The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-07-26
THE PENSIONERS.
STRONG STAND TAKEN BY
SENATOR GALLINOER.
lie Opposes Tariff Tinkerlng of All
Sorts, Whether by Dire3t Legislation
or by Special Treaties for the Pro-
motion of Foreign Trade.

Senator Gallinger of New Hamp-
shire, who has during his entire pub
lie career been one of the the most
persistent and able advocates of the
tariff policy of the Republican party,
was recently asked his opinion as to
the present agitation for a repeal of
certain tariff duties and the modifica-
ton of the Dingey tariff through the
ratification of the reciprocity treaties
negotiated by Mr. Kasson. The SEN
ator's reply was as follows:
The Democratic party In its economic
blindness and political perversity Is con-
sistent In advocating the ratification of
the treaties in question and enactment of
legislation such as has been unwisely
proposed by Representative Babcock.
That party is welded to the doctrine
to repeat the experiment of industrial
disaster and wretchedness that has come
to this country whenever low Tariff
law has been placed on thu statute
books but how any Republican or Repub-
lican newspaper can advocate that policy
surpasses my comprehension. 1t would
seem as though the sorrow and suffering
Incident upon the passage of the Wilson
in the minds of our people, and that all
classes would instinctively shrink from
repetition of such folly. But many seem
to have forgotten those dark days, and
even some Republicans have succumbed
to the siren voice of Free-Trade: For
one | am absolutely and unqualifedly OPP
posed to any change in the existing Tar
IN laws of the United States Under them
the country has had four years of un-
eXampled prosperity, and l do not pro
pose to be a party to any proposition
that looks to the repeal of modification
of existing statutes. / believe 1t will
he n priDna against bnma n follow the
lead of those who are agitating for an
abandonment of Protection and a return
to practical FreeTrade.
The proposed treaty with the Argentine
Republic reduces the duties on wool 20
per cent, and If ratified will inevitably
strike death blow to the wool industry
of this country as severe and disastrous
as that which resulted from President
Cleveland's advocacy of free wool. The
producing states should rise In
mighty protest again this proposition, and
give the matter it's eternal quietus. The
proposed treaty with France deals
heavy blow to certain lines of manu-
featuring in the United States, and, go
far as | can perceive, every one OF me
treaties agreed to by Mr.; Kasson Is
to be rejected by the Senate.
AS for the Babcock proposition, that is
too absurd for serious discussion. The
by Tariff legislation has certainly. not
given serious thought to the proposition,
and the legislator who believes that trusts
can be destroyed by repeating the duties
on certain classes of goods should join
a kindergarten class in economics, unless
the proposition Is to destroy the trust |
by destroying the industry. thus closing |
American workshops and bringing disas.
ter to the mechanics and laboring men or
this country. The man who sawed off
the limb vi the tree on which he sat
got rid of the limb but his bruises and
broken bones reminded him for a long
time of the folly of the undertaking.
The Republican party came INTO power
when the party abandons that policy it
will go out of power and deservedly so.
Just now there are evidences of timidity
and retrogression in some quarters. but
trial comes the party will remain true
to its traditional policy, and that the
Kas. IN reciprocity treaties and the Bah
cock Trade proposition Will alike
be relegated to the tomb or forgotten
things The duty of the Republican party
Is plain, and woe be to the man who
attempts to strike down Protection IN
this country.
Senator Gallinger is noted for his
plain, outspoken way of stating his
views. You always know just where
ne stands. A little more than year
ago in a public speech he said, re-
garding the movement to remove the
duties from paper and pulp:
You can not select a single industry for
slaughter without impering the whole
system of Protection. If Protection is
withheld from one industry it must be
withheld from Ill.
That warning was needed The bill
n question was never pressed for pas
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