Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-26
he can be reached through criminal or

he can be reached through criminal or
military law,
The history of the country does not
furnish more fragrant breach Of
official duty, as we'll as official pro
priety, than that presented by the mis-
conduct of Wood. Yet be, has neither
been arrested nor rebuked, nor cen
sured, nor called to account by the
administration; but public attention
to the scandal was sought TO be
diverted by tho sudden interposition of
special message to Congress i'm
perlously demanding the passage of u
miserable compromise $50 per cent"
measure Of Justice to Cuba. .
The present controversy in Congress
over the Cuban tariff question serves
to Illustrate the hypocrisy as we'll as
unsoundness OF the whole Republican
position on the subject of tariffs.
1t is difficult to understand how
those who justify the imposition of
/ tariff duties-not for purposes of reve-
nue. only to meet the necessities of the
treasury, but to protect" all of the
varied industries of the country can
reconcile their attitude with support of
the pending Cuban tariff bill, which
| practically assumes to reduce 20 per
cent of that protection on one particu-
lar industry. II the protection princi-
| pie is right, why, from Republican
standpoint, should not its application
be universal and all industries be
treated with the same tender considera
| tion?
| A reciprocity" measure is mis-
homer which does not contemplate at
1p4i IS no
| listing tariff burdens When the people
of Cuba are asking for bread we should
not offer them a stone. We should not
assist in the endeavor to palm off upon
! the country measure labeled reel
procity'' which is in fact snare and
fraud, containing "ditferential'
protection for ii giant trust.
| In this connection permit me to oh
serve that the logic Of events has dem
Onstrated the soundness of many Demo
cratic contentious of recent years. No
one doubts today that high protec-
| tive tariff has proved the parent of
trusts, - just as was predicted it would.
| We recall that portion of the Kansas
City platform, the wisdom of which is
nov generally recognized, which do
| clarcd rs follows: We condemn the
! Dngley tariff law as Il trust breeding
/ measure, skillfully devised to give TO
the few favors which they do not de-
serve and to place upon the many bur
dens which they should not bear. "
AS o trust breeding measure" the
Dingley tariff law has indeed been a
great success. 1t has not only sue.
ceeied in creating more trusts than
ever before in the history of the
country, but it has also succeeded in
| sitting competition to greater extent
than was ever known. 1t has succeeded
in fostering monopolies everywhere,
and either destroyed or stagnatei tbs
/ business of small Dealers
1t has succeeded in unnecessarily
raising the cost of living to every con-
sumner in the land. 1t has caused more
| strikes on the part of workingmen 10
! enable them to live decently and com
fortably in view of the enhanced cost
OF living than at any period of our
history.
1t has unreasonably increased public
taxation for the benefit of private
interests. And, finally, it has promoted
dangerous speculation to an extent
which the boldest business gambler
never dreamed, whereby millions upon
millions Of worthless stocks have been
unloaded upon deceived public upon
the promise and expectation of divi-
dends which cannot be earned and can
never be realized, creating an alleged
prosperity which must necessarily be
false and fictitious, and when the
bubble bursts as ere long il surely
must-it will inevitably bring disaster
to the business community, and the
public will have learned to their sorrow
that lesson of political economy which
teaches that people can never become
rich by simply taxing themselves.
There is substantial accord among
the Democrats of the country upon all
the timely issues which are now en-
crossing public attention. We are all
united in favor of the preservation OF
constitutional liberty wherever our flag
floats. We are opposed to the rerma
nent policy of this government to the
maintenance of dependent colonies to
be governed outside of the pale of the
Constitution. We all favor freedom OF
commerce, and therefore favor genuine
rec rocity with foreign nations, hut
are opposed to sham Republican
reel procity which is only another name
for Republican hypocrisy.
We all stand where jackson, Benton,
and Tilden stood, in favor of hard
money, as opposed to an irredeemable
paper currency. We are all in favor
OF that constitutional reform involved
in the election of United States Sena
tors by the people of the several States,
rather than by State Legislatures.