Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-01

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are so degenerate the United States re-
CARDS them, according to this story, as
eligible for annexation.-Pitt Dis
patch.
Roosevelt Humiliation.
1t appears that all of President
Roosevelt's explanations and Secretary
Shaw's explanations that the admins.
tration is not vindictively hostile to-
ward trusts have not been sufficient to
satisfy the trust magnates who con-
troll the Republican party, and they
have forced the most prominent can
didate for the Presidential nomination
in 1904 to declare unequivocally against
any serious effort to get rid of trust
domination. In his speech at Fitch
burg, Mass, he made his confession as
follows:
"As sensible men we must decide
that 1t is a great deal better that some
people prosper too much than that no
one should prosper enough. So that
the man who advocates destroying the
trusts by measures which would
paralyzc the industries of the country
is ut best Il quaclS and at worst an
enemy to the republic"
This is plain, In the light Of recent
events. The remedy that would para
lyze the Industries of the country" is
understood by everybody to be the re-
duction of the tariff on trust-made
products. The only effort made by
President Roosevelt in that line was
in the bill for Cuban reciprocity. The
objections made to the Cuban reci-
procity bill by the tobacco and sugar
trusts were exactly the objections that
President Roosevelt now makes to REM
edial legislation by removing tariff do
nations to trusts. The trusts have
forced him to join them in the con-
demnation of his own policy.
And the most humiliating part of this
humiliation is that the condemnation is
based on falsehood. The idea that
the reduction of the tariff on tobacco
and sugar in favor of Cuba would
have destroyed either of those indus
tries was an utter absurdity, and every
sensible man In the land knew 1t. 1t
is equally absurd to say that the re-
moval of the tariff on trust.made goods
which the trusts are now exporting to
foreign countries and selling In compe-
tition with the world would ruin their
industries. Aud yet President Roese-.
welt is driven TO assume that position
and make that false plea to the Ameri-
can ple.-Indlanapolis Sentinel.
Examples of Tariff Robbery.
Picture this little scene to yourself:
An American housewife goes into
store and buys a pound Of borax, pay
ing cents for 1t. AS she turns away
with her package another housewife
comes in, buys two pounds of borax
and is charged . cents for her purchase.
why do you charge me 8 cents for one
tpound Of boraX and let that other wom-
AN have two pounds for 8 cents?" the
American housewife demands. oh"
answers the storekeeper, blandly, she's
English, you know
How long would that storekeeper,
openly discriminating in favor Of the
foreign and against the native Gus
toner, be able to DO business anywhere
in the United States? Yet this transac.
ton in borax illustrates perfectly.what
The trusts are doing ON n colossal seal.
In the home and foreign markets.
The foreigner gets his American 1neat
chopper for IS cents, the American is
charged s1,O4. The American paws s11
for fruit press. the foreigner gets II
for $3.50. A hundred pounds Of wire
nails cost the American sos. the for
eisher %i'oo. a piaho LUZ WHICH Tue
american pays 80 Is exported at SSoO.
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