The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-02-21
REPUBLICAN
POSITION
OUTLINED
Attitude OF the Party on Meas
ures Which Are Now Be.
fore Congress.
Tariff Situation Griving Much
Trouble to the Lead.
erS.

Editor Journal: The Republican lead
alton. In fact. they are out of har-
mony. The lack of perfect concord was
first manifested by the failure of the
Senate to ratify the reciprocity trea-
ties negotiated by the late President
Mckinley, who was himself a high
priest in the temple Of protection. He
saw plainly, however, that we had got
beyond the industrial condition which
merely required that foreign goods
with American goods in the home mar
ket. On some lines we were producing
far beyond our consumptive capacity
and for the surplus we must find mar
kets abroad 1t was with this condi-
dition in view that he so earnestly ad-
vocated reciprocity. He strongly urged
upon his party the necessity of making
reasonable commercial concessions to
other countries in order that our own
vent Thus far, his party, while pro-
tossing to endorse his policy to the let
ter, has failed to take the first step to-
ward carrying out this feature of it.
TRUST T~CONTROLLED PRODUCTS.
Mr. Mckinley has not gone the length
Of proposing the removal of duties from
trust-eontrolled products. but nothing
can be more certain tnan that he would
very soon have reached that point. for
the two propositions are closely related.
Ne huge industrial combinations which
Ave been made during recent years.
besides depressing the consuming
public in this country, are a
grave menace to our foreign trade OPP
Grating at home behind the impossible
wall Of the tariff they sell their pro-
ducts here at prices which enable them
TO make heavy cuts In export prices,
and thus invade foreign markets un-
competitors at a serious disadvantage.
Mr.. Schwab, the head of the steel trust,
in his testimony before the Industrial
Commission. admitted that the export
prices of our leading manufacturers
were, upon an average, about 25 per
cent below the prices charged to deal
ers in the home market. This is the
condition of which foreigners so Bit
teTly complain. and upon which they
base their demand for commercial re-
prisals. Upon these questions lines
lines of cleavage are beginning to APP
pear in the Republican party, and
among It's representatives in Congress
the division is becoming clearer day by
day.
Some are in favor of modifying the
rigor of the tariff by reciprocity treat
es, and some are opposed to making
My concessions whatever; some take
Vhrther step in advance and urge the
Removal Of duties from articles the pro-
duction and prices of which are con-
trolled by trusts, while others are op-
posed to any such action. 1t need
scarcely be remarked that the extreme
tariff men are much the more numer-
Gus and determined.
REPEAL OF WAR TAXES.
The recent action of the Committee
on Ways and Means in reporting bill
for the repeal of the war taxes, may
be taken to indicate the prevailing
trend Of Republican Congressional
thought. The purpose of this move Is
to so reduce the revenues of the gov
eminent as to enable the high protec-
ZIONIST to argue plausibly that any low
ering of duties through reciprocity or
ant-trust measures win endanger the
condition cf the treasury s. They plead
now that the war taxes" should be
removed FIRST. OF cours=, tine whole
contention is Illogical and insincere.
The lowering, or even the total removal
Y duties from rust products will
scarcely reduce the revenue at all for
ehose products are not imported to
any extent worth considering.
RECIPROCITY.
AFTER the war taxes are all repealed
u'ere will still remain a surplus of rev.
ehue estimated at 900 annually.