Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-05-16

Tor IT is more important than any com
ments which | or any other Democrat
could make at this particular juncture,
as The Globe-Democrat speaks as one
with authority in Republican councils.
The Hog Tariff View.
Now, that's the radical Republican
high tariff view the whole hog tariff
trust advocates.
On the other hand, the Washington
Post, high tariff shouter, but inde-
pendent and conservative, sees break
ers ahead, backs up Babcock most val
orously and lifts up warning voice as
follows
because we elect our representa-
tives in congress from 13 to 18 months
before we begin to use them our con-
gressional campaigns usually b2gir
about as soon as the life of congress
ends and long before its immediate sue
cessor has assembled. The Fifty-sey-
enth congress, elected in 1900, will not
meet, unless called in extraordinary
session, until next December, but the
campaign for the election of the Fifty
in 1902 and meet in December, 1908,
has already begun; in fact, it began in
the Fifty-sixth congress, in February
last-began in earnest at that early
day when Representative Babcock.
chairman of the Republican congress
sional committee, introduced his epoch
marking bill for the abolition of duties
on iron and steel products.
''That was the opening gun of fight
that may be long, but ought to be
short. Whether the conflict is to rage
inside the Republican party or between
the two great parties is not yet decid-
ed, but there is no doubt that the tariff,
in its relations to trusts, is the question
of greatest moment today in the esti-
nation of the shrewdest politicians of
| all parties.
Subservient to Trusts.
'tIf the Republican majority in the
Fifty-seventh congress should prompt
ly take up the work Of tariff revision
on the line marked out by Mr.. Bah
cock and should strip all the monopC-
| listic combinations of their tariff pro-
| lection, the Democrats would be de-
prived of an issue ON which they eX-
| pect to win. If the Republican ma
jority should reject the Babcock prop
osition and the policy which it is in
| tended to Initiate, the Democrats
| would find i'll such rejection rich en-
dowment of party capital. That is
| what Chairman Payne of the ways and
means committee proposes, and he is
understood to have formidable fol-
lowing. But Of all the men in the
| United States no man understands bet
| ter than does Mr.. Babcock what is de-
manded of the Republican party as a
condition precedent to another appeal
to the people He says, and he is as
much Il protectionist as any man in
congress. that the question, why do
you permit tariff to remain on arti-
cles which can be produced here cheap
er than elsewhereY will be put square
Iy to his party in the congressional can
yass of next year.
"There is no answer to that question
but plea of guilty to the Democratic
charge of subserviency to the trusts.
Protection has magnifcently vindicated
itself by fulfilling the promise of its ad-
vocates that it would build up indus
tries to such a position that they could
dispense with it and defy the world in
competition Such is the condition OF
the industry with which the Babeock
bill proposes to deal. There is no more
| of 1y1fxr Of
stance, than there is for duty on coal
oil. The true protectionists and the
people generally are with Mr. Babcock.
They are weary of the abuses of pro
lection The monopolists are with Mr..
Payne. But the Republican party can
never win another national victory until
it ends this conflict in its own ranks by
taking the duty off all articles which
can be produced here cheaper than else
where
"Even with a united front-united in
the right way-our Republican friends
will have enough to do to retain CON
troll of the house of representatives.
Divided on the question of antitrust
tariff legislation, they will be routed"
There you are. There are both sides
of the internecine war now on in the
camp of the high tariff propagandists,
the radicals led by The Globe Democrat
and Mr.. Chairman Serene e. Payne,
the moderates led by Mr.. Babcock and
the Washington Post,
It's very pretty fight as it stands.
There is an old saying to the effect
that when certain persons get at log
gerheads honest men get their dues.
Out of this tariff war may come some
relief to the people from being plunder
ed by the tariff barons and the trusts,
Tom johnson.
Is history about to repeat Itself
The Republican city council of Cleye-
land IS doing its everlasting best-un-
Willingly and purblindly, of course-tc
bring about that result. Tom johnson
is the Democratic mayor and proposes
garious reforms in conducting the af
fairs of that growing and ambitious
city by the lake. The city council
has started in to oppose and thwar
him at every turn. They are playing
into Toms hands, for he is in his ele
ment when in a fight, and, as he is il
the right, the more the council fight!
him the stronger he will become. L
will be remembered by those of rca
sonably sound memory that similar ca
pers on the part of the city council O.
Buffalo made Grover Cleveland gov
ernor of New York and thereby started
him on the road to the White House
Tom has better opening now for pc
iitical preferment than Cleveland hat
in 1881, because this fall there is a gov
ernor to elect in Buckeyedom, like
wise legislature which will elect ;
successor to Joseph Benson Foraker
whose term expires March A, 1909
The conditions in Ohio are ripe for ;
change. There is great deal of tall
of John Jacob Lentz for governor. l
Tom Johnson, Lentz and John r. Nc
: Lean-of Cleveland, Columbus ant
Cincinnati-can arrange matters, tha
! great triRmvirate can win out The,
are three unusually strong men and
/! united, can turn Ohio topsy turvy. |
8 they go at it with a solid front, ther
S will be a great shaking of dry bones i
: Mark Hanna's bailiwick.
"Look Outy