The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-17

ment pending in the Federal courts
against the managers of these tarff-pro-
tected combinations, and only one civil
suit, and that was not instituted until
the fury of the people had grown almost
into riot. and it is being prosecuted no
mildly that the beef trust, against
which it is brought has not even so
much as halted in it's career OF loot end
plumber.
Not only Democrats, but Republicans,
among them the present chairman OF the
National Republican Congressional
Executive Committee, in response to the
demands of the people, have introduced
bills in the present Congress to take
the duty off of trust goods In the dis
ous5ion of these bills in the House
of Representatives, we have pointed
out the fact, now generally ad-
mtted, that these combinations, Sc
cured by the tariff from foreign Cvmpe-
tition, are selling their products to our
own people in the home markets FIR rom
twenty-five to forty per cent. more than
in foreign markets, thus proving not
only that they do not need the hiSr
tariff protection they now have under
serve no purpose except to enable them
to levy unjust tribute upon the People,
but that these combinations are charging
our own people from twenty-five to forty
per cent. more than a reasonable profit.
To all Of our appeals for action upon
these bills, the Republican leaders in
Congress have turned a deaf ear, and the
Republican steering committee has re-
fused to permit them to come 20 vote
In the fact of this record. can there
be any doubt that the Republican uarty
is actively protecting these combiHa-
tions? Protecting them both against
the enforcement of the antitrust Laws
and against the enactment of I.gi5'a-
ton which might give the people relief
and interfere with their illegal monopoly.
In the campaign of this year the thrift
and the trusts are inseparably connected.
The action of the trusts in selling their
goods abroad-in Europe, in Asia, and in
Africa-for one-third less than they are
selling them at home, is an object lesson
in tariff of great practical value, and
is at once an answer and a refutation of
the basic arguments upon which the doc
trne of protection rests. For long years
we have been told that the foreigner
paid the tariff taxes and not the homo
consumer. This object lesson has eX
ploded that old Republican war cry. For
years we have been told that tariff pro-
lection had nothing to do with trusts,
was in no way responsible for trusts,
and in proof of this we have been point
ed to the alleged fact that there are as
ms fr11c in oil in
protection America. This object lesson
has shown that if there are trusts in
free trade England, on account of the
absence of a protective tariff there the
Englishman gets his trust goods at
world competitive prices. Yea, gets the
trust-made goods of our tariff protected
trusts for one-third less than we get
them.
I will not detain you to discuss the
foreign policy of the government further
than to say | cannot believe it wise for
an agricultural country like the South to
encourage the development of tropical
countries. The lands of the tropics are
so very fertile and their labor so cheap,
if they are developed and brought under
cultivation that as their products enter
sarily be driven out. | think it is far
better, from every standpoint. for Us to
deal with the Philippines as we have
dealt with Cuba.
Gentlemen of the convention. when !
look upon this great gathering of repre-
sentative Democrats from every section
of the State, my heart swells with pride.
You are everyone of you, free men. Not
one of you wears the collar Of any man.
Not one of you represents a boss. Many
of you have instructions, but they are
the instructions of the sovereign people
you represent, and you honor yourselves
in representing them and in obeying
their will.
There will assemble here In this hall
in a few weeks another convention. It
will be a convention of Fedora! Office
holders, postmasters, revenue collectors,
deputy marshals, etc. They will carry
out to the last letter the arranged
program of the bosses, and they will
close the farce by declaring the Demo-
cratic party a boss controlled and ma
chine-ridden organization. They woUlI
not think their role of hypocrisy ccm-
plete without some such climax.
AS your chairman, | have led the
Democratic party in four hot
campaigns. In these campaigns l
have fought the battles of Democracy
with all my might. I have won the
reputation of being a partisan. l do not
deny the imputation, if imputation it be.
am partisan but / am partisan be-
cause l have believed and / still believe.
the welfare of North Carolina deDcn Is
upon Democratic ascendency, and be-
cause l have believed and / still believe,
that | can best serve my State and
country by serving best my party
Gentlemen of the convention, L have
the honor to Introduce to YOU as your
temporary presiding officer young
Democrat from the great Piedmont sec
ton of North Carolina, young Demo-
crat who, by his life and his work for
the State and the party has shown him
self entitled to this recognition / pre-
sent to you the Honorable y. NJ. Scales
of the county of GuilfOrd.
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