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Show The West and the Tariff. Frank M. Eddy, a Republican congressman con-gressman for tho seventh Minnesota district, confirms what tho Record-Horald Record-Horald ha3 said as to tho scntlmont of western Republicans on the tariff. Ho testifies that In his section of tho country there is a very strong feeling In favor of revision, and ho describes the western idea of a protcctlvo tariff as follows: "It should not afford protection to monopoly, that Is, to an Industry absolutely ab-solutely controlled by an Individual, a partnership, a corporation, or a trust, nor to thoso Industries thnt reduco their employes to tho conditions thoy aro protected against, but all Independent Inde-pendent Industries should rccclvo sufficient suf-ficient protection to enable them to compcto on moro than even terms with similar ones In foreign countries. Whero our prcsout tariff law falls In any of thcso particulars, and It docs In many, It should bo altered or amended." Tho idea, it will bo observed, Is in no senso destructive of tho protective system, and tho congressman adds that what tho westorn Republicans want is not a general revision but a readjustment of those schedules which give a premium over and abovo a reasonablo protection. This, wo bollove. Is commonly desired among them, and the deslro has found expression, ex-pression, as Mr. Eddy notes, In tho declaration of their state conventions. Construing his Just analysis of the tariff situation with his very sanguine san-guine predictions of Republican success suc-cess next fall, thero Is this to bo Bald: Success It it is attained will bo duo In no small degree to tho platform utterances to which ho refers. They havo been tho only effective answer to tho Democratic demand for icvls-Ion, icvls-Ion, and thoy nro everywhero treated as a party plcdgo that tho tariff will actually bo rovlsed by Its frlendB for tho correction of Us abuses, whllo tho prlnclplo of protection Is kept Inviolate. Invio-late. Tho Republican congressmen who nro elected on this plotlgo will tako tholr seats n year from next December. Decem-ber. It would bo excollcnt policy for tho present congross to antlclpato revision, but If It docs not a year of grnco is pretty certain to bo tho limit of lndulgcnco which tho Republican party will enjoy. For tho promises now mado nro seriously interrupted, and tho rovlslon sentiment is growing grow-ing so steadily that tho peoplo nro likely to becor- thoroughly Impntlont and to ruv-.lt If thoy nro disappointed. To provont a secession to tho enemies of protection It3 friends must glvo the ono convincing proof of tholr sincerity that Is required by changing tho now umeasonnblo schedules of tho ningley law. Chicago Record-Herald. |