The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-12-19

general application. The whole
nation gets the benefit it. If you
will examine reciprocity in detail
you will find that, in nearly every
case, the national revenue Is sacri-
feed for the benefit Of individuals.
Hawaii alone cost US one hundred
and one millions of unrequited dol
lars. Perhaps it may be consola-
ton to know that our own citizens,
temporarily expatriated, were there
by greatly enriched. This example
has led our citizens in Cuba to hope
for like results, and they, too, are
eager for RENTED duties. But the
scheme has been exposed, and Re-
publicans must be blind indeed if
they surrender any jot or title OF
Protection of the beet industry in
order to bestow largess upon citizens
who expatriate themselves, while we
refuse it to farmers who will till our
own soil. The low price of sugar
in Cuba is the same low price which
pervades all the West Indies, and is
caused by the substitution of the
beet, a better sugar producer than
the cane. In word, a great output
of sugar lowers the price. Suppose
a great grain crop sent prices down.
Would we make it up to ourfarmers
out of our Treasury? Of course not.
If we cannot do this thing to our
farmers who stay at home, why
should we do so to those who 60
abroad to develop other lands3
When we recall the way in which
Congress was made to believe that
there was great popular uprising
in behalf of Cuba, and contrast it
with the disclosures since made, we
are amazed. Cuba had promises.
By whom they were made, what
they were, and when, nobody could
ever tell. Mayors of towns just
ready to starve sent US messages,
and ruin or immediate action were
the only alternatives. The whole
year has gone and no ruin has come.
This was simply flank attack on
Protection, and many men were be-
guiled who had been its sta nch
champions. For the Republicans
to desert the beet sugar interest is to
desert the farmer In the one con-
Spicuous and clear case where his |
industry is fostered. Under the
Tariff as it now is all the sugar need
ed for this country can be made by |
the people of this country. This is
in accord with our system. 1t is a
part of our system, and should not
be abandoned until the rest of it is
Abandoned. When we throw our
markets open to the world in all
things, then it will be time to do it
for sugar.
Let us put this into few words
of practical character. !
We have Tariff carefully drawn,
which has served us well. That
Tariff is only five years old. 1t has
brought us away up on the hillside
of success. 1t has no. connection
with great corporations, except what
it has with small corporations and
individuals. No attack by repeal
ing the Dingley act can hurt one
without hurting all. ANY disturb
ance of that kind would disturb
trade in ways with which we are all
too familiar.
A Tariff bill at any time is not
and cannot be the creature of one
mind. 1t means the result of con-
test by all interests and all minds.
Hence, whenever any man thinks of
a Tariff he would make, he always |
thinks of Tariff bill which will
never be enacted.
There was once President of the
United States, of great power and
influence. For four years he had
no Congress behind him, and he
dreamed of such Tariff reform law
as would suit him. By and by, he |