Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-08-16
DOOM OF D1NGLEYIsM.
Manufacturers Seeking Foreign
Markets Arc Rising Against
Protection

Tho alternative now presented is
war or ignominious retreat. Senator
Aldrich, chairman of the senate finance
committee, has served notice on the
president that the republican organ
lzation in congress is opposed to reci-
procity dickers and will defeat any at
tempt to procure the ratification OF
those now pending.
Senator Aldrich claims to speak for
his party an the New England and
eastern middle states. He undeni-
ably speaks for those who have pre-
vented the ratification of the pending
treaties, and who can continue to de-
feat them and others like them unless
reciprocity republicans and demo-
Gratis can agree to pull together, which
is not very likely.
The true democratic doctrine is that
tariffs are to be made by congress.
not by the treaty-making power, and
that congress cannot be Invested of its
exclusive prerogative in the matter
of raising revenue by the treaty-mak-
ing power or any other power.
The true democratic doctrine is
that reciprocity treaties are repug-
nant to the constitution and are no
more to be tolerated than attempts
to discharge any other constitutional
functions of congress by treaty.
Democrats, therefore, should not join
western republicans in ratifying the
pending treaties.
What then? VIII Mr.. Mckinley per-
sist in urging the senate to ratify
those treaties? Senator Aldrich warns
him against that course. He assured
the president that the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers, which re-
Gently held convention in Detroit, is
merely an association of western
makers of agricultural implements,
and that the real manufacturers OF
the country-those east of the Ale
ghanies and north of the Potomac
will make it uncomfortable for him
| If he does not abandon reciprocity
These real manufacturers have shown
| what they can do with Mr.. Mckinley
heretofore, and they are likely to dem
onstrate their power to unsettle his
settled convictions of duty once more
But whipping him into line again
| will not end the matter. Thousand:
of manufacturers are seeking foreign
markets. They see that Dingleyism i
4 shutting the doors Of those mar
4 kets In their faces. If the.
find they cannot unlock thos
doors by means of reciprooit
treaties they will seek to secure dem
pcratic assistance by attacking Ding
Ieyism directly in some such way a
that proposed by Representative Bal
cock.
Mr.. Aldrich declares that easter
republicans are practically a unit !
favor of maintaining the Dingley LAY
| intact, and will effectively resent an
attempt to modify its offensive pro
visions, which are shutting door
against our products.
But western manufacturers, an
many eastern ones, too, are deter
, mined that the Dingley rates mus
come down; If not In one way, the
in another. II they turn to the demo
cratic party for aid they will viii
!, | and neither manufacturing nor agr
, cultural interests viii be slaughtere
any longer in order to build up tE
private fortunes of greedy bent
ficiaries of Dingleyism in Pennsy
vania and New England.
Mr.. Mckinley may be turned asid
once more from the path of "plai
duty" but the war Is on. and Ding
leyism is doomed.-Chicago Chronicl