The Tucson citizen., 1902-02-03

subject to stimulate the jaded inter
est OF ennuied mortals. In this hour of
national peril it may not be amss to
direct attention to what our statesmen
are doing to save this country from
the insidious assaults of the Cubans
and Filipinos.
AS everybody who reads the
newspapers knows, the House of
representatives recently passed a
bill to prevent our Philippine brethren
from wipng out American industries
and converting this republic into a
wilderness. This bill provides that
when products OF the Philippines are
imported into the United States the
full rates of the Dingley tariff act
must be levied on tnem When the
measure was under consideration in
the House veteran Protectionists-
strong men and bearded men-shed
bitter tears at the thought that even
the Dingley tariff might not be sutfi-
cient to protect our puny industries
from the trade onslaught of the
Filipino. Now they are terrified at
the prospect that the Senate may mod
ify the PHILIPPINE tariff act SOFAS to
impose only Is per cent. of the Dingley
rates on the products OF our little
brown brothers In tAe tar East Sena-
tor Lodge, the chairman OF the Philip
pine committee, is the author vi this
moderation. Ii ne secures it's adoption
the hemp. indigo, rice. cane sugar,
tobacco and cocoanuts of our distant
archipelago will be taxed only three
| fourths as much when sent to the
/ United States as the patriotic Protec-
tionists of the House demand. 1t is
true the tariff devised by the Phillip
on all these products, and therefore
imports from the Philippines will ac-
tually. although not nominally pay
about the full rates of the Dingley
act So, after all the concessions for
which Senator Lodges amendment to
the House bill provides are of
5hadowy nature and the Flipinos
get practically no relief. But accord
ing to the statesmen in the lower
branch of Congress who are fastening
to reduce the tax on beer and whskey,
We will even then be at the mercy of
the Filipinos and in eminent deadly
peril OF being exterminated
1t seems to the irreconcilaDle Pro-
tectionists that our tariff makers in
Washington do not realize the threat
ening character of the Filipino and
Cuban menace. The mighty archipelago
of the Far East and the powerful
country almost in sight Of our Florida
coast have nlled the souls Of our
Dingleytes with unspeakable uread
When Cuba knocks at our doors and
asks for a reduction Of the duties on
her sugar and tobacco Americans who
believe in protecting our industries
quake and tremble. The New England
tobacco growers association met last
week and resolved that it was ''al up"
with them If Congress allows Ameri-
cans citizens to smoke Cuban tobacco
not grown under the shadow of Ply
mouth Rock. Mr.. Oxnard ana his beet
sugar interests in California anu Nebr-
asha and prospectively in the Red
River Valley of Arizona, which do
not supply enough sugar to do the
there shall be no concessions to Cuba,
otherwise they will go out of business
and die Of starvation. President RoOse-
welt and Secretary Root maintain that
IT will be not only good business but
the fuldllment of a moral obligation"
to give the Cubans a cnance to sell
in our markets. Mr. Oxnard and his
beet growers and sugar makers ana
the New England producers of Cuban
tCDdttD TeIOFl tndt moral ODIlEGtiCnS
have no place in a tariT schedule and
that If any obligations OF that KIND ex-
ist they were assumed by the liberia
tors of Cuba without any intention OF
being bound by them. The San
Francisco Gail, owned by John u.
Spreckels, the sugar refiner, who gets
his raw sugar from Hawaii free of
duty, charges the sugar trust, that is
the Eastern concern that is sometimes
a rival OF Spreckels. with stirring up
the agitation for a reduction of the
duty on sugar, alleges that the trust
VIII. go to the point of starting a re-
in Cuba to carry its point and
savagely rebukes American citizens
for desiring to pay less for their sugar