The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-11-28
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.

From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Nov. s3, 1901.
"Senator, what will be the Demo
cratic policy in the hfty.seventh Con.
gressl" asked Senator Vest, of Miss
ouri, in his comfortable home on P.
St yesterday. "Watch and wait"
was the reply. what else can we
dor The Republicans have majori-
ty of two to one in the Senate and
large majority in the House. No, the
Democrats will not attempt any OBJ
struction methods. The people have
sent a large Republican majority to
Congress, they have the privilege, and
the responsibility of sending whom
they please to represent them and it
is only right that we should abide by
the results"
"Will the people be pleased with
the resultsp" "That remains to be
seen. Everyone knows that the Repu-
blican high tariff policy has built up
the trusts and that those trusts are
selling the same goods to foreign con-
sumefs for from twenty-five to forty
per cent less than to the American
consumers; but if the people enjoy it,
it is their privilege to perpetuatc this
condition of affairs. OF course, the
weak spot in the Republican armor
is the trusts. Mr.. Roosevelt, who is
more fearless and more honest than
his party, appreciates this and he
would like to curtail their privileges
and curb their rapacity but, mark my
words, there will be no change IN
tariff schedules and no reciprocity
treaties ratified. The manufacturers
and the large capitalists who control
the Republican party will not permit
it. Sooner or later the people will
realize the injustice that is being done
to them, and when they do, there will
be revulsion of feeling. Until then,
the Democrats have nothing to do bu,
to watch and wait"
"How would you prevent the trusts,
SENATOR" "Simplv by removing the
conditions that have produced them
The trusts are the natural product o
artificial conditions. The distructior
of competition by high protection ha:
resulted in trusts. Restore competi
,ion, and the trusts will fall. They
tell us England has trusts. 1t is no
so. Mr.. w. l.. Wilson went to Eng
land and made careful investigation
and he assures me they have no trusts
The paper manufacturers once or
ganized one and put up prices, bu
the newspapers promptly placed thei
orders with French and American
manufacturers and the trust fell tt
pieces. When the American trust
charge exorbltant prices the consume
cannot buy elsewhere because of tht
tariff, and the trusts know it ant
naturally they use their powerful in
fuence to perpetuate the party tha
makes their existence possible"
The Reciprocity Convention, whicl
is now IN session in Washington, i
presenting, in ludicrous manner
the Republican position on reciprocl
ty. Mr.. Charles Heber Clark eX
pressed the sentiments of his col
leagues when he said, "Like tn
famous patriot who was willing t
have all his wife's relatives 60 to wal
they will agree to the injury or dis
truction of few American industrie
if they can thus obtain chance t.
sell more OF their own production.
Everyone is willing that someone els
should be sacrificed, provided his ow
interests are not touched and no on
is willing to relinqulsh one cent {
profit for the good oi the whole countr.
*
There is good reason to belev
that there will be serious lack {
harmony in the House during tn
coming Congress, but nothing wi
be accomplished that will interfel
with the trusts paying their presel
profIs on watered stock. Represent;
tive Burton OF Ohio, portion (
whose district is IN the City of Clev
land, has given notice Of his intel
tion to fight Senator Hanna's ship
subsidy bill. Mr.. Boutell will fgl
the present schedules of the Dinglt
bill. Representative Babcock W
fight the Steel Trust and altogeth'
there is promise of lively session.
overheard yesterday, a Republics
senator lamentlng the absence
Speaker Reed. He said that no ma
could control an unruly House Ill
"The Car"
Representative John F. Shafroth,