Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1912 — They Do Not Mean It. [ARTICLE]

They Do Not Mean It.

If the Republicans in congress were truly intent upon making a tariff to offset “the difference in the cost of production here and abroad,” as they pretend to be, the tariff question would disappear from politics in short order. t The difference in cost of production could be made up by a revenue tariff giving incidental protection and it need not average more than 15 or 20 per cent.- But that is not what thestandpatters want and it is not what they will have if they can control matters. | We now have tariff taxes on many necessaries ranging from 75 to 100 per cent. Most of these taxes, of course, are prohibitory. Prohibitory tariffs turn our markets over to home-grown monopoly, and it is monopoly which increases the living and corrupts our politics. There are no big campaign funds in a revenue tariff with incidental protection.