Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1914 — PROGRESSIVES TARIFF PLAN. [ARTICLE]

PROGRESSIVES TARIFF PLAN.

There are many evidences that the tariff policy- of the Progressive party is appealing strongly to the business men, including manufacturers, > merchants, farmers ami laborers. These men are realizing that the “tariff coinmission plan, such as Germany has, is the only businesslike method oi handling the tariff problem. Men of both old parties more fully understand that the Republican and Democratic policies as to dealing with the tariff are very much alike; that their methods are unscientific and unbusinesslike, and as a result will continually keep business upset and unsettled. The only advantage of this unbusinesslike method of handling the tariff, comes to the business interests that are willing to profit by undue and unjust advantage over certain other competi- ’ The policy of the Progressive party as to the tariff problem, is the ■'tariff commission” plan such as Germany long since adopted. This plan will take the tariff out of politics, will place the matter into the hands of a commission, composed of men especially qualified to perform their duties, and who will proceed to do so in a scientific and businesslike manner, in Which political horse-trading is left out. Many prominent business men who have been approached upon this question have promptly expressed their views and all agree that the Progressive party plan of a “tariff commission" is the only sane and just method of bringing about settled business conditions in this country. They have so expressed themselves in signed statements, but these signed statements do not appear in Republican and Democratic newspapers. The whole cry of the old parties in this campaign is to stand by the party of Lincoln or Jqfferson as the case may be. Theodore Roosevelt hit the nail squarely on the head when he said, “stand by the principles of Lincoln and Jefferson" and not the party, because the Republican party has deserted the principles of Lincoln, just as the Democratic party has deserted the principles of JesI rson.