Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26
Babcock on the Tariff.

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enthusiastic over his tariff plan. 1t
will be remembered that before he
| crossed the ocean he cast bombsnell
into the Republican camp, or which he
is one of the burning and shining
4 lights. which caused no end OF conster-
nation among the faithful by advoeat-
ing a tariff reform that borders ON free
trade Since his return Representa-
tive Babcock is quoted in an Interview
in the Milwaukee Sentinel as saying:
Il want to see the Republican party
abreast of the times. dealing with pres
ent conditions, and not grown moss
back like the democracy
1 How his party may preserve itself
from decay he explains in detail, and
/ his views probably indicate the at
tempted line of action of the progress
sive wing of the Republican party in
/ the next session of Congress. when
! any article can be manufactured in the
United States cheaper than anywh re
else" he says, land is an article of ex-
port, the duty produces no revenue and
affords no protection, but simply en-
ables those who secure control to make
such prices as they see fit in the do
/ nestle market up to point where 1T
can be imported" Therefore, Mr..
Babcock persists in his plan of at
tempting to put steel on the free list.
He was confirmed in his belief by
what he saw In his recent trip abroad.
| While he was in Dublin one concern
| there ordered 10000 tons of steel from
the United States at price of 50 per
ton less than it could have obtained
/ the metal for in Great Britain. This
! is no mere selling of our surplus III a
foreign market" Mr.. Babcock says,
'but it is dominating the worlds mar
ket. And yet they yell for protection.
/ Naturally conditions have made it i'm
! possible for Europe to compete with
the United States in the producing of
steel. Mr.. Babcock sees no reason for
| the federal government to help United
States steel trust under such circum-
stances.
But, however, much beauty the Wis
trade in steel, that lusty infant, the
steel trust, will not admire it, and will
kick like a giant against taking away
its power to levy heavy tribute upon
the consumers of its product in this
country. And Mr.. Babcock will find
that he has raised an issue which, IL
he can carry his plan through success
fully, will split his party up the mid
die
1t is true Congressman Babcock de-
clares that he is still a protectionist,
but he defines protection as the fos-
tering of industries in their infancy"
That gag" however. won't work with
the gang that provides the grease for
keeping the Republican machine IN mo-
ton. What the robber tariffites want
is the legal right to rob and plumber,
and if that is taken away from them,
they will cut off the supply of Doodle;
and then, where, oh where, will be the
g. o. p?
This is a sad outlook for the Repub-
lican party. Mr.. Babcock, however,
| 1t
holds that it gives his party rare OPP
portunity to take advanced grounds.
So it does 1t gives the Republicans
the opportunity to step up right along
side of the Democrats in the advocacy
of tariff reform, a position the Dem
ocrats have held for generation-the
champions of the old Jeffersonian doc
trine that was put into operation be-
fore the war and under which the sails
of United States commerce whitened
the seas of every quarter of the globe,
and their flag waved in every civilized
port.
Undoubtedly Mr.. Babcock has point
ed out the right way to relieve the peo-
pie of this country of robbery and OPP
preston by trusts and robber tariffites
generally. But will the party follow his
directions? Not if the steel trnst and
other tariff robbers can help it, and
they think they can.-Illinois Register.
Anarchism or Partisansh5D.
Is there really any danger to this
country from anarchism? We mean
anarchism in it's proper sense of opposi-
ton to all goyernment-the theory that
government in any form is wrong and
unnecessary. There is a broader and
less correct idea connected with the
term in much of its ordinary use-a
sense of mere lawlessDess-bu anar-
chism is a theory, a principle, and not
the mere outbreak of individual pas
sion or resistance to restraint. In a
sense anarchism is lawlessness, but not
all lawlessness is anarchism.
IL may seem idle to ask this question
on this day, when an anarchist dies for
the assassination of the President of
the United States, but let us consider
We have had three Presidents assassin
ated in this country, but only one of
them by an anarchist. The other assas-
sinations were by partisans. OF course
they were not sustained in their action
| by the parties or factions with which
| they affiliated, as the anarchist is, but
| the underlying motive which urged
them to their crimes was partisan feel
| ing.
| bOOIu WAS HuI al dudECulSl.. lie ulu
not believe that government was essen
TALLY bad. His theory was that Lin
| coins government was tyrannieal. 1t
was an insane thought that prompted
an insane deed, but it may we'll be ques-
toned that any man who is worked up
| to the crime of assassination is really
sane. Guiteau was not an anarchist
/, What he wanted was not the absence
of government but a different control
of government. There have been other
assassinations than those of Presidents
in this country, and other attempted as
sassinations. Where can you point to
| one that was due TO ansrchism?
Anarchism is not natural product Of
a free country. 1t is the fruit of repres-
| sion. Given a free press and free
speech, men may voice their real or
imagined wrongs and learn from the
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