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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT:
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December 5, 1901
Zbz Nebraska Independent
' Lincoln, nebraska
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proper credit. ' -.'
Address alt communications, and make all
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' Zhe tlebraska Independent,
. .. Lincoln, Neb.
" Anonymous communications will not be no
ticed. Eejected manuscripts will not be ra
. v If there is to be any resigning done
t' up at the , state house on account of
malfeasance in office the whole lot
will: have to- get out. They are all
equally guilty.-
"A few fool doctors have cost the
' people of this state many thousaads
; of 'dollars and a good many iiVes be-
-cause they. insisted that it was not
smallpox but Cuban itch.
- Nothing will make a man howl
" louder than w?en he thinks that he is
indanger of being pulled loose from
a graft. That accounts for the un
earthly noise down cast among the
tariff grafters.
- 4 The Washington .correspondents
have already begun io poke fun at
Dietrich . hey tell how the -whole
crowd broke -.into a laugh at his un
ga:r.lyvperformances when he was be
ing sworn in .
'Three or four of the big trusts seem
to have concluded that .there is more
......
money in , the law-madev privilege of
robbing the'" American consumer than
there is in foreign trade. That set
tles it. There will be no revision of
"the tariff.
Governor Taft of the Philippine isl
ands is on his way to the United Stat-.
f es. He went there a healthy man, but
the climate has completely ruined his
health. The salary may be big, but
there ' are drawbacks to carpet-bagging
in the Philippines after all.
The Bee reports that the railroads
are now scheming to get control of the
j. Omahar pollcerf orce. They have ev-
- ery thing else in the state since : tho
republicans returned to power, and
why kick about so small a matter fra
that?. The tail might as well go along
with the hide.
David Bennet Hill would get just
as many votes if he ran for president
in Nebraska as J. Sterling Morton
would, and no more. The election re
turns of some years back will show
how many that would be. it never took
the election clerks very, long to count
them,
-
The sentiment in Germany towards
England Is indicated by the fact that
a life-size statue of General Dewet,
the great Boer fighter, was unveiled at
Schlerstein the other day. There were
thousands present at the ceremony
, shouting themselves hoarse for De
wet and the Boers.
j Senator Dietrich, after months of
, cogitation, ; has t last announced to
the dear people , the line of legislation
to which he will devote his time and
, energies while-in the United State
senate. He says that he hopes to push
...'through a bill to make the carnation
the national flower.
" In answer to E. W. Furguson of An
drew, Neb., The Independent answers
, that the best . thing on money ever
published is . the chapter on Jthat sub;
ject in 'John Stuart Mill's work on
political economy. There is no use
in referring to lesser writers when
such an authority as John Stuart Mill
is 'accessible in every . public library.
The Washington correspondents of
the great dailies continue to declare
": that the great railroad magnates have
: ' withdrawn their opposition to; the
Nicaraguan canal. If they have, it is
' because they have perfected . their
steamship trust. Jim Hill and J. Pier
pont Morgan have been investigating
i very heavily in steamships during the
' last three months. - ' .
The republican editors rejoice great
ly over something that they have' re-
.. centlp-discovered. They say that the
quarrel between Hill and Croker has
" been settled and that the two will : now
join forces, kick all the republicans
In the state of New York out of office
, and send a solid delegation to the next
national democratic convention" for
Dave Hill for president It seems thit
the republicans are willing to give
i the New York state government into
the .control of the reorganizes if they
can by that means secure the nomina
tion of Hill as the democratic candi
date for -president. . ' , " . . ;
- DEMOCRATIC MANAGEMENT " . -
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.No thinking, man can look over the
history of the last two presidential
campaigns without coming to the con
clusion that the republicans won al
most solely br their superior political
management not in the manage
ment of those two campaigns alone
but for many years back. They man
aged so as to get control of nearly the
whole daily press of the United States
when equal shrewdness on the other
side would . have prevented it. The
populist party saw '"this- danger from
the very beginning and they made war
fare with all their" might against it;
while the democratic party gave but J
little aid. But perhaps the most con
spicuous failure in party management
ever recorded was when the democratic
party failed to take up the coinage of
silver by th'e republican administra
tion. The Independent and its editor
did all that could be done to get the
democratic leaders to make that the
principal cry in ' the last campaign,
but the democratic-dailies and week
lies would not mention It.
The facts were these: The republi
can party had made two campaigns In
which their war cries, from Maine to
California and from the lakes to the
gulf, were : "The coinage of silver
must be stopped, "The further coinage,
of sliver will bring ruin upon the
country," "It is repudiation," "Silver
dollars are dishonest money." They
went even further than that as every
man knows, and attacked the quantity
theory of money.- They declared- that
wevhad money enough. They hooted
at the idea that more money was
needed. They wanted dear mon-?y.
They denounced cheap money, and de
clared that it would lead back to bar
barism. That was the sort of cam
paign that was made. Then the first
thing after their congress met, they
declared that the money question was
settled and the gold standard was
firmly established.
Now see what a chance the demo
cratic party "had for a whirl-wind cam
paign. The first thing that the re
publicans did when their first congres3
met in ' extra" session was to provide
for the coinage of more silver dollars
than was, ever coined before in the
same length of time since the govern
ment was founded. They started the
mints to running and they ran for a.
year night and day. (See report of the
director of the mint.) They, provided
for inflating the paper money and as a
starter passed a law allowing the na
tional banks' to increase their issues
10 per cent instantly. They did not
stop there. They provided, for the is-'
sue of $200,000,000 more of" bonds as
the basis for hundreds more of new
national banks, all of which issued the
full amount of money allowed as soon
as they were organized. They went
further still, and to induce the organi
zation of still more banks, 'they re
duced the capitalization required one
half ' and any five persons .-who could
rake together $25,000 could organize a
national bank and issue $25,000 -more
money. If the democratic press had
joined th populist press and made a
charge on the republicanllne after it
had-suddenly been weakened in - that
manner, the reform forces could have
broken through and then turned
around and marched back over the
dead bodies of their political foe3.
Every democratic paper in the land,
the moment the law was passed for
the coinage of the seniorage and inflat
ing the Taank 1 currency, should have
broken out ,with r scare heads and
editorial articles declaring that the
republican party had been forced to
adopt the coinage, of silver and Bry
an's monetary policy to save the coun
try from ruinvand destruction. If they
had all declared upon the stump and
in every column of their papers, that
now we arevgoing to have "more mon
ey" we shall have prbsperous times
just as we said before the election if
they had hammered that into the peo
ple day after day and never let up, and
as prices began to rise and times got
better, said it is the adoption of our
monetary theories that has done this
thing just as we said it would, the re
publicans could not today have rallied
enough of their rag-tag and bob-tailed
battalions to have carried a dozen
counties in the whole United States.
The fact is, and no man can make a
truthful denial thereof, that the re
publicans have adopted Bryan's mone
tary theories, enacted them into lav
and they have produced exactly the re
sult that Byan and the populists said
that they wuld.
That isto say, the immediate results
are the same, but there will be a fear
ful hereafter to the policy, because
the republicans have put the volume of
money" in control of the banks instead
'of keeping' it in the hands of the gov
ernment as Bryan would have' done.
This vast inflation of paper money has
been made through the banks, and it
is within the power of the banks to
withdraw it at any time and it will "5o
to their interest to withdraw it to save
themselves from a receiver's , hands
whenever anything occurs to destroy
confidence 1 and; make a demand upon
them for realprimary money. This
process has also given td the banks
the profit of issuing paper money in
stead of that profit going to the people
as Bryan and the populists demanded.
That-profit consists in the fact-that
the people noV "are forced to pay in
terest twice, before the money gets in
circulation: ' Interest must be paid on
the bonds deposited by the bankers an3
interest must be paid to-the bankers
before the mony is paid out. "
"The worst of this matter is that the
democratic party still allows the re
publicans to go on claiming that they
have established the gold standard and
that the gold standard has brought
prosperity to the country, while the
truth- is that the nation is twice as far
fronrthe gold standard as it was when
Cleveland .went out of office and the re
publican ; administration came in. The
volume of silver,'-paper and credit in
relation t(j gold, is twice or three times
as great as it was when the republicans
came ' into power. And they are-permitted
without contradiction to say
that that is "more firmly establishing
the gold standard ! "
So little has been said by the oppo
sition, press in regard to the enormous
coinage of silver dollars and subsid
iary silver that ninety-aiine out of ev
ery, hundred republicans today firmly
believe that the coinage of silver has
been stopped, and if one tells them of
the amount that has-been coined, they
will firmly declare that there has been
no silver coined under this administra
tion at All. ; v
: What is needed is 'a leadership that
will direct and furnish the official
documents from the archives at Wash
ington and a press that will fight. The
Independent has never been afraid to
fight and it will keep fighting if'Mad
den' don't suppress it. Every sub
scriber, can. firmly rely upon that.
bbiiish'vegkance
The Daily . News of London has
mitted that the mortality in the con
centration camps of South Africa Is
greater than that of the Indian fa
mines, where cholera -and other epi-
demics have to be contended with.
Moreover, the new bishop of Wor
cester, Charles Gore, has borne wit
ness to the horror of the camps,
where men, women and children, guilty
of no sin but patriotism, die like sheep
in the sh'ambles, or live in the midst o"
revolting conditions.
- This solemn accusation, made in the
London newspapers, so far from arous
ing the people to the enormity of their
offense, caused the author of the letter
to be stigmatized as a. traitor; it was
regretted that so talented an author
could be so. hopelessly misled, and
"pro-Boer" was considered a mild
epithet to apply.
The appointment of this critic by the
government to the bishopric of Wor
cester left the people aghast. It wa3
explained by Lord Salisbury's cynic
ism a cynicism which appears to thi
American to be closely allied to a
superb nonconformity.
If only that cynicism would carry
him so far as to cause him to disre
gard the -desire for vengeance which
the English people feel for the Boers,
and induce him to reconstruct tho
prisons, placing but a few families in
each group and making the conditions
happy and sanitary, he would win for
himself a reputation of which even
he, bitter and sardonic though he is,
might well be proud.
It is a curious thing that men like
Lord Salisbury and King Edward will
not eagerly avail themselves of op
portunities for great actions. They
stand in high places. Why can they
not do" high deeds? They are feared
but they might be loved. To men who
look with envious eyes upon those
placed where they may be magnani
mous, beneficent and divinely merciful,
it seems at once stupid and impious
to neglect such chances.
Surely the day of reckoning will
come for England if she listens not to
the voices of those who are perishirg
by her neglect because of. her greed
and through her ignoble spirit of re
venge. Ella W. Peattie.
The wisdom of J.1 Sterling Morton
is the same astonishing thing, whether
he writes about ' the gold standard,
B'ryanarchy or on ordinary scientific
subjects. Listen to him:
The fact that insanity, epilepsy,
appetite for liquor, tuberculosis,
gout, and scores df other undesira
ble traits, taints and trends . are
... transmitted to descendants, ought
to be known to every intelligent
fifteen-year-old boy and girl in
American schools.
If anything has been thoroughly es
tablished beyond contradiction, by
thorough scientific investigation, it is
thatf tuberculosis (consumption) is a
germ disease and that it is not her
editary. . The same remark may also
be made about most of the other dis
eases enumerated. Along with , his
archaic political economy, Morton
would have the children taught the
ories concerning disease long-since
repudiated by every intelligent physi
cian. But Morton- deems himself a
sage and that settles it.
' All legal tender money ' is "fiat",
money, gold as much as silver or pa
per. The value of all money depends
upon the limitation of the quantity. If
the gold money of any country were
destroyed and an equal quantity of
paper money issued in its place, the
value of the paper would be tha same
as the value of the gold- eliminated.'
See Ricardo on this subject. 'He is an
authority in every university in this
country and Europe' - '
r POPC1ISTS EVERYWHERE
"Among the hundreds of letters re
ceived during the, last two weeks,; one
fact has developed, and .that is that
there are populists everywhere." There
are scores of therir in New Yorfe arid
in all the eastern , states, for they say
so in their letters, f They a,ll moum
because there is no populist organiza
tion in those states so they could go
to the. polls and 'record themselves as
jpopulists. T. It. Ryder, editor of ths
Erie (Pa.) Echo, writes: "I think that
you had.. better 'put the Echo on your
exchange list it is the only populist
paper in Pennsylvania. Eight pop
ulists in congress only one jto vote
for Stark for speaker. That's a pretty
how-de-do. That's keeping up the
party organization like Wilhelmrkept
tavern like h 11. Don't the fools
I know that they can't drive the . old
pops into the democratic melting pot?"
' From The Independent's Washing
ton correspondent it appears that the
democratic donkey got upv and brayed
as loud as ever especially the speci
men from Texas.1 The gold donkey
made his appearance in the asses skin
and altogether they had about as big
a row as ever the populists had. Sup
pose they had taken Bryan's advice
and asked the assistance of all who
were opposed to trusts, bank money,
imperialism and the rule of corpora
tions, instead as the" Texas donkey
declared that they wanted no assist
ance from anybody? That Texas dec
laration was a grea piece of wisdom
coming ' as1 itl did; from . a minority.
Don't want anyhelp! Great is that
Texas donkey, truly as great as the
mid-road populist. He don't want any
help either. When the democratic
congressional caucus arrives at that
state where it will heave -every man
aver the transom who talks like that;
New York crowd, there might b.e some
propriety in extending an . invitation
to populists to go into their caucus,
but as long as they allow such men to
masquerade as. democrats, The Inde
pendent will say: "No, thank you.-'
A WORD TO CORRESPONDENTS
The Independent wishes all new
correspondents, as well as the old
ones, would certainly read the follow
ing extract from John Ruskin: -
Certainly -it is excellent dis
cipline for an author to feel that
he must say all he has . to say in ;
the fewest possible words, - or his
reader is sure to skip him; and
in the plainest possible words, or
his reader will certainly misun-
derstandthem. Generally, also, .
a downright fact may be told in a
plain way; .and we want down
right facts at present more than
anything else ..,.
There is another thing that John
Ruskin did notf know about, for it did
rot exists ;in his time. If it had, he
would certainly have mentioned it
when giving advice to authors. Thv
linotype is a new machine! It does not
set- italics'. The operators of those
machines have made some rules about
copy that every publisher accepts, for
they are reasonable rules. A lino
type operator will hot accept or at
tempt to set bad or illegible copy. It
is both to his own interest and the in
terest of the publisher that he, should
not waste his time and let the ma
chine stand still -while he slowly fig
ures out line after line of bad writing.
When copy comes into this office in
that tangled up and squally condition,
if the matter Is of such interest as to
pay for the trouble, which sometimes
it is, it is copied before it is sent to
the operator, otherwise It goes into
the waste basket. That is the prac
tice in this, and all oftier offices where
linotpyes are used. Why some men
will insist upon stretching out an ar
ticle so long that no one will read it,
is one of those things which this pop
editor can't find out.
v NAVY PINK TEAS -
It is announced that a secret report
has been made to the secretary of the
navy by a board of naval" officers of
high rank. Several such reports have
been made lately and they are all jf
such a character that it would be a
blow to the national pride to" make
hem public. The navy is In a very
bad condition and the iiasis o all the
trouble? is the pink teas. The subalt
ern officers of the navy and some who
are not subaltern (see Sampson's let
ter on commissioning sailors)' have
made themselves and the whole ser
vice so disgusting to men of sound
sense that, first of all, the service is
short of men to the tune of 8,000 or
10,000. All the ships in commission
are short of men and some are laid up
because men cannot be . obtained to
man them. , ? ;
: These naval rnartinets have made
themselves so offensive, led on as they
have been by such letters as that one
from Sampson that they have become
unendurable. Their snobbish conduct
not only extends to the common sail
ors, whom they always treat as if
they were beasts, but of late years they
have become xso superior to all other
humanity that they deem' officers of
the engineer corps so far inferior to
the " Annapolis dandies that self-respecting
men refuse to server in that
corps at all. The result is that' the
complicated machinery of the great
warships is neglected, an immense
amount ot needless breakage occurs
and the millions of money that have
been invested, in that machinery will
soon become a total loss. The naval
"officer looks upon? an engineer as: bej
Ing $o beneath him In. the social scale
that . no educated "and ; self-respecting
engineer will endure the arrogance and
lordly demeanor always assumed when
6ne of the Annapolis dudes comes in
contact with him. It requires a more
thorough education for a man to be
come "i a V competent naval ' engineer
jthan it does to get through the exr"
elusive naval school and into the ser-
Urice as an ensign. It requires far more
common sense and good judgment to
fulfill the duties of the position than
that of an officer on deck, yet these
kid-glove, pink-tea gentlemen look
down with scorn upon the officers in
the engineer corps as altogether in
ferior beings and not much above the
common laborer whom they think be
longs to a different order of. beings
altogether. - , . ;
Men competent to fulfill the duties
of naval engineers, will no longer suf
fer the indignities to which they have
been subject in the past and refuse to
serve in the nayy. The result is that
on some of the great warships, the vast
asfd complicated machinery, from com
pound : engines and steam boilers to
the delicate electrical mechanism that
works the immense turrets and am
munition hoists, is all under the care
of what they call "a warrant officer'
a position which ' corresponds to 3
non-commissioned officer, in the army
or, in other words, a sergeant or cor
poral. . . - -.
That is the state to which Sampson
and pink teas has brought the navy,
and it is that condition upon which
these secret reports are being made.
There has been a contest raging a long
time between the two corps in the
navy, but it has grown more acute dur
ing ! the last year than ' ever. In the
end, the Sampson, pink-tea code will
have to be modified or warships requir
ing high executive engineering i.jility
must be abolished.
, , REDEEM NEBRASKA
-Several of our republican exchanges
have been indulging in tb belief that
a very large number of popalists hav'e
gone into the republican . party "for
keeps." Aside from D. Clem Deaver
and a few of his brand, there are not
many populists, really grounded in
the principles of .populism, who have
deserted their faith. Occasionally, it
is true, the voters gel;' tired ; of the
strenuous life of politics and neglect
to go to the polls and populists art
guilty of this failing this year.
The law of averages is not a bad one
to follow in figuring on actual condi-tions-
Suppose we take . the 'vote on
the head of the state ticket for the last
six elections. The republican vote js
as follows:
1896 MacColl .1 94,723
4897 Post 89,009
1898 Hayward 92,982
1899 Reese 94,213
1900 Dietrich 113,879
1901 Sedgwick ?8,993
Average 97,300
The fusion vote stands:
1896 Holcomb .116,415
1897 Sullivan 102,828
1898 Poynter 95,702
1899 Holcomb 109,320
1900 Poynter 113,018
1901 Hollenbeck 86,334
Average ........... v 103,936
It will be observed that an average
vote would be: .
Fusion 103,936
Republican ............... . 97,30C
Fusion majority. 6,636
But, it is urged, Judge Sedgwick had
a plurality of 12,659 over Judge Hol
lenbeck;. how is that accounted for?
In this way: Sedgwick ran slightly
ahead of a normal , republican vote,
while Hollenbeck ran -nearly 18,000
behind a normal fusion vote (on ac
count of Elusion stay-at-homes) the'
exact figures being: "
Sedgwick, gain...... . i 1,693
Hollenbeck, loss : .'. . .V 17,602
Relative rep. gain 19,295
This is proven another way:
The reader should not become con
fused by supposing these figures rep
resent all the v stay-at-homes. They
do not purport to account for any ex
cept those who, on the average, may
be depended upon to vote except . un
der conditions of such apathy as pre
vailed this year. As a matter of fact
251,005 voters voted 'last year, while
only 203,192 came to the polls this
year; that means a total stay-at-home
vote of 47,813. Of these, about 28,800
were .populists and democrats ; about
11,200 were republicans; and the re
mainder' io not affiliate, with any of
these three parties. Tabulated:
Fusion stay-at-homes. ". 28,800
Republican stay-at-homes 11,200
Other stay-at-homes . 7,800
Total 47,800
Fusion apathy lost us the state, this
year not - republican gains, or inroads
in our ranks. .There is no reason for
fear of the result next year if every
porker wiU buckle onl his armor this
winter and do something for the caui?.
The state can be redeemed from Stuef
erism, and Savagery and Proutish
ness, if we make the effort. Get your
neighbor to read' The Independent.
That's a good way to get him inter
ested.' '-x v . '".
7 With the adlflresToithe wrapper of
your paper 'you-will find the date at
which; your subscription expires. This
is to; enable our readers to be prompt
with- their- renewals. , .
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THE TARIFF LUNACY J:
s From day to day it becomes more
apparent that the tariff will be a
burning question in the near future.
The people fought that question to a
finish in 1892 and won. Then a con
gress that had been elected ' on the
tariff issue was called together by
Cleveland in extra session, not to con
sider the tariff, but for the purpose of
repealing the Sherman law. "In the
uproar that followed, a democratic
congress, betrayed by a president in
the White house; and by traitors in
the senate, forced through a tariff law
calied the Wilson bill, which imposed
the highest protective duties that had
ever been forced upon the country.
The "protection" under that bill was
higher and more eifective than any
oth.er bill . that was ever enacted by
congress up to that time, although i
could be figured out that a reduction
had been made on the average, of
about 7 per cent. The scheme which
they 'played to increase the protec
tion and at the same time reduce the
average rate of tariff duties was ex
tremely simple. Where they found
duties six or. seven hundred per cent
higher than the prohibitive point
like those on pearl buttons, they -reduced
them to the prohibitive' point
and raised others "that were not hign
enough. At the end of their work
they had a higher protective tariff
than ever before, with a reduced av
erage rate of duties, most of it beins
done by the fine scheming of Gorman
in the senate. The'bill went back to
the house with nearly a thousand
amendments, but it was still called the
"Wiknn bill " ;'...
Such action ' as that plunged the
democratic party into an outer dark
ness so dense that all the genius and
eloquence of a Bryan could not lead it
again into the light. Bryan appealed
to the masses and won in the national
conventions, but the traitors who did
this work in congress, threw their in
fluence and votes to the republican
party and while Bryan made two cam
paigns more brilliant than were ever
fcught before on' this continent, the
republicans, aided by democratic trait
ors, were able to win. ,:
Now the same old question is forced
f - - the front, and v.he. battle . must be"
fcught over again. Many thousands
of men who have-voted the republican
ticket begin to realise that their: in7"
comes are decreased and their ex
penses increased by the present tariil
laws, and hundreds of .manufacturers
are finding that certain markets will
soon be closed against them , where
ttey have sold millions of dollars'
worth of . goods, if there is not some
revision of the tariff.
The republicans were able by shrewd
management to abandon their finan
cial theories and adopt those of tho
populists. They were assisted in doing
that by listlessness of the democratic
editors who never called the attention
of their readers-to the fact that while
the republicans made a campaign on
the statement that the coinage of sil
ver must, be, stopped, as soon as they
were in power, they passed a law un
der which they coined a third mere
silver than was ever coined before un
der either, the Bland. or Sherman acts,
which they said "must be repealed or
universal ruin would be the result.
While they - had constantly declared
that there "was money enough," they
passed additional laws which enabled
the national bankers to increase their
circulation 10 per cent and still more
laws whereby the number of national
banks ' could W greatly increased,
.thereby further increasing the amount
of bank money, which, being to a large
extent a legal ..tender,, was a further
increase of the quantity of money.
Having been able , to do this, and
thereby relieve the country of the dls
tress that" resulted from ths entire
stoppage of the coinage of silver un
der Cleveland without the attention
of the people ; beini; called to ' the , re
versal of -their ppJicy theyv devise I
another scheme to -adopt the demo-
cratic theory concerning the tariff.
This they proposed to do by calling it
'reciprocity."
Unexpected difficulties have ariser.
They have found that they could nt?t
pull a tariff grafter away from hi3
graft without attracting public atten
tion. The grafter will howl until ha
makes . the heavens reverberate with
his shrieks. That being the situation
it appears that the old tariff fight will
be made over again. There must
a new alignment made. The populists
and Bryan democrats hold the samo
views on the tariff. The republicans
and democrats of the Gorman strlpa
have always worked ' and voted to
gether, from the days of Sam Randa!!
until the present and will continue to
doso.
.Among those who will favor a re
vision are many large manufacturers
who hase learned that what the yup
ulists have said on tariff is eminent ly
true. They have seen these protlic- -tions
come true, in the manufacture
of sewing cotton and in hundreds ot
other instances. When they pit a
high tariff on thread, the great Eng
lish manufacturers simply transferrel
their plants, or large parts of them,
to this country and the rise in the
price Of thread went to the English
men. It was simply taxing the poor
women who sew, for the benefit ot
Coates.and Clark, who took their gain
as fast as accumulated back to Scot
land and England. Hundreds of other
foreign manufacturers did the sanw
thing, and their gains shipped home to
their native countries accounts for thi
non-return i that Is reported from th
vast amount of wealth that we ship out
of this country. ' What the republicans
call "a favorable balance of trade" is
the shipping of millions more cf 1
wealth y out of the country than is
shipped into it. Much speculation has
been indulged in to account for the
fact, that while we ship millions mor
of products out of the country tlan is
shipped in, no gold is sent to us in
return. Much of it is the profits ot!
foreign manufacturers who have, com?
here to take advantage of our pro
hibitive tariffs.
f They have also seen another thin;
come to pass tha was predic:ed by
tariff reformers. Foreign nations win
no,t open their markets to Amercc
products while prohibitive tariffs shut
them ojit of our markets. A series of
tariffs have been enacted during th
last ten years by European govern
ments that take most of our products,
for the very purpose of defense against
the American system of prohibitivu
tariffs, and Germany i3 on the point,
of pushing this thing, to the very ex
treme. If our trade with Europe is cu
off by high tariffs over there, tho
American manufacturer sees destruc
tion, before him. He don't like that
prospect at all. To prevent it he fav- .
ors tariff revision. Since the t&riffa
have been raised in Germany, some
American manufacturers have done
just what the English and Scotch dil
when we raised our tariffs Thy
have gone Into Germany and estab
lished manufacturing there. Capita?
has no patrioti ,m. If more money
can be . made in Germany on acount.
of the high tariffs here, American capi
tal will be invested there. So it seems
that we are to have a tariff fight
again. - The protection lunacy ha.s
thrown the trade of the whole wori.l
into confusion.. Fighting tariffs, de
mands for revision and general dis
content is the result.
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From remarks nowadays frequently
dropped by men who have all their
lives been republicans, it begins to ap
pear that a good many of that faith
are about as tired of the war in tho
Philippines as Johnny Bull is of th(
war " in South Africa. The substancj
of their talk is to the effect: "We'vj
got hold of the" bear's tail and w-j
can't let go, nor hold on." That sums
up the republican, policy in regard to
the whole matter. - -' -. .
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