Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-05-29
TELEGRAPH NEWS.


may not now be expected before the
middle of next week. Burrows speaks
tomorrow in favor OF the bill, and Pat
terson. Bailey and Bacon are all down
for opposition speeches. Then must
come three days for consideration of
amendments. There will be no ses-
sion Friday, Memorial day After the
Philippines bill comes the Nicaraguan
canal and Cuban reciprocity bills,
which will be considered Jointly The
beet sugar men predict months debate
on the former, but this is not generally
conceded. Both sides claim a ma
jority and are anxious for vote.
WASHINGTON. d. c., May 26.-
There is nothing for the Democratic
party in this fault-finding about the
Philippines. The issue upon which
the Democracy can win the confidence
and the votes of a majority of the
American people is the tariff issue.
The sooner our Democratic spokesmen
in congress stop snarling about the
army and turn their attention to the
one live, real political issue the tariff
and the trusts that have grown out of
the tariff, the better it will be for
Democracy. The attacks upon the
army which Democratic senators have
been making for several weeks are
worse than useless; they are foolish
and are doing the party far more harm
than good"
Such is the advice which Judge
Lambert Tree of Chicago has been Civ
= ing his party brethren in Washington
during the last few days. Judge Tree
is here on business and incidentally
has talked business with some of his
Democratic friends He is wholly out
of patience with the tactics which the
senators of his party are following
democratic senators think they are
not attacking the army. But they are.
At least that is what the people be-
lieve. The people resent it, Attacks
npon an army in the field have not
helped a political party. and never
will The people believe they have
the best, the most humane and trust
worthy army in the world. and they
will stand by it, Our army comes
from among the people. it is part of
the people and carries the popular
confidence and affection wherever it
goes. Our soldiers in the Philippines
labor amidst great difficulties. They
treachery and savagery, and endure
the tropic sun. A great majority of
the American people believe they are
doing the best they can and that they
should not be assailed at home.
Il have never heard of anything
more foolish than the attempt to make
Il political issue out of the wrong-do-
ing of few of our soldiers in the
Philippines added Judge Tree. The
surprising part of ii is that this iatui-
tous and suicidal effort is made by
men who appear to be wholly neglect
ful of the one great issue which prom
ises Democratic success. That is the
tariff issue. This agitation over the
Philippines is at best an evanescent
thing. 1t is here today and gone to-
morrow. But the tariff is an abiding.
vital question. that will divide po-
litical parties in this country for years
to come.
To-Day the people of the United
States are talking more about the
tariff than ny other one subject.
They believe the tariff is largely re
spcnsible for the inordinatc high prices
of nearly all commodities which enter
into the cost of living. They believe
that the tariff is the basis of the
trusts. The cost of living the monop-
olistic trusts, the high tariff. run
together and form the greatest prob
lem with which the American people
have to deal today. There is the issue
which comes home to every man. to
every woman. The people are talk
ing about high prices; they are talking
hnI toll ah
the tariff They care little for the al
legged wrongs of the Filipinos and are
willing to trust the American army
and the American civil agents TO work
out that problem. But they care very
much about the cost OF living They
want to know if it has increased faster
than wages. They want to know to
what extent the tariff is keeping up
prices and making few rich at the
expense of the many.
Here is an issue ready made and
lying at our hand" added the old Dem
pcratc wheelhorse. why should we
run after false gods? Why should we
play into the hands of the Republicans
by attacking the army?
1T makes me weary" continued
3 Judge Tree. to see so-called spokes-
men for the Democracy ignoring this
great question and trying to put the
party into an attitude of opposition to
/ expansion. Why, the Democracy is
the greatest expansionist party of
America That party brought into the
republic all the territory we ever ac-
quired down to the Spanish war. with
the single exception of Alaska. EX
pansion is old-time Democratic doc
trine. 1t was the Democratic party
that brought on the Spanish war
We literally kicked the Mckinley ad-
ministration into fighting Spain. How
absurd then the moment the war is
over and territory acquired as a result
of it, for the Democracy to turn about
and say we shall not meet the obliga-
tions thus contracted? To say that
we shall not keep what the war
brought usl To say that we are not
competent to administer the property
ubnea title has Thus come n ms