Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1912 — AN. ABLE TARIFF SPEECH. [ARTICLE]

AN. ABLE TARIFF SPEECH.

Senator Shively’s speech here Tuesday afternoon was a plain, sober talk on the tariff and the way in which it has been and is now used for the enrichment of the few at the expense of the many. In the making of our tariff laws he showed how the organized combines control the legislation in their interests, how competition is suppressed and high prices established and maintained. He said, “Congress passes tariff laws,

but monoply makes tariff laws.” He said the tariff question* was a moral question, a question effecting home life and home affairs.--He ridiculed the idea of protection against foreign pauper labor, and said thrt qur greatest com petit >rs in the world of trade are those countries in which the laborers are the moat intelligent ind best paid He sh 'wed that the free, inteHig.. nt labor could and did easily surpass pauper labor.' In asking for protection we belittle ourselves, he said. The fallacy of protection to staple farm products was plainly shown; tariff for revenue and tariff for protection compared and contrasted far 'such a way that even the dullest' surely could see that the democratic position is right. It was shown that with but few exceptions ail trusts owe their existence to the suppression of competition that is afforded them through high tariff duties. Take it all in all, Senator Shively's address was an able presentment of the democratifor position on tariff question, sue speech was delivered :n a courteous and gentlemanly manner and the names of men and parties were only oceasionaily used; he j dealt almost exclusively with facts and principles. Before the campaign is over we may hear many more entertaining speeches than this one, more jc ecand f i!, but for sound reasoning,! solid tacts, earnest delivery and pure 1 English this speech will not be surpassed this campaign in Rensselaer.