Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24


riches and Dalzells of New England
and Pennsylvania, and continue to pro-
tect the gigantic combines in exacting
higher prices from. Americans than
from foreigners, or will 1t comply with
the reasonable demands of the Bah
cocks of the West, and deprive those
combines of their tariff instrument of
extortion? Can any man tell? Does
even Mckinley or Hanna know?
Or take the question of shipping
bounties. The Republican party did
nothing during the life of the last Con-
gress; does any Republican know what
1t will do in the new Congress. espe-
cially in view of the fact that Ameri-
cans are building and buying ships
without any bounty from the United
States Treasury to encourage them?
Will 1t vote $3.50, 600 out of the Ma
tional Treasury into the strong boxes
of men who can make plenty of money
without being bountied by American
taxpayers?
Or take the Philippines. The Su-
we may put up tariff bars and keep
them up forever against the products
of that or any other portion of the
territory of the United States. Sup
pose it should decide in effect that we
cannot do that; what then will the Re-
publican party do? In the words Of
Mr.. Foraker. "Is our flag to come down
or stay upT
An answer to that question may be
suggested IL we recall the fact that Mr..
Foraker himself said OH the floor of the
Senate that If we could not lay duties
on the products Of the Philippines
brought into our continental ports we
could not get rid of them too soon.
1--WE know where you stood last
year" when you said that, "but where
do you stand this year? What answer
do we get?" These questions, Mr.. For
aker, which you put to Democrats you
will please answer for yourself and
your party associates.
Does the answer to the question
whether the flag.is to come down or
stay up depend on an opinion of the
Supreme Court not yet handed down? :.
If the provision of the constitution
that duties must be uniform follows the
flag, must the flag come down? You
said SO last year, Mr.. Foraker; do you
say so this year? '"What answer do
we get?'-C Chicago Chronicle.
Cleaning and Chances.
Some hints have been thrown, out for
reciprocity in the Republican State
platform. 1t is not, however, to be al
! lowed to Interfere with the protective
system. In other words, the tariff ba-
rons are to be allowed to pick out those
things upon which they feel TINT they
can bear reciprocal relations, just as
| they required the administration and
Congress to fly in the face of the dec
laration that free trade with Porto Ri
co was a plain duty.
The Presidents remuneration of q
third term is something like the story
of the man who offered $4,000 reward
for the apprehension Of an offender
! though he had not so cents. But II
was a good Offer" said friend and
admirer.
General Miles was celebrated at the
Pan American Exposition as the hero
of Porto Rico. General Miles marched
through that island without opposition,
and promised. the people the benefits of
American buttons. Then our gov
crnment tariff tax on their in
dustries. General Miles would not be
the hero of picnic party in Porto
Rico to-day. The poor Porto Ricans
have simply to take what they can get,
| though.
Cl,aunccy Depew says Hanna Is a
good fellow. but he is not for him for
President. He is for. Odell or Roose:
velt So long, however, as "the peach
is for nobody more formidable than
Odell or Roosevelt his opposition to
anybody else is not likely to influen.
tial. If Mr.. Depew should get really
! in the way Mr.. Hanna will send fol
him. Then there will be silence for q
few days, and then the New Yorker
will proclaim Hanna rs his one and
only Presidential love-that is. If Han
ma will let him.
1t is possible that the brutal tactics
adopted by advocates of protection fol
industries that have outgrown any
need or excuse for such favor, for com
bines that are paying dividends on hun
dreds of millions of fictitious capital
cation, may be able to prevent any
reformatory action by the Fifty-sev
enth Congress. We can conceive of ne
happier fortune for the somewhat de
moralized and disheartened Democracy
than to be endowed with the campaign
thunder, the political capital. that viii
be in its hands if Congress adjourns
| without having put away the fragrant
| abuses that are sheltered behind some
of the schedules of the tariff of 1907.
| Perry s. Heath is destined to make
a sensational finish. He has figured il
Journalism, in politics and in banking
and he is now in railroads. The fac
that he has not as yet achieved grca
success in any of these lines does no
prove that he will make failure in all
The strenuous life has charms for hin
and nothing short of n worldwide PAM,
which will freeze up all the sources OF
speculative wealth is likely to stop him
The Sampsonians in the navy will no
thank Admiral Schley for speaking re
spectfully of the man who was not a
the battle of Santiago. They feel com
batiye themselves, and want everybody
else to feel SO. 1t annoys them to lool
upon a man who holds SO strong a plac,
in the popular affection that he cal
afford to be serene.
4 Straws show which way the wine
blows, as the world has been told be