Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-11-18

faith begin to show evidences of alarm
it is pretty good proof that the country
is prospecting. Many democratic papers
and a lot Of democratic statesmen as
we'll, are anxious to get away from
Organism. For this they are to be
commended. 1t is their method of
doing it that we complain of. They
hope to accomplish the retreat as the
ink-fsh escapes from his pursuers,
viz: by muddying the waters. Their
policy is to raise a great hue and cry
about tariff reform and tariff revis-
ion They will aim to divide the
North on the tariff question while Mr..
German and his fellow disfranchisers
essay to divide the south on the issue
of negro equality This will be the
democratic slogan for 1902. If their
scheme should prove successful. as
it did in 1882, the country will again
find itself in the throes of a business
depression no less disastrous than
that which prevailed for four years
subsequent to that date.
THE republican party is prepared
to meet the issue. In the campaign
just closed in Ohio, Iowa and other
northern states the democratic hosts
assailed the Dingley law with all their
old-time free trade vigor, but they
were buried under largely increased
republican majorities. They quoted
from Mckinley and dashed themselves
into tears of crocodile dimentions be-
the republicans would not &C
cept the democratic Interpretation of
the Buffalo speech. The democratic
party has always quoted from our
sainted dead. We recall how they
loved Lincoln-after he was dead;
how they admired Grandfather he wa
dead; how they dotted upon Blaine
after he was dead. But the republic
cans of Ohio and Iowa knew McKin-
ley. They were familiar with his
Buffalo speech, wherein he said that
this country would enter into recipro-
cal trade relations with other nations
whenever it could be done without
injury to our domestic industry"
This is true Republican reciprocity.
doctrine, and no consistent republic
a would have us go beyound it.
The existing tariff law. has not in
jured any domestic industry. On the
contrary it has benefited every do
statute books but a very short time
and the country has prospered from
the first moment of its approval by
the late President Mckinley. Are
we threatened with panics and bust
ness r~everses? By no means. Then
why should congress tamper with the
tariff? Why not, to S a common
sense phrase, let we'll enough alone?'
Republicans will not take fright at
the democratic jack-o'-lantern. We
have seen the garish candlelight
through the slots in the democratic
pumpkin many times before. But re-
~publicanism was not born in the
woods to be scared by democratic
owls"
Senator Hansbrough's position on
the tariff is that taken by a large ele-
ment Of the business men of the coun-
try. With m slight exceptions
the general inclination is that the
tariff should be let alone. There is
no disposition on the part OF republi.
cans to harm any domestic industry
by changes in the tariff. But on the
question of Reciprocity, the Tribune
believes the republicans should take
the advanced ground of President Nc
Kinley's speech. Whatever may be
the merits of the present reciprocity
treaties is a question entirely apart
from the general principle Of reciproc-
ity. The merits of certain reciprocity
treaties is a. question for congress tc
settle. But the merit of reciprocity
as a general proposition is undoubted
Without harming domestic industries
reciprocity treaties may be employed
to extend ON markets and build up a