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Show uu WESTERN INDUSTRIES ARE THREATENED. The president and the Democrats !n congress are doing their utmost to reunite- the Republican party not intentionally but blunderingly, They have framed a tariff bill that rejects the protective policv. one of the cardinal card-inal principles of Republicanism to wnich the Progressives and what are known ns the reactionaries of the Republican party subscribe. There lias been a difference of opinion among Republicans as to the method of applying protection and the extent to which the different industries of the countries should be guarded by national barriers auainst the lower scale of prices abroad, bin (he two elements of the party have- been ot one mind in declaring against a sudden sud-den drop to a free trade basis. Today we find President Wilson ami the other leaders of the Democratic Demo-cratic forces whipping western senators sena-tors and the senators from Louisiana into line for Iree sugar and driving the senators from the wool states iR-to iR-to an acceptance of free trade for both sugar and wool True, sugar Is g'ven ihree years in which to meet' free trade, but this serving of notio-w notio-w ill prove as disastrous to the in-1 dustrj ai though the free trade cause took effect immediately The I head of the Amalgamated Sugar com. pr.ry of Ogden says the three years of grace will prove to be nothing mure than a period of dlsorganlza- . tiun 1 The western wool growers are to : see a return of the depression in ; their industry that came with the .Cleveland tariff enactments and the outlook for them is gloomy The industries to be struck the severest se-verest blow by the Democrats arc western, and the weBt is to be made to suffer most in this demand of the I east for a lowering of the cobI of u- I ing. From our point of view, the Democratic program means the Inflicting In-flicting of a rank injustice on western west-ern interests and western industries. II is just possible that Wilson and bis associates are unconcerned as to He extent of the Injury to be done the west, if the people of the east are j to be pleased by a reduction in the I prices of sugar and wool and woolens: while the big eastern Industries continue con-tinue to receive a large percentage of protection That would be sacrificing the west In order to play politics, but it would not be broad statesmanship contemplating the welfare of the en- jtire people The Standard has i , rcl tariff reductions, re-ductions, to be applied gradually so sa io be non -destructive, but this paper pa-per i-i unalterably uppu-e. t0 ihc radical rad-ical and discriminating revision downward down-ward as proposed by the Democrats, which promises to he a most disturbing dis-turbing effect on the sugar, wool, lead and other industries In dah and other intennountaln and western si a lev oo |
