Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-20

Of Venezuela promptly pept that ia
NOUS message TO Gonsrqts which clec-
trihed the country @liertlh he insisted
that Great Britain must not be per-
nlitted, under the Igrlepse Of a boun-
Gary dispute to selze llHtzuela With
ont first submitting ihkiahcged differ
cnce 10 arbitration or else this govern
nent would interpose It's strong arm
for the protection of that republic. Ana
Great Britain finally concluded to arbi-
;rate the dispute, ana Venezuela was
saved from destruction
The ex-senator then look up the sub
ject OF Cuba dealing nrst with the adj
Ininistration Of Cen Wood. whom he
bitterly airaigned The use Of money
for partisan and lobbying purposes
In aid OF administration measures
pending before Congress- he declared
Served to emphasize the irresponsible
and dangerous character of arbitrary
military rule anywhere. whether tenn
porary or permanent The subject de-
mands the investigation Of Congress
and the prompt punishment Of the Of
Tending official II he can be reached
through criminal or military law.
'The history Of the country does not
furnish a more lhgrant breach OF Of
fetal duty, as well as official proprlety,
than that presented by the misconduct
OF Wood, Yet he has neither been ar
rested nor rebuked nor censured, nor
called TO account by the administration,
but public attention to the scandal
was sought to be diverted by the sud
zen interpostlon OF q special message
TO Congress imperiously demanding the
passage Of miserable compromise 20
per cent measure Of Justice to Cuba, "
CUBAN TARIFF QUESTION.
Discussing the Cuban tariff question,
Mr.. Hill said the present controversy
I'm Cuba over that subject served to
illustrate the hypocrisy, as well as the
unsoundnes OF the whole Republican
potion on the subject Of tarlffs" Pro-
ceeding on the topic he said: THE
whole system Of government favorit-
ism whereby the constitutional power
TO tax for the purpose OF giving revenue
for the needs Of the federal treasury Is
improperly used to build up one nan
business at the expense Of another by
discriminating IN favor OF one Industry
as against another-in vicious system
which has long afflicted the country
and whica has grown more and more
intolerable with years, and against
which the Democracy has ever pro-
tested.
1T is utterly indefenslble upon any
iust and proper principle of govern
ment There Ia no justification for the
exercise OF power OF legislation to make
millionaires OF one class OF people and
paupers Of another.
DINGLEY TARIFF
1.-THE country Is Just now aroused to
the injustice and enormity Of the Ding
ley tariff (Which II should not be fore
gotten was passed by a Republican
Congress and approved by a Repub-
lioan presldenO, especially In its appli-
cation TO the sister republic OF cuba.
and public sentiment is apparently de-
handing that the whole wrong should
be righted. but instead of that being
proposed TO be done, the subject is be-
ing juggled within the senate and tub
is proposed to be thrown to tho whale
In the shape OF an unsatisfactory COM
promise with injustice whereby four
fifths of the official robbery shall be
permitted 10 remain--not in the interest
Of the country. but solely in the interest
OF the preservation Of Republican har-
mony."
1T IL not believed that II is the prov
lnce Of the Democrats In Congress 10
assist In the contamination of any such
inadequate and questionable scheme.
Let the injustice be wholly or substan-
TALLY rlghted, not by piecemeal legisla-
ton, but by a complete and comprehen-
sive measure based upon sound Demo-
cratic principles and along right lines
RECIPROCITY IS A MIsNoMER.
"a reciprocity measure is a mlsno-
mer which does not contemplate at
least 20 per cent reduction Of the exist
ing tariff burdens When the people Of
Cuba are asking for break we should
not offer them stone.
III the policy Of protection is TO con-
tinue In whole or In part to be tOler-
ated by the country IL may be well to
consider whether II were not better that
its evils should not be attempted to be
mtigated by piecemeal or pop-gun leg
islation, but that our efforts should be
reserved until the country has become
so surfelted with its monstrous lnjus.
tice that II Is prepared TO destroy the
whole system OF protection and to re-
turn 10 constitutional and Just system
Of taxation for purposes Of revenue
only.
Neither are we insensibie to the APP
peals Of Cuba for relief from the tariff
exactions imposed by the Republican
party. We were the friends Of Cuba
when she was suffering from Spanish