The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-29
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,~ President Roosevelt was the recipient
of two votes OF confidence vest rday, one
by the Ohio republican convention and the
other by that Of Kansas. These indorse-
ments were robust and unqualified, and,
as Endorsements go. two years before the
nominating convention. may be regarded
as good starters for the strenuous presi
dent in the contest for the republican
presidential nomination in 1904.
The Ohio republicans on the subjects of
= tariff and reciprocity might have sounded
clearer note, might indeed have adopted
the Interpretation Of the party princi-
Piles as set forth in the admirable speech
OF General Grosvenor at the opening Of
the convention. They properly extol the
prosperity Of the country and pay a
strong tribute to the value of the protect
i've system and heartily commend the
proposition for reciprocal trade with Cuba
$50 as to benefit the trade of both coun-
tries They lay stress, too, upon the
fact that our expectations of manu-
features now constantly exceed their i'm
Dortations." General Grosvenor, in his
speech, affirmed the Importance of main
tanning the policy of protection as the
great stimulus of home Industrial effort,
but he took McKinley's position that we
cannot perpetual1y add to our productive
capacity and concurrently fail to gain new
and wider markets for the surplus; the
necessity is laid upon US to increase our
foreign markets Through the medium of
just reciprocity General Grosvenor
very plainly admitted the need of tariff
revision when duties in the schedules en-
able producers to extort extravagant
prices for the necessaries of life or have,
by the evolution of business, become the
bu!wark of unjust discrimination and ex-
tortionate prices. He stated the meaning
of genuine protection with great per-
spicuity as the making good by tariff
taxes ard tariff schedules the difference
in cost between the foreign article and
the articles of home manufacture. e-4
1.-THE republican party" said he, "does
not worship the tariff schedules like a
fetch that is above consideration or
criticism and which must not be inter-
fered with under any conditions whatever
lue COlulllOuS VI u duc anu pl
necessarily change, and a tariff schedule
which to-day is adequate for the purposes
Indicated, may be inadequate at a future
time, and an item in a schedule that was
proper at the time of it's enactment may
become oppressive or at least unneces-
sary, as evolution goes forward This
statement comedies with the prophetic
language Of the late President Mckinley
whose vision penetrated the future to
some purpose. It defines the practice
as to protection and reciprocity by the
United States in the future. The obscureI
utterances Of the Ohio republicans point
the same way.
It is noticeable that in their platform
they do not qualify their deliverance on
reciprocity by limiting products of foreign
countries; importedi under reciprocity, tt
articles not produced IN the United States
The, labor plank Is sufficiently liberal tc
meet the most acting platform critics
and the trust question is.most judiciousl,
handled, as, the REPUBLICAN party has the
inside track, through sits initiative, as fal
back as 1se0sin anti frust legislation, ane
the current warfare against trust abuses
recognizing, as the party of progress. the