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Show DEMOCRAT ANSWERS AN-SWERS DEMOCRAT William R. Hearst Punctures Professor Profes-sor Wilson's Free Trade Bubbles William Randolph Hearst has never been anything elso but a Democrat, but he Is not of the mossback kind, who cannot learn by experience or profit by observation. Ho is old enough to remember the disaster that followed Democratic tariff revision In 1894, and he has traveled enough to oeo what an advantage our protectlvo system gives us in our commercial commer-cial warfare with other nations.' He recently gave out an Interview in which the following are some ot the striking paragraphs: "If we have had such splendidly prosperous business conditions at homo It would not be well or wiso to alter too rapidly or too radically the system under which these splendidly prosperous business conditions have been developed. Furthermore, wo can not secure tho markets of foreign nations na-tions merely by reducing our own tariff wall. Wo must reduco the tariff tar-iff wall of foreign nations. "By demolishing our own tariff fonco wo may get out of our own pasture, pas-ture, but we cannot get Into tho pasture pas-ture of foreign nations until wo havo demolished their tnrizr fences. "If wo sacrifice our protectlvo policy pol-icy wo sacrifice our one opportunity to lower tho tariff bars of foreign countries. It Is only by reciprocity that tho tariff bars of foreign countries coun-tries can bo lowered. "If wo maintain our protectlvo fenco we can say to foreign countries Wo will lower our bars to our products prod-ucts If you will lower your bars to our products. But If wo have no tariff tar-iff fences wo can make no such beneficial bene-ficial bargain. "Mr. Wilson's dogmatic and didactic didac-tic declarations have all tho positive- as of tho pedagoguo who has tho-orres tho-orres on everything nnd oxperlunco on nothing. His Is tho customnry attitude attit-ude of tho collcgo professor who knows everything, having read it in books, whoro It was written down by other collego professors with equally equal-ly lnfalllblo knowledge based on equally eq-ually universal Inexperience, "It is an interesting thing to see a collego professor lecturing practical business men on the practical problems prob-lems ot business from tho musty rooms of ono of the colleges which the practical success of these business busi-ness men had enabled them to endow." |