The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-19
The Way the Republicans Will Try
 to Fool the Country.

New York Evening Post.
 The new Democratic leader of the House displays signs of generalship which must occasion great uneasiness among Repub- licanS. To line his party up in favor of Cuban reciprocity was an act of con structive statesmanship. This is only the first step in a broad campaign for a Ie vision of the tariff. Hence. while the ad- ministration will be glad to receive Dem- ocratic support on this particular meas ure. it must accept 1t with the knoWI- edge that it is possibly paving the way for a good deal of trouble later. Repre- sentative Williams's announcement that we shall fight for revision of the tar fir gains force from the fact that Re publican leader, have lately been talking about the possibility or injecting more protection into the schedules after next November. The existing tariff obviously furnishes the Republican Party no issue for 1904 The party is in the position of a banker whose credit is questioned, and who sees the need of paying out cash regardless of everything but the need of the moment. MT Williams, dwelling on the growing disappointment of the coun- try over the Dingley law. says We must reduce our schedules. But the Republican Party can never consent to that doctrine. It's contention will be that the tariff must be lifted higher.
 Possibly Mir. Chamberlain's retaliatory scheme may furnish the "stand-patter5' in this country the opportunity they need. If he will only keep up his discussion until November they may ind an issue in him. It looks as If the prosperity" cry would be out of the question in 1904. On the score of industrial conditions the country may not take alarm at all over the prospect of a Democratic adminis- tration. When one stops and reflects, it is really quite dreadful to think what will be the position of the Republican Party in case the strenuous life should after all not turn out a winning issue. Just at the present time the tarin IS somewhat under a cloud. More than two years ago President Mckinley injected the poison of reciprocity rather liberally into the popular mind. Then, too, certain hearteSs political economists and news paper editors have insisted on holding the tariff responsible for the industrial trusts, with their efforts to advance artiitciaily the price of commodities and their water logged contradictions. Considering that a great many hundreds of millions of dui- lars have been lost in the stock market. and that wages are now being cut and mills shut up, under the latest Kepnp1- can tariff. that does not seem on us lace a very encour8 ging issue.
 But it is right at this point th9t " Chamberlain may prove SCdsend 10 the friends of protection. The tariH IS ca pahle Of becoming a magnificent issue II rightly handled. A man must be blind who does not see why capital Is now in mourning and labor in tears. What we needed was a great deal more tarln than we have had. But there is nothing harder than to make people see the obvious. Though We require much hlgher tarlll than the present, 1t would be risky to tell the voters that next year in plain terms. They might not see the point, and their base suspicious might lead them to raise the cry of plunder. But 1T we can an nounce in laundering tones that MT. Chamberlain Is preparing to ruin thiA