The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-15
TO FIX Up A TARIFF
How the Republicans Will Get To
gether. =.
THE NECESSARY COMPROMISE
The Work Must Be Done Before the
Presidential Campaign
- Year.

From The journal Bureas1. Room zs, s1'ess
Building, Wdshinatoss~ :.
Special to The Journal.
Washington, July 15.-The democratic
managers in Washington are jubilant
over the discovery that among republt-
cans in the midle west the demand for
tariff revision is very great, and 1t is
probably their purpose to make their
tariff revision arguments with much en-
phasis in that territory. The eastern re-
publicans are also discovering something
of the strength of western republican
sentiment against the present illogical
schedules of the Dingley law, and it is
believed that they will soon be- prepared
to assent to a moderate revision. The
highly protected east will loosen its grip
very reluctantly. The shaking loose has
begun in the form of platforms adopted
by western republican state conventions.
| Enough of these have already spoken to
commit that section irrevocably to i'm
portant changes. In the congressional
| campaign, which is now at hand, the
need for revision will be still further
dwelt upon. So imminent does tariff re-
vision seem, that the Philadelphia Press,
one of the, stalwart organs OF the: ultra
protectionists, is led to remark editor
| tally that "some changes might be made
| in the tariff law with more or less &ad-
vantage" but it insists in the same
breath that they shall be, made by the.
! friends of protection, and not by the DEM
ocrats. This is the -basi on which the
! two tariff sections of;the party Will final
ly get together. Believing alike in the
principle Of protection, but differing as
to the force with which it shall be ap-
piled. they will reach some compromise
agreement, and thus keep the democrats
| from sharing in the credit of revision.
The east will give UP something more
than it now thinks will be fair, the west
| will come short Of getting everything
which it now thinks it should have; but
there will be revision, and the offensive
schedules will be toned down, and the
people reasonably satisfied, without
throwing the country into panic What
ever is done must be done before the
presidential campaign year. >.
| 50 "Defenders Of the Flag =.
! The soldiers of Minnesota and the
| northwest will be int crested in hearing
about the, plan recently put under way
| in this city to organize what is to be
known society Of Defenders of the
| Flag" Washington has been chosen as
the point for starting the new organiza-
tion because Of the" large number of old
soldiers who will be here during the ma
tional encampment in October. Private
Dalzell is heartily in favor of the new,
/ organization, and is lending it his hearty
support, which to many old soldiers will
i
1 ter and scope of the movement. It will
be wholly for the purpose of exerting an
| influence in politics and securing as large
a. share as possible for it's members of the
spoils of office: A strong point in the
constitution of the proposed new order Is
the declaration that it shall present a.
solid front for or against candidates for
office. No division will be permitted.
While it is said there is no feeling on
the part of the organizers against the
G. A. R., the U. V. U. or the Loyal Le-
gion, it is at the same time we'll known
that the fact that. these orders have
numbers of their members in lucrative
positions under the government has had
much to do. with this new. movement. Any
bonorably discharged soldier Of the United
Stat es is eligible to membership.
Martin Is Hard to Please. %a
The national antitrust league, other
wise H. B. Martin, formerly Of Mime
apolis, a. we'll known labor agitator, has
written a letter to the president, de-
manding the retirement of Attorney Gen
/ eral Knox, because Of his failure to Gin,
\ s,titute civil and criminal proceedings un-
7 der the antitrust laws of the United
States against certain trusts and their
organizers In view of the facts, Mr.
Martin and his friends are pretty hard to
4 please.
"An OId-Time Republican Year,
Senator Foraker, in .Washingt on for a
few days. expresses himself as follows
!. Regarding the campaign outlook: Two
or three months ago there was possibil-
ity that the democrats would control
the fifty-eighth congress. / am now con-
vinced that there Is no likelihood Of such
a result The public has undergone a
radical change Of heart within the past
j few weeks, and there is now q better
feeling among republicans everywhere.
The turning of the tide in the Philippine
i question was one thing which caused the.
! change The presidents wise action re-
earding the trusts has also had a good
i effect on the country. This will be an
4 old time republican year
4 W. w. Jermane.
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