Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-24
Statements Views.

WulCu Nlle NleWb OF returning STATES
men have been given to the public.
They have been interesting, II not in
structive. Indeed, in one way they
have been instructive /. e., they have
given the readers Of the several papers
to understand that under no circum
stances will the burden of the people
be lessened 1t is true that under the
Spanish war internal revenue tax, aid
e. by the Dingley bill, there are many
hundreds Of thousands Of dollars col
lected than Is necessary for the needs
Of the Government, but that seems
to make no difference. There is now
more than one hundred millions of
dollars Of the peoples money in Gov.
ernment depositaries, which means
national banks, for which they get no
interest and which II they do get any
Of it, they must pay interest to the
bank that loans it, still the return
members Of Congress say not a move
ment must be made looking to a reduc-
ton of the revenue.
The reasons given for this extra
ordinary state Of mind by the said
returning members, is that If the rev.
enue is not needed it will be later on.
Senator Burrows, of Michigan, more
frank than many, hits the nail squarely
u srHha hn
plus will be needed to pay future ap-
propriations: the Isthumus canal must
be built, and the ship subsidy bill must
become a law. Not to mention other
expenses likely to occur This is at
least an honest declaration and shows
the bent Of mind Of the majority
| The honesty of such a state Of affairs
toward the men who will be obliged
to foot all these bills, and to defray
the extrayagant expenditures that will
be made, does not seem to enter any
where with any of the discussions. II
is taken as a matter of course, that
they will be obliged to be satisfied
no matter what takes place. The
! farmers and merchants of the middle
west and far west it is true, can reap
no possible benefit from a ship subsidy.
It will not add a dollar to the annual
income Of any one Of them. They will
be loosers rather than gamers by every
cent of tax wrung from them but they
are expected to make no protest, or if
they do, must bear the stigma Of be-
ing unpatriotic. 1t is curious how pa
triotism is always involved to sustain
stealing from the masses. We will
not quote what Dr. Johnson says, but
it has its application every day in the
year.
Reciprocity is another question. Re
publicans who are ready to apply the
epithet traitor to every voter who be-
leves honestly in tariff for revenue
only, which Republicans call free
trade, roll the word reciprocity under
their tongues as a sweet morsel, yet it
is only another name for free trade.
Reciprocity between nations is free
trade, yet q free trader is an enemy
20 his country according to modern
Republicanism, a reciprocity advocate
is the highest type Of a patriotic citi
zen. It is strange voters are so easily
duped. Reciprocity is free trade in
spotsand Republicanswill see to it that
only those countries which they be
lieye can be easily plundered will be
selected for the experiment.
From the several interviews there
seems to be a diversity Of opinion as
to what reciprocity really is. No two
statesmen seem to give the word the
same definition, One is for Blaine
reciprocity, wathever that may be, an
other for a vague sort Of something
that neither they nor anyone else un
derstands. But all agree upon one
thing and that is that under no cir
cumstances must there be an exchange
Of commodities whereby the tariff rob
bers will loose any chance to plundeI
the people with whom they trade. II
is heads I win; tails you loose" all
the time. In other words protection
b is so sacred that the train robbery
must still 90 on and colossal fortunes
q grow while the toiling masses mus
toll on. Protection is the sheboletf
and all must bow to it. And that is
all there is of it. Protection is re
sponsible for all the good there is in
the world and free trade responsible
for all the evil There is one thing
however, that protection advocates los,
sight Of and that is that under the
protective system we now have the peo
pie Of the United states pay more fol
many manufactured articles than the
people are obliged to pay for the same
abroad. That once acknowledged to b'
true the argument in favor Of pro
lection falls to the ground, for an al
ticle that can be sold cheaper abroad
than at home needs no protection, anC
fl also shows IL never did need any