The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-13
TARIFF BLOOD
 SUCKERS ALARMED.
The Republican Party May Split on
 It.
Chicago Chronicle.

Chicago Chronicle.
 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 Republican Party. They amount to that much at least"
 Therefore, MT. Dalsell is urging all Congressmen who look upon the Ding ley fetich as too sacred to be touched to meet him in Washington, that they may take counsel together.
 It is safe to say that Mr. Mckinley himself is not so confident as he pre- tends to be. His outgivings for the past two years and more to the effect that we must seek foreign markets by means of reciprocity treaties show that he perceives the danger to the fetich. He sees that something must be done to pacify such Republicans as Mir. Bab cock, who are able to see the connec- tion between monopoly combines and the tariff and who think the people can see 1t and will make trouble un- less something Is done to remove the great bulwark of the confederated mo- nopolies.
 The Mckinley plan for saving the Dingley tariff Is to make lot of reel procity dickers and parade them be- fore 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 tar iff-fattened combines and the Dingley tariff except as 1t is touched in spots by the treaties.
 But MT. Dalzell and his like are no better pleased with reciprocity treat les than they are with Babcock bills. They regard both as wicked devices of the enemy of sacred Dingleyism. Be- sides they perceive that men like Mir. Babcock are not going to rest content with the reciprocity mode of favorit- ism, because they know that manufac- turers who can export their products and sell them under the very noses of their most formidable rivals do not need protection at all.
 The Mckinley attempt to substitute reciprocity treaties of more than doubt full constituency for the removal of duties which serve onlv to enable their beneficiaries 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 sat- isfy such Republicans as MT. Babcock, who do not believe that those who need no protection should have a tariff to shield them in robbing their own coun- trymen while supplying foreigners at competitive prices. It will not satisfy theN victims of the tariff- -buttressed combines-victims who cannot be kept in ignorance of the fact that they are forced to pay from $15 to s2o for an ar ticle which the same American manu- facturer sells to foreigners for $1O.
 The Presidents reciprocity toy will rot satisfy anybody, because 1t will not fool anybody. Republicans who want a tariff for protection stand face to face with Republicans who want a tariff for robbery only. The conflict between them is irrepressibla.
 No reciprocity dickers or Jugglery, of adroit politicians can reconcile them or avert the impending struggle for mastery.