The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-09-24
The Usual Republican Hot Air.
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diately after congress adjourned the
administration announces that
brand new law would be formed and
presented at the next session which
takes place after the fall elections.
Of course it will be an automatic self
enforcing law. otherwise the one al
ready on the statute books would
answer. President Mckinley had
strong ideas in favor of tariff revision
and Henry Waterson says they were
nicely carried OUT by the last con-
gress. Il. -. -. .on shutter.
The Hartford Courant (Repub.ican)
says: at is "a perfectly fair game
for the opposition to show up trusts
that, entrenched behind protective
laws, sell their goods abroad at lower
figures than they sell them at home
1t is robbery The protection given to
such trusts should be taken off at
once" Some republican papers have
promised the people relief on the
trust question or the tariff question,
by their party. These are empty
promises Sec'y Shaw, of the Cabi-
net said a few weeks ago that any
attempt to revise the tariff would
result in the destroying of our pros
perity by those directly affected.
That is republican prosperity; it de.
ponds upon the good will of a few
Captain of Industry and any legis-
lation that offends them may result
in their changing our business con-
dition to a panic.
Uncle Tom in searching for a sam
pie trust did not find in line of
vision the steel trust, coal trust, to.
bacco trust, railroad trust sugar, oil
or meat trust. but with remark
able case of farsightedness he dis
covered the Tammany Ice trust
"levying tribute upon fevered lips in
the tenement houses" Shame. upon
the republican state, republican gov
ernor and republican legislature that
would allow such trust to exist UNI
der their administration.
He also discovered the Round Cot
ton Bale trust. This is the American
Cotton Company; some of the com
| mon stock of which Is owned by Sen
ator ]. X. Jones of Arkansas. This
| company cannot be properly called
a trust because it operates under a
patent which can be granted for a
limited period only, and the Demo
cratic party makes no war on pat
ents or the patent system. This com
! pany does not handle ten per cent.
of the cotton compressed in the Unit
ed States. This is the same Senator
Jones who tried TO call up the house
antitrust bill which the republican
senate refused to consider.
Mr.. Fitch further says: Il shall
not attempt to discuss the fine spun
constitutional distractions put for
ward by Democrats in support of
their new doctrine of anti-imperial-
ISM" All right Colonel, Suppose
you discuss the most eloquent and
forcible anti-impcrialistic speech of
Republican Senator Hoar delivered in
congress a few weeks ago. Not a
man in the Senate dared TO attempt
to answer it; but you, in few words,
have proven CD that the Senator was
mistaken, that we have a moral and
just right to be in the Philippines by
force, loaded down with Standard oil,
Armour's hams and a Mauser rife,
with which to explain the fine quail
ties Of American made goods; and
with each and every purchase We
throw in three yards of civilization,
one gallon of Christian Cd enlighten.
ment and all the water cure" we caf,
pump into them.
Attention was called to Mr. Bryan's
ratifying the Treaty of Paris; he did
so and stated the following reason:
that he trusted the American peopla
more, to give independence to the
Filipinos than to leave 1t to diploma
cy with an unfriendly nation.
AS to Mr.. Fitch's local remarks, we
believe your readers know far better
than he the conditions here and are
intelligent enough to know what
local action to take. There have
been mistakes made here and they
will be made again, but under a form
of government where the people rule
these can always be corrected by the
common people, who rule supreme