Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-10-30

ministration afraid to legislate on this
and other matters? Being in league
with the trusts ard combines they
dare not legislate against them. They
fear the people.
IF the democrats show gains in the
elections this fall, it will indicate
that the voters are determined to turn
out the republicans, with their M.
merous scandals, and inaugurate the
reform that is go necessary for the
and special privileges to none'' is the
democratic slogan, and as the voters
are beginning to see that trust pros.
perity means the piling up Of millions
in the pockets of the favored few and
no fair share to the many, 1t is only
reasonable to expect the voters will
demand q change in political condi-
tione. That the republican leaders
are frightened to the point Of despera-
tion is plain enough or President
Roosevelt would not have authorized
the speaking members of his cabinet
to take the stump for Hanna in Ohio
and to bolster up the rotten lodge ma
chine in Massachusetts, and to aid the
disreputable crew in Kentucky that
call themselves the republican party
in that stare.
The disagreement between Russia
and Japan and the utter breakdown of
the much heralded "open door, in
Manchuria has alarmed the EXPORT
merchants of the United States, and
they have sounded note of warning
to President Roosevelt and the repub-
lican leaders that instead of aiding
the enlargement Of our business In
Asia they have virtually closed the
door that was at least partly open.
That Russia will ever Withdraw from
Manchuria is not within the realm of
probability she owns the railroads
and the banks there; the. Chinese
authorities are sabservient to the Rus
sian representatives In q word Man.
choria is Russianized. The boast of
the administration that the treaty just
concluded with China gives as two
open ports In that country Is there
fore worthless unless Russia owns
their doors for she has tho key to both
Of them. Even II these two ports are
open are they Of an, vAlue9ss Mookden,
one Of the two'pcrt-. is on a small riv-
or hundred miles from sea accessib BILE
by scow, and Nia Chwang at the
mouth Of the. stream ia occupied by
the Russians. The other is village
on the coast but there is no harool
and so shoal is the offing that no man
of-war could approach within twenty
miles. The merchant who tries to gel
any trade through these "open doors
will not bless John Hay and the re.
publican party.
The sugar trust, hav ing bought {
controlling interest in it's competitors
the Beet Sugar Trust, the fight 80 Ions
waged between the republican Factions
over Cuban reciprocity will probably
cease. The reduction in the duty OF
sugar for which Cuban reciprocity
provides, will give the combined trus
an enormous bonus, amounting tt
millions Of dollars on all the raw suga,
imported from Cuba. and, unde!
the ordinary laws of trade, the price
of refined sugar should decline at the
same ratio. But the trust ia so fully
protected by the duty of about one
and one-quarter cent pound on re-
fined sugar that the foreign article
can hardly be imported here to com.
pete with the trust. Freight, tariff
duty and other charges make the cost
Of importing foreign refined suga,
about eq1al to the trust price. If raw
and refined sugar had the same duty,
the trust would have to-. reduce ite
price accordingly and the consumers Of
the tinted States would buy their
sugar at retail for at least one cent 8
poundless than they pay now for 1t.
That is the reason the democrats In
the last Congress proposed and passed
through the- housesof Representatives
the amendment to the Cuban reciprocity
bill abolishing the extra tariff duty
on refined sugar, which ia technically
called the discriminating duty. Whet
the Cuban reciprocity measures comes
up at the coming session of congress
the democrats will offer the same
amendments. How many republican
will be found voting with them3 The
issue will be plain one-the trust o.
the people. -"