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Address all Orders to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
T. It. Allen, Justin, Texas. I have
been a great admirer of the boldness,
candor and ability of Colonel W. J.
Bryan and have been a constant
reader of The Commoner since the
ink dried on its first issue until
1908. It is true that I have 'not
always and at all times accepted all
that I have read in its columns as
the original democratic doctrine, but
realized how impossible it would be
for even the best of friends to be at
all times perfectly agreed. While I
am not at all in sympathy with Col.
Bryan's theory of the tariff, I freely
admit that -he has a perfect right to
come to Texas and explain tous his
individual views, giving us the right
to accept or reject them when ex
plained to us. From a study of the
platform proposed by him and his
Fort Worth, Dallas and El Paso
speeches I am not able to exactly
understand Col. Bryan's theory of
the tariff. In his platform he de
mands free wool, the abolition of
the compensatory duty on woolens,
and a substantial reduction in the
ad valorem rate on .woolens, free
lumber, free wood pulp and paper,
free hides, leather, harness, boots
and shoes, free oil and products of
oil, free iron ore, free coal and low
duties on all manufactures of iron
and steel, free binding twine, cotton
ties, and cotton baggings and a ma
terial reduction in the cotton sched
ule and in the tariff upon all other
necessaries of life. In his speech he
advocates free raw material and a
substantial reduction on the finished
product. Now I can not tell from
the term substantial in his woolen
schedule and the word material in
j his cotton schedule whether or not
he favors' such a reduction in each
as would establish healthy competi
tion between the domestic and for
eign goods. If not it"" would rob the
government of revenue without ben
efiting the consumer in the least. I
think these indefinite terms should
have been eliminated and made his
platform say exactly what was meant.
Of course to make his contention on.
the question of free raw material
hold good he must show that under
existing circumstances taking the
duty off the raw material will re
duce the price at which the finished
product is sold. I am not of the
opinion that the selling price of the
finished product is fixed by the cost
of production, but rather by . the
tariff wall which shuts out foreign
competition. If this theory is cor
rect then there is but one class of
persons who would be benefited by
taking the duty off hides and wool,
and they are manufacturers of leath
er and woolens. A democrat should
take for his text equal rights to all
men and special privileges for none,
and true democrats will always ap
ply this doctrine to every schedule
in a tariff bill. Of course when, on
account of opposing, majorities we
can not exactly apply this doctrine
to a measure we must then choose the
least of two or mqre evils which is
offered to the country. I believe that
In framing a tariff bill this doctrine
will suggest a wide distribution of
duties. In fact, I believe that every
aDticle of commerce which will bring
in revenue should: be taxed and the
rate brought down to a revenue basis.
Or in other words to where it will
afford the least possible amount of
protection to any one. I am utterly
opposed to taxing our people for -the
purpose of enabling our home man
ufacturer to enter foreign markets
and there successfully compete with
foreign merchants. I have been vot
ing the democratic ticket ever since
Seymour and Blair were the demo
cratic candidates for president and
vice president and have never
scratched a ticket or bolted a con
vention but I always reserve tho
right to express my opinion when 1
find that I do not altogether agreo
witli some individual democrat, but
when the party as a whole speaks I
accept their decree.
J. M. Maynard, Apex, N. C. Tho
controversy between Messrs. Bryan
and Bailey of Texas makes me feel
it to be my duty to write Mr. Bryan.
It's not the republican party that has
defeated you in the past, Mr. Bryan
it is the hypocrites and traitors in
the democratic ranks. What makes
me think that? I notice that when
the people were talking about you
and Bailey, the tobacco buver ho
for the American Tobacco Company,
lvir. eseners, saitt tney had got shed
of you and the sooner they got rid
of Josephus Daniels, the editor of the
News and Observer at Raleigh, that
advocates you, it would bo better
still. Mr. Sellers claims to be a
democrat, so you see just wlio is
defeating you as the leader of tho
democratic party. I believe Mr.
Bailey would have done much bet
ter if he had frankly declared that
he had been converted to the repub
lican party.
Charles A. Faror, Houston, Texas.
I note with much pleasure your
address at Dallas, Texas, on "De
mocracy and the Tariff," and endorse
same. I "also note your Interview
from El Paso, Texas, which I must
confess gave me additional informa
tion. In the furtherance of your
tariff policies 1 should be glad to
assist. I am a traveling man, trav
eling Texas for the past fifteen years
and am keenly interested in the
growth, and. the enftctmentof laws
righteous in their application to all
affected.
J. H. Moore, Lubbock, Texas. I
desire to commend your patriotic
stand for the democratic party in the
contest that you are now waging. It
is remarkable to what extent pre
tended friends of yours in former
years have gone in condemning you
for daring to" discuss democratic
principles in the state of Texas.
These self appointed guardians of
Texas democracy are raising a great
cry now of harmony. The Houston
Post, Fort Worth Record, Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, the Dallas Times
Herald, and papers of lesser influence
are now cartooning you as "Old Doc
Bryan" offering strange medicines to
the democratic party in Texas for
some imagined disease. The Fort
Worth Record, in, which Mr. Bailey
is generally credited with holding a
large block of stock, of necessity de
fends his course in repudiating the
Denver platform, and in the advocacy
of protectionist doctrines, and is run
ning some straight republican edi
torials on the question of protection,
insofar as Mr, Bailey voted for it,
and editorials ridiculing your posi
tion in the present controversy. In
fact all the apologists of Mr. Bailey
in his discreditable connection with
the Waters-Pierce matter, are at his
beck and call to defend his tariff
views, and his platform repudiation.
But this class of men will follow him
anywhere. A short time ago he
changed from a state-wide' prohibi
tionist to a local optionist. Imme
diately a number of his followers,
who had been strong state-widers
saw the error of such a position and
became local optionists in order that
their views might not be in conflict
with his even on a question they had
lllfVlftvtrk liorl rlaniAnrl rrlnl"TIH IIHOU.
I am glad to say, however, that in
my judgment, the large majority of
Texas democrats do not endorse
either his platform repudiation or
his tariff views. And if the matter
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