Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-07-11
TIL ISSUE IN SIGHT.
Protection and the Trusts VIII he
vigorously Combated by IA
Democracy

E>SEA@ sA
6liation of those they then elect to
of the government shall be on the inn
portant issues that are now being dis
eussed.
Hon. James d. Richardson, chair
man of the democratic congressional
committee, gives to the Baltimore Sun
his views on some of the momentous
questions, as follows:
"The development of issues" he
said, SIS much more rapid than that
of candidates for either party in the
8 0 contest. In the discussion of cam
aidates it must be borne in mind that
we have the congressional campaign
OF 9 0 to reckon with before we en-
ter upon the business of president
making in 1904.
"Out of the earlier contest may
grow conditions which will indicate
more clearly candidates available for
the presidency. The only excuse for
the discussion at this time of candi-
dates for 1904 seems to be found in the
eagerness of some men of greater Or
less prominence to begin a iva in
their own interests.
"The national issues of the near flu
ture seem to me to be more clearly in
Dictated than at the close of our latest
contest it seemed possible they could
be SO True democratic princi-
pies have great vitality. Whenever
the country feels that false theories
and dangerous policies are leading the
government from the observance of
rirhf nrino;pIoS la-ooro+io Ioofripoe
are appealed to for rescue and safety.
"The tariff question, which the re-
publican party declared a few years
ago TO have been settled finally and
forever in favor of high protection,
will be found to be very pressing in
the next presidential campaign.
Trusts, the offspring of the republican
policy, have grown so great that they
oyertop the parent and Dame P~rotec-
ton a no longer conceal them at her
back by spreading her skirts or en-
veloping them in the black snake of
the factories. Even the trusts them
selves demand something more than
simple home products to feed on, and
the most robust of them are looking
for an open way t foreign markets.
Within the very ranks of the repub-
lican party there is discomfort at the
continuance of the system which shuts
us out of our proper place in the
worlds commerce. There is a reluc-
TAM acknowledgement that the old
democratic tariff doctrines furnish
mean to open markets to prod
ucts. It may be clearly seen by one
who looks ahead hat the tariff ques-
ton will enter into the campaign of
1904 as an important issue, and that
the democrats will be found standing
where they have always stood.
"All the old articles of faith which
have given the democratic party en-
during life will be found boldly I'M
blazoned in the next national cam
paign. The preservation of the faith
of our fathers will make the great
comprehensive issue of the campaign.
"The jeopardy in which the Monroe
doctrine has been placed through the
short-sighted policy of the Mckinley
administration is likely to attract very
wide public attention and may even
become an overshadowing issue. I do
not know whether it is fully realized
by our people hat the agitation over
the Monroe doctrine at this time Is
due to the fact that the administra-
tion is seriously embarrassed by the
anticipated purpose of foreign gov
ernments to acquire coa1ing stations
In the proximity of South and Central
American ports.
"Prior to our adventure in the Phil
ippines and before we had become a
kUnr11 nnvrars ~ T1Sa that farn n c tho
advocates of empire use it, the desire
of foreign governments to establish
fish bases of supplies within the
sphere of American republics would
have occasioned no serious embar-
rassment. There were no doubts ex-
cited by foreign entanglements and
complications of conflicting policy.
There was no question of our right to
object, snd it was silently acknowl-
edged by all the world. But the
new policy of the administration has
placed this government in such a posi-
ton that to maintain sovereignty over
remote islands the United States must
acquire the right to establish coaling
stations within the sphere where the
influence of foreign powers is recog-
uIZCu. no" CdH LHlS SOFcIln6HJ u0ny
to other powers a privilege within the
sphere covered by the Monroe dictrine
while it seeks similar privilege within
their dominions? This is the question
which emb~arrasses.
"The administration Toes not know
how to refuse privileges similar to
those it must ask; yet to grant them
would be at least a modification of the
Monroe dictrine, and would threaten
our stability as a nation through per-
the establishment of bases of
supplies at our very ports, from which |
foreign powers could operate against
US in time of war. Worse than aban-
Comment of the Monroe doctrine, this
place us in the position of not
being strong enough to defend it or to
ourselves with certainty from
"This is one of the penalties we are
,alled upon to pay for the privilege of
This is becoming "a
world power Whether we are willing
to pay the penalty must be one of the
tested in 1904"
Mr.. Dawes and his MERRY men
who look after the national banks
never seem to be able to discover
.rouble until it is SO acute that every
but the small depositor knows it.
4 Dawes would pay more attention
n ayamipipn hanIo 4ba- - TY1.-z.