Woodruff County news., 1901-07-18
DINGLEYISM IS DOOMED.
Manufacturers Seeking Foreign Markets Are Rising Against
 Protection.

The 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 ization in congress is opposed to reci- procity dickers and will defeat any att tempt to procure the ratification of those now pending.
 Senator Aldrich claims to speak for his party in 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- crats 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 divested of it's exclusive prerogative in the matter of raising revenue by the sreaty-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? Will Mir. 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- ciation of Manufacturers, which re- gently held a 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 Mir. 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. Thousands of ----'-zs5 markets. They see that Dingleyism is shutting the doors of those mar kets in their faces. If they find they cannot unlock those doors by means of reciprocity treaties they will seek to secure dem ocratic assistance by attacking Ding leyism directly in some such way as that proposed by Representative Bab- cock.
 MT. Aldrich declares that eastern republicans are practically unit in favor of maintaining the Dingley law intact, and will effectively resent any attempt to modify it's offensive pro- visions, which are shutting doors against our products.
 But western manufacturers, and many eastern ones, too, are deter mined that the Dingley rates must come down; if not in one way, then in another. If they turn to the demo- cratic party for aid they will win, and neither manufacturing nor agri- cultural interests will be slaughtered | any longer in order to build up the private fortunes of greedy bene- ficiaries of Dingleysm in Pennsyl- vania and New England.
 Mr. Mckinley may De turned aside once more from the path of "plain l duty," but the war is on, and Ding | leyism is doomed-Chicago Chronicle.