The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-02
POLITICAL.

| that While OH grown or erroneous provisions
are To be corrected, they are not 20 be de-
priy"d of reasonable and fair protection
EFFECT or REVISING PROTECTION orr
| Now. what does the Democratic party
| propose? Does it say, "Wc assent to the
| principle of protect 'on and We ask Inc people
! OF the United States to commit to oar hands
| the revision Of the tariff in conformity 10
| that principle" Fan from il. They aNow
! their unrepentinE hostility 70 the principle
| OF protection and ask thai the people Of me
| country put ia their hands the revision Of
| The tarif in order that they may revise he
| protection out Of il and repeat the expert
| menl of M ,leveland's second Gdminisl ra-
ton. which. according TO Mr.. Gomp"rs
| president Of the American Federal ion of
| Labor, pat three million American work
| men to walking the streets, without work
| and without bread for their families l. j.
not revision of th" protective tariN, but
| the dest ruction of the protective. tariff upon
which the people are To pass ~ voting for
IN 'mh"rs ~ Congress next Tuesday. aud
| With that destruction would disappear
necessarily, the conditions of our present
! PROSPERITY II may be- that some time or
other We may have another period Of pros
peri'y uni"r soma other kind of law; hut
| the prosperity Wa have to-day Is under the
protective tarif You sweep that away
and this period uf prosperity ends
PROGRAMME or kuIING THE TRUSTS
The specific ground upon which the
| Democratic party now says Nat r. should be
| permitted 20 rcyis. the tcriF - thai the
tar1f protects lie rll,is Oherrv" tha; they
! do not rrOpose 30 con'ino them selves 10
| cutting off the duties upon .he articles
| made hy the trusts, hu' their remedy j.
20 destroy the protect ion Of all American
| products and d"-' roy the trust by dragging
| 'Nem down in the general ruin Rut con
slider their prot o~i,ion regarding IA, trusts
! by III, mSeivcs The manuf8c' urng trusts
are protected 10y tie larif IN common with
! all othcs PRODUCERS Of smilar articles,
| and tie census Of 1900 showed tina, lrSs
than IL per cent Of the manufactured
| product Of th"coun' ~ was mad" bvfru.ts
If the duties which protect trust made
ar iclos are UNREASONABLE higl,, then they
| ought To h. reduced a. to al! tn" producers
| without any reference to IA" question
whclhe" they ar" mad" by The trusts or not ,
! and If the duties are reduced a. TO any Of
! he producers they must he a. 10 all You
| do not hurt the trusts by such reduct ion
| unless You make the reduction so great
! that 1t will become Improbable To manu-
| tacture the articles in this country. IL
! that l. done Won CAM kill the trusts, you can
| lose their mills yoiNcan turn their laborers
! out of employment. but You close the mills
| also Of all other producers Of similar art ces.
! and you substitute for domestic production
! Of the articles the importation Of foreign
| articles.
AND PUTTING FOREIGN TRUSTS IN CONTROL
As the production Of foreign articles is
! in a very great measure controlled by trusts
! You substitute foreign trust for an Ameri-
| can trust. You abandon the remedy Of
| American competirion and substitute for
/ il foreign monopoly As YOU pass along
/ the line. gradually destroying indus, ~
after industry. you will speedily attain the
blessings Of free trade in exchange for the
! injuries OF domestic production. IL this
! necessary? l. II reasonable? l. il wort u
the while to destroy American trusts by
| making American manufacture unproft =
I able? Surely this ought not Ia be done
except as a last resort Surely we ough,
! first to give American compc,ition a chance
I and SOC whether with wise laws and efrec-
! tive admini-t rat ion, preventing oppression
! and secret rebates and unfair. practices
| American competition will not ultimately
take care If itself and take care Of the
trust quro, ion at "a" same time
MoNoPoLIEs CAN'T ENDURE.
A little study of the course of business in
/ the country leaves no doubt that it will
/ take care of itself Capital may combine
! for the moment all the productive plants
| of the country and 50, for the moment
| mOnopulize the markc', but American
| competition Immediately commences the
! construction Of new plants The country is
| too big, raw material il too plentiful, the
market il too wide our wealth l. too great
Our people are too ont,rpri-ing for any one
concern to moropoli,p the field if there l.
fair play. When the Sugar Trust was formed
it took in over W per cent. of the refining
| capacity of the country. Immediately new
rctin.ries were started aud to-day over
~ per cent. of the sugar of the country il
made by outside concerns. The latest and
creates, combination. the United States
Steel company, was supposed To be an
! overw hcllnng monopoly, hu the statistic
of In" American Iron and Steel A9sociat ion
| for last August show that already in the
wear 1901, independent companies produced
! over ~ per cent bl me iron ore bI me tOllT-
! try, over 81 per cent of the total pig iron
over AZ per cent. of the ~ ,~emcr steel rails
! over ~ per cent, of the structural iron
over 40 per cent. OF all rolled products
| We forget the Cambria Steel Company. the
| Pennsylvania Steel Company, the h, thle-
! hem Steel Company, and the Republic Iron
and Steel Company and scores of other
/ great establishments With hundreds of
/ mills and furnaces Competition il grow
! ing, new plants are being equipped Tie
! Union Steel Company j. building; tie CRU
chile Steel Company i building; the Lac ka-
| wanna Steel Company il building at
Buffalo, in our own State, 5 ZOO. 'Ot
| plant, Are you going to ruin all such nlc-
| pendent industries .or the pJrpos" Of pun
! ishing the trusts or are you going to h,lu
| them in their competition 10y wise rogula-
! ton, and seeing To il If Ne, d b., that the big
| concern il talr To tie smaller ones? Are
/ YOU going to Sav 10 the WOrkmcn in the I'm
! plate mills who have irist cut tlcir own
| wages to ma Ike Coup.titiun with foreign
! producers possible, you are working for a
! trust. We are gong 10 make your -acri-
| flee Useless and throw YOU ON of WORK bv
| cutting The tariff so n 10 bring IN foreign
competitor and drive your employer out Of
! busiu,s because IL l. a trust