Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-11-20
THE TARIFF REF0RMERS.
with Their Hands Tied by the faHS
Machine Can Accomplish
Nothing.

A majority of the voters IN a large
number of congressional districts IN
the western states have been bu1eoed
into believing that the OF
congress they have elected will vote
to amend the tariff law and eontroi
the trusts. The candidates promiseo
that if a republican majority was
elected the tariff and trust issue
would be settled by those who are the
friends of protection and there woulu
be no disturbance of business. some
of these republicans who have oeeh
elected to congress on the 1alth Ill
their promises were no DOUBT SIN
cere and will strive 90 carry them
out, but that they will accomplish
any such results is out OF the question:.
Those candidates who have been re-
elected to congress and have mad ex-
%perience in the workings OF the ruin
less machine. must have known that
any such promises were worthless
and were only given to once more 1oo'
their constituents into reelectihs
them. That this is a fair statement OF
facts is certain when it is considered
that is run by a majority OF
the dominant party and that lndl-
vidual congressman have no oppor-
tunity given them to even have their
ideas considered unless the party
managers think such are deslrapie'
When the next congress meets i'll
December, 1908, the caucus OF the re-
publican members will decide VINO is
to be speaker, he will appoint the com
! mittees. and if the majority shall de-
eide that the tariff is not to be re-
formed, the speaker will carry OUT
. their wishes. He will appoint a com
3 mittee on ways and means, to whoh
. any tariff bill must be referred whe
/. will all be reliable protectionists' aho
who believe that nearly all the trusts
are good trusts, and should DC aioeo
rather than hindered in their career
of piling up profits at the expense o.
e the people. The republican congress
y man who believes in tariff reform, II
a n extent, will be helpless. He ma.
n introduce a bill, like Mr.. Babcock dit
# in the beginning of the present con
70 press. to reform the iron and stee
schedule, but it will be buried, hk
that notable production in the gray
of tariff reform hopes-the ways an
means committee. If our new cor
II gressman is insistent to have his bl
considered, which, like Mr.. Babcocl
he will probably not be, all will be Sc
rene, he will be favored in other ma
rs ters. so that his constituents may
l' partially satisfied. If he demane
that his, or some similar bill, be col
sidered and reported so hat he ma
a have an opportunity to record his Vot
and thus show his sincerity to his co
X st%ituents, he will be cut off from pa
ey ticipation in all the inside advantage
'et of belonging to the majority part
~ and be treated much more discount
he eusly than the members of the dem
es. cratic minority. Only in the almo
es' impossible event of enough republics
ay, members joining with the democra
to make a majority and then voting
IRE order the committee on ways al
icy means to report a bill to amend t.
60 tariff law, will it be possible to ha
1T. a yea and nay vote recorded on sucf
1io proposition.
tn 1t will be interesting to watch t
actions of those republican congre
Ter. men from Iowa, Minnesota and 9th
or states that have succeeded in deludl
zen their farmer constituents into bell
ing that the tariff will be revised by
the friends.
mt If the people of any congressio7
ner district want the tariff revised tt
an must bring pressure to bear on
the congressman they have elected to &C
mer pei him to carry out their wishes.
MN will require a good deal of backbt
rev for a republican congressman
ana stand up and fight for even trust ?
ductions to be placed upon the
TN list.
Barbed wire being the production
Re- the steel trust. and selling in Eur
for two-thirds less than the trust S
it to the American farmer. would sc
to fix the status of the steel trust
was a bad trust. If the rcpublicansa are
and cere in their expressed determine
=, in to remove protection from bad tru
he- the steel trust productions woult
rain a good place to begin by looping
incy the ~ per cent, Pro'ec''o" II =
rect law now gives them.