Woodruff County news., 1901-06-20
TRIcKsTERs IN TROUBLE.
Certain Republicans Are Raising q Row Over MckiRley's Re-
 ciprocity Toy.

Representative Dalzell, who repre-. sents the gigantic industrial infants of Pennsylvania on the ways and means committee, is badly frightened. When MT. Mckinley assured him that the Babcock bill and similar measures would amount to nothing he replied: 'They will split the re- publican party. They amount to that much at least"
 Therefore, Mir. Dalzell is urging all congressman who look upon the Dingley fetich as too sacred to be touched to meet him in Washington, that they may take counsel together.
 It is safe to say that Mir. McKin- | ley himself is not so confident as he pretends to be. His outgivings for the past two years and more to the effect that we must seek foreign mar kets by means of reciprocity treaties show that he perceives the danger to the fetich. He sees that something must be done to pacify such republic ans as MT. Babcock, who are able to see the connection between monopoly combines and the tariff, and who think the people can see it and will make trouble unless something is done to remove the great bulwark of the confederated monopolies.
 The Mckinley plan for saving the Dingley tariff is to make a lot of reciprocity dickers and parade them before the people as the only thing to build up the export trade. His theory is that if the people are amused with reciprocity treaties and colonial toys they will think no more about the tariff-fattened combines and the Dingley tariff except as it is touched in spots by the treaties.
 But MT. Dalzell and his like arc no better pleased with reciprocity treaties than they are with Babcock bills. They regard both as wicked devices of the enemy of sacred Ding leyism. Besides, they perceive that men like Mir. Babcock are not going to rest content with the reciprocity mode of favoritism, because they know that manufacturers who can export their products and sell them under the very noses of their most formidable rivals do not need protec- tion at all.
 The Mckinley attempt 10 substitute reciprocity treaties of more than doubtful constitutionality for the re- moval of duties which serve only to enable their benefciaries to exact far more from Americans than they are glad to get from foreigners will not work.
 It will not satisfy the Dalzell pro- tectionists, who mean to fight to the death against reduction of duties in any degree or manner. It will not satisfy such republicans as Mir. Bab- cock, who do not believe that those who need no protection should have a tariff to shield them in robbing their own countrymen while supply ing foreigners at competitive prices. It will not satisfy the victims of the tariff -buttressed combines = victims who cannot be kept in ignorance ot the fact that they are forced to pay from $15 to $20 for an article which the same American manufacturer sells to foreigners for ten dollars
 The presidents reciprocity toy will not satisfy anybody, because it will not fool anybody. Republicans who want tariff for protection stand face to face with republicans who want a tariff for robbery only. The conflict between them is irrepressi- ble.
 No reciprocity dickers or jugglery of adroit politicians can reconcile them or avert the impending struggle for mastery.-Chicago Chronicle.