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GrOLDSBOKO, K". C.t THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1908.
NC.61
The Tariff Question.
Subject of William Jennings Bryan's Speech
in Des Moines To-day.
A Fearless Enunciation of the Democratic Party's
Position on the Great Issue, Both of
Politics and Business,
Dot Moin&, 'Iowa, Aug. 21 This is
the biggest t$ay the annual State Fair
t Iowa has ever known, and the un
toward thousands who throng it today,
drawn here by the presene of Wil
liam Jennings Bryai, 4s eheoring
evidence tfhat the masses tie. Iowa as
in other "States a in the nation are
turning $o him as never before.
Iter 'being prevanted'to his great
audiene Mr. Bryan said:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies anil Gentlemoss:
In my notification spech I stated
that, -as the campaign progressed, I
would discuss the question. "Shall
Peonle Tlule.1' as it applies to the
various issues involved in this sm
paign. I begin with 'the tariff ques
tion, because it is the most lasting of
ur economic jaestins and the one
upon which the leadiEg parties l&ave
most frequently opposed each other.
Other questions may- eorne and ge, but
.mi as t inn a w hkii affeat taxation, like
Tennyson's "Brook" "go on foirever
As the GovcToment is not a Lady
Bountiful, with unlimited mem, but
marniv an organization which must
eollect on the one ihand whatdl pays
out on the other., the subject ftaxation
is an ever preeentne. We eaay dd
euss how orach fewe should eellect,
what methods we --should employ in
-collecting, and. how fcbest to distribute,
throueh amropriations, the snoney
collected, but we axe never far remw
ed from the subject of taxation. Iowa
has been selcted.or theipresentation
of what I desire to say upon this -cub
ject, because the Iowa Republicans
nuTA ninnpAn in rthe effert to seeure
tariff revision at rthe hands of the Re
publican party- il come among .tshem
te define and defend the Democratic
position on the tariff question, because
T hfiiova it will commend itself to
them. That the issuefcmay be clearly
stated, I shall readiyou the Democratic
-r.ln.nk on this subject, and the the
Republican plank.
The Democratic platform says:
"We welcome the. belated promise 1
tariff reform now offered by the Ee
publican party as a tardy recognition
of the righteousness oi the Democratic
position on this question; but the poo
pie cannot safely entrust the execution
f this important ork to a party
erbich is so deeply .-obligated to the
highly protected interest as is the Re
publican party. W-e call attention to
the significant fact that the promised
relief was postponed until alter the
coming election an election to sue
eeed in which, the Republican party
must have the same isupport from the
beneficiaries of the Mgh protective
tariff as it has always heretofore re
ceived from themj&and to the further
fact that during years of uninterrupted
power, no action Jwbatever has bees
taken by the Republican icongress to
correet the admittedly -existing tariff
iniquities."
The Republican party says;
"The Republican partydeelares un
equivocally for a revision of the tariff
by ft special session of congress im
mediately following the inauguration
of the next president .and commends
the steps already taken to this end in
the work assigned, tojthe appropriate
committees of congress, which are now
investigating the operation and effect
of existing schedules. Hn all tariff
legislation the true principle of pro
tection is best maintained by the im
position of such duties as will equal
the difference between ithe cest of pro
duction at home and abroad, together
with a reasonable profit to American
industries."
It will be noticed that the Republi
can party has abandoned the earlier
arguments advanecdMin support of a
high tariff. We hear'no more of the
"Infant Industries," that must - be
tenderly cared for "until they can
- ctand upon their feet;"ithere is no cug
eestion that the "foreigner pay the
- . . -
tariff," and nothing abeat thehomol
market.". These catch phrases have
had their day they are worn e-ut and
east aside The Republican leaders
are no longer arrogast and insolent;
they cannot hunger ctefy tariff reform. '
Their plan te-ow is ts seem no yield.
without really yielding.
I submit that the Democratic plat
form accurately described the Repub
lican position when it refers to ""the
belated promise" neade by he Repub
lican leaders as "e tardy 'recognition
of the righteousness of the Democratic
position on this question." The Demo
cratic pa?iy in its platform and through
its representatives in Congress has for
years peinted oat that the tariff sche
dules a?a excessively hich and c-ught
tto be reduced, but the Republicans
have, until recently, refssed to submit
that ithere wasany necassity fcr re
duction. They now cocfess, fc&rough
their. platform end through their presi
dential candidate, that the need for re
vision is so great as tojestifytfeia party
in declaring unequivocally tor a re
vision of the tariff" aswl the need is so
urgent that time work fcc is to undertak
en at.-a speeiil sessiost of eongiress im
mediately -fofilowing inauguration
of . the next .preside!;." The use ot
the word "cnequi vocally" indicates
that those .who wrote.the platform re
cognized tha.t they are under suspicion.
They want to distinguish this promise
from the uakept, promises of the past'
by adding ae empha-tia an adjective as
eojild befocnd.in tiho dictf-rnary. Sf
former .Republican promises had been
conscientiously fulfill led, it -might not
have been necessary to thus strengths
the promise made tfcis year. The use
of the words "imn&ediately after the
inauguration!" is evidenced that the
Republican headers tare conscious tit
the patieoce of the public has bee-a
strained to the point of breaking, and
it is almost pathetic to note the soli
tude which they now feel about. doing
a . thing which, but ;for willui negleelt
might have been done at any time dur
ing the last -ten years.
Asm we not Justified, in -saying that
"the people cannot safely entrust the
cxeeution of this important work to.a
party which is so deeply obligated .to
the highly protected interests as is the.
Republican jsarty?"
Those who are acquainted with thel
tariff iight know to what an. ax tent the
pecuniary argument has been used.
The recent Republican platform is a
bugle call to every beueficiary of spe
cial privilege to enlist again. under the
Republican banner, and when the
election is over and the Republican
ommittee publishes the list of contri
butors te0 iftt to mak9 the informa
tion valuable i& will foe found that
ihe Republican party has again o ob
ligated itself to the protected interests
as to be unable to make a revision in
the interests of the consumers.
The administration has claimed
credit for the fine against the Standard
Oil Company in the case which was
lately reversed, but no effort has been
made to relieve the people from the
fine whieh is imposed upon them every
day by the Standard Oil Company
through the operation of the tariff law
which gives that company more than
100 per cent protection against its chief
rival, Russia. What faith can a real
tariff reformer, whether he be a Re
publican or a Democrat, repose in the
Republican leaders, when they deliber
ately put off all reduction until after
election, and then call fer contribu
tions, with the understanding that the
public shall not know the names of the
contributors until after the polls are
elosed?
The schemes resorted to by the men
who have grown rich by laying tariff
burdens upon the country are more
numerous than novel. Tariff measures
which embody the principles of pro
tection are pot drawn by legislators,
although as a matter of courtesy they
generally feaar thef names of legisla
tors; they re really drawn by the rep
resentatives of the interests which de
mand protection. These representa
tives claim to beithej guardians of the
laboring: men, and yet they carefully
avoid writing intojj the law anything
that will require theguardiaas to exe
cute tfee trust. It . is strange that so
many voters have been so leng deceiv
ed as to the object and operation ef the
lawswhlch are ostensibly designed for
the protection of the wage -earner it
can only be accounted for on the the
ory that the voters have not under
stood either the theory of protection or
the facts that are relied upon to sup
port it.
i.i r. Aatt unas Uie sreat-est alarm in
the folic winggc la-use in ost platlerm:
"Gradual reductions should be made
Jc such other schedules as may be nec
ssary to restore the tariff to a revenue
fcasis."
He regards this threatened departure
from the protective system as fatal.
We are here brought face to faee with
:the theoretical differences between the
positions f the two partieson the sub
ject of tariff. The Democratic .party
regards a tariff la w as a revenue law,
the protection dt.gives being incidental;
the Republican tparty regards a tariff
law as frataed primarily for protection,
the revenue being incidental. -A the
effect of a .gi ren .rate on a .particular
article ic the same, whether levied for
the purpose -of .re-nue or for the pur
pose of protection, it. may be well fa de
fine the differenue betweeu a revenue
tariff and a protective tariff. Ate ve
nue tariffis a-p'iratned as teeollect a reve
nue and y ou stop wihen you, get enoegh;
a preteeti.ve itarirf may ba to framed as
te collect but little reveuueand yet la
a heavy fourdan upaa the. people and
yeu never knew when to stop. To il
lustrate, a tariff may be made so high
as te absolutely prohibit importation.
If, in.sueh a ease, the manufacturers
yield to the temptation mentioned by
Mr. Taft and. a m bine to take advant
age of the duty., the -consumers will foe
heavily taxed, and .yiet none of the
money wiil reaeh the. treasury.
But the whete system is tvieionsJ
Business should not be built '.nponf
legislation; it should stand upon its'
own merit, and when itoes stand up-''
on its own merit we shall na only
have purer polities., but we shall have
less fluctuation in business conditions
and a more equitable distribution of
the proceeds of toiL
The panic of 1907 eame after the Re
publicans, had been in complete
control of the federal government
for more than ten pears. They had had
an opportunity to do everything that
they wanted to do and to undo every
thing that needed to be undone, and
we were under such a high tariff that
even Secretary Taft admitted the ne
cessity of revision. This panic was so
bad that banks felt it necessary to do
something that they had never done
before namely, arbitrarily limit the
amount of money that depositors could
draw on their own accounts. Ex-Secretary
Shaw says that the stringency
of 1907 was "the severest the world has
ever witnessed." With this panic
fresh in his mind, is it not strange that
he should argue that his election is
necessary to prevent a panic?
For 25 years the American working
man has been told that he receives
higher wages than the English work
man solely because of protection, but
our wage earners now know that this
cannot be due to protection, because
the English workman receives higher
wages than the German workman, al
though the German tariff is higher
than the tariff of Great Britain.
. Protection does not make good wages.
Our better wages are due to the great
er intelligence and skill of our work
men, to the greater hope ' which free
institutions give them, to improved
machinery, to the better conditions
that surround them, and to the organ
izations which have been formed
among the wage earners.
A revenue tariff will not bring a
panic; it will not inaugurate indus
trial depression; it will not reduce
wages; on the contrary, it will stimu
late business and give more employ
ment, and a larger demand for labor
will be a guaranty against the reduc
tion of wages. A reduction of the tariff
will reduce the extoration that is now
practiced because of the high sche
dules: a reduction in pribe will enable
more people to buy, aud this larger
demand for the goods will put more
people to work and increase the num
ber of industries. A lower price will
greatly stimulateexportation.and man
ul'acturers who are now crippled by a
tariff upon what they use will be bet
ter prepared to enter the contest for
supremacy in the world's trade.
We cannot hope to invade foreign
markets to the extent we should, un
til we relievo our manufacturers of the
handicap that protection places upon
them in the purchase of materials they
have to use. Neither can we hope to
continually 'increase our exports with
out increasing our imports. Trade
must be mutual if it is to be perman
cut. . President MeKinley recognized
this, and in the last speech that he
made ha, pointed out that we must buy
from other nations if we expect to sell
to other natiens.
The -Democratic plan does not con
templete an immediate change from
one system to the other; it expressly
declares that the change shall be grad
ual, and a gradual change is only pos
slble where the country is satisfied
with the results ot each step taken,
We elect a Congress every two years
and President every four years, and
the BOorle can soon stop any policy if
thereeults of that policy are not satis
factory. But we believe that thex
pevience the people have had with
"protection for protection's sake" has
led them to favor a restoration t the
tariff by gradual steps to a revenue
basis ; and we are convinced that the
advantages following each step will be
so pronounced and that the benefits
will be so universally enjoyed that
there will be no cessation in the 3rog
ress toward a system under which the
tariff will be levied fer the purpose ot
revenue and limited to the needs oi
the government.' The low tariff law of
184?- did not produce a panic,; -on the
contrary, it was so satisfactory that
when the Republican juurty wrote its
first platform ten years Afterward the
protective principle was not endorsed.
The Demaoratie party has declared
for...a income tax as a part ot tb rev
nue system, and fer a constitutional
amendment as a means -of securing
thia tax. Secretary Taft announces in
hi3 notification speech that he is in
fav3of an income tax -whenever-the
revenues are so low as to require it,
and -expresses his belief rfhat it-is, pos
sible to secure sueti a tax: without a
constitutional amendment. If it is
possible to frame a law which will
avoid the objections raised, tot be in
come tax law of 1891, w-ell and good,
but that is uncertain. If an. -income
tax is desirable, sHrely Secretary Taft
,-cannct -consistently oppose .the ad
option of a constitutional amendment.
f the principle is right and the tax
wise, Consgress ought ito have author-
NOTABLE EVENT
AT ROCHESTER
Many Eminent Prelates are
in Attendance.
Dedicatim of a New Addition to St.
Bernard's Seminary, One ef
tne Leading Catholic Insti
tutions In This Part of
The Country was
Celebrated
Today.
(Special to The Argus.) I
Rochester, N. Y., August 20 A no
table event in Roman Catholic church
circles today was the dedication of a
new addition to St. Bernard's Semi
nary, one of the leading Catholic In
stitutions of learning in this part of
the country.
The event was attended with inter
esting ceremonies.
The dedication was performed by
Mgr. Diomedo Faloonio, the apostolic
delegate to the United States, assisted
by the venerable Bishop McQuaid, of
this city.
One of the interesting features of the
occasion was the attendance of numer
ous Catholic prelates and educators
of America and from Europe.
Mrs. HizabethH. Martin
BRYAN TO GO ON TOUR.
ity to levy-and collect such a tax, and
n sapporter of Secretary Taft can op
pose our position without dissenting
from the Republican candidate. ,
The whole aim of our party is to
sectre justice in taxation. We believe
that each individual should contribute
to tbis support of the government in
propertion to the benefits which he re
ceives under the protection of the gov
ernment. We believe that a revenue
tariff, approachd gradually, accord
ing to tke plan laid down in our plat
form, will equalise the burdens of tax
ation, and that the addition oi an in
come tax will make taxation still more
equitable. If the Republican party
is to have the support of those who
find a pecuniary preiit in the exercise
of the taxing power, as a private
asset in their business, ' we ought to
have the support of that large major
ity of the people who produce the na
tion's wealth in time of peace, protect
the nation's flag in time of war, and
ask for nothing from the government
but even-handed justice.
Execution Sales.
By virtue of an execution in my hands
I will on the 27th day of August, 1908,
at noon at the Court House door in
Goldsboro, sell the interest of John
Caraway in the old Caraway homestead
in Brogden" Township, or that he did
have therein on the 10th day of April,
1907 or since.
. . E. A. STEVENS,
Sheriff.
He Will Be Absent One Week, Dur
ing which Time He will Be
Heaid in Four or Five
States.
(Special to the Argus.)
Lincoln, Aug. '20. William J
Bryan has arranged to leave tomorrow
on the first speech-making tour he has
made since his nomination by the Den
ver convention. Ho will be absent
one week, during which time he will
be beard in four orlve States.
The first stopping place will be Des
Moines. In that city tomorrow after
noon he is scheduled to speak at the
Iowa State Fair on the subject of the
tariff. - Leaving the Iowa capital to
morrow night Mr. Uryan will proceed
direct to Chicago. He has been in
vited to speak in that city, but the
chief purpose of fcis visit will be to
confer with Chairman Mack and othe
leaders of his party in regard to plans
for the Western campaign.
From Chicago the Presidential can
didate will go to Indianapolis to be
present next Tuesday at the notifica
tion of his running mate, John W
Kern. On that occasion he is to de
liver his speech on the trusts. On his
return to Lincoln from Indianapoli
Mr. Bryan will deliver a speech ir1
Topeka.
HAD FRONTAL HEADACHES
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Father Tafeb Blind.
Norfolk, Va., Ledger-Dispatch.
Father John B. Tabb, who is so
well-known and affectionately regard
ed in Virginia, has beeome blind, and
it is said that all hope of recovery is
gone. Without regard to creed the
people of Virginia will profoundly re
gret this affliction, which has befallen
one of the greatest of men and one of
the sweettit poets that the Routh has
known since Father Kyan fell asleep.
Father Tabb once wrote of the blind
poet Milton:
"So fair thy vision that the night,
Abided with thee, lest the light,
A flaming sword before thine eyes,
Had shut thee out from Paradise."
It may be that out of his darkness
may come a sweeter song and to him a
stronger spiritual vision, certainly the
knowledge of the sympathy of thou
sands will carry some cheer into the
shadow in which he sits. Sad it is,
that eyes that saw so much that was
beautiful in the world should be closed
at midday of his life.
There is one consolation left to those
who knew and loved the poet-priest,
though the veil of darkness be drawn
against the light of the day the celes
tial fire burns brightly within.and falls
about the storehouse of mind and heart
filled with infinite" treasures and guar
ei by peace ineffable.
NOTICE. m ''73
Having qualified before the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Wayne Couuty, North Caro
lina, as administratrix of John Henry Evans,
late of said County, notice is Here by given to
all persons holding claim against the estate
of said John Henry Evans to present the same
duly verined to the undersigneh for payment
on or before the 21th day of June. 1909. or thia
notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.
And all persons indebted to said estate are je
quested to make immediate payment.
Fremont. N. C. June 20. 1908.
Emma Moore Administratrix
s ' . -
NOTICE.
Having qualified as Executor of the last will
and testament of Bryant Edmundson, deceased,
before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Wayne
County. North Carolina, notice is hereby given
to all persons indebted to said estate te make
immediate payment, and to all persons holding
claims against said estate to present the same
to the undersigned for payment on or before
the 10th day of August, 1909. or this notice will
be pleaded in bar of their recovery.
This 10th day of August, 1908.
L. D. HOOKS. Executor
ef Bryant Edmundson, deceased. Faro. N. CJ
NOTICE.
All accounts due the late Dr. J.gD.
Spicer will be found in the hands of
the undersigned, and immediate settle
ment is requested. All claims against
the estate of the deceased should bo
presented to the undersigned on or be
fore the 19th day of June 1909 or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. - JOHN SPICER.
at his medical office.
THOS. H. HOLMES,
at Goldsboro Grocery Co
This June 20, 1908.
Business Notice
Having sold my interest in the firm
of Baker, Bizzell and Edgerton to Mr.
R. I. Thornten, this is to give notice
that I am no longer connected with
aid firm. OI
D. L, Edererton. 1 Ciu
J air W, 1803.
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