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MR1 ROOSEVEL ' MESSAGE
Telegram to National Irrigation :
Congress at Ogden , Utah , I
Last Year.
, "GREATEST STEP FORWARD"
Such Is the President's Opinion of
Irrigation-Message Shows Vast Fund
of Information on Reclamation
of Arid lands.
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President Roosevelt sent the following
'messa e to the National Irrigation Con-
gress in session at Ogden , Utah Sept.
15 , 1003. It is characteristic or the
man. It shows n broad , deep , patriotic
Interest in both irrigation and forestr ) ' .
It also shows his masterly intellectual
grasp or any and aU topics concerning
the public welfare :
Oyster Bay , X. y . Sept. 1. . ; . 1903. >
The passageof the National Irrlatlon
Law was one or the greatest steps not only
In the forward progress ; or the States , butte
to that or nIl Jnllnkhlll.
It was the beginning or an achlvl'Jncnt
so great , thllt we hesitate to predict the
outcome , but It was only the hl'lnnllll
Now that the law Is an neeOl1l1111llhed fact ,
that must he given elIect. To that end the
rcc\llllllt1on \ : service organized under the
Nntloual I Irrigation Law or June 17. IOO : ! ,
has been pushing its surveys ulll eX:1l11ln:1'
tlon or possible IrrlJutioli : projects : elll'r"
I'etieally In etch or the thirteen States and I
three Territories named In the ad. Sonic i
or the projects which promised well at first i
are found on careful study to . he Il1IpI"II- I
tlcable , either because or scanty water -UII'
ply or or great cost. Othi'rs must aWlllt
higher values In land , while still others
stand the test and are ready for Immediate
construction.
Nccesdty of National Aid .
The feasible projects are alway large
and costly , because private enterI/rise has
already seized upon the smaller mill less
expensive ones leasing : to the o\"erJIment
the great works which nre to III' so essen-
tlni a part III bringing : the nation to Its
full de'clopmcnt. Great care and the hllh
est enlneern sllll Ire required to pllll :
and build such works which arc among the
most dlUlcult unl1ertaklns : or l11unllnll. They
must be built for permanence and safety , I
i for they arc to last and spread prosperity
for centurIes. To design ; and build such
works 11 body or engineers or the ] hlhest
character have been brought together ; III
the reclamation servIce , for only men 1m"
. partially selected for capacity alone ! m'l'
,
ClIlllhlc or creating these great stmctur
Merit must govern not only In the selec-
tion of men , hut still more , In the selection
of the pl'ojects.
selected for
Every recllllllatlon project <
construction must possess thc qualities
which commend It as a natlontl undertul-
ing : ; . certain to reclaim large tracts of arid
and ) and to support In well being ; a dense
nod vigarous : population. Vast thouh the
benefits or the reclamation law , there will
be many dlstlpolntlllents , which necessarily
await both the advocate or special ) projects
and the men whose desire of accomplished
results outruns time slow and steady development -
oprnent of thc < ' great : unl1ertaklngs. It .
shoulll he borne milld that a broad survey -
"ey or all possible projects gives : the con-
ception or their relative value , and that u
work of prime Importance to one ; ; ; rollp of
melt . may seem less I desirable In the light of
wider owledge.
Caution Urged.
. - Nor Is It wise In large affairs to begin
construction tirst , and elaborate details nr-
terwarl1s. Each Important point must he
carefully studied In advance , and the whole
plan tested and approved before work can
lJeln. Yet If we proceed both ellltiolisly
and Ilersistentlyun.der this beneficent law ,
we may confidel'K\ expect the largest ; possible '
sible developments " of our arId lands and
their settlement hy industrious , llro > lpewus.
lielrrespectlug men and women , who will
exchange the products or irrigated ; u-l"Ieul" !
ture for the products or mills and factorIes
throughout the United States. COllllllunl
ties tl'ourishing ! In wh:1t Is now the desert
will finally take their places among the
strongest pllllrs of our Commonwealth.
The IrrIgation development of the and
West cannot stand alone. Forestry Is the
companion and support or Irrl atlon , Without -
out , forestry , Irrigation must fall. 1'e-lIIall"
ent Irrigation development and forest destruction -
5tructlon cannot exist . together. Never for-
get that the forestreservc policy or the
national government menus the uSe of all
the resources of the forest reserves. There
Is little profit In destruction compared with
use.
, Home.3Iaklns Chief Object.
The settlement or the great arId West hy
the makers or homes Is the central object.
both of the IrrIgation and the forest poltey
of the United :5tate8. : In forestry , 113 In
irrigation , the Immediate private Interests
of some individual must occasionally yield
to theIr permanent advantage , which Is the
public good. The benefits or forestry arc
not only for the future , but for the Iresent.
The forest reserves arc for all the people ,
but first for the people In the Immediate
neighborhood , for whom SUllllIes or wood
i and water are among the first neeessliries or
lite. With the wiser and more skillful
management of the reserve by trained men ,
the greater obvIously will theIr usefulness
be to the public. .
& Ultimate Succells Sure.
i We must never allow our chagrin at t 'lIl-
porary defeat atlll difficulties In the lu au-
agemetlt or the forest reserves to blind liS
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to the absolute necessity or these reserves ;
to the people ot thc 'Yest.
Support or the rorestreseITe . policy has
grown wIth wonderful \ rapidity In the Crest
during the last few years. It will contll\le
to grow till the last vestige : ; or opposition
now almost gone , has wholly disappeared
before the understanding : ; or the object and
the c 'ct of the reservuUon. The greater :
thc support of the forest reserve by thc [ ICO-
pie of the West , thc greater the assurance
that the national irrigation : policy will not
_ fall , for the preservation of the forests Is
vital to the success of this polley.
TlIEODOltE ltOO:5EYELT. :
Senator Stewart , of Nevada See. the
Great Li5ht.
Senator Stewart of Nevada , thc last :
of thc Silverites , has seen thc great
white light. His visions are those of
Joseph and the seven fat ycars. Hi talk ,
is of minerals antI Nevada , and the blessings -
ings or the Dinglcy tariff on borax and
wool. He said :
"Prcsident Roosevelt is very popular
in the mountain States of the West.
Through his influence the irrigation law
was passed The Dinglc tariff is a
great blessing to the far \Vest. The
tariff on lead , borax , wool and hides is
especially beneficial to the interior mountain -
t tain Stntes. Thc people of Nevada are
' beginning to realize that the silver qlt- ;
tion has been relegated to the rear as a
result of the enormous output of gold
ii during the last eight ycars. Those voter
' who left the party on account of the
silver issue are returning ! and with the
Democrats who desire practical good , are
# , uniting in support of thc atIministration.
, My information is twat Nevada will go
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Republican. "
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Farm and Factory Reciprocity.
( Farmers' Sentincl. )
Protectionist sentiment is growing in
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, v Canada , :1I1d appeals are made to the
farmers to support that policy on the
\1 \ theory or the mutual helpfulness of fay
' tory and farm. American experience is ,
of course , appealed to. Thc facts that
\ our farmers find their best customers in
, \ , great manufacturing centers built up by
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protection , and that our mannracturin
States and section are also the area of
high farm land values and agricultural
prosperity form an object lesson that
must appeal powerfully to Canadian
farmers who ' ue handicapped by the
lack of a near home market for their
produce. The people of our manufac-
turing States receive in wages and sal-
aries $2.19i,936G83 , n. large proportion I
of which passes eventually to the larm- ,
NS. It is a system of close mutual interchange - ;
tE'rchnnge md support , of domestic farm
and factory reciprocity , which , with our
great natural advantages , has made
America a synonym for prosperity the
world over.
RECLAIMING THE ARID WEST
( Sentences from President Roose\'clt'
Utterances on Irrigation. )
Successful hOllle making is but another
name for the upbuilding or the Xltion.
Thc products of irrigation trill for a
time bc consumed : chiefly in upbuilding
local centers or mining and other indus-
tries , which wou1l otherwise not come
into existence nt all.
Ko reservoir or canal should ever ue
built to satisfy selfish , personal or local
interests but only in accordance with
the advice of trained experts , after tong
investigation has shown the locality
where all the conditions combine to make
the work most needed and fraught ; with
the greatest usefulness to the commu-
nit ) . as a whole.
The believers in the need or irrigation
will most benefit their cause by seeing to
it that it is free front the least taint
or excessive or reckless expenditure of
the pulllic monl.Ys. !
Whatever the nation docs for the extension -
tension of irrigation should harmonize
with and tend to improve the condition or
those now living on irrigated lands.
Whoever controls a stream practically
controls thc land it renders lJroducti\'e.
allli the doctrilll of private ownership of ,
water , apart from land cannot prevail !
without causing enduring wrong.
The passage of the National Irrigation -
tion Law was one of the greatest steps .
not only in the forward progress ; of the
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States , but to that of all mmkintI.
The benefits which have followed un-
aided development in the past , justify
the nations aid and cooperation in thc .
more dill ( 'nlt and important work yet to
he accomlJlishcd.
The larger development which national
aid insures should , however , awaken jn
every arid State the determination to
make its irrigation system qual in jus-
tice antI effectiveness to that of any
country ill the civilized world. Nothing
could ie more unwise than for isolated
nuuunities to continue to learn every-
thing : experimentally , instead or profit-
in ; by what is known elsewhere.
A careful study should be made , both
by the Nation and the States or the irri-
ation laws and conditions here and else-
wherc.
It Is as right for the national government -
meijt to make thc , streams and rivers of
the arid region useful by engineering
works for water storage as to make useful -
fill the rivers antI harbors of the humid
region by engineering ; works of another
kintI.
In his second message ; to Congress
December 1002. President Roosevelt
said : "Few subjects of more importance
have been taken up by Congress in recent
years than the inauguration of the sys"
tem or nationally aided irrigation or thc
arid regions ; of the far \ " est. A good
beginning therein has been made , ( 'I
So far as they are available for agriculture ; -
ture and to whatever extent they may
be reclaimed trader the National Irriga-
tion Law , the remaining public lands
should be held rigidly for the home"
ImiltIer-the settler who lives on his land
-aud 110 one elsc. "
SECOND TERM QUESTION ,
Roo.evelt' . Claim to the Presidency
Stronger than Any Other Mau'e.
( Kansas city Times , Indcpendcnt. )
It President Roosevelt had been elect-
ell to the omce he now occupies , Judge
Purler's ; : declaration that , it chosen Pres-
itIent , he would not be a candidate for
re-eloction , might have some special
weight in the present canvass among
those who are believers in the one4erm
principle. But President Roosevelt came
into office by accident. He was made
"ice President. against his personal
wishes antI political jutI mcnt. lIe was
duty hound awl he voluntarily pledged ;
himself to carry out , so far as possible ,
the pohicie , of his prctlece sor. If he : .
has done well , he is especially entitled
tll the votes or thc people. Under the
circumstances his claim to the presidency
is stronger than that of any ordinary
candidate could be for if hc has faithfully "
fully fulfilled the office to which hc was
called by accident , he should bc honor '
with the same office b3' election. His
present : incumbency of thc presidential
post should nt least serve as a reliable
probationary service. It is for thc peo-
ple to answer to his administration , for
iC it has been equal to or above the average -
age , or satisfactory ' generally . he has
stronger : claims than any other man
could have for he asks fiU intIorsement
where another would ask for 1\ trust.
And this is the way the country is likely
to look at thc fituation. President Roosevelt -
volt has made himself tremendously
strong with thc mase lIe has con-
.inced the nation of his honesty , courage
and apacit ! . He has pleased vastly
more Democrats than he has offended Hc-
l'ublcians. ' And both the admiration he
has aroused on the one hand antI the en-
mity he has engendered on the other arc
tributes to his virtue and motit'cs.
" 'Ye each and nIl owe n duty to the
community and to the State. It I. n
positive duty , nUll that : Is to aid In securing -
curing good : : law.t and their faithful
entorcement. We ore not menaced by
foreIn : : foes. \Yc haTe nl fear of alien
.
attnck. 1V , have nothing within to
dread except thc indifference of the
intelllent : : citizen to the discharge ; of
hilt civic obll atlon8.-llon. C. W. Falr-
N'uls ; : at Freehold S. J. , June 2 ; , 1903.
In the government ! printing office nt
Manila there Ire 240 l"iJipinos employed
and only GO Americans. The natives are
being educated in the printing art-a step
toward self-governmcnt.
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LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD-"ls that you , Grandma Parker ? "
WALL STREET WOLF-"S ! " .
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TRADE WITH THE EAST.
'Yo Have ' a l"nthwllY to Asia and Will
Maintain It.
There exists , practically , no limit to
the enormous possibilities of trade with
Asia for our -estern wIleolt-gro"ing
States. Japan will be the entering
wetIge. Already we are in touch with
Japan , already we are on the friendliest
or commercial relations with her , rela-
tions certain to become closer and clos"
er. Already .Japan is beginning to eat
wheat instead or rice. Her many millions -
lions of tons of ripe Japan ' flumes
" ' ' of , - lie , clin-
every year cannot , course : , .
iteb' asccrtained. The total is . . something -
thing enormous. But thc sudden fact
appears that already Japan is begin- -
ning to eat wheat instead of rice. ,
"Tith mutual regard and commercial
good'fellowship existing , and with Japan
now turning to flour , and with the whole
western side of our vast empire with
flour to give to the rest ! of the orld ,
the condition becomes most 8implc.- For
the good of all concerned , whole nations
considered it is necessary that we should
put our wheat and Hoar across the Pd-
cHic Ocean and give to our brothers ,
flf any color , what they stay require.
and , so , benefit them and greatly benefit
oursci\'es.
Thc fact that the Japanese army is I
using the American hard-tack cracker is
a fact the tremendous consequences or' '
which , in its commercial possibilties , has
not yet been realized. It means that
Japan has begun trading earnestly : with
thc United States in the cereal upon
the production of which 80 much of our
commercial welfare depends , and yet this
is hut a starting point as to what is
coming to the United States in supplying .
Ing Asia with footI. Japan is our friend
and will undoubtedly remain so throughout -
out the future , but Japan , wonderful as
she is , is but the fringe nearest to us
of that great Asia , o\.crpopulated-
hungry , and looking to this newer hemi-
sphere to feed it , under newly existing
conditions.
The conditions have been provided by
thc accidental possessions ; following a
sudden war. \Ye have made our path-
way. : Not to maintain that pathway ,
with its landing at : : the other side of ,
the Pacific-1\'hich means the Philippines .
-wfluld be n Irinil : ! against the interests
of this country and a crime against the .
interests of the Asiatic nRtions.
This crime will not be committed. The :
great : commercial road secured across
the greatest of the oceans , will he retained - :
tained and mniatain-d by the United :
States of America. "Imperialism" as' '
they call it . or not , the bald tact remains
that under the present Republil''ln administration -
ministration it is proposed to hold what
Providence has given to us and with it to
do what seems best for the ultimate welfare -
fare or the people of two hemispheres. I
TARIFF TRIMMING
Why the Work Should Be Iatruded I
to Republicnn" !
This is but an allusion to a phase of .
what the Republican part , as It exists ,
is doing anti is going to do , a particular :
phase to which reference is made , casually -
ally , ns to the regulation of the tariff ill
the future. Those who make things
know best what to do with the things
they hare lUade. The Republican party
having made the tariff , which has made
this , country the most prosperous of all
the countries of aU the world , is the
only part which eM readjust the tariff
as occasion may demand.
\atumlly , and very properly , from
their point Qf view , the opponents of thc
Republican party concede nothing. , As a
preliminary , they claim the tariff is a
monster of some sort ; that it is bad and
has been ever batI. Nevertheless , under
certain existent circumstances it seems
to have worked well , and our great trade
adventurers and our manufacturers and
our farmers and our workmen fatten un-
dcr this same tariff.
So goes the present situation. Where
has been exhibited intelligence should not
intelligence be exhibited in the future ?
The party which has made the tariff is
the party which will revise thc tariff
under the suggestions or common sense ,
ns occasion may demand.
So potent have been the results of the
tariff in thc past that it appears almost
impossible that its effects should be
brought up ns an issue in the present
campaign , but yet the trimming of sails
is always a vital issue in all sailing. The
Republican party will trim its own ails ,
and it will be extraordinary should the
American people delegate the task to any
one tlse.
THE AMERICAN COURSE.
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A Policy that .orks to the Advantage :
of Commercial Interests.
'Ye arc what we have become , and We
propose to hold our interests as a world
' power for the benefit or the American
peoplc. This is the Republican program.
Hence the recent Shanghai incident.
China is an enormous nation occupying ,
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an enormous country , just now in a state
or dissolution or reconstruction-no one
can tell which. The carious nations with
various interests look upon its territory
with longing eyes , but it does not seem
best , with the interests of all considered ,
that it should be dismembered. It ap-
pears to be best for the interests of all
the other nations of the world that it
should be aided rather than divided.
This course has been'decided upon by thc
leading : nations or thc world , following
the suggestion and with the assistance of
thc present Republican administration of
this country. This attitude is certainly
right morally , and , in thc long run , must
be right as to material interests , particu-
larly for the people ' of the United Statcs.
Russia and Japan arc at war. There
has arisen nn incident which is somewhat -
what an anomaly in international affairs.
Warships have fled into n neutral port or
China and other warships have pursued
them. Under the laws or nations no
battle may occur in a neutral port , such
ns that of Shanghai. The United States ,
taking thc initiative , bas promptly intervened -
vened to see that no violation of the laws
of nations' n'ay' occur , end has done this
because of thc helplessness or China , vast
as the empire is , to enforce aU proper international -
ternational obligations in its own har-
bors
bors.This
This is but in keeping with the tone of
what the United States under the pres-
ent administration has done before. It
suggested and induced nn agreement between -
tween the great nations that China
should not .e dismembered. Haring taken -
en the initiative in this respect , it was
but right and proper that we should take
the initiative in seeing ) to it that what
was suggested and built up by ns should
be enforced. This Las been tIonc.
That is the way the present adminis-
tration of the government is doing thins. ;
That is thc way it will continue to do
things. The doing of this is for the
greatest good for all the commercial interests -
terests and other interests of nIl tile
worM. The doing of this implies and in-
' action the
t'olt'cs immediate executive by
administration of the United Stares. It
is i for the good or the world.
Imagine such .prompt , sensible and
forceful action under the administration
of n man like Parker , admitting for a
moment the possibility of his election.
Well , we can't imagine it !
The cry that President Roosevelt ir
re-elected , will ' pick a quarrel antI plunge
the country in war is raised by the Dem-
ocrats for the purpose Of scaring the
farmers , who are peace loving. The ef-
fort will he in vain , as the farmer ns
docs everyone else knows that President
Roosevelt while urging that the country
at all times be prepared to defend itself
and maintain its policies , is for peace.
Carefully prepared statistics show that
the number of business failures in l&t ,
the last year under President Harrisonn
was 10,344 , while in 1893. thc first year
of his Democratic successor , they were
] ij,242. A part whose SUCCeSS always
alarms capital and causes nn increase in :
the number of business failures is not
one for patriotic Americans to support.
The auspicious and momentous fact
is that never before in the history or time
world has comfort been enjoyed , educa-
tion acquired and independence secured
by so large a proportion of the total
population or the world in thc United
States of America that has occurred
under protection.
COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY.
That III What Will Follow Our Control i
of tile , Pacific. I
Laying aside the other questions to
be affected by locality , is it possible
that any sensible human being , living
west of. the Rocky Mountains , could do
an .thinJ : but support what those who
are fumbling for objections to , the exist-
ing administration call mperialism" ?
This attitude is not confined to those
west of the Rockies alone-far from it.
because , with new means of trade com"
nnnlication we arc as one people in our
handling facilities across this continent
-but to the people or all the Pacific
Coast States especial ! must appeal the
fact that much or their future welfare
must depend upon the nand extra-
ordinary pathway thc United States has
made across the greatest ; of all the oceans
and , has so connected itself , for all com-
mercial purposes , with the greatest of all
the old nations of the Orient.
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Business is business. We have taken
into our hands the management of the
Pacific Ocean and we are quite capable
of retaining that management ; under any
circumstanccs. Upon our retention of it
depends , to an extent our commercial
welfare. \Ye arc the great producers
of a new land-a vast continent yet in
its infancy , antI our welfare must year-
ly l depend to a great extent upon [ what
we export. We have exported to Europe
and the East and exploited the Atlantic
almost to its utmost ; now we purpose
to export across the Pacific and supply
with whatever they may need the teem-
ing millions or the Asiatic continent.
Upon the realization of this great indus-
trial dream , which has become a fact ,
must largely depend , in the future , the
commercial welfare of the American peo-
ple. Does any group [ or tatuists , oppos-
ing 'hatet'er has become an absolute essential -
sential , think that by raising the er ) ' .
of "impcrialism , " the course of demands
of great lines of trade of a great nation
can be deviated for . a moment ? Nonsense -
sense !
PARKER IS NOT A SAFE MAN.
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Will De Influenced by tile Radical
Element In His Party.
( Mansfield (0. ( ) Xews. )
If his own utterances are to be cred-
ited-aud nobody is disputing them-
Judge Parker in ISOG and moo was not
for free silver , but 011 the contrary was
an advocate of the gold standard and !
; yet he admits to hat'in"Clted ; for Bryan
and free silver twice. How strong his
convictions and principles were for sound
and honest money may best be judged
by his profession of one thing and his
practice of another.
If then as a virtually private citizen
protected fiS it were by the divinity be
seems to think hedges : in the judic'ary ,
Judge Parker-possibly then without
thought of further political preferment
-could not bring himself to elevate
principle above politics amid to place patriotism -
triotism above partisanism , how could
lIe be expected , in the fierce light that
beats upon place of political power and
preferment to prove other than mildly
plastic and complaisant to thc wildest
demands of the Democratic Huns and
Vandals who would rend asunder the
very fabric of government in their wild
scramble for place and pie , pelf and
elf ?
Is it not wiser for the people ot this
nation to 1E'ep erring and sinning Democ-
racy , possibly , but not positively peni-
tent on probation awhile longer-at least
until it has brought forth fruits meet
for repentance ?
"DlstrUlt whoever pretend. to offer
yon a patent cnre-all for every ill of
the body politic , just l8 : you would a
man who offers a medicine which "
would cure every evil of Tour individual -
ual body. A medicine that ilt recommended -
mended to cure both asthma and a
broken leg Is not good : : for either.-
From Roosevelt's Speech at Providence , R. I. ,
August ! :3 : : , 190 .
Here is n veritable Roosevelt family :
E. R. Conley , n farmer , who lives at
estfield , 111. , has six sons , six grand-
sons and three sons-in-Jaw. All , including -
ing Mr. Ct11ey himself , will vote for
1 Roosevelt in November.
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AFRAID OF OWN MEDICINE
Democrats Think Free Trade
Panacea Harmless , Because
It , Cannot Be Taken.
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COWARDLY INCONSISTENCY ,
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Of Party lenders Exposed by a Demo
cratic Free Trade Paper-Gormaa
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and Davis Placed in' an
Unenviable Light.
A comic tetttlrc of the present politi
cal campaign ; is the effort of thc Democratic -
crntic leaders to minimize the popular
apprehension that harm might follow
Parker's election through the .break-
down or the system of protection by explaining .
plainin that after aU it would 'be impossible -
possible to hreak down dIe system be-
cause the Hepulllican Senate would
stand in the " ' : \ ) ' ,
1'he logic of this Democratic reasoning ! -
ing ; is i somewhat like that : of thg boy
who explained that by refining to eat
hills he had saved his life-only that in
the Democratic case the country would be
saved not hy the Democratic refusal , to
do harm but only : by the Democratic
inability to do the harm it was openly
trying to do. Judge Parker in his speech
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of acccptancc said :
"IT IS .A FACT AND SHOULD BE
FRANKLY COXCEDED' , THAT
TIIO"CGII OUR PARTY BE SUC- -
CESSFIJL ( IX TilE COMING CONTEST -
TEST WE CANNOT nOPE TO SECURE -
CURE A )1.\TOm'rY IX THE SENATE -
ATE DURING THE EXT : Foun
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YE.\llS. IIEXCE 11'E SlL\Lr BE
UNABLE : TO SECURE ANY .MODI .
FIC.\'L'IOX IX THE TARIFF ; S&\YE
TI1.\1' TO WHICH THE HEPUBL1-
CAN L\.TOlt.l'l' IX "l'IlE SENATE
MAY COXSEXT. "
Mr. Parker further thinks that this
fact or Democratic inability : to modify
the tariff should , serve to prevent a recurrence -
cnrrence or "TH.\.T SENSE OIi' UNCERTAINTY - .
CERTAINTY AND INSTABILITY
: 'PJT " 'I' 0'OTTfRR OCOISIO\S
. & . _ _ u . _ _ _ _ _ " _
MANIFESTED ITSELF. "
Democratic Courate Weakens.
At the recent Democratic ratification
fleeting in Brooklyn a lurking fear was
shown of the effect on the miJ1l1s , or
Workingmen ; : . of Democratic talk against ;
the tariff. The tenor of the remarks or
the big ; Democrats who -talked was to
the effect that free trade was a bean : ifuJ
theory and the Democrats should , be
put in power because they stood sponsor
for it ; and since , after all , . they would
be unable when put in power put.that
theory into practice , the country with
perfsgt safety coulll indorse the beauti-
ful'.ry ! by putting its sponsor ' into .
power. ,
The New York Evening ; : Post , a. mug ; -
WUlllp free trade organ which is actively
supporting Parker , hut nevertheless can-
not resist : the temptation to expose cow-
:11'(11) inconsistency when it sees it , hind
this to say about the Brooklyn ratification .
tion meeting :
. . -
"N , that the party orators arc face t&
ftc , . . .lth the voters on the hl1stln/I / ; , , their
couluge ; has weakened. Havln , In their
exalted moments , declared that protection .
IS a principle , Is robbery and works Incal-
cul:1I"e harm to the people they shiver
I at the possible effect : or theIr pronouncement -
, ment at the polls. In it word , theyslinf-
fled on the tarlfr. Listen to Edward M.
Shepard , who presided tt Brooklyn. Ho
saId that -Democroltlc nominees stand
for a sincere and persistent effort ' to' re-
form the tariff , and especially to abolish
or reduce those duties. the plaIn effect or
which Is 'not to extend or diversIfy Amer-
lean Industry. ' How striking ! the contrast
to the St. Louis ! ' declaration ! The obvious
Implication Is that no fault can be tOUIII
with protection 11' It extends : and diversifies -
fi's American Industry. But when It 18
, admitted that protection Is a good thing
. In certain cases , who Is going to fix the
number and variety of such cases ? The
argument that protection Is an evil per se
Is apparently thrown overboard.
The Alarm of Senator Bailey.
"As much fault can be found with Senator .
ator BaUey's speech. One feels oue'
courage mount high ; as he declares : ' 1 110
not hesitate a single ; moment to declare
It as my belief that any law which ' levUs'
Ii tax not for the purpose of raising revenue
to support the government , but for the pl11'-
pose of compellln ! an American citizen to
pay more for the , goods which he must buy.
Is a perversion or governmental ! power and
a downright robbery. ' This has the true
ring ! . but Immediately It produces a great
fright In the Senator's mind. His prop eUc
soul sees the Republican orators using his
words to stir nIl alarm among the work-
lag men. So he cries out to the 'wage-
earners or this country who arc employed
In protected Industries , ' and who are sure
to be told by the Republicans 'that the
Democratic party favors absolute free
trade , ' not to be arrald. THE DULLEST
MAN : 11" ALL HIS AUDIENCE , hi pro-
tests. KNOWS PERFECTLY WELL THAT
FREE TRADE IS AN ABSOLUTE IMPOSSIBILITY -
SmlLITY IN THIS REPUBLIC. 'EVEN
WIIE TIm DEMOCRATS ARE CALLED
BY TIlE VOICE Or' AN ' OUTRAGED
l'KOl'LE TO ADMINISTER THIS GOV-
. EItNMENT . ' he walls. 'WE WILL FIND
, . IT nll' SSmLE. HOWE\'EIt MUCH WB
MAY DESIRE TO DO SO. TO REDUCE
THI' AVERAGE DUTY BELOW A POINT
THAT WILL BE HIGHER THAN THE
lOST EXTREME 01- THE EARLY PROTECTIONISTS -
TECTlOXISTS EVER CLAIMED WAS
XrCESSAItYD IIIGlIEIt THAN ANY
MODERATE I'It0'1 GCTIONIST OF TODAY -
DAY BELIEVES ESSENTIAL for the pre
tectlon of any legitimate ludustry. '
"Such 'GoOll Lord good ! Devil' talk will
not help the Democratic party In the east.
If protection , as Democratic platforms j
have so repeatedly affirmed , Is In Its very
nature evil , It Is a thing to , be got rid ot
as promptly as possible. If the party
orators should frankly say that , no one
would misunderstand them. "
Protection for Democratic Leadera.
The cowardly inconsistency which the ,
Evening Post thus exposes is characteristic -
istic or most of the Democratic le3d-
. erSt They are afraid of their own medi-
cine , which they advertise to the country -
: try ns being such n fine thin -eSJ1l-ciaJ- r
! ly I WHEN NOT TAKEX.
I When the Wilson tariff bill ml
'
framed prominent Democratic lenders
took the precaution to see to it that
industries in which they themselves hap-
pened to be interested were not adversely -
t'ersely affected by the bill , no matter
how much harm might befall other in-
dtt. "iries. : Fur instance , Senator Gorman -
man took pains to keep the sugar ; trust
protected. Tile present Vice Presidential
candidate , Henry G:15SlWay D.vis. took
pains to see that coal was kept off the
free list. for his own immense fortune
was largely represented in the coal lands
cr West Yjr nia.
Compare the ruin and disaster during ;
the last Democratic administration with
the prosperity everywhere seen to-day.
Thc contrast is an unanswerable argue
meat in favor of Republican rule. . .
