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TARIFF AND PRICES.
WHY SENATOR HANNA IS AGAINST
RECIPROCITY.
ft Won lil Ilavo a Temlt-ncy to Rrlfeve
the I'eople from the llurdem lui
posed lly the "Scicntlflcally Arruiiffed
Schedules".
"V have the authority of Mr. Han
na that the protective tariff is too
scientifically adjusted to be meddled
with. Mr. llanna not being consid
ered an authority on the tariff, this
Information would not be valuable kad
he not vJOen boss of the Republican
party. Jo far all that Mr. Hanna has
said alout Congressional legislation
has been attempted if not accomplish
ed, so that we are forced to believe
that it is not intended to attempt any
tariff reform, however much needed.
There is no doubt that Mr. Hanna
is technically right in his estimate of
the way the tariff has been adjusted
and yet the way the present tariff
was built was very simple. Each
manufacturing or producing interest,
except the ordinary farmers and
planters, were Invited to come before
the Republican members of the Ways
and Means Committee with a sched
ule that would protect their particu
lar industry and the whole were then
arranged under the same schedule as
the McKinley tariff had been. Of
course there were some who wanted
more protection than was given them
the rate being adjusted to suit the gen
eral scheme. The wool growers want
ed a prohibitive tariff, but their inter
est clashed with the carpet and wool
en manufacturers, who wanted free
raw material and here was where the
scientiile adjustment came in to play.
It waa so with some other interests.
The proposed reform of placing on
the free list thoe trust productions
that the trusts are selling abroad ut a
lower price than they are selling them
at home would probably not affect the
revenues, for but few, if any, impor
tations, are made under the present
tariff rate, and if the foreigners at
tempt to import when the duty is re
moved there will be no revenue pro
duced, for there is hardly much like
iinood of the trusts allowing any im
portations as they will bring down
their price to the level, where it would
be unprofitable for the foreigner to
attempt to compete. The lesult there
fore would be that the price of trust
articles would be reduced to our con
sumers just low enough to prevent
foreign competition and this would be
the present price iess the tariff rate
about 45 per cent. All these trust
made articles would be reduced in
price, which would about equal the
foreign price with the freight and
profit added.
This should not much interfere with
business, except the trust monopolies
and the time lor the change from the
hish tariff to free trade in these trust
articles cculd be s?t far enough ahead
to ailow the jobbers and retailers to
get rid of their stocks in anticipation
of the lower prices that would prevail.
There is nothing scientific or myste
rious about this proposed tariff re
form and there is no reason why it
should not be adopted except that the
trusts would kick vigorously and
deportation of a man first describee? as
a civilian, but later as a soldier. This
difference may have an important
bearing upon the question of author
ity. There may be other points in
volved which make it unwise for tho
F-csident to interfere. Possibly if
wo ild involve the necessity of an ex
plicit statement of the authority un.
der which he himself is acting
whether by virtue of his position as
commander-in-chief of the army and
navy, or under the Spooner resolution
In certain contingencies the difference
might have a great deal of legal sig
nificence. If the President Is merely
acting as commander-in-chief of the
armed forces of the Republic. It Is of
course suggestive of a state of war. As
is well known, a military commander
can do many things in war that would
not be upheld in peace. It 13 not im
possible that - the administration de
sires to leave this question open for
the present because of the bearing it
may have upon the legal status of the
Islands. But whatever the motive the
refusal of the supreme power to decide
a question of authority between sub
ordinates certainly creates an anoma
lous situation in government.
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Extracts Prom V. J. Bryan's Paper.
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make all the trouMe possible,
sive them a little time and thpy
the
Tin; rritrosi; of thi: tictst.
It is evident that the trusts are in
tent on the overthrow of organized
labor. The Steel trust has virtually
disorganized the Amalgamated Asso
ciation and will doubtless complete
the job at the next attempt. It is an
nounced "officially" that the presi
dents of the coal carry iur; roads of the
eastern states have refused to consider
any proposals for a joint conference
with the officers of the coal miners
organization. The great coal operat
ors have decreed the death of union
labor, as did the Steel trust the death
of the Amalgamated Association. How
ever, in doing this, the trust officials
are cutting from under them the main
support to their "right" to own the
coal mines and the steel factories and
the railroads. Having had demands
which they consider just turned down.
having been refused even a conference
with their employers, what is more
natural than that these men should
look for some other method of getting
a hearing?
After a careful investigation of the
ways ami means they will learn a les-
on from the employer that of con
trolling the law-making and law-enforcing
bodies of the country. That a
majority shall rule is a principle which
we admit theoretically as right, the
employes are largely in the majority,
hence they learn, and are being forced
to learn that they have the coveted
power in their own hands to turn the
machinery of government to their own
advantage, and they will do it. And
in doing this, there will be no infringe
ment of tiie rights of the minority
there will be no privilege or protec
tion granted to one class of citizens
which Is denied to another, as ic tho
ease to-day.
would adjust their business to
lower lvel.
Tnis is not ideal tariff reform, for
there are many oilier inequalities that
require adjusting, almost as much as
the trust monopolies, but it would do
f:r n beginning and a tariff for rev
enue only with high rates on luxuries
and low rates on necessities, which is
the Democratic doctrine, will follow
when the people demand it.
A TAX1I.K IN Till: PII 1 1. 1 1'PIVKS.
The extraordinary spectacle of two
governments set up by one authority
in the Philippines has led to a clash
between the military and the Supreme
Court, in which the President has re
fused to interfere, though both held
their authority through him. Com
menting on this strauge state of af
fairs the Washington Times says:
In effect th? military and civil au
thorities are told to settle it between
them. But Euppose they cannot; what
then? They are already in disagree
ment, and the i3su having b.ea made,
come higher power should decide it.
The very circumstances that there has
been such a clash shows that the di
viding line between the military and
civil jurisdiction is not clearly drawn,
and the first duty of the home govern
ment is to make it clear. Unless this
is done there is liable to be ever-recurring
disputes accompanied by much
ill-fee-ling and the effect cannot be
other than bad upon the native popu
lation.
One of the specious pleas against
extending the Constitution to the
Philippines is that the people there are
inferior and altogether unfit for self
government; and still we are furnish
ing them fairly strong evidence that
we do not know so very much about
government ourselves. A prime es
sential in government is certainty
both as to the law and where the pow
er is vested by which the law is to be
enforced. This essential is wholly
lacking in the Philippines. The mili
tary and civil branches of the local
government are at loggerheads and
the President of the United States, in
whom tho supreme power has been
vested, refuses to Interfere. Probably
the affair will get straightened out in
a fashion, but nevertheless it is a sug
gestive of a very unsatisfactory condi
tion of government in our new pos
sessions. Why the President shoould decline
to tleclde the point is not apparent.
The reason given out is that the
United States government should not
Interfere with the local government
any more than is absolutely necessary.
There may be force in this reason, but
it i hard to see it. The local gov
ernment Is literally the creature of the
President. There being a divided au
thority. In the islands, it is of the
highest importance that the line of
cleavage should be drawn so sharply
that there- should be not the smallest
doubt concerning It.
The statement of the issue that has
arisen between General Chaffee and
the court is a meagre one. The gen
eral Is simply caid to have ordered the j
TA'-irr KKKOKM. NOT KKt'll'ItOCITY.
The i,iiiiple question that the Repub
licans jC the coaling Congress must
settle is not reciprocity for the benefit
e-f the few, but tariff reform for the
h!p of the many against the trusts.
On this question the Commoner says:
'The period of oxelusiveTiess is pa.-t."
That means that oiu- country must en
ter the markets of the world, and when
it does so it will be absurd tc talk
about nee ding protection from foreign
ers. When we sell abroad the freight
mti3t be eddod to the price we must
sell at the foreign price l"ss the freight,
in ether .vords. we have the advantage
of double freight when we sell at home.
When it is admitted that we can pas
the freight and compete with foreign
ers, no one will have the audacity to
ask for a high tnriff to protect domes
tic inanufactui its against foreign com
petition.
Mr. McKinley's statement that we
cannot sell everything and buy noth
ing is an axiom, but it will shock the
high tariff advocates we have gone on
t he theory that we ought to fell to
everybody, and buy of nobody. But the
preside-it's speech s uegests one melan
choly thought. Tariff reform is about
the only thing the reorganizers favor
that is Democratic and it would be
really cruel if t lie Republicans :-hould
abandon protectior and leave the re
organizer no issue at all.
Hoar i ('oiiitWteii t.
Senator Hoar has shown his consist
ency by declining- an invitation to de
liver a political eulogy mi tho late
President. In explanation of his re
fusal he says that he isextremely busy
just now, but adds:
"I ought in frankness to state an
other and even stronger reason. I
think the eulogy un the president
should be delivered hy some person
who was in full accord with him upon
the principal olitical measure of his
administration. 1 never questioned
his absolute honesty, hi devotion to
the public welfare, his love of liberty
and his desire to his duty asOod grave
him to see it. I was fully in accord
with him on the (Treat fiseal measures
with which he was identified. But, as
you know, I elifiVred with him and his
administration (and my opinion on
that subject has Leen strengthened
and not weakened in the lapse of time)
in regard to his policy in dealing with
the Philippine islands.'
Like many others whej differed with
Mr. McKinley on one er more political
questions. Senator Hoar has expressed
his admiration for the many personal
virtues of the dead chief magistrate,
his sorrow at his death and the detes
tation of the manner of his taking- oiF,
but lie thinks, and very properly, that
praise of the president's views on po
litical questions should come from
someone in barmoiiv with all tin iol-
ieies of the administration. It will In
remembered that the Massachusetts
senator declared that, if an imperial
poliey was persued, the fall ef the re
public would date from McKinley's ad
ministration, and it will also be re
membered that he closed Ids memora
ble speech against imperialism lr ap-
pealing- from Philip drunk to Philip
.oler." He says that his opinion 011
this subject has been strengthened
rather than weakened bv subsequent
observation. How, then, could he be
expectetl to deliver an eulogy that
would satisfy partisan republicans.'
Opponents of imperialism mav be ex
pected to share in all exercises that
gave expression to the unanimous re-g-ard
for Mr. MeKinlev as a man and
to the resMct entertained for the high
ollice to w hich he was elevated by his
countrymen, but they cannot be ex
pected to participate in any demon
stration which could Ik construed as
an endorsement of tho late president's
change from hostility to forcible an
nexation,'" and "criminal agression"
to the advocacy of 'benevolent assim
ilation."' The moment the republicans
attempt to use the life or the deatli of
Mr. McKinley to advance the policies
for which their party stands, that mo
ment they substitute partisan cutis for
a patriotic purpose and should confine
their appeals to those who are repub
licans on ail questions.
I'nder the Republican administration
the coinage of silver has for some time
exceeded the coinage under the Bland
act and has been a great cause of the
large miscellaneous receipts of the
treasury for as this stock of silver is
coined tho profit or seignorage is ap
plied to that fund. The silver now be
ing coined is the former profit or seign
orage from purchases of silver and the
volume of money in circulation Is be
ing not only inflated to that extent
but also by the double inflation of the
seignorage on the seignorage. In this
the Republicans have been more wise
than the Cleveland administration was,
when Mr. Cleveland vetoed the bill for
the coinage of sdlver seignorage. It is
also a strong endorsement cf the Dem
ocratic financial position for the en
largement of the currency In circula
tion.
The Xesxo'i. 1'oHition In the North.
It was to have been expected that
northern papers would c; wroth and
grow bitterly sarcastic in replying- to
southern .strictures upon the president
for entertaining- Booker T. Washing
ton at dinner. But the southern pa
pers are re-dying by asking- s.im-. pert
inent questions and citing-some crti
nent facts. They int out the fact
that northern love for the negro is con
fined to clectkm day. How many bus
iness offices in the north employ negro
clerks? How many trainmen are em
ployed on northern railways? How
many northern states have elected
negro senators or congressmen? Bow
many negroes have been appointed to
pestmasterships in the north? How
many negro mechanics are employed
in northern mills and factories along
side white mechanics? North he is limit
ed to the posit ion of porter in hotels
and on trains, or to waiterships iu ho
teds ami restaurants. Is there a negro
linotype operator on any great dailj
newspaper in the .north that is so
roundly denouncing the south for its
attitude toward the Roosevelt-Washington
dinner incident? Docs anyone
of the northern republican daily news
papers employ a negro pressman, a ne
gro reporter or negro city editor?
Some of these days the negro will rea
lize that he has nothing to gain from
the alle'gvd friendship ef men who seek
to use him for political purposes only.
One Mttn'K iret Tower.
Walter Well man, the we-Il known
correspondent of the Chicago Record
Herald, writing- to his paper under
date ef Waf hinglon, October '-M, said:
President Roosevelt today put hit
firijjrer on the button which moves most
of the wires in the United States sen
ate. Senator Aid rich of Rhode Island
is the button. lie is the greatest wire
puller iu the upper branch of the
American congress. In all matters
pe rtaininjr to tariff and finance be is
by long odds the most influential man
in the senate. He is the acknowledged
prince of the politicians of that body,
lie has fixed more tariff schedules to
suit interested parties, defeated more
legislation that someone of wealth and
power did not want, achieved a greater
success as- a managing editor of the
dignified senate, than any other man
in all its historj-.
President Koosevelt had Mr. Aldricli
at the white house today for a lunch
eon ami a conference. What was said
by cither of them no one knows. But
it is presumed that the president en
deavored to secure Mr. Aldrieh's e-on-
sent to the ratification of t'ic 1'ieiich
reciprocity treaty as a soi ..' .-.tart on
the reciproeit3' program w hi-- : ' ae pres
ident has very much, thou. not too
much, at heart. Whether or not Mr.
Aldrich has consented will come out iu
the wash.
It was intended that the senate as a
body should have power and influence,
in certain matters, co-ordinate with
the president; but it was never intend
ed that any single senator should have
not only a greater power than the pres
ident, but the "jvower to move; the e-n-tire
senate."
Senator Aldricli is a republican. He
belongs to that school which the Record-Herald
and its able correspondent
have told us had a monopoij- on the
championship of "national honor."
But 'here Mr. Wellman informs us that
this champion of "natiewial honor'" has
"fixed more tariff schedules to suit in
terested parties, defeated more legisla
tion that some one of wealth anil
power did not w ant, achieved a greater
Micce's as managiug editor of the oig
ndied senate than any other man inall
its history.'
A ml yet ve are told that we arc liv
ing in a government in which the peo
ple rule. We are told that the republi
can party is not the party of a special
class, but that it is a party having au
eye single to public welfare!
Dentil Without
The Wall street gamblers are afraid
of the future, according to the press
reports, and the boom in stocks is
over. The next thing to look for will
be a reaction from high prices in ne
cessities and then reduction of wages.
or the trusts will have no money to
pay dividends on their watered stocks.
Morgan and company must be carrying
a pretty heavy load by this time if the
reports are true of the amount of trust
stocks that have been unloaded on the
syndicate.
The Sultan of Sulu is up to a trick
or two. He pretended to be sick and
would not receive the congressmen vis
iting the Philippines. He has probably
heard of the way they treated tho Mor
mon Roberts and prefers to enjoy his
pension in peace to having any con
troversy about it.
All the talk about political bosses
owning this state or that or control
ling cities Is bosh; the people can very
soon rout them out if they want to.
A corrupt boss cannot long hold power
unless the majority of the people ap
prove or are such hide-bound parti
sans that they had sooner be robbed
than defeat "the party."
Japan looks upon the United States
as its best friend. It was tiu United
States that brought .Japan into.contact
with the civilized world. How? Xot
with bullets and swords: not with rapid-lire
guns and high-priced commiss
ions living at the expense ef a eo
ple impoverished by SOU hundred years
of fighting for liberty. It was accom
plished by kindness, by force of .exam
ple and by recognition of inalienable
rights. But hen Japan was reclaimed
from industrial seclusion there was an
absence of congressmen anxious to con
fer "blessings"' in return for the priv
ilege of gobbling up all of the rich
concessions or holding the fat offices.
Ho'.
Tiie lesson taught by the last hours
of e'zolgosz should not be lost upon the
world. He expired like one who sinks
in mid-ocean without a sail in sight.
How barren of real happiness must lto
the life of one who denies the e-xist-ence
of a I'od, defies all government,
ami cultivates the K-iief that he can,
without moral guilt, take the life of a
fellow being merely because that fel
low ln-ing- is administering for a little
while the autboritv conferred uoon
him by his countrymen. How c-an he
delude himself with the belief that he
is living upon a more exalted plane
than ordinary people?
Consider the perennial joys of the
gray-haired patriarch who learned in
youth that ''file fear of ;.jd is the le-g-inning
of wisdom." who has met life's
responsibilities with a prayer for light
to see his dutj- and courage to perform
it, and who approaches the grave "like
one who wraps the drapery ef his
couch about him and lies down to
pleasant dreams."' Consider the life of
such a one, and compare it with the
career of one who lives in constant re
bellion against nature and in constant
antagonism to society, and then ends
life ns a lonely traveler would turn
from a elcserted house out into a elark
and starless night.
Compare the sweet contentment of
one who accepts life's successes and re
verses with the sentiment of the psalm
ist: "The Ixrd is ray Shephere; I
shall not want. He make-th me down
lie in green pastures; He leadeth me
beside the still waters. ea. though
Bwalk through the valley of the shad
ow of death, I will fear no evil: For
Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy
staff thej-comfort me." Compare this
with the lot of one who curses the
Creator and His creatures, and then
swears back at the echo of his blasphemy.
Having lost valuable colonies, by in
sisting on taxation without represen
tation the British government is now
experiencing trouble by taxation with
misrepresentatiou.
Republican organs love to tell the
young men of the land that "their
cbanevs are just as good as they ever
were," and then urge as a reason for
retaining t-ie republican party in pow
er that it is better to "let wll enough
alone." But g. o. p. logic is usually
so badly snarled as to lie unintelligible
(lovernment officials are exerting
themselves to prevent the shipment of'
munitions of war from San Francis
co to South American ports, fearingv
theyareto be used in the Colundjo
Venezuelan trouble. American mules,
however, continue to go from United
States ports to agents of John Bull in
South Africa.
Gen. Chaffee says that the only friend
ly Filipinos are the ones who are
holding office under the carpetbag
government. At that rate we can pa
cify the islands whenever we have po
Eitions enough to go around.
Why is it that just as soon as a re
publican is appointed to the position
as secretary of the treasury or comp
troller of the currency he immediately
begins sedieming- to benefit the banks
at the expense of the peemle?
A republican paper sagely remark
that it is lucky for civib'zation that th
work of the cunrentions of one decade
is likely to be repudiated during th
next tleeade. If it has reference to th
work of republican conventions it ha
allowed a good deal more time than is
usually required.
The body of Czolgosz was. buried in
quicklime. Republican attempts to
make political capital out of the sad,
chapter, assassination should be buried
in the same material.
The tlereliet postal emploj-es in Cuba
feel that they cemld do much better in
the way of covering their tracks
If given another opportunity.
There is a marked similarity Wtwten
republican platforms and some mnns
nrepared by the navy department.
President Roosevelt is well enough
versed in politics to have known that
the g. o. p. organs believe in negro
equality for election purposes ouly.
If ever an interest-bearing greenback
is issMed 'verhaps Secretary Cage will
be able to look upon it without expe
riencing that tired feeling.
Will those who think they see the
hand of Providence pointing toward
imperialism reeognize the Roosevelt
Washington incident as another mani
festation of destiny?
It is reported that President Roose
velt's message will be short. In view
of his official acts since that Minneap
olis speech, it must be conceded that
his memory is, also.
The ship subsidy promoters are wear
ing felt slippers, which fact should im
pel the opponents of that measure to
drop a few comuum-senso tacks in tha
way.