Bisbee daily review., 1903-04-18
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECHES.


 THE PRESIDENTS SPEECHES.
 The speeches of the President on his trip and those of some of his cabi- net members are attracting some at tention in political circles. They are distinctly andtariff revision. They tell us that nothing can be expected Of the republican party in the way of tariff revision legislation in the next congress, and 1t is notice to the people of the country that if they want any such thing or any relief from the bur dens of tariff taxation or relief from the burdens of trust rapacity. they will have 10 elect democratic con gress and a democratic administra- ton. The kind of talk indulged in by the President and his cabinet minis ters is a distinct violation of all the pledges made to the people by the re- publican party. If that party can at ford to stand pat on it sviolated pledges, then it is up to the people. The President not only tells us that his party is not going to do anything it promised but one can drive an ox team through his logic and his con sistency. In his speech on trusts at Milwaukee, the President said: Not only Is the legislation recently enact Cd effective. but in my judgment it was impracticable to attempt more. How does he know 1t is effective until it has been tried? Again, we all re member that he was demanding much more on his stumping last fall, and when his attorney general was sug sesting to Representative LittIefeld what the President wanted done. Lit tlefed prepared the antitrust bill ent got it through the house, but it wal pigeon-holde in the senate by order Of the trusts and with the consent O the President In his Milwaukee speech the President spoke sarcastical 1y of alleged remedies that seek tt destroy the disease by killing the pa tent" He then added: Others ar so obviously futile that it is somewha difficult to treat them seriously or a being advanced in good faith. Higl among the latter place the effort | reach the trust question by means o the tariff. You can, of course, pu an end to the prosperity of the trust by putting an end to the prosperity 0 the nation; but the price for such ac tion seems high" The prosperity 0 the nation has nothing to GO with tn prosperity of the trusts. The trnst have emerged from every paoic an business depression absolutely UT scathed and fourishing as before. sin ply because the tariff was still ther and still doing business at the oil stand The President apparently ha changed his mind about being able [ do the taxpayers of the country som good by lowering the tariff since D resigned from the Free Trade Club i New Yorw, shortly after he WAS el9c' ed to the Assembly there ia 1884 0 an independent, fusion and anti-Piai ticket. He was then speaking strel uousiy for free trade and resigned onl because he thought and said jn le ter to Poultney Bigelow, that , thought his membership would stan in the way of political promotion. other words, principles count fer not ing when the office is in sight.
 Again the President said !n his Mi waukee speech: We should be fal; to the historic principles of our go ernment if we discriminated. eith' by legislation or administration eith' for or against a man because of eitn his wealth or his poverty" No tbat sounds good. and it woula te { right if it were backed up by deeds
 for. as he told us last summer, "wor
 are only good when backed up deeds" But the President belongs
 party that has enacted tariff iegls
 ton which does not discriminate m vor of a few and against. the man and which protects monopolies a trusts while they prey upon the peep and which permits them to sell goo to foreigners at 90 to 109 Ter cent ie than is charged here What. ta' becomes of the Presidents n
 phrases. What do these same trus care for his publicity" so long as
 does not touch the tariff, which p'
 tects them in their game of ro3oer
 What do they care for his toy '
 reau~ and its sham restraints. if ID
 can keep their tariff privileges?