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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WOULD BE SMASHED.
American loilmlrlra ami the American
Stamford of n»(p« anti Living.
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
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|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.
