Show Protectionists Are Muddled President's Speech Fails to and Widens the Breach in the Ranks To the Editor of the Just a few observations on Taft's tariff He has at last spoken If we may judge form the party fully one-fourth of his and perhaps nine-tenths of the Democrats are now opposed to his interpretation of the The protectionists are The light is breaking in upon but they and get tangled up in trying to square their past actions with their present expanding Cost of President Taft stated in his speech at Winona that the tariff law has been so framed as to cover the difference between the cost of production here and but the party tariff leader in the near the end of the tariff that the basis of production recommended in the party was abandoned because there was no reliable information at hand to make such a Which of these statements is the correct Both cannot be Best or The President declared that the new law is the best tariff law the country has ever But surely the best tariff laws were those based on the original idea that industries should be fostered for a brief time so that they might finally at lower prices to the consumer than the imported articles After that the protection was to be at has been the theory of every leading exponent of the doctrine of none of whom ever contemplated graft and extortion as even temporary features and much less as perpetual embodiments in tariff The first tariff laws were therefore on the protective the the longer they are the worse they according to the they were never to be enacted except for a temporary of giving new industries a Except for some special such as the income tax and certain the pres ent so far as it is is the worst of all the laws enacted under that Those Decreased in The by means of a table prepared at his request by showed that the tariff had been increased on articles whose consumption in this country amounts yearly to million and that of this amount million dollars is represented by such luxuries as perfume and leaving a balance of million dollars representing increases on articles not Against this the President set with great emphasis in his delivery the fact that the tariff had been reduced on mostly whose consumption in this country amounts annually to million But Senator of showed on in the Senate that there was an increase in the duty on structural steel equivalent to more than a and of this article alone 26 million dollars worth is consumed in the United States That on one item in the steel schedule upon which the duty was the consumption this county is more than 26 million while the Payne which the President repeats in his declares that the entire increase on all articles in the steel schedule only covers a consumption of 11 But notice that here the President praises the bill because of its yet if the protective theory is why not still further increase the And it is a good thing to reduce the rates on why not do Why enact an halfway thing that needs and when the way is clear to do Bristow on reading the President's that statement was made by and six weeks afterwards repeated by the when the latest statistics printed by the conference on page show there are increases m the steel schedule of the consumption in this aggregates There other statements as in It is unfortunate that some of the President's advisers were not sufficiently informed on the details the so him from such gross errors in statements of for As to the woolen schedule lit 1 Taft said without that the rates of the Payne Bill were too It was found early in the he asserted 1 that the wool and woolen interests in the 1 can party were so strong that any attempt to change the rates would result in a defeat of the i am sorry that this is 1 said the I wish 1 could have been It is the one important defect in the bill and in the carrying out of the par- That it will increase 1 the price of woolen cloths or I very much i What will the Con- gressmen say oh this They praise the because wool is left at the old high protective i while the President condemns it s for this very Once which shall ire be-lieve the President or the Utah Senators Would Stop Taft said it would be utter- L to bring about further dis- of the tariff in the present r nest session of Congress and that it would require the of his administration tree years m the commission to collect facts would justify the taking up V tie tariff on a more scientific Lis than ever By that i lie the party would I ready to go before the people l frith a I The President said the leader will after bill best tariff L the Republican party ever It is clear that the Rent is at sea on the whole m k'S he resembles lost of the m signed the bill ever he would now stop file people from even discussing j while the commission tries tu ind out something about Why not discuss and upon p. J measure so perfect so of good to the Read Especially aj is the President the food of the party is to be consider fed afterwards that of the I Herald-Republican Chimes In this connection it is amusing 1 read the comment of the Her- It I American people have stopped getting nervous when fee is a treasury deficit under a They t jw the capabilities of the Re-publican and the lesson are now getting will teach them still more about of the Republican states- continues that I ten the income tax shall have approved by the there an instant increase of fop the and a sequent lowering of the rates J that element called ultimate so the income tax feature the lowering of the rates are things are ho are the opposite of an pro- J praise them is be- When are 10 accept the doctrine of these when they credit for lowering the when they claim i i credit for raising When they praise the income tax proposal as it stands on or when they regularly defeat it when the matter comes to a practical The legislatures of twelve states can defeat the income tax watch the protectionists defeat the entire proposition and then read the arguments of the party organ that income tax is not a good thing Truly J. 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