The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-04-03
REPUBLICAN sCKlsM.
Tariff Reform emanded-Trust
Busting Wanted.
TEE PEOPLE ARE OUT OF PATIENCE

TIE PEOPLE ARE OUT OF PATIENCE
Vicious Parliamentary System Must
Be ChanEed-Trusts Control Com
gress, and the President Is Help
less In the Hands of the Repub-
lican ~OIiEarchy.
1t has long been apparent that the
Republican party is threatened with a
serious schism on the tariff question.
The high protectionists Of the Protec-
tive Tariff league and the Home Mar
ket club are determined to resist any
change in the Dingley tariff rates.
Even reciprocity to them is a delusion
and a snare to entrap the unwary Re
publican who votes for it. as it results
in a reduction Of protection to some in
dustries they now enjoy.
The other and minor faction of the
Republican party Is 30 convinced of
fatal political results, if some conces
sions to the trust ridden public are not
allowed, that it is willing to see a slight
reduction of duties to appease the peo-
pie. There is also quite an element of
the Republican party in many Of the
states, headed by manufacturers, which
demands free raw materials, which
finds 1t cannot compete VIII England,
Germany and France in the markets
of the world unless these concessions
are granted it. These manufacturers,
Joined with a large number of export
ers and dealers, are organized, and a
branch of their organization has head
quarters in Chicago and embraces the
most prominent men of Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth and has
also included in it's membership many
others from all parts Of the northwest
ern states. This organization has late
ly had in Washington it's attorney
Hon. Eugene Hay of Minneapolis, and
he voices it's sentiments and demands
in an interview in which he said:
''The people of the west are out Of
all patience with congress. They be-
neve In the president. He has their
confidence as no president has had
since Lincoln. 1t was this belief in
him that saved to the Republicans the
congressional elections last fall, but it
is extremely doubtful If his influence
alone will save us in 1904. The peo-
pie reason that if as fearless, honest
and aggressive a president as Presi-
dent Roosevelt can do nothing to bring
a Republican congress to an under
standing Of its duty, then no Republic
an president could. When they reach
this frame Of mind, it requires no po-
litical see to foretell the result. They
demand legislation to regulate the
trusts, and they demand intelligent tar
If legislation. = In the northwest
the people are not dissatisfied with
their own representatives in the house
and senate. In the main they are well
satisfied with them, but they appreci-
ate that both they and the president
are powerless to influence legislation
under the vicious parliamentary sys-.
tenn that has grown up. This system
renders it possible for a few represent
atiyes, not of the people, but of special
interests, to prevent needed legislation.
The representative or senator who
could successfully lead a movement for
parliamentary reform would receive
the benedictions Of the American peo-
pie"
Mr. Hay and his organization evil
IDENTIFY do not appreciate the fact that
the oligarchy that has since 1897 con
trolled congress will again be in COM
mand whenNthe F~ifty-eighth congress
is organized, the only important
change being that Mr.. Cannon will be
speaker instead OF MI. Henderson.
The chairmen Of about all the impor-
tant committees, who have SO much in
fuence In reporting legislation, will
again be appointed, and the ultra pro-
lection gang will still be on top. Mr..
Hay and those whom he represents
will also have to disabuse their minds
Of the fallacy that President Roosevelt
desires tariff reform, for he stated In
his speech at Cincinnati last fall that
the tariff did not affect the trusts and
that protection must be preserved. If
President Roosevelt fayors tariff re-
form, he has never recommended 1t to-
the present congress, nor will he to-
the next. He wants the Cuban reci-
procity treaty ratified and may favor
the fisheries treaty, though that is
doubtful. for Senator Lodge, his chief
political adviser, is opposed to it. Pres
ident Roosevelt has the reputation
among those who do not know him OF