Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-18
NUMBER 81

Colonel Joyce and Ella Wheeler VIII
cox have for years been hurling at
each other the charge of plagiarism,
each claiming the authorship of
Laugh and the World Laughs With
You"
Cheap Advertising.
Some time ago I stated in these let
ters that the signs indicated that Mr..
Babcock of Wisconsin was posing as
a tariff reformer for some other reason
than sincere desire to cut down the
rates of the Dingley bill. / further
stated that Bah knew he could not
induce Republican congress to choke
the pap suckers loose from the public
teat. 1t looks very much as il Bah Is
simply trying to secure for himself a
lot of cheap advertising, or he is seri-
ously considering change of political
base, for if he has half the sense he
has been credited with he knows that
the tariff barons and trusts own the
Republican party body. soul and
breeches, and consequently it has no
more idea of cutting down the tariff
than Bah has of trying to marry the
dowager empress of China.
The Philadelphia Times has this clear
and timely article on Bah:
Congressman Russell of Connecticut has been
talking on the subject to the newspapers and de-
clares that he will never support such measure
unless it can be made to affect some other fellows
product exclusively. In plain English. tariff
protected industry is protected enough to suit its
beneheiaries, and there is likely to be union Of
the representatives OF all protected industries to
prevent the passage Of the Babcock bill in the
next congress.
Despite the stereotyped Republican boast that
the Republican party can be depended on to pro-
tect the public against injustice and extortion the
Chinese wall tariff won't be lowered. even as de-
fense against the trusts, until there are enough
Democrats in congress to lower it.
Commenting on that excerpt from
The Times. the Washington Post,
high tariff advocate, says that the
friends of the tariff must and will re-
wise it. forgetting that they always re-
wise it by the simple process of raising
the rates. They never revise by cut
ting them down. The Post adds:
Our Philadelphia contemporaries prediction that
against the trusts. until there are enough Demo-
Gratis in congress to lower it, would be funny u
it were not pathetic. There have been enough
Democrats in congress- to pass bill just once
for congress. for precisely two years-sinca
1883. That congress elected for tariff re-
FORM" 1t was the elimination, in 1892, OF the
crusade begun by Mr.. Cleveland in 1887. Does
The Times remember the result7 We are sure Mr..
Cleveland has not forgotten it. Since that time
four congressional elections have occurred, In all
of which the Democrats have scored defeat.
Clearly The Post intends to convey
the idea that the Wilson bill defeated
the Democrats at four consecutive con-
gressional elections because its rates
were too low. AS a matter of fact, 1t
defeated them because it left the rates
too high. and every intelligent man In
the country knows that that is true.
The Posts plan (and Bab's, too) ap-
pears to be to cut off the dogs tail
piecemeal, so it will not hurt him very
much all at once. There Is only one
way to successfully amputate the tariff
dogs tail. and that is close up to his
ears, the closer the better. Horace
Greeley said. ''The way to resume is
to resume" The way to bust the
trusts is to place everything they make.
handle cr sell absolutely on the free
list.