The Washington times., 1902-06-20

Treasury. but to protect all Of the
varied Industries of the country. can
reconcile their attitude with support
Of the pending Cunan tariff bill, which
practically assumes TO reduce 20 per
cent Of that protection on enc particu-
| lar Industry. II the protection principle
| l. right, why. from n Reput lican stand
point. should not its application be uni
veTsal and all Industries be treated with
the same tender consideration?
The whole system of governmental
favoritisrn Whereby the constitutional
power to tax for tn, rurrcse CT provid-
ing revenue for the needs OF the Federal
Treasury IS improperly used to build
up cne mans business ct the expense Of
another's. by discriminating in favor OF
one industry as against another--is
vicious system which has long afflicted
the country and which has grown more
and more intclerablc with years. ard
against which the Democracy have ever
protested
1T is utterly indefensIblc upon any
just and proper principle OF government.
| There is no justification fer the exercise
Of the power CT legislation to make
millionaires Of one class Of people and
paupers OF another
The country is just now aroused to
the injustice and enor,nity of the Ding
lev tariff (Which it should not be for
gotten was passed by Republican Cen
Eress and approved by Republican
iresidentD, especially il its application
to the sister republic OF Cuba. and pub
lie sentiment is apparently demanding
that the whole wrong should be rightel
hut instead OF that being proposed to
be done. tho subject is being jugsled
with in tho I-Oitei Ctnta d.
tub is proposed to be thrown to the
whale in the shape of an unsatisfactory
compromise with injustice, whereby
four- -lfths of the official robbery shall
be permitted to rcmain-not in the in
tcrest Of the country, but solely in the
interest OF the preservation Of 'Repu5-
lican harmony
Policy in Congress.
ut is not believed that 1t is the prov
ince OF the Democrats in Congress to
assist in the corsummation OF any such
Inadequate and questionable scheme.
Let the injustice be wholly or sub
stantialiy righted. not by piecemeal leg
islation. but by a complete and compre-
hensive mea asure based upon sound Dem
ocratic principles and along right lines
In the end that will be found the wisest
and safest course to pursue.
There is much force to the suggestion
that the Democrats are not required to
pick Republican chestnuts out OF the
fire for the benefit of their opponents.
"A reciprocity measure is a misnom-
er which does not contemplate at least
| so per cent reduction OF the existing
tariff burdens. When the people of
Cuba are asking for bread we should not
offer them a stone. We should not as
sist in the endeavor to palm of upon the
country a measure labeled reciprocity
which is in fact snare and fraud. con-
tanning 'difrerential' protection for a
| giant trust.
III the policy of protection-which is
only another name for the policy of tax
ing one portion of the community for
the benefit Of another portion-is to en-
tinue Ia whole or In part to be toler-
ated by the country, 1t may be well to
consider whether it were not better that
its evils should not be attempted to be
mitigated by piecemeIi or pop-gun leg
| islaticn but that cur efforts should be
reserved until the country has become
SO surfeited with its monstrous injustice
| that 1t is prepared TO destroy the whole
citadel OF protection and to return to a
constitutional and just system of taxa
tion for purposes of revenue only. Why
employ toy pistol in the endeavor TO
| redress wrong against a powerful and
| !ntrcnched enemy. when the largest and
most effective cannon are required?
Justice to Cuba.
Neither are we insensble to the ap-
peals of Cuba for relief from the tariff
exactions imposed by the Republican
party. We were the friends CT Cuba
when she was suffering from Spanish
oppression and when a Republican Ad-
ministration was reluctant to interfere
in its behalf 1t is the truth of history