The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-26

! lican campaign-and his utterances
are not to be mistaken. In his ref
erence to the demand of certain ex..
i democrats and western tariff revis.
ion howlers, az a remedy for the
trust evil, he says:
The trusts can be damaged by
depriving them of the benefits of
the protective tariff only by dam
jaging their smaller competitors,
and at the same time damaging all
the wage workers employed in the
industries affected. Reducing the
tariff would have little effect on the
trusts, save as they might share in
the general harm or good proceed
ing from such changes. Change in
the tariff would not help one of the
smaller corporations or private in
dividuals at the expense of the
trusts.
"The so-called tariff remedy for
trusts would cause years of damage
and distress. All would suffer, in
GLIDING the trusts. Their foreign
competitors would profit by it, but
the relative position of their small
err American competitors would not
be improved. Little would be done
toward cutting out or minimizing
the evils complained of against
them; nothing would be done
toward controlling or regulating
them"
Senator Fairbanks, of Ind lana
in his opening campaign address,
based his argument on the same
general principle as that followed
by the president in his Cincinnati
speech and by Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw in his recent address
at Chicago, in which he took up
President McKinley's famous last
speech and undertook to show that
reciprocity, not tariff revision, was
in the presidents mind. He declar-
ed that the Buffalo speech was the
beginning of a campaign by Presi-
dent Mckinley to force the ratifica-
ton of the reciprocity treaties in
the senate, and defes anyone to pro-
duce from the presidents famous
last speech three consecutive SEN
fences which suggest tariff revision.
In strange contrast to these ideas
and sound Republican principles,
under which the nation has and
still continues to prosper, is the
tariff tinkering plank in J. Adam
Bede's platform as published above
his own signature in the Duluth
Herald of June 18th and reproduced
in The Enterprise of August LIST
last, as follows:
1.-THE tariff of forty cents ton on
iron ore does not benefit the Mime
sofa miner, and it's removal would
rob the opposition of much of it's
thunder. In the proposed revision
of the tariff as suggested by Presi-
dent Mckinley. I have little doubt
| lll1S WOu1U De removed.
WILL MAKE an ACTIVE CAMPAIGN.
Marcus L. Fay, Democratic nomi-
nee for congress, prepares for a live
campaign and intends visiting ev-
cry portion of the district between
this time and the November elec-
ton. In his nomination the party
certainly selected an able, consci-
entious and energetic man, one who
will not permit the odds against
his election to interfere with his
plans of action or lessen his ardor
in the coming fight.
A self-made man, who through
indomitable perseverance has risen
from the ranks of common labor to
an afduent position, Mr.. Fay has
formed and retained friendships in
every station of life, fact which
will win for him many firm sup
porters. Another and greater point
which favors his candidacy ia the
fact that his interests in the lumber
and iron districts make his person
al interests and property safety
identical with the interests of the
people of the district, and while
holding to the name of Democracy
insures all that his public career
would be tempered with sound
Judgment and based upon ideas for
the common welfare of the people
of his district.
AT the present time Mr.. Fay is in
terested in no less than six proven
ore deposits, two of which, the Win
fired and Laura in the Hibbing dis
trict, are shipping mines, and has
numerous other exploratory inter
ests on the ::Mesaba and Vermilion
ranges. And as an employer of la
Dor he is known among his men as
a man who is right in every respect
and worthy the unqualified support
of everv 1ahOrin oman IF the entire