Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03

a nation. bound in honor to fulfill. Presi-
dent Roosevelt has, in his policy Of rec.-
procity with Cuba, the entire and hearty
support of the republicans of Massachu-
sets.
The Tariff Question.
ITO the application Of the policy of pro-
lection, as embodied in the Dingiey tariff,
is due the high wages and constant en-
ployment Of labor, and, in large me asure.
our phenomenal national prosperity last
five years. This policy should be alb red
to, but changes which the words progress
and the interests Of the American People
may suggest should and Will be male by
the republican party whenever they a,e OF
sufficient Importance to justify the check to
business which inevitably tends any re-
vision of the tariff. Such changes can
only be made successfully and with the
least possible injury to business by the re-
publ can party, and in accordance with the
principles of protection. They should be
undertaken only after thorough investiga-
ton by Congress. or by commission. OF
experts as suggested by p, e ident Roose-
welt. Massa chusetts has and desires no I'M
fair tariff advantages over other states.
Protection should be national and not sec
tional, impartial between industries and
those who are engaged in them.
THE gold basis standard for money is
now substantially unqueS Toned as g
proper basis. Debas!ng this standard in
any way would be dishonest, and would re-
suit in commercial disaster.
As to the Trusts.
Nearly everything which has been
achieved for the benefit of humanity, es-
pecialy under free governments, has been
achieved through cooperation and combina-
ton. We recognize the right and the neces-
sity Of such cooperation. Labor has the
right to combine for it's own defense and
protection. to secure good wages, reasonable
hours for work and the health and safety
of the workmen. Capital has the right to
combine to accomplish results too great for
individual effort to promote economy in ad-
ministration and in manufacture and to en-
able to encounter successfully like COM
binations in foreign countries for the pos
session of foreign markets. These combna-
lions of labor and capital, by whatever
name they are called, are the natural re-
suits of modern economic development and
are entitled to the due protection of the
law so long they innocent and law
abiding. They must also obey the law and
submit to the legal restraint If they be-
come pernicious. dangerous to the public
safety or tyranncal, If they undertake
to Interfere with individual liberty No
so-called trust must be permitted to use its
power to crush out lawful competition, or
to defraud unwary .n--estors by fictitious
or fraudulent issues Of stock not REPRESENT
ing real value.
The democratic plan of free trade in all
products made by so-called trust ignores
the economic fact that the tariff has no
connection with trusts or with the size of
corporations except so far as it affects all
productive industries, great and small alike.
Would Mean National Injury.
1t would mean the greatest possible in
jury to all the competitors of the trusts,
and the least possible injury to the trusts
themselves. 1t would mean incalculable loss
to all wage earners employed in every in
dustry. thus recklessly assailed, it would
mean the domination in our market Of for
egn trusts and it would neither control nor
regulate the great corporations which are
is the purpose of the republican party to
bring within the power of wise laws
The conflict between the miners and the
mine owners in the anthracite coal fields
of Pennsylvania has paralyzed that industry
and brought trouble, loss and distress in a
constantly increasing measure upon tho
people of the United States. The question
is not a political one and should not be
made so to advance party purposes. 1t is
a calamity, common to us all, and the stu
alton is too grave, the prospect Of loss and
suffering by all conditions of our people Is
too serious to be passed over In silence by
any representative body of American citi-
Zens.
We most heartily approve the action Of
the President of the United States in the
effort he is making to end this strike and
give the people the coal they so greatly
need. Nothing can bring this about at
once except an aroused and concentrated
public opinion, which. without regard to
party will give unqualified support to the
President and force operators and miners
to meet and settle at once their difficulties,
which involve the public health. safety and
business.