The Sunday globe., 1901-08-04

and give it all to the two Dakotas
and his cwn State ID Minnesota.
But it seems Snce then the same
drouth has oyertaken the two Dakotas,
and short crops will result, If true,
the railroads win not have so much
to do, and the people up there can now
commence talking politics, for they
will have little else to think about.
We have given space to this twaddle
about the good times We are now hay-
ing to show how little foundation there
is for such super-foolishness.
Never were times more propitious for
ultra protection than with the past
four years If it can not now stand
up against all other theories Of eco
nnomic science, it is a failure once
and for ALL
Is it standing the test? Look at
every issue Of a newspaper and the
answer is there. The baleful results
of such a policy are more and more ap-
parent and now men proclaiming
themselves ultra protectionists are
calling for revision of the tariff lists.
Tariff retaliation wars are on, and
fruits are assuming proportions un-
heard Of and not dreamed of when
Webster and Clay plead for infant in.
dustries
Drouths, for which no mortal is re-
sponsibe, and we are honest enough to
say so; strikes, retaliatory legislation
by foreign powers now confront the
men whose only remedy for bad times
was and is high taxation.
The drouth men in power can not
control The strikes they can control
by giving honest labor it's share. Re
taliatory wars they can avert by hon
est legislation and fair dealing.
In fair dealing, however, they must
accept the theories Of their political
enemies. They must throw down the
barriers of protection, tear down their
tariff wall They may call it by what
name they choose, it will be by adopt
ing the theories Of those they have
affected to despise and condemn They
may invoke reciprocity. They hate the
words free trade yet reciprocity is
but another name for free trade. But
they must do it or lose these foreign
markets.
Countervailing duties in regard to
Russian products must be avoided, and
German protection fortress must be
removed. Reciprocity! What a hum
bug to call it by that name, 1t is free
trade, pure and simple and the most
ardent, didactic protectlonist must ad-
init it.
We are informed that one of the
Committee of Ways and Means says
the tariff must be revised, but wants
no Democratic help to revise it. That
means he don't intend to revise at ALL
II means a great wave of reform must
be made a great beating Of drums,
wonderful display of eloquence, but
nothing more. Like the bear that pats
its victim on the chest with its paws
while it tears out the bowels with its
hind claws, so the protectionist points
10 the lowering clouds, the kindly rain,
the belching smoke from many lofty
nue, and tells the glories Of levying
tribute from the poor while the trust
magnate stands ready to take away
those earnings almost before theyhave
reached their hands
If protection--if the Dingley bill
has brought about all the good, why
is now s5OO,OOOOOO Of gold piled up
in the Treasury while workmen are
walking around with idle hands, de-
manding but a little share of what is
justly their due? They want to build
cottages in which to shelter their fam
lilies, as we'll as Carnegie wants to
build libraries to perpetrate his name.
Let the powers that be consider the
situation carefully. No glittering gem
eralities will suffice Let them make
an honest effort in the coming session
Of Congress to remedy what is wrong.
Notwithstanding the fact that no Dem
ocratic help is wanted, a make-believ
policy will not satisfy,
True, it was proclaimed in 1897 that
the free trade bogy was forever buried.
Nevertheless, it will be well to heed
the mutterings in the air. Protection
papers would not call for revision and
reform if all was fair, equitable and
just They hear the whisperings in
the breeze and understand it. Il will
be well for the party in power to lis.
ten, and in the coming session drop
partisanship and selfshness, and legis.
late for one time honestly in the I'm.
terests of the people,
THE MARCH OF DESPOTIsM.
To transform a RepubIican Govern.