New-York tribune., 1902-10-31

rate Of DUTY would be 6.tter than ne 5S1s S1beter h
II n. f Change shoSd r. made noN Or should Be de-
ferred. Every tsrIT deals with duties on yssI
of interests often eonfictns ana whenever ,.s ths
s% ls taken up oS congress for ~ the iaV
is going 20 md some one urging change ~ ',% ~
country are going 10 be left during long con-
unued discussion in state Of uncertainty tbines
they ore producing. and therefore IN unceLlii H.
as TO what competition from abroad they VIII Oe
The second thing to be kept in mind is that thsrs- Z
the consideration OF all the questions thus roper
is AZ the hands o; party in power which IS b as9T nv
certainty incident 10 the discussion will be accorl
panied by loss OF confidence and fear OF ra, ra[sed
il should be revised by its friends SO inS, , 90 go
on with their business with just and confident as
surance that. while ouigroWn or erroneous po p,e
prived of reasonable and fair protection.
MONOPOLY IMPOSSIBLE WITH FAIR PLAY
The country is too big raw material Is too j P%7 o
gTeai omr neon1e are TOO snternrising & for any
concern monopoliZe the feld II there is fair psy
States Steel Corporation was supposed 10 ~ IN @a
T d Saal au' me for last
August show that already in the year 1901. .nIe b
pendent companies produced over 81 per cent Of tG
iron of the country over 81 per cent of The toidl
over 81 per cent OF the structural iron o'te an
per cent OF sll rolled products. We forget the IN
pany. the Bethishem Steel COMPANY and the Re
public Iron and Steel Company and scores 9f otg ana
furnaces. Competition is growing. new plants are
The Union Steel Company is building the Crue6,e9
Steel Company is building the I-ackaWanna So
ssOco 900 plant Are you going to ruin al snGh hing ne
dependent Industries , Tor o the puF%pgse % d Sd IN Their
competition by wise regulation and, seeing 10 NJ, ~
ones? Are YOU going TO say TO the workmen in the
.inpate mills who have Just cut their ar own ~4s nos
sible You are working for trust, Ne are golns 1
Of Work BY cutting the tariff so as 70 bring in
foreign competitor and drive your employer out oi
business because IL is a trust?
HILLS COAL PLANK
The second proposal OF the Democratic party IS
contsinei in he plank Of the New-YorB platform
height, ana famous as the -coaI plank
We advocate the national ownership and % opera ~
ton OF the anthracite coal mines ny the exercise e"
The right of eminent domain, ..,o.d,,
parallel" by the side of this official declaration 90
5he peImGerstie party Sf ne Stste ne f,r %'''S
This great commonwealth eenoentrat'4es %ljaI iaI
IN us limits P1aGcal ao eoaIe % me gtrv should
consider seriously before Endorsing the astonishing
propostio R that m the States are poTeress
regulate their own affairs and that S fSdJs6 5suse Of
oorporsts power is stigma Whieh ts comes VIZ, be be be
the President of The United States or not
Colonel Archie C. Baxter followed Mr. Root.
He knew his audience and created more en-
thusiasm than the previous speakers. The nu-
merous Interruptions from the audience and his
answers kept the laugh on every ones lips one
persistent questioner kept asking What's the
matter with Charlie Adler? He always got the
same answer He's all right"
Baxter started the speech. referring 10 the
Republican attitude toward the trusts Some
body asked How about that Ice Trust? The
co.onel answered, The Ice Trust is something
that the Republicans know very little about
If ycu want TO know about that trust. you must
10 Hall for nj = iDT9
Among other things, Colonel Baxter said.
Repubicanism thrives .t when prosperity -
prevalent DemocracE faueEs upon adversely
When the is employed. when the wife Is
happy. then look for Republican administration;
When the furnace fires out mills closed ana
walk idle in the streets. then you md the
Democrats in power. The Democrats try TO place
the responsibility Of the coal strike ouT shoul-
ders. hut the Republicans are no more responsible
for that than they are for the eruption Of Mont
Pelee
nm stands the coal plank with both feet.
but ne has TO bolster il up every time hs speaks,
lest he fall. Coler has but one foot on it, he has
been doing the ''stFaddls act ever since ne was
nominated