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rvc1prucrry ana assam lne protective prln-
tablished In debate that Mr.. Burton as
serts. There are not fifteen Republican
senator's out Of the flfty-four who are in
favor Of the present bill at heart" The
longer the bill was discussed in the sen
ate the weaker 1t became. and the chief
reason Is the assault on protection coiled
UP in the measure. That bill breaks down
all former limitations Of what is called
reciprocity. Reciprocity as advocated
originally by Mr.. Blaine as Senator Bur-
ton points out, was the admission into
the American market, without duty, of
the articles which we do not or cannot
produce on condition that the countries
with which the arrangement Is made
should grant an equivalent reduction for
our products. From this attitude on a
reciprocity, strictly guarded as to our
own productions, the Republican party
has never varied. The last Republican ma
tional platform refers only to a reciproc-
ity $50 directed as to open our markets
on favorable terms for what we do not
ourselves produce in return for free for
eign markets."
The same limitation, most lucidly ex-
pressed, appears in President McKinley's
last speech. that made at Buffalo the day
before he was struck down at the post OF
duty. RECIPROCITY" said President Nc
Kinley in his address OF Sept. s last, zig
the natural outgrowth Of our wonderful
industrial development under the domes-
tic policy now firmly established" The
policy referred to Is. Of course. protcc-
ton. President Mckinley said in the
same speech: "By sensible trade arrange
ments which will not interrupt home pro-
duction we shall extend the outlets for
our increasing surplus We should take
from our customers such of their products
as we can use without harm to our own
~ Nk.1 ia
which Blaine, Mckinley and the Repub-
Hcan national platform favored is ex-
plicitly intrenched in behalf of protec-
ton. 1t was not intended to apply to any
product Of our own. But what is found
in the Cuban concession bill? 1t is re-
moval Of all duties on Cuban imports re-
gardless Of whether we produce the same
articles or not. About twenty articles
were to be admitted at a reduction, some
of which we produce ourselves To call
this wholesale reduction anything resem-
bling what the Republican party or lead
ers have hitherto favored under the name
of reciprocity is ridiculous.
Free traders saw the vital distinction
and eagerly jumped forward to get in
their entering wedge. All sincere Repub-
licans did not see 1t, but enough were
sufficiently cautious to save the party
from making breach in 1.-THE firmly es-
tablfshed policy"
bill is that 1t proposed 30 called reci-
procity wholly unknown to the Repub
iican party, to Mr.. Blaine or Mr.. McKin-
ley. A Republican congress discovered
the falsities in the case and, greatly to
its credit, halted them outside of the in
A Dagger In the Back.
Tint editorial does not contain the
name Of Theodore Roosevelt, but eY-
cry word Of 1t is intended as dagger
not for his breast, but for his back.
He can write 1t on the tablets Of his
memory that the Globe-Democrat is
dead against him and will deprive him
of the Missouri delegation in the next
Republican national convention IL it
can: but it can't. Roosevelt may lose
the delegation, but not through the in
fuence of the CD, for it has none in
selecting delegates. Hon. Richard G..
Kerens will attend to that job. If the
president will take the pains to read
the foregoing editorial from the CD.
carefully, he will be very much sur
prised to learn that he is to be fought
on the grounds that he is not sound on
the tariff and that he is free trader.
The war is on. The CD. has evident
ly enlisted under the Hanna banner,
and Colonel Roosevelt must look to the
condition Of his guns and ammunition.
II he does not sleep with at least one
eye open, he will be stabbed to death
in the house Of his friends.
am aware that the CID. editorial
is very long quotation to make in
these letters, but the space is well used
If my readers learn from it the lesson
which 1t teaches-that the Republicans
are hopelessly divided into bitter fac
tions, which will grow more bitter as
the days go by. Democrats have ev-
cry reason to be hopeful us to the re-
suits of the campaign now on. To
your tents, o Israel! b.
There can be no question about the
CD. having it in for the president.
1t virtually charges him with being a
free trader In the following remarks
about the Cuban reciprocity bill:
Therefore 1t is impossible to see how
the new republic can be ruined by the
defeat of the proposed double reduction.
It would be much nearer the truth to say
that the failure OF the bill would be a
source of loss to certain sharp specu-
}ators and a deep disappointment to free
traders who are anxious to break down
the protective principle al, q new point
and in new way. b
Query: Does the CD. In that para
graph intend to charge President
Roosevelt and oil other ADVOCATES of
the Cuban reciprocity bill with being
sharp speculators?"
Item: The CD. returns to its charge
of being free trader in the following
paragraph:
All the free trade papers continue to In
sist that Cuba will be ruined unless the
protection of American Industries is bro
ken down, but the people of the United
States are not easily fooled by free trade
CANNON.
Now, If a paper is a free trade pa
per for advocating Cuban reciprocity,
IRE not the president and other Repub-
lican statesmen also free traders for
advocating the same thing?
But the most unkindest cut of all, to
borrow phrase from Shakespeare,
that the GID. has administered to the
president is the following:
General ]. n. Smith. who was sent to
quiet the island of Samar, in which the
natives were massacring our soldiers to
= shocking extent and who accomplished
his misstoA with the highest degree of ef-
fectiveness. has been retired by the presi-
dent for alleged loose and violent talk"
In the presence of subordinate officers.
General Smith Is near the retiring age
and has little to lose in that respect, but
he is still a vigorous and capable man.