Gloucester County Democrat., 1902-08-07
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produce on condition that the countries
with which the arrangement is made
should grant an equivalent reduction for
our products. From this attitude on a
reciprocity. strictly guarded as to our
own productions. the Republican party
has never varied. The last Republican ma
tional platform refers only to a ec-D"cc-
ity $50 directed es to open our markets
on favorable terms for what we do not
ourselves produce in return for free for
eign markets"
The same limitation. most iucidly ex
pressed. appears in President McKinleys s
last speech that made at Buffalo the day
before he was struck down at the post of
duty. Reciprocity. said President Nc
Kinley in his address of Sept. 5 last, sis
the natural outgrowth OF our wonderful
industrial development under the do1nes-
tic policy now firzaly established" The
policy referred TO is. of course. protec-
ton. President Mckinley said in the
same speech: "Ey sensible trade arrange
ments which will not interrupt home pro-
duction shall extend the outlets for
our increasing surplus, We should take
from our customers such of Their products
as we can use without harm To or own
industries and labor. The reciprocity
which Blaine. Mckinley and tlic Itepub-
lican national platform favored is ex-
plicitly intrenched in behalf of p~9tec-
ton. 1t was not intended to apply To any
product of our own. Bat what is found
in the Cuban concession bill? It is re-
moval of all duties on Cuban imports re-
gardless of whether we produce the same
articles or not About twenty articles
were to be admitted at a reduction, som
of which we produce ourselves. To call
this wholesale reduction anything resem-
bling what the Republican party or lead
ers have hitherto favored under the name
of reciprocity is ridiculous.
Free traders saw the vital distinction
and eagerly jumped forward to get in
their entering wedge. All sincere Repub-
licans did not see it. but enough were
sufficiently cautious to save the party
from making a breach in "the firmly es
tablished policy
The truth about the Cuban concession
bill is that it proposed so called reci-
procity wholly unknown to the Repub-
lican party, to Mr. Blaine or Mr.. McI<in-
ley. Republican congress discovered
the falsities in the case and. greatly to
it's credit halted them outside of the in
trenchments of the protective policy.
A Dagger In the Back.
That editorial does not contain the
name of Theodore Roosevelt, but ey
cry word of it is intended as a dagger
not for his breast but for his back.
He can write it Oh the tablets of his
memory that the GlobeDemocrat is
dead against him and will deprive him
of the Missouri delegation in the next
Republican national convention if it
can; but it can't. Roosevelt may lose
the delegation. but not through the in
fiuence of the CD, for it has none in
selecting delegates. Hon. Richard C.
Kerens will attend to that job. Ii the
president will take the pains to read
the foregoing editorial from the GID
carefully. he will be very much sur
prised to learn that he is to be fought
on the grounds that he is not sound on
the tariff and that he is Il free trader.
The war is ON. The GID. has evident
ly enlisted under the Hanna banner,
condition of his guns and ammunition.
If he does not sleep with at least one
eye open. he will be stabbed to death
in the house of his friends
am aware chat the CD. editorial
is a very long quotation to make in
these letters, but the space is well used
if my readers learn from it the lesson
which it teaches-that the Republicans
are hopelessly divided into bitter fac
tions. which will grow more bitter as
the days go by. Democrats have ev-
cry reason to be hopeful as to the re
suits of the campaign now on. To
your tents. o Israel.
There can be no question about the
CD. having it in for the president
1t virtually charges him with being Il
free trader in the following remarks
about the Cuban reciprocity bill:
Therefore it is impossible to see how
the new republic can be ruined by the
defeat of the proposed double reduction.
1t would be much nearer the truth to say
that the failure of the bill would be a
source of loss to certain sharp specu-
lators and deep disappointment to free
traders who are anxious to break down
the protective principle at new point
and in new way.
Query: Does the CD. in that para
graph intend to charge President
Roosevelt and all other advocates of
the Cuban reciprocity bill with being
sharp speculatorsT
Item: The GID. returns to its charge
Vi OGlti-% d II CT u LII lHC AOliON
paragraph:
All the free trade papers continue to in
sist that Cuba will be ruined unless the
protection OF American industries is bro
ken down. but the people of the United
States are not easily fooled by free trade
CANNON.
Now, if a paper is free trade pa
per for advocating Cuban reciprocity,
are not the president and other Repub-
lican statesmen also free traders for
advocating the same thing?
But the most unkindest cut of all, to
borrow phrase from Shakespeare,
that the CD. has administered to the
president is the following:
General J. H. Smith, who was sent to
quiet the island of Samar, in which the
natives were massacring our soldiers to
a shocking extent and who accomplished
his mission with the highest degree of eff
fcctiyenesS, has been retired by the pres-
dent for alleged "loose and violent talk"
in the presence Of subordinate officers.
General Smith is near the retiring age
and has little to lose in that respect, but
he is still a vigorous and capable man.
He performed a great and extremely diff
ficult service to his country in Samar and
enjoys the highest esteem of his fellow
officers and of his fellow citizens as time
will show. In the opinion of great
many persons General Smiths alleged Of
fense is of a far lighter nature than that
of General Wood in dcvoting funds from
the Cuban treasury to further political
and economic object in the United States,
General Smith will discover on returning
to the United States that he is at no dis
count with his fellow countryrnen.
Does not the Globe-Democrat know
that President Roosevelt indorses Gen
eral Woods action in using funds from
the Cuban treasury as he did use
them? Aye, more, does not the CD.
know that i'll his speeches in and about
Boston the president held General
Wood and Secretary Elihu Root up to
the admiring gaze of all the world as
great and virtuQIls men, whose exam
pie all creation$would do well to imi-
tate? The president lauds Wood and
Furnishes Smith. The G. ID. lauds Smith
and intimates that Wood ought to be
punished. The president is Repub-
lican and SO is the GID, and yet 1.-The
Republican column is solidw Anybody
who says that the Republicans are
split up is "a queer person" No doubt
the truth appears ''queer" to Repub-
lican organ grinder.
JOHN j.