Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26
clAlssINo THE MORTGAGE.

cLAlsRlNo THE MORTGAGE
q HlspublIsan Paper Tells How the wool
Growers Are Demanding the Pound oil
EloGh.
The opponents of our present tariff
system often assert that the various
,protccted industries Of tho country hold
= mortgage upon the Republican party,
and that. in Its present effort 10 put ON
nav and enormously increased duties
,the party IL simply paying on that
mortgage. The high tariff leaders In
sdignantly deny this and denounce 1t rs
n wicked free-trade Islander.
Now is it not positively refreshing to
nee one OF the most prominent OF those
protected industries frankly take the
same view OF the matter; and Is 1t not
still more refreshing to see leading
protectionist paper publish the fact to
the world?
A staff correspondent OF that sturdy
lprotectionist organ, the Philadelphia
Press, writes to that paper from WASH
&ngton to say:
ssThe proposition In Secretary Blaine's
aetterto the President on the subject oil
reciprocity with south America, which In
wolves the free admission OF south American
woods, has caused something like sensa'
-eion among the Western wool'growers.
Chairman Mckinley. of the House Committee
On Ways and Means, and senator sherman
and other members of the Senate Committee
srecelved a large number OF kilograms yes
lerday and to-day from wool growers, who
arc alarmed ut the proposition, and who de-
Glare that any such legislation would be q
breach Of g5od faith toward them for the
part they took In the National election
against the free. wool policy OF the Demo
SOrnts."
It is perfectly delicious to see the
rWool-growers pleading for the pound Of
-Nesh Just as it was nominated in the
bond, a" and when the staff correspondent
of one OF tho 1SSsmost Republican pa
pers of the land tells us all about it, we
may look upon the matter as settled.
Bat even without this papers avowal
Of the party's obligations to the wool
growers does not every intelligent man
know that the Republican party de-
ponds for its majorities upon the pecu-
Aiary profits which it votes out OF the
peoples pockets to the enrichment OF
protected industries? Candid Republic
cans themselves must admit that their
party could not hold together single
year but for the financial support OF
the men who are benefited by its policy.
. is it not q shameful and corrupting
thing that great political party should
prostitute the law-making power OF the
Nation in such way as 70 bride any |
class OF citizens to support it?
Bnt is it not melancholy spectacle?
Hero is Mr. Blaine recommending a
policy which would greatly enlarge the
fore IN market for our farm products
:an6 thereby go far in relieving our agri-
cultural depression, and recommending
that we admit South American sugar
and wool free OF duty in return; but at
this point-and here is the melancholy
,aPsetaele-a little knot of noisy wool
growers lump from out the bush" and
shake their mortgage in Blaine's face,
saying: mo you don't! We helped to
carry the last election-we voted down
free wool-thGt was the issue; and you |
would break faith with us so soon? You |
are pledged to pay us for our support;
IL you turn your back upon US the wool |
States will 60 Democratic at the next
election. We demand the pound of
Aeshr'
And it has come to this-a party that
used to boast of being the party of great
tmoral ideas quilted and threatened by |
tbe very men whose allegiance it has
purchased with the peoples money! A
great party, that has had and still has
its statesmen, dictated to by those who
have dollars at stake! great party be-
come slave to the protected interests
that bought it and now seek by threats
70 shape its policy!
The throne of Rome sold at auction!
There was where great empire touched
the low water mark-touched mud! Has
not the Republican party touched mud
also?