Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1908 — PAST PROMISES BROKEN. [ARTICLE]

PAST PROMISES BROKEN.

Paper Friendly to Taft Doubts Good Faith of Party. That the Republican party should have promised tariff revision in its platform is conclusive evidence that the demand for some change has been far stronger than it ever was before. That the demand for revision to which the convention listened is a demand for lower duties hardly admits of question. That the convention intended to promise that is a very different matter. Twelve years ago the Republican party promised reciprocity, and eleven years ago it enacted a..tariff law with special provisions in authorization and rates of duty for reciprocity, but the senate has killed all the treaties negotiated under it. Certain manufacturers are already preparing to descend upon congress next spring with demands for higher duties, and there is plenty bf evidence that the party leaders if successful will feel that they have complied sufficiently with the convention promises If they enact a double tariff, the Dingley rates constituting the minimum and. substantial prohibition constituting the maximum.—New York Jom-nal lHf Commerce. ;