the purpose of raising revenue and compels an american citizen to pay for goods manufactured at home a higher price than that for which he could buy similar goods manufactured in a country Is a perversion of government power and a downright robbery krotec tion according to bailey dues that and hence protection is robbery that being the case what become of the attl of pailey no ia will the democratic party continue this perversion this downright robbery so as to afford a protection to manufacturers against their foreign competitors T it cannot do this bailey contends without compelling the american citizen to pay more v etc without sanctioning and perpetuating a downright robbery that is not what the democratic party do when it gets the power to do any thing with the tariff it will the tariff on purely revenue lines and eliminate protection robbery it will reverse the existing order of things it will levy a tariff on articles which we do not ourselves produce it will levy no tariff or at most a very low tariff on articles of a competitive character because it will not do to levy a tariff on such articles that will compel our people to pay more etc that is exactly what bailey no 1 means and intends it Is what the democratic party means and intends obvious the bonsen active curve taken by bailey no 2 was an after thought bailey no 1 forgot hemsell and was too radical bailey no 2 toned him down which of the baileys Is the real no 1 we feel sure the bailey that regards protection as a robber a condition to be endured only until it can be replaced democratic tariff that will raise the maximum of revenue with the mini mum of protection when the sena tor from texas gets through flounder ing and straddling on the tariff ques ft hen there Is no longer any danger of frightening business votes avyan then he will stand undisguised as bailey no 1 bailey the tree trader parkers speech boiled down As a condensed form of parker s speech of acceptance the folio ving Is about as good as any et issued I 1 am for tariff reform but I 1 coulden couldn t do anything to reform it dur ing the single term I 1 should remain in office because the republican senate me I 1 against the trusts but I 1 think that there are enough of anti trust laws now and the common law is sufficient to meet any new requirements therefore don t orry over the idea that I 1 would disturb business conditions As for labor disturbances they are all right in one place and wrong in another capital is also right and wrong there fore capital and labor have no rea son to worry over my election in re gard to abe money question I 1 sent a telegram and really all there is to sa about it jersey city jour nal has been tried three years the chief argument against dent roosevelt when boiled down to its final essence Is that with his mill tant and agress lve spirit he is liable to embroil the country in foreign corn mr roosevelt has been president for three years tor three fourths of the period of a full term his administration during that time shows better than any words what he would do and what he would not do what step has he taken in any foreign matter which his critics would not have takena what has he done to embroil the country in foreign en tangle ments or to imperil its peace what lilicy has he followed which is open to criticism 9 if he is full of dynamite would not the three years i give some evidence 7 philadelphia press will agree with the president who among our Is will ing to favor a tariff change which would reproduce in the country the stagnation idleness and distress of the years following 1893 7 what work ingman does not see the wisdom of a protective policy which maintains a higher average wage in the united states than that which obtains in fu rope our myriads of industrial a kers will heartily agree with the president that tariff readjustment when made must maintain and not destroy the protective principle toledo blade let it be discussed the issue Is squarely drawn in our platforms if the country abandons protection as the democrats would have it the evils of diee trade would follow business would be upset and the experience of 1893 would be duall bated the republicans need not fear the resuscitation of the tariff issue let it be discussed and the disia i antares of a change ill be apparent to the great mass of the american voter keene N H sentinel wings that flop awry it the two wings of the democratic party could be made to flop with some sort of unanimity the part would look more like a party and less like a lop sided hen trying to cross the road in front of an automobile washington times |