Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-04

| III iuNO lhib NOuhtig AlOih
This action on his part is in avowed
retaliation for Russia awarding
bounty to her beet sugar growers, and
Is, in such case, directed by the ex-
press command of the Dlngley law.
OF course Russia could hardly be
expected to sit quietly by and see her
commerce Disseminated against, as
long as she holds similar club in her
own hands, and accordingly she re.
taliates in kind by striking this coun-
| try off from the list of "most favored
| nations in admitting our manurac-
lures to her ports, and by charging up
pretty stiff duty upon them. Now
our principal exports to Russia are our
products of iron and Steel and her
discriminating policy against them
serves to shut them out of her mar
kets and TO transfer the trade to the
iron-masters Of Great Britain and
Germany. And hence the outcry.
1t is hard to see, upon principle,
what business it is of ours that for
eign nation sees fit to do for its in
| dustries what we have been doing
by ours for u century and more, viz,
protect and subsidize them. It's not
ten years yet, since the Mckinley
bill,-whch landed its reputed author
in the Presidency, did this very thing,
and by this same industry. 1t gave
to the sugar planters of Louisiana,
and to the farmers of Vermont and
Geauga county, a direct bounty upon
their sugar product, and this for the
expressed purpose of furnishing n
free breakfast table, to our people, =
the people paying the bounty, however.
If, under these circumstances, Rus
sin, or any other nation, had inter
fered in this concern of ours, by
retalatory duties or otherwise,
universal snort would have gone up
from the newspapers and Congress
men, asserting our right to order our
domestic affairs in our own way
without the permission or obstruction
of any foreign ruler. But it Is one
thing TO claim independence for our
selves and quite another to accord
It to some one else.
Mr.. Gage, however, seems to have
done only his duty in enforcing the
provisions of the Dingley bill, and for
that very reason we greatly wonder
that any complaint should be heard
from any good Republican. For al
most four years now that party and
all its members have lavlshed their
praises on Mr.. Dinglcy's perform,
ancc as the sum of political and com,
mcrcial wisdom; as something which
was warranted to make the sun to
shine and the dew and rain to fall;
TO create abundant hnrvcsts and pro
itablc markets; to make low prices
for the consumer and high prices for
the producer, large wages for the In,
borcr and small expenses to the manu-
fnctrcr and an at the same time,
and In general TO win Il big difference
out OF HolnlHH' ltUNl VI iil, uo'S II
lie in the mouths of the iron and steel
men TO kick at the DiuGlcy law, under
the operation of which they have
within week been able to conccn-
trntc so much power in the hands of
one man, that If the assnsn's shot
should reach him it would cause n
pnnIc which in It's disastrous consc.
qucnccs would penetrate to the re,
motcst corners Of the globe,
II is Still more difficult to see why
our putting an additional duty upon
our imports from Russia ought to
trouble us at ali, or be cried out
against as n hardship on our people
for whose welfare the steel men are
so solcItous, to be sure,
For does not the foreigner have to
pay the duty? Mr.. Mckinley said so
IN 1890, ana later from every stump
In Ohio, ana the oftcncr he said it
the louder they checrcd. 1t was, he