Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-08-18 | Page 10 | The Tariff Issue

I THE T TARIFF ARlIT ISSUE I Colonel Colonl Bryan Blan actually crt credits the Republican fit Re- I publican party with too much In the way ItIC I of tIC 1 tariff revision promises promises for for It has hf not promised j reduction at al all all hut only re revision rr- rr vision Islon and that might bo up rather than I down And It i Is strictly true truo that Pr l- l dent Roosevelt ll has hns weak weakened nd and wilted 1 I down from the tho bold outspoken position that he ho took on n n tariff t reform early In his I presidential career Judge Taft Tart lon long ago agoV ago alio I V I In August 1006 took 1906 took up tho the matter at length In ono one of hit his public addresses but bitt I his part party failed to rise to the tho occasion In La I Its national platform and since then ho bo has contented himself with generalities I In Lu his hIlS forthcoming speech on tho tariff exI ex ex- I Colonel Bryan has lisa a splendid OPportunity op OP- op to sound a l. call that will force torce the Republican pu organization to show Its Ita hand hanl plainly on Its tariff revision ro program roTam I If It only he discloses exactly and definitely I what ho he and his party parly propose to do with the schedules ho he can con make mako his Republican opponents fight light on an art Issue I that they would much prefer to avoid and andon andon andon on which they can not successfully defend their record And If It he does h he will put Into this c campaign early the tho ginger that It might otherwise lack for lack for on man many of or the other public questions the two to great parties are not so very ery far Car apart New ew New NewYork York Commercial