Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1908 — BAIT FOR GUDGEONS. [ARTICLE]

BAIT FOR GUDGEONS.

Former Secretary of Btate on Republican Promieea of Tariff Reform. The Republican campaign managers would persuade voters that there is hope for genuine tariff reform by the Republican party itself. But the professions now made and the motions now solemnly gone through with on hebalf of a party that, having been in power for nearly half a century, has touched the tariff only to make its exactions more extravagant and more unjustifiable are not to be taken seriously. They are to be taken at their true value—namely, as bait for gudgeons before election and negligible quantities ever afterward. Speaker Cannon and his campaign for stand pat congressmen will bfcar no other construction. It is always to be remembered that it is easy to make a high tariff justify big expenditures and big expenditures necessitate a high tariff and that the administration In power can always so Increase the expenses of government as to make it appear that any tariff reduction is impossible.—Richard Olney in Letter to New York World.