The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-04-12
REPUBLICAN OPINIONS OF THE
PORTO RICO TARIFF.

The rapacious trusts should not be
more powerful in congress than Is the
plain duty of congress; neither they
nor congress are as strong a. the wisdom
and conscience Of their masters
people That is something the trusts
and congress should consider. -Philadel-
phia Ledger Rep
Perish Puerto Rico, throw plain du-
ty" to the winds, surrender personal con-
victions, and let Justice and righteous
ness be passed by on the other side, but
let the party organization be dominant,
and let the machine do its work without
check or interruption. To defeat the
machine would be death to the hopes
and aspirations of small-fry partisans.
and therefore the machine must be kept
to the fore though the heavens fall.
Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep.)
The real issue is expansion or imperi
alism To treat them (the Puerto
! Ricans) as citizens means to make good
the promise of General Miles and en-
! force the plain duty so beautifully set
forth by the president in his message.
To treat them as subjects means the vio-
lation of the promise of General Miles,
the Reputation Of the plain duty, and
the substitution of Imperialism for
wholesale expansion. That is the issue
AZ understood by the men who make
and anmake presidents, and make and
un1nake senators. --Sandusky 90. Regis
ter tRep.)
| Should congress pass the Puerto Rico
tariff bill it will be IA hard for the Re-
publican party to get rid Of the Oxnard
beet sugar stigma ~ it has been in the
last decade for the Democratic party to
escape from the odium of the support
given to it by Havemeyer. Ottawa Oil
Republican Times.
If the American colonies had cause for
anger by reason Of the stamp act, how
much more has our colony of Puerto
! Rico the right to complain over the still
/ harsher treatment that we have given
and propose TO give her-Boston Tran
script (Rep.)
Mark the resemblance in the propo-
sition of George III. to tax the colonies
and our own Puerto Rico tariff bill
The duties in each case both past and
future, are TO be set aside for the bene-
| fit Of the country taxed One differe ce
is that. while our measure taxes mer-
chandise both going to and coming from
! Puerto Rico, the British bill taxed only
u limited number Of articles coming to
this country, did not tax our exports,
and this difference is in favor of King
George. Senator Proctor (Rep.)
No partisan reasons can justify the
enactment of this law. Puerto Rico is
not and must never become the football
of party politics In assuming sovereign
! ty over the island we as "a nation assum-
ed sacred obligation, which demands
that our every act toward it be govern
ed by the sole standard of Puerto Ricos
! good The tariff measure does not come
mp TO this standard argument has not
! been presented to show that it does, that
the bill is necessity, or in fact, that
! there is II single non-partisan or dis-in-
! terested reason for its passage. ltshould
not, therefore be permitted to become II
law Baltimore American (Rep,)
TO preclude the possibility that any of
! the twelve representatives who have
proved recreaut III the past may be able
to shirk responsibility for their recreancy
in the future their constituents should
lose no time in calling upon them to re-
verse their votes on this vicious meas
urc. - Chicago Inter Ocean.
The people regard the - per cent tar
if as wrong They believe in the presi-
dents message and that the promises
held out to the Puerto Ricans should be
sacredly kept Mr. Payne may fatter
himself that lit is not going to be n par
ty issue Whether he wills it or not,
il is party issue low and if carried
through will be II disastrous factor in
the coming campaign, for the people
will resent it ut the polls. Delavan
tWis) Enterprise Rep
Says the Chicago Times-I Herald on the
It'll Of April, abiding to the passage Of
/ the Puerto Rico bill by the senate:
! Thus has been contaminated SO far
~ the houses of congress can, the most
/ remarkable departure from unvarying
American precedents the most unac-
countable violation of American good
| faith, the most insolent aifront to almost
universal American sentiment,
Just as surely rs this is government
Of the people by the people Tor the peo-
/ Pile, the American people will not suffer
the obloquy this bill casts Oh their honor
and good faith to be perpetrated with
Iimpunity. If the Republican majority
permits it, there Will be reckoning
with the Republican party by Republi-
cans next November,