| Show THE TARIFF IN THE CAMPAIGN In one of of- his speeches in California Judge Alton B. B Parker said The tariff will be the winning issue for or the Democrats in 1908 Judge Parker has not been a successful prophet Cassandra made true prophecies but no one believed them Judge Parker is like C Cassandra in one respect he does not make true trice prophecies but everybody disbelieves what he does make If the Democracy is beaten this year it will vill be on the tariff issue issue because the people of the United States grow afraid when they think of the Democracy revising the tariff The They re remember ember the Wilson Tilson bill Manufacturers l remember it they ther remember remember remember re re- re- re member ember how at the time their factories were closed and they did not know that they would ever start Employees remember it because they had no work at that time and did not know when they ever would have and all the world knows that knows Mr l Bryans Bryan's private opinions that he does not believe in the principle of protection at all That is he believes believes be be- exactly as Mr 1 Wilson and Mr Cleveland be- be believed believed be be- in m n their lifetimes and when he speaks about revising the tariff the countr country knows that it will never be revised to suit him until every protective feature is taken from irom i om it it So well does the country know now this that if he is beaten that will be the issue that he will be beaten upon That is about the only dividing ding l line ne between the two platforms They both call all for a revision of the ta tariff iff but in the one it means means that the tariff shall still remain a protective tariff in the other it means that the tariff shall be one for revenue only It has decided de more ore than one election in the last forty years ears On general principles principles principles ples the principle of free trade trade that that is that every everyman everyman everyman man shall have the same rights and the same pr privileges privileges i leges as every other man that no class shall receive special privileges is is correct but experience has proved that no new country can establish manufactures manufactures tures tares on that basis It has been the same wherever tried tri d' d the same in the United States and in Canada in all the states of Australia in southern Europe Europe- cv everywhere r No country try has thrown off aft its tariff a and q opened its doors to free trade that has not been made bankrupt in five years The reasons art arc r plain enough When a country begins to trade a a bale of wool for a suit of clothes a bale of cotton for a bolt of cotton cloth in a little while they want two suits of f clothes or two bolts of cloth and the country that sells the manufactured goods not only 3 gets the raw material but gets their mone money until the they are bound hand and foot toot We do not think Mr Br Bryan an will advance man many arguments on the tariff this year rem We Wo think he hc will d deal with the question in glittering generalities mostly mostly most most- ly b- buff bolt at heart he is an nn out and out free trader It was as born with him he cannot shake |
