Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-15

The edict has been cent forth that
the tariff must be let alone, and that
the Republicanparty will defend the
Dingley bill against all corners. There
can no longer be any doubt. No one
will now stand with the Republican
party believing that that party stands
for tariff revision !. f. stands committed
to the present tariff. Although the
Philadelphia Press itself, staunch
organ, and x-Postmaster General
Smiths own paper, trying to get into
the tariff revision band wagon, which
1t thought would head the procession,
has said that the declaration of the
Iowa platform represented the progress
i've element of the party, and although
the Republican organs throughout the
country echoed the same sentiment, the
Baltimore American going SO fara as to
brand the present tariff for trusts only,
the administration has seen fit to ignore
this just demand. 1t has seen fit to
ally itself with the sorces that are OPP
pose to any revision whatever of the
tariff. And you may look the country
over and you will see that the trusts are
without exception the strongest oppon
ents of tariff revision. The president
appears to be hostile to the trusts. He
seems to want to strike them blow.
He pronounces them menace to our
government. He says he is seeking q
remedy for the evils of the trusts. He
processes to be after them with all of
his rough rider determination.
But, regrettsble as is the necessity, the
people will have to ask themselves the
question-is he sincere?
He cannot be the statesman the peo.
plegive him credit for being, and be
blind to the fact that the tariff fosters
trusts. The Iowa farmers see that.
Republican conventions have declared
that the tariff fosters trusts aud shell
ters monopoly. Until the president
admits these facts, facts enunciated by
his party, he will have to see his mo-
tives questioned.
The leaders refuse the direct remedy,
the effective remedy, and pretend to be
looking for something else. They can
not in doing so, escape the imputation,
the just imputation, that they are put
ting up game of bluff in which the
peOple are the yictims
Tariff revision is absolutely the first
step in the fight against the trusts.
That party which ignores it dallles
with the trusts it pretends to fight, and
all of its talk is mere buncombe.-Clin
ton Advertiser.
The coal bsrons defend themselves
behind two allegations. The first ie
that the miners insist upon getting as
high wages for their helpers, who are
less competent, as for themselves. The
second ls that the leaders take adyan-
tage Of the ignorance of imported min
ers who do not understand English and
incite them to lawlessness, leaving
them to bear the odium and take tn,
legal penalties.
AS to the first of these pretexts it II
enough to reply that the remedy liet
with the employers. They can dismiss
the incompetent. AS to the second, i
was the barons themselves who importe,
the ignorant labor. If les Ignorance
proves embarrassing in crisis the.
they have only themselves to thank.
The men most ignorant of American
ideas although familiar with the Ian
gusge of the country, are the Goa
barons themselves.
They are eager to subject millions q
their defenseless fellow countryme1
the poor, the sick, to serious and, i
many cases, to fatal perils rather tina
Econsent to let their quarrel with tn
kminers go to san arbitration counc
where they could be fully and fsirl
Ehesrd.
Ignorance is sometimes less Grim
than greed. Chicago Chronicle.