The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-29

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seems to be to disgrace the United States
IN the estimation Of the civilized nations
or the world by continual unceasing bat
tlecry of denunciation of our soldiers. our
army, our officers and our administration.
No more unpatriotic attitude was ever as
sumed by party than has been assumed
by the Democratic party through its ora
tors, its statesmen and its press. Every
circumstance, trivial or otherwise. that
could be dragged to light and exaggerated
by eloquence and bitterness. has been forced
upon the notice Of the world apparently
for the sole purpose of disparag ing our
army and furnishing the name of America.
The Philippines are ours. They are ours
by the conquest of Dewey and the army;
they are ours by the terms Of the treaty
with Spain; they are ours by every prin-
ciple of law, national and International;
and the American people viii never consent
10 the Introduction into political power of
a party that would play the old piraucal
game of scuttle' and run away from re-
sponsibility even as great as il is. In the
fear of God and in the name of American
civilization we will control and govern and
beneft those islands, and we will repeat in
the Philippines, on a larger scale, what
We have accomplished so brilliantly in the
Island of Porto Rico. The American flag
has never been pulled down from any ter
rltory that ii ever claimed jurisdiction OF;
IL never viii be pulled down while the Re
publican President is in the White House.
Let political dastards howl The American
people viii hold the honor of our flag and
our army and navy sacred and inviolate."
TARIFF REVISION.
Discussing the tariff, General Grosvenor
said: THE Republican party does not wor-
ship the schedules of the tariff like a fetch
that is above consideration and criticism.
and which must not be interferred with un-
der any conditions whatever. The conditions
of trade and production necessarily change,
and tariff schedule which to-day is
nd re for no he
inadequate at future time, and an item
in schedule that was proper at the time
of its enactment may become oppressive
or at least unnecessary as evolution goes
forward. If there is to be tariff revision
In the future, it would seem that the les
sons OF history ought to induce the people
OF the country to see to it that the friends
or protection, not its enemies, should
handle the machinery of revision. The vital
question for the Republicans at this par
ucular time is the question of when and
how and by whom any revision of the tariff
winch is deemed important shall be made.
What is there in the portents of the times
that indicates a necessity for any revision
OF the tariff schedules of the Dingley act?
We have unbounded prosperity Is that the
shall unsettle values and disturb the
peace OF business and precipitate into COM
mouon the business interests of the United
States? That is the important question, and
a question which I'm my opinion can only
be answered in this way. Until injurious re-
suits to business and prosperity are known
TO have been produced by the existence of
tariff schedules, the time has not come to
enter upon revision of that document
Needless agitation, uncalled for interfer-
ence would check the onward progress of
prosperity and bring about such cessation
OF business development as would Justify
our opponents in declaring that prosperity
under the Dingley law was temporary and
passing away. Ii will be time enough to
discuss the necessity for revision when
there is pointed specifically some place
where injurious results are flowing from
existing legislation. Hasty and inconsider-
ate unkerlng with tariff schedules may
bring about more disaster than could be
relieved by the highest accuracy of re-
vision.
Incidental to this subject is the question
of wider market. We cannot go on forever
adding to the volume of our production and
yet fail to gain new and wider markets
The problem OF the day is the question of
new markets for American production If
the Republicans of the country follow i'm
the footsteps of Mckinley and adjust their
legislation TO his suggestions they will not
go Tar wrong.
Reciprocity must not be used to destroy
home industries. Reciprocity must not be
used to lessen the wages of the American
laborerS or to curtail the scope Of their en-
ployment. But reciprocity may be used to
open the markets of other countries to the
productions Oh our country and thereby
ana In that way make it posi-
labor to the American workman. And espe-
cially is 1t vitality important that our great
manufacturing industries and our great
possibilities OF agricultural production
shall, through the medium of lust reciproc-
ity. open the door of foreign trade to the
American producer. Keeping constantly in
mind the fundamental principles of protec-
ton itself, reciprocity, the handmade of
protection, can be made of the highest
value to the American people
TRUSTS AND COMBINATIONS.
"Our Democratic friends are keenly alive
to subject which is one of the most inter-
esting of all the phenomena of the day, the
rapid and enormous development of COM
binations of capital and labor which are
usually denominated trusts. No Democrat
in power or out of power, so far as l know,
in any national way has interfered with
the operation of trusts
To-day there is every appearance of a
conflict to death between the government
of the United States upon the one hand and
certain recognized injurious trusts on the
other hand, and the Republican admins
tration, through the courts of the country
and by the fundamentally of the law, has
invoked, by the attorney general of the
United States, is proceeding to deyine the
trust as it exists and to drive It out of it's
business of monopoly. The writ of in1unc-
ton is being issued to restrain the greed
OF combinations and effective measures are
being taken to dissolve certain of these in
furious combinations.
1.-The injurious and dangerous combina-
ton, that which will not be tolerated in the
United States, is the combination that first
reduces the number of laborers curtails
their wages and enhances the price of the
article TO be consumed When this takes
place, organizations engaged in that bust
ness will be wiped off the face of the
earth either by law or by the more sure
and certain process Of competition
1.-THE foundation of the war against
trusts was laid by the act Of a Republican
Congress known as the Sherman antitrust
law. That law was on the statute books
during the entire administration of Grover
Cleveland without a single effort on the
part Of Mr.. Cleveland or his administra-
ton to enforce 1T, and. not only so, but
stood there mathematical as valueless by
his distinguished attorney general Yet un-
der its operation a number of great COM
binations have been dissolved and driven
out of business. Thus it will be seen that
the Democratic howl about trusts is as
barren of truth any Of the other battle
cries which they have sent up.
what is there TO commend the Demo-
cratic party to the confidence OF the people
Of the country? What is there to Justify
our people in again trusting that organiza-
tion with power? At what point along its
devious pathway has it done any act or
foreborne doing any act that would Justify
public confidence? Its history for the past
forty years has been a history of a series
of unmitigated political plumbers.
They stand in the House Of Representatives
to-day, as they have stood in the Senate
for the last six weeks. without any sugges-
ton of policy, without any proposition
looking to the settlement Of these uues-
tions growing out of the Spanish war; but
simply occupying hours. days. weeks and
months in abuse of the Republican admin
istration. advertising TO all the world their
false Indictment of the corruption and
wickedness and cruelty and barbarity of