Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — Gradual and Thorough. [ARTICLE]

Gradual and Thorough.

When Governor Wilson said, following his conference with Congressman Redfield, that he believed the revision of the tariff should be gradual and thorough he made it clear that he is in agreement with the leaders of the party generally. As soon as the Democrats organized the house they entered upon a programme of tariff reform which was expressed in a series of bills approved and sent to the senate for action. They were not general tariff bills, but bills relating to certain schedules of the Payne-AldHcta law. The iron and steel, wool and sugar schedules are examples. They were selected because they were the most flagrantly unjust applications of the Republican protective tariff theory. What the Democracy has done already is a fair index of what it proposes to do. The evils of the tariff are not the only ones, and when the work is done every schedule will have been scrutinized and acted upon as the Democratic party has already acted. Governor Wilson’s interview is assurance that the future executive is in hearty sympathy with the party position.