The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-03-28
PRuGRESS OF PROTECTION.
What the Party Of rsrin for N"n"p-
ely Has Accomplished for
Its Masters.


conference. rs some of the brethren
prefer To call il, az 10 what. If any
Thing. shall be done for tho relief
of Cuba those who are opposed To do
ing anything and who came near car
rying the day submitted their formal
protest against doing anything. says
the Chicago Chronicle.
They declared that they were In
favor of adhering 10 so much of the
republican national platform Of 1896
as condemned the administration
then in power for alleged breach of
faith with the sugar producers OF the
country and demanded such protec-
ton of the sugar industry as would
lead to the production in the country
OF all the sugar consumed therein.
They also declared that they were
in favor of adhering 10 the declara-
ton of the republican platform on
1900 approving the Associated pol
lev of reciprocity $50 direct as 10
open our markets on favorable terms
Z for what we do not ourselves produce
in return for free foreign markets.
These statesmen did not refer at
all TO the declaration of their plat
form OF 1896 in which il was de-
I clared that the repeal of the reel
procity arrangements negotiated by
the last republican administration
was "a national calamity. and we de-
mand their renewal and extension
on such terms as will equalize our
trade with other nations. remove the
restrictions which now obstruct the
sale OF American products in the
ports of other countries and secure
/ enlarged markets for the products OF
our farms. forests and factories
Protection and reciprocity are twin
measures Of republican policy and go
hand in hand"
That was republican reciprocity
doctrine in 1896. All that is neces-
sary by way of explanation is the
statement that the reciprocity ar
engagements whose abrogation was
deplored as national calamity in
cluded one by which Cuban products
were admitted into our markets at
reduced rates.
BY 1900 the party of tariff for
monopoly only had made progress.
1t had embodied certain reciprocity
provisions in the tariff law of 1897
and the Mckinley administration had
negotiated "A number of treaties in
accordance Herewith. But in the
meantime the monopolists who
owned the party decrecd that the
reciprocity plank of 1896 must Toe re-
pudiated and that no treaties nego-
Z tiated in accordance Herewith must
be ratified.
Accordingly all the treaties were
hung up in the senate committee on
7 foreign relations and there they hang
still. 1t l. understood that they are
now to be tanen down. but only in or
der that they may be killed in such
wise as not TO give unnecessary Of
Tense 10 the count ries which have ell
( tered into futile negotiations with q
republican administration on the as
surance given 10y a republican con
gress that they would be dealt with
I in good faith.
Y Now the statesmen who are bent
on doing the bidding OF their tariff
fattened masters regardless of all
considerations Of good faith or even
political expedency. tell their own
party associates that they are nm
willing TO do anything for the relief
of Cuba because any reduction what
ever in the duty on suga- would con
stitute. in essence. an abandonment
of the protective principle"
That is To say. nothing less than
| the Dinglcy duties would he consist
ent with the protective principle.
These statesmen who represent me-
nopoly say: ~ reduction of one
fifth by the house Of representatives
means that elsewhere, both in and
ont Of congress. the extent Of that
reduction shall be measured by the
VARYING views of those who consider
It, And il that republican majority
Is once constrained TO such a policy
what license have we to believe that
the citadel Of protection will not be
further assaulted in the house of its
friends?"
So these gentlemen announce 10
the country that the Dingley rates
are the minimum and that no matter
1
dustry may become any proposal To-
lower by the smallest fraction the
monstrous Dingley duties by which
it is Sheltered in practicing extortion
upon the American people will be
, construed as an assault on the sa-
cred citadel Of protection. and woe
to him who dares 10 lead the assault !.
These servants of the tariff bosses
were beaten by only II ma iority
! And they would have won by much
J more than that majority II the lead
crs OF the house had followed their
! own inclinations instead of yielding
to the earnest persuasions OF the
president. Even the president is un-
: derstood to be with them so far as
: the economic question j. concerned
: The republican party has evidently
become the most obedient servant 81
the naughty masters who have beer