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ADANGEROISREMERY TARIFF REPEAL IN DEALING WITH TRUSTS. To Hrmovii Protection Would Either lie lurffertuAl mikI H'orflileo, or KIm If Would Prove Ufitrudivr to Our 1 dnstrlul hjtfem. To the questions. Is the Customs Tariff the mother of trusts, as was as sorted by Mr. Havemeycr? and Would the repeal of protective duties on arti cles controlled by trusts render the success .of trusts impossible in this country? one of the most thoughtful answers yet given by any of our pub lic men is that of Representative Tawney of Minnesota, which is printed in the current issue of the American Kconomist. Mr. Tawney, a conspicu ous member of the house committee on ways and means, of which the late Nelson Dlngley was chairman, and which formulated and framed the Dingley tariff law. is a man who evidently thinks before talking. In this respect he differs quite radically from certain other Minnesota talkers and writers, who are strenuous advo cates of the repeal of protective duties as a means of smashing the tru.-ts. Kx statesmen who never had any reputa tion for brains ami editors more or less influenced by commercial consid erations take a flying Jump and land squarely upon the conclusion that by the removal of protection the trust problem Is at once solved. To Jump at a conclusion Is the easiest of all ways out of a perplexing dilemma. It re quires little thought and less knowl edge. But is the trust question so easily settled as ail tills? Representative Tawney thinks it is not. Briefly slated, his presentment of the proposition is this: The repeal of the protective tar iff as a means of smashing the trusts would be either absolutely worthless or else absolutely destructive. If, as Is claimed by all free-traders, by all mugwumps, and by a few wabbling protectionists, the protective policy 1 has outlived Its usefulness in the I'nlted States, and is no longer neces sary In order to enable our domestic Industries to compete with foreign I production, then, as Mr. Tawney dear ly points out, the repeal of protective duties would accomplish nothing in re straint or control of trusts, it would lie a worthless remedy, for the trusts would continue the even tenor of their way, Just as though nothing had hap pened. If, on the contrary, protection is es sential as a means of assuring the pos- ; session of the great home market to the domestic producer, then the re- i «noval of protection would, while un doubtedly smashing the trusts, at tb.± same time smash our vast industrial system, and by so doing would drive domestic production out of tlie field and leave our consumers wholly at the j mercy of foreign trusts not amenable to regulation and control through the , operation of our domestic laws. Such is the alternative. Either pro tection is or is not needed. Either the trusts of the i'nited States could get along equally well without it, or else its repeal would wrec k the domestic ; trusts and also wreck domestic in- 1 dustries. This is a consummation which might prove acceptable to free traders and mugwumps; but would it prove acceptable to the country as a whole? Half-hearted protectionist writers and ex-statesmen who think they think would do well to follow representative Tawney’s example, and give this question serious considers- i tion before they become so cocksure of having solved the trust problem by the abandonment of protection. RETURN OF CONFIDENCE. It 1'tmn Alinul Solely Tlsrough the Kes tornlion of (lie Policy of I’rotret Ion. Some people are foolit>li enough to believe that the present happy condi tion of affairs is attributable to the restoration of ftnanctul couttdence, but It requires no special acumen to dis cover that this couttdence rested on the belief that protection would set the wheels of Industry In motion. If the fact were otherwise it would long since have disappeared, for it must not be forgotten that there has been no monetary legislation since the election of President McKinley and that our monetary system remains practically in the same state that it was when Cleveland falsely held It responsible for the disaster* which the carrying out of his un-American free-trade pol icy brought on the country. It Is true there Is a largely Increased stock of gold in the I'nltrd Stalls. but no lcglt latton touching th*- standard or man ipulation by the treasury has brought about that result. Protection did it by largely increasing the favorable trade balance. Hy diminishing our import* and Ini reusing our exports we hate ac complish! d what no legal regulation of the standard could hare accom plish! d. My slicking In protection we hare kept ont of, or at least |e»»rii«4. our Indebtedness to forriguris, aad thus we hate made It lioptntitlide for them to force us to yield up au» noire of our gold than *• ttnd it { olitsUi* or mt»t»Ment to part with protei Hull la entitled to credit for this (c ult hot tt« rsrnir- unde the guise of monetary ti'lofiarn, are se« k log to obscure the tact. They will Hid ■ Hi • red however to atli>' lire Anoil* ran prop.* are «> ute enons’t t > > < th* >e tails, whbb stand »-it pi t Mr That 1'hat lb I''** when prats** tiOo Wa* !■ full #ls«1 the boMtu * of the ruttiltf war to a j. uroMnitlt althr roadilivtl * UterotKl (hat during the years while free trade was I trips it :*ec anil I i force, that (a. bciwstg the fall of »»?•? gl.tt |»*Mi W ii«.»s-i I.s d*c essli.a S! la and itriissoi • . tag whhh tiok ’ rtjrrry was rife ami great numbers e* i workingmen were deprived of employ* ; merit and with their families reduced I to want. Third,—That as soon as McKinley and a Republican congress were elect ed and a protective tariff was assured business at once revived and the coun try entered on a career of prosperity that makes it the envy of the rest of | the world. Cause and effect are -o closely linked in this matter it Is Impossible to escape the conclusion that protectlfa and free-trr.de are responsible for the re sults described. They were the only factors in the problem, and It will be Idle to seek to make it appear that the trouble was due to the standard. or ap prehension concerning the currency. The attempt will be miade, however, but there is every reason to hope that the American people will not be led astray, but will intelligently conclude that the policy that brought prosperity before 1*911 and restored it in 1S97 is good for the country and should be permanently maintained.—San Fran cisco Chronicle. Tlie Hodge Mill Not Work. Protection la a Republican policy. The Democrats have formed the habit of denouncing it, and they think they must keep it up, with or without rea son and sense. And so, with the splen did record of protection staring them in the face, ar.d being unable to point to a siugle fact that Is not to its credit, they wildly re-echo Havemeyer's flip pant utterance with some such scheme as this In their heads: "The people like the protective tariff; let us try to make them hate it by circulating thp absurd lie that it is the mother of trust*.” The hypocrisy of all this is quite as comical as it is revolting. It shows what a poverty-stricken old concern the Democratic party is. Free silver is dead. Flag hauling as ;\n issue is worse than no issue at all. Fantastic yarns about trusts and the tariff are the only remaining resort. The Democracy grabs at this grotesque banner and flourishes It frantically, hoping to rat tle voters and muddle their thinking apparatus, lint the dodge will not work. It is a confession of weakness and a proclamation of stupidity. The people see through the game and will coldly keep out of it. preferring to re tain their prosperity, their open work shops, their 100-cent dollars, their ster ling Americanism, and their respect for the flag of their country. Freeport (111.) Journal. A Kugg«*«tlou for Hi** l)«*w#y Arch. \Yli»t II* Here is a bright and shining exam ple of the protection afforded consum ers by competition. Without the Dos ehers ar.d Arbuckles there would be no cheap sugar. With them the fangs o' tlie sugar trust are drawn, and instead of a monopoly it is only a large cor poration in competition with smaller ones, w hich have the power to regu late prices. What Mr. llavemeyer seems to need is not so mm h modification of the tariff as a law prohibiting any one but the llavemeyer combination manufac turing or selling sugar. From bis ex hibitions of monumental gall and self ishness. it is a wonder he has not urged such action by congress. -Tacoma lWash.) Ledger. A He* poinlhllltjr. Protection enriched the few at the expense of the many, and the trusts that grew out of protection are doing the same thing only a little more .o. — Toledo Bee. The Bee is mistaken; tha' is not so. The political history of the country shows that protection to home industry was alway: a great help to American labor the bone and sinew of the coun try. As for tru)4s. the fact I*, the Repub lican (tarty tt no more responsible for them than ll the so-called Democratic party. In that respect all parlies are in "the same b»» Soiealk (Ohio) He Iteetor. 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Senator Hansbrcugh qf North Da kota hits the nail on the head when he says: ‘•Congress might revoke every article and section of the tariff law carrying a protective duty, and it would not make the slightest differ ence with the so-called trusts." The proof of the truth of this statement is found in the fact that free-trade England also has formidable monopo- ! iistic combinations.—Minneapolis Trib- j tine. Convincing as this fact mav be. it is not the only proof of the soundness of Senator llansbrough's conviction re garding the relation of trusts and the tariff. Trusts in CJreat Britain do not fear external competition so long as they are able to control domestic com petition. To control domestic compe tition is much easier in a free-trade country than in a country where pro tection acts as a perpetual stimulus to internal competition. It the truth were known there are trusts in the United States to-day that would welcome the repeal of all protective duties as the ' surest safeguard against the greatest i menace to their successful operation— j the menace of new competitors. They : are not disturbed at the prosper t of In- j jurious foreign competition under free trade. Competition of that kind could be easilv met by reducing the cost of production -that is, by reducing wages. Protection being abolished and wages having been reduced, it would lie plain palling for the trusts. No; the repeal of protective duties would not smash the trusts. The things cer tain to lie smashed in such a contin gency would be the American standard of wag-s and the American standard of living. ■No KutUf.vIni; Them. Bryan newspaper* in out-of-the-way ! places are copying the figures of a New j York paper showing that the increase in the prices of fifty or sixty articles i since January 1. 1897, has been 28 per cent. Thereupon a howl is set up against the protective tariff anti the trusts. The greater part of the increase i is in iron goods, tin plates, etc. While ' there is a tin plate trust, there Is no iron trust. The advance in tin plates i in the i nited States has been but half as much as in Great Britain. Provi- ! sions, meats, and particularly beef, are higher than a year ago, but the tariff ; does not affect the price of beef a par- I tide, and there is no combination that j can be seen that (an affect the prices I as a trust might. 'I he growing scarcity of cattle and the increased demand cause the advance in prices, which be- ; gins with those who raise cattle, bum- j her is much higher than two years ago, ; but there is no lumber trust, anil the ! tariff cannot materially affect the j price, so that the increase may be at- 1 tributed to the scarcity and the great ly increased demand. In 1896 Mr. Bry an and his satellites went up and down the country declaring that, so long as the gold standard prevailed prices 1 would decline, and there would be no profit in trade and no activity in pro- j duction and trade. The gold standard prevailed, and now Ihese same men I are pitying the poor and denouncing I the trusts and the tariff because prices have advanced. There is no satisfy- ! ing these fellows.—Indianapolis Jour- I nal. Wages ami Price*. Those who refuse to confess the truth take pleasure in pointing out the fact that there has been an advance in the prices of some common articles of consumption, amounting to an average of 15 per cent, but they fail in most cases to also state that wages have ad vanced fully 25 per cent at the same time, and the number of unemployed dwindled to Insignificant proportions. The present industrial policy of the nation has, in its practical working, indicated the wisdom of its principles. —Minneapolis Progress. I lllll.v of Trust*. It is a fine thing for Democrats that we have trusts, for without them there would be nothing for Democrats to de nounce. Yes. trusts are good things to have around when platform making time comes in this country. The Demo eratio party would be more consistent if her leaders In Congress would help ItepuhlieaiiM to annihilate them with good laws on the subjet. Williams port (Ind i Republican. M«jr Mr mi> The tariff is not now an Issue, Ini nobody can tell what the Democrat* will do before the neat election. There are at present strong indications of an attempt to force the tar.IT tn the front h> taking up the trust Issue on the lines laid down by Itryan.aud if that U done the testimony of Mr. (Irate as to the beneficial effects of protection will he Interesting. Cleveland tOhio) Leader >»tlrn '»! n«uO.I There isn any <tnr»tlon that Wil liam M KInlrt will t*e re employed m IHoo a* advance agent of prosperity. Keen if th crop* >boi«.tl let a little short In that venr, there writ! In* i ii . tg i of farm pttei.ite left over from Ive> to riM.i'int" h.* * Wp.overs In s' g ft) hint The people won't w tut to risk .1 green ioiMtl at the i t-.111 ii inyiHe •Ohio) i’.i • r til t .*»«•► Il Kmih I fce tc ’ll own the ttepuhlt. an imc t lb* * * > t»* • f»r 'eti M K. ntev a* 4 |. oitCsl ie 0I1 ami lh ' lit,4I4 nil) H-tef he att. ' »e.l It) lh* It P I bit, .it |Ot (V ^l*f a a • i . V,.r t I IS-^ tit In.) not lit Cvp nn-*it» t.gus ihat in that Did paragraph tt it suing pub. loilv to n series of it«,n»i.v-t*l h • J1 * \ 1» a v till It«fit l»i SOME SNHS Of THE PRESENT WAR Every Artillery Man his Own Horse in the Philippines. Oscar H. Weber, a St. Louis man. | who acted as a photographer's assist- I ant when he was not fighting in the [ Philippines, has brought back with him a number of views that, better I than words, tell the story of campaign- ! ing as done by the artillerymen. Web ei served in Light Battery 1), Sixth ar tillery. enlisting in St. Louis, making i he overland trip to San Francisco and then sailing on the transport Peru. GUN CHKW, BATTERY D, SIXTH ARTILLERY. | The ship stopped at Honolulu, and In , August, a .'ear ago, landed Its men on Oriental soil. J. W. Cole, formerly | connected with St. I<ouis theaters; Frank Simmons, Seizor, Benson and others were In this battery. For several months after their ar rival the men of the Sixth had pro vost duty to perform inside of the jailed part of Manila. When the trouble at Pago Church came, Battery D saw active service. With two guns they smashed the church to smither eens, and later at Caioocan did more valiant service. Lieut. Hawthorne had command of the guns of the Astor bat tery, which had been turned over to the government and formed part of the Sixth, and on these occasions they w re brought into play effectively. It was necessary to keep the railroad lines open, and for this work the Sixth artillery was admirably suited, as it shelled the insurgents whenever they appeared to be working on new in trenchmcnts. After the Caioocan affair, these fighters, aided by the rapid-fire guns of the gunboat Helena, swept the near by country of Filipinos. The Insur gents in bushes were able to give cross fire that exposed I) battery to much danger, but only one death resulted. One of the forts built by the hat tf>ry on Its man a was christened Fort MaeArthur. It was made up of sand bags. behind which trenches were dug for the shelter of the men. Oat sacks were carried In the ammunition wag ons for the purpose of mnking walls, which insurgent bullets could not per forate. The most unpleasant part of lire in litis fort was the terrific heat. There were no horses to he had, and the men pulled their cannon with long ropes. As there were plenty of pull ers. they did not object to it. Resides, it was a great relief to the Commis sary Department not to have the feed ing of horses on its bands. Klee straw, tailed "paddy,” was the only fodder to he had in that country. The native ponies subsisted on this mainly, but for the larger draft horses from the I'nited States this was not sufficient. Their feed, oats and hay, had to be Imported.—Post-Dispatch. Kicluiiiof lie ICn/ke. Jean tie Reszke is the only one of the grand opera singers whom it is impossible to hire for private mus ienlcs. He will sing an entire even ing at the house of a fellow artist, but becomes positively angry when a,liv ing in private houses for money is suggested, lie once visited the house of the Rothschilds in Palis, and de lighted his host by singing a number of songs. The baron, who bad tried to get him to sing at private entertain ments a number of times, but never succeeded, nov. resolved to reward the singer in what he considered the prop er way. At the close of the evening he presented De ReszKe with a blank check, signed, asking hint to fill it up for any amount he wished. De Reszke took the check and as he tore it to pieces said: "My friend, 1 am your guest. If I took your cheek I should deserve to he kicked from your door. I r«ng only for pleasure.” CLING TO THEIR OWN RELIGION Chrlallanlly In .fupan Hat Bern on the llrt'lliic fur Hump Years. Though the fact may ha an unpleas ant one for Christians to contemplate, it is nevertheless unquestioned that there has bee n a decline of interest in Christianity since the successful war in China produced a high degree of national self-confidence among the Japanese. The ery was heard every where "Japan for the Japanese.” One result was religious, and became mani fest in a decline in the number of con verts to the Christian faith and in a falling off in the membership of the Christian churches. Not a few aban doned Christianity. At the same time the policy of some of the missions was modified. Self-support was more and more insisted upon both in relation to churches and schools. Contemporary with these influences has been perhaps a decline, under the power of an in creasing materialism, in the interest ami prayers of the churches whiejt ha\e established the missions. Hut there remains a strong hody of Japa nese Christians and of wise men who, while they are not professing Chris tians. favor Christianity as an elevat ing for e morally and intellectually, and contribute to various Christian in stitutions. There are many tried and true Christians in official positions and the number of steadfast adherents to the Christian faith continues large. I'nder the new treaty which throws the whole empire open to all nations, a desirp has arisen to learn English, and tlie Bible is sought after as a text book in English. Missionaries and teachers are in .'equest as teachers of English. What women sav men do. LATE AUTUMN PASTIMES.
