Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10

for campaign funds, and kick the civil
service regulations to death to get mon
ey out Of the Federal officials and en-
ployes?
And he did 1t all for Mr.. Mckinley.
Mr.. Mckinley buttoned his frock coat
around himself. planted the foreHnger
of his right hand under the upper but
ton, wreathed his Presidential face in
its sweetest expression, and accepted
all that had been done for him; and he
did 1t with such consummate grace,
and with such color of unconscious.
ness that there had been anything even.
irregular, that the "goody good" peo-
pls blessed him from the bottom Of
their hearts.
The President is reciprocal in his ma
ture. Could he allow small scruples
to stand in the way of conducting his
second administration so that on the
4th of March, 1905, his welcome at the
Executive Mansion would be to the
man who had landed" him twice?
There is no man who has fair fa-
miliarity with the politics of the last
half n dozen of years, and who will
patiently and honestly think the mat
ter over, who will not grant in his heart
that President NIcKinley's second term
will be available for all that 1t can do
to secure third term of the Mckinley
Hanna combination.-Cinc En-
quirer.
The Tariff Bloodsuckers Alarmed.
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 meas
ures would amount to nothing he re-
piled: They will split the Republican
party. They amount to that much at
least.''
Therefore, Mr.. Dalzell is urging all
Congressman who look upon the Ding
ley fetch MS too sacred to be touched
to meet him in Washington, that they
may take counsel together.
1t is safe to say that Mr.. Mckinley
himself Is not SO confident ms 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 pcrcelves the danger to the
fetch. He sees that something must
be done to pacify such Republicans as
Mr.. Babcock. who are able to see the
connection between monopoly com
bines and the tariff and who think the
people can see 1t and will make trou-
BILE unless something is done to remove
the great bulwark of the confederatea
lnonopolies.
The Mckinley plan for saving the
Dingley tariff is to make lot of re.
ciprocity dickers and parade them be.
fore the people as the only thing to
build up the export trade. Fills theory
is that IL 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 Mr.. Dalzell and his like are nc
better pleased with reciprocity treaties
than they are with Babcock bills. They
regard both ms wicked devices of the
enemy of sacred Dingleylsm. Besides
they perceive that men like Mr.. Bab
cock are not going to rest content yitl
the reciprocity mode of favoritism. be
cause they know that manufacturers
who cnn export their products and sell
them under the very noses of theil
most formidable rivals do not need pro
lection at all.
| The Mckinley attempt to substitute
reciprocity treaties of more than doubt
full constitutionality for the removal Of
duties which serve only to enable theil
beneficiaries to exact far more from
Americans than they are glad to ge
from foreigners will not work.
The Presidents reciprocity toy will
not satisfy anybody. because 1t viii
not fool anybody. Republicans who
want a tariff for protection stand face
| to face with Republicans who want {
tariff for robbery only. The conflict
between them is irrepressible.
No reciprocity dickers or jugglery o.
adroit politicians can reconcile them o.
avert the impending struggle for mas
tery.-Chicago Chronicle.