Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-20
TROUBLE IN TARIFF CAMP.
Certain Republicans Are Raising q
Row over MckinIey'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 Mr.. Mckinley assured him
that the Babcock bill and similar
measures would amount to nothing
he replied: s'They will split the re-
publican party. They amount to that
much at least"
Therefore, Mr.. Dalzell is urging all
-ongressmen who look upon the
Dingley fetch as too sacred to be
touched to meet him IN Washington,
that they may take counsel together.
1t is safe to say that Mr.. 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
hat he perceives the danger to
the fetch. He ices that something
must be done to pacify such republic
ans as Mr.. 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 maxi 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 Mr.. Dalzell and his like are
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 hat
men like Mr.. Babcock are not going
to rest content with the reciprocity
mode of favoritism, because they
know hat manufacturers who can
export their products and sell them
under the very noses of their most
formidable rivals do not need protec-
ton at all.
The Mckinley attempt to substitute
reciprocity treaties Of more than
doubtful constitutionality for the re-
moval of duties which serve only to
enable their beneficiaries to exact
far more from Americans than they
are glad to get from foreigners will
o work.
1t will not satisfy the Dalzell pro-
tectionists, who mean to fight to the
death against reduction of duties in
any degree or manner 1t will not
satisfy such republicans as Mr.. Bah
cock, who do not believe that those
who need no protection should have
a tariff to shield them in robbing
their own co~untrymen while supply
ing foreigners al competitive prices.
It will not satisfy the victims of h
tariff-buttressed combines - victims
who cannot be kept in ignorance OF
the fact that they are forced to pay
from $15 to $50 for an article which
the same American manufactures
sells to foreigners for ten dollars.
The presidents reciprocity toy will
not satisfy anybody, because it will
not fool anybody. Republicans who
want a tariff for protection stand
face to face with republicans who
want a tariff for robbery only. h
conflict between them is irrepressi-
BILE.
No reciprocity dickers or iugglery
of adroit politicians can reconcile
them or avert the impending struggle
for mastery.-Chicago Chronicle.