The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-03

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now the one tariff law that applies alike
to every state must be made up on COM
promise and concession and compensation.
Rules for Revision.
The question is whether there are real
| ~ existing evils to be cured as great as
the evils to be endured from the long and
difficult process Of revision In determin-
ing when and how that process shall be
undertaken two cardinal rules should be
| observed First, it should be done only
when congress is as free as possible from
the distractions and temptations OF an
active political campaign. When congress
settles down to attend to business it is
| q wise, competent and effective body.
When it Is playing politics, it contributes
more Of brilliancy to the impending cam
paign than it does of substantial value to
| the statute book.
| 'The second rule to be followed is ex-
pressed by the oft-repeated saying that
the tariff should be revised by it's friends.
| Whatever principle the people of a coun-.
| try wish to have embodied in a tariff
| law, the men who believe in the principle
should frame the law. If the American
people are ready to abandon the prin-
| clple OF protection and face the crash and
downfall OF our present prosperity, which
| would Immediately result, then they
| oAAooAu 1ioHo CIlc IoNlSlOu ON0I W LIlS
democratic party, and that is the mean
ing of the men who are crying revise
the tariff in order to destroy the trusts
what they really mean is, abandon the
principle of protection in order to de-
| stroy the trusts, and make all the Ameri
can producers take their stand on an
equal footing with foreign competition"
| Canadian Prosperity.
| Senator Lodge said in part ut is very
avid hat
failure of all their other issues propose
| to fight the next national campaign upon
the tariff and its allied questions. Under
the soft. and deceptive name of tariff re-
form or tariff revision they propose to
renew their old attack upon the protective
policy. Signs of their purpose abound on
all sides, not the least significant being
the pleasing recrudescence of Mr.. Cleve-
land.
"A phase of the tariff question is Cana
dian reciprocity. A statement of facts
will show that the republican party and
republican presidents alone have done all
that has been done to bring about Cana
dian reciprocity and that the failure of
the negotiations since 1888 has in every
instance been due to the attitude of
Canada. p
Il hope that the commission which is
to meet again to consider our differences
with Canada will be able to make reci
pAoCIIS duSSIueUL ufH0HCldl TO DOtn
countries, but I do not propose to mis-
lead anybody by painting bright visions Of
the prosperity which is to pour in upon
us under such treaty.
Il was told this winter by leading
member of the Canadian parliament that
| canada would never make a reduction
on manufactured products, for she de-
sired to continue her preference to Eng
| land; that all Canada wanted was reci-
procity In natural products.
i In the Hay-Bond treaty the price
which we pay to Newfoundland for the
concessions which she lis supposed to
make to us is at the expense of a single
industry. If we should get the entire
value Of all the Newfoundland imports
it would not much more than cover the
value of the fisheries of Gloucester
(Mass.) alone, and the value Of the prod
uct of the fishermen Of the United States
! is $46,000,000. We want to think care
fully before we endanger an industry
whose annual product is $46 00O, 900 in
seeking a market where we now sell only
, $2,OOO.00O and to which this treaty. opens
no additional door, e MI - -
r The Philippine Issue.
y "a fortnight since certain democrats OF
, this neighborhood held a continuous per-
Torrance one day at Fanueil hall in re-
gard to the Philippines Islands. - They
j have been hitherto in the habit Of Sc
I lecting the secretary of war for their tar
= get. On this occasion, for local rea sons
r no doubt, they substituted me for the
r secretary. I feel greatly honored thereby
s for Mr.. Root is the greatest secretary
j., of war this country. has had, with the
y single exception of Stanton. -
Z "Our anti-imperialist. anti-republican
- democratic friends then attacked me az
e they have attacked him for suppression
ofSevidence in regard to the Philippines
1T is needless, because it is futile, t,
put the facts before the persons who cul
r tivate this particular topic for politica
+ purposes. The facts go before them, ans
the next day they tell the same old false
o hoods The charge is that have sup
', pressed evidence and baked inquiry int
= = affairs in the Philippine islands.
y MY answer is a brief history of wha
: has been done by the republican party il
= the senate and by the war department.
: Eve republicans deeply deplore the fac
: that any cruelties were ever committee
9 by any American officer or any American
D. soldier upon any one in the Philippin
e islands We believe that any officer O
II man guilty Of such conduct should b
tried by court-ma rtial, and we believ
u that that has been done. But we ais
e believe that some consideration should b
e given to the circumstances under whic
n these unhappy cruelties occurred. w
= remember their provocations. We deplor
Is and censure any cruelties they may hav
% commltted,. out de do not forget, as tn
:: other side forgets, the cruelties that GU
t, men endured
1T "They get together and cry out agains
It the cruelties inflicted upon the Filipino:
t. but they have no word for Privat
IS O'Hearn. roasted all day over a slow fir
IS and hacked to death with bolos no wor
1t of reprobation for the murders of tn
lie wounded American sailor buried alive
ID the sands of Luzon; no thought of tn
l. men who assassinated little Noa, the mid
ic sh1pman, when he asked them for waite
m Why, when they are telling Of events
n the Philippines. did they pass by in 81
lence the surprise and massacre at BaI
At angiga? ...4 - -
w THE republican party has passed
,e both sessions of this congress wise, ia,
IS reaching legislation for the benefit of III
70 philippine islands. They will pass mo,
N in the year to come, but there is one thin
RI that the. republican party will not dc
~ they will not further seek to hound dow
= officers and men of the army p. of tt
: United States for events which happene
= two years ago, and which have bee
tried before the courts and before tt
country