| Show UNCLE SAMS SAM'S BALANCE SH SHEET t t Thero will be no change chango In tariff l schedules this session The nation will 1 continuo continue under the principle of or I f tion Business will not be he unsettled I by 13 experimental Jaws or chimerical J schedules p And that is a good thing It is worth American citizens tot to If t- t while for 01 c consider the value alue protection has been t to Ilie nation through h all aH the years of oC ofT T Y tho the past The Republican prints In another column today todar Uncle Sams Sam's l 5 Balance Sheet a statement of oC tho business done b by the United States for the tho past half century the profit and and loss of oC tho the establishment we call caB I the nation Theories are all right right right- as ns theories But Dut when fact long ref repeated re- re f and invariable Ic tells tens one story that stor story Is a safe one to believe belie And b by Uncle Sams Sam's Balance Sheet it will be seen that in free trade times the United States has not found r enough income to provide for the cost J r of continuing the government And in 1 times which limes which me means ns in R tim Jm times ll tho th tho revenues have 11 always alwa's been more than ezi enough to car ry rr on on the government go with the single exception of those two years when an extraordinary outlay was made in inthe inthe inthe the interest o of the Panama canal That sort o or of argument should bo convincing to the thoughtful man For ForIt ForIt It will be noted note that e c every department depart depart- ment o of at national life shared tho the prosperity pros- pros perit or the adversity crall Indicated b by bytho the tho excess s of or income over 01 expense or orthe the reverse erse For example note how howS S 1 much more the nation has sold and how much more the nation has pur chased Note the constantly increasing increase S in lug ing number of miles of railroad in S success successful u operation These things thing's s ssp sp spell the prosperity o ot of tho the individual indi An And it traces straight back from the wago wage of or the individual to tho the policy which made wages certain and increased increased in in- cr creased the number of or earners There should be a n reform In III the tariff brUt schedules very Intel likely And AmI that wilt will certainly come It is not of or so soS S great necessity however as ns to be done doue to the detriment ot or business to the unsettling of at values aluos And as frankly conce concede e there is nothing noth ing ng sacred about bout the schedules but that these should be QC revised and corrected corrected cor cor- wherever necessary ry tho the people peak pee pea k who have ha profited b by a careful and wise policy will not willingly com corn plain t S This is ono one o ot oC the yearn yeal when citizens citi citi- zens of or the United States have hn a ar r chance to Indorse again tho the poll policy C of i. i 5 pro protection |
