Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-03
must still be persisted in by our gov

Mr.. Oxnard, the President of the
beet sugar trust, rented a house at
Washington for the wlntcr,--being the
same man who induced a going back
on the plain duty" message two years
ago, large and influential lobby was
organized, and all the machinery of
coercion, intimidation, cajolery and
Juggling was put in motion to defeat
the last expressed wish of the dead
Chief Magistrate.
The message will not recon-
mend the ratification of any of the
treaties in question. The most it will
say in regard to them will be some
perfunctory deliverance like this: II
call the attention of the Senate to tie
reciprocity treaties proposed to 1t by
my predecessor" or words and fgurca
to that effect, which mean nothing, and
which will abundantly justify on,
statement that loud professions of al
legiance to Mr.. McKinley's memory
are to be coupled with contcmptuous
and studied disregard of his wishes.
The message will indeed have good
dead to say about reciprocity" but it
will be in the abstract only, and merely
by way of academic discussion. The
old fiction will be retold about recl-
procity being the "handmaid of pro-
tection," and the entire harmony and
consistency Of the one with the other,
and so forth; And 1t will be insisted
on that the only kind Of reciprocity
that will be tolerated must be the
brand that does not trench upon pro-
lection.
or course the President knows very
well that reciprocity and protection are
worse than antagonstic; that they are
destructive of each other; that they
eat each other up, and that when the
former begins the latter begins to end.
He knows that reciprocity, to be prac-
tlcal, must be of the kind described by
Mr.. Blaine when he banged his hat
down on the Senate Committees table.
declaring that protection does not help
the American producer to sell barrel
OF pork, a pound of beef, or bushel
of corn :--the kind meant by Mr.. Nc
Kinley ut Buffalo, when he said the
day of commercial excusiveness IS
over.
And just because that kind of reci-
prOcity means what we say 1t does, Mr.
Roosevelt has been told, and Congress
has been told, that no reciprocity Is
to be tolerated except the innOcuous
and impossible kind which will not
hurt any of the many crafts which go
under the sheltering wing of protec-
tion. So too, Congress will do In this
respect great deal of what the Pres
idcnt's message will most strenuous
ly" recommend, to witt Nothing.
When somebody shall discover rect
pro ity that does MT reciprocate, and
when some country Is found willing to
give us the advantage of her open
market and trade with us under every
restriction aud hindrance which II
supple and servile government can put
In force at the command of greedy and
INSCRIPTIONS competitors that's the
kind of reciprocity the President ana
Congress are looking after, for no other
can be the "handmaid of protection. -
What we have thus said applies equal
ly to the question of trusts. The mes
sage will deal with them Mt long
range, discussing them wholly in the
abstract, and expressing the utmost
solictude lest Congress should Inter
fcre" with them in n spirit Of hostil-
ity, and 1t will deprccate "crude and
ill.considcrcd" legislation, as If there
, were any danger that that body should
harm It's own, or lcglslate against that
. which furnishes its campaign funds,
I ana In which many of its members
hold and gamble stocks
: When the message gets down to
l business by recommending remedy
, for an evil which Ii will not admit eN
lists except In the fears Of the people
: the strong probability is that it will
be so puerie and harmless to the
: trusts that thoy viii themselves laugh
In their sleeve at 1t, and will agre,
with Barnum and us that "thc peopl,
| love to he humbugged," 1t viii b,
II quack remedy, dy,-somcthng like ,
commission" to investigate trusts, OF
publicity" or some kindred nostrun
(, concocted by some of the patriots VIII,
= OF late have been ut the White lIous,
u ito pay their respects"
u Now he II known that commissions
Il mean delay, aud that publicity
Il means nothing; and further, that tn,