Show TAFT ON TARIFF AND TRUSTS Chicago Journal oural Ind Rep Re Mr 11 Tafts long speech of 01 acceptance was distinctly disappointing with refer reference reference ence to the tariff which is the Important Issue of 01 this campaign After stating the timeworn protective doctrine that a tariff should be imposed geat enough to equal the difference be between between tween production abroad and at home and to give ghea a reasonable profit to the tle American producer Mr Ir Taft Tatt says sa s that the DIngley law Jaw In a number of schedules exceeds that difference The excess he headds headds adds serves seres no useful purpose but of offers fers a temptation to those who would monopolize the te production and sale of such articles In this country to profit by bythe he the excessive rate rte So far Mr Taft speaks fairly But he spoils the effect of or what has ha gone before b jy adding that there are other schedules dules in which the tariff is not sufficient sufficiently ly Iy high to give the measure of 01 protection which they ther should receive re elve upon ican principles and as to those thoe the tariff should be raised This is a dangerous doctrine doctrIne Not even the greedy eastern easter trusts trust that have prof prot ted geedy most from robber schedules of ot the DIngley bill bl have ventured to declare that the he tariff Is too low ow and should be in increased Increased creased This will wl come as a a shock to the people whose wh se idea of ot the tariff tit is that It is a device to enable trusts to rob them and who have seen trust magnates accumulate late ate vast vat fortunes fortune at the expense of the generl public i Will Mr Tans Tafts statement not lead to t public when the Republican convention declared for tariff revision not saying whether It should be b revision ze sion down or revision on up the te ambiguity was Intentional Will It not add to pub pubic pub wa ic apprehension that If It Republican grand l dukes in control of congress are allowed to o remain in power they will increase In Instead stead of lessen the opportunities for trust robbery The Mr K Taft ath baa created et d will I 2 v i i not be diminished by that paragraph O his speech in which he discusses the Dej Dem policy with wih regard to t trusts Un lawful trusts should be restrained with all al the efficiency of 01 process wih ha he says and the persons engaged in main maln them should be punished with wih all al the se ty of or criminal prosecution which is probably a lawers w of say 5 Ing that they should be b sent to jail jai in instead instead stead of getting off ott with wih tines fines But the Democratic plan to remove tariff tre duties dutes from all al articles coming Into competition with wit those made by trusts and a to put them on the tree free list is bad for while it might stop trust robbery robbe it i would destroy all al their smaller tors tor Therefore the country count must sub submit mit to be robbed by trusts for tor the sake of their smaller competitors How many may smaller competitors are there tere for tor Standard Oil 01 tho sugar trust trustor or the glass glas trust or any other of the trusts trust that monopolize production li t nearly all al the industries of ot the nation How many will there be five yeans yen naton hence if I the tho tariff remains remans or is Increased In read Mr Taft Tatt has ha heretofore on several oc occasions or calons expressed sed himself in a different way wa on the subject of o tariff revision He lias ha led l d the country count to believe beleve that he realized the peril erl that lies les in the ever ev r gowing domination of 01 trusts trust that w wih Ith out unjust tariff advantages could not exist the tho first frt duty of at trul statesmanship is to take adan advantages away It I is disheartening to find him since he has ha become a candidate for tor president reversing rc himself talking about smaller competitors which have bave no existence nl and even proposing that the Dineley I schedules tariff should be raised in some of or its |