The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1903-01-07
MUTINY ON THE
PIRATE SHIP.

| w est TO TedllZe luSlI hllSldNS.
The Des Moines Register and
Leader, one of that sections lead
ing Republican journals, owned
and controlled by the present Di-
rector of the Mint, is outspoken
and insistent in its demand for q
rational tariff. Here is the way
it is talking:
"The tariff discussion in Iowa has
revealed something Of a division
among Republicans. and it may as
we'll be faced candidly, and the
differences measured at their real
importance 1t is useless to tell
each other to shut up or to misrep-
resent each others purpose, or to
advise each other to JON the Dem
ocratic party. The Republicans
who believe in progressive poll
cy upon the tariff certainly have
no intention Of either suppressing
their opinions or Of looking to the
Democratic party TO carry them
into effect. They intend to ex-
ercise the privilege, belonging to
every member of the party, of say
ingwhat they think the Republican
policy should be and what the doc
trine Of protection to American
industries properly includes. They
deem it not only privilege, but
duty, to do do their part toward
keeping the Republican party
right in line with the teachings Of
its great leaders in the past and
with the needs and demands Of the
country at this time.
Referring to the argument Of
the founders of protection, the
Des Moines paper adds:
"Their arguments have been
justified by results. What Ham
ilton. Clay and a long line Of states
men have contended for has been
realized even beyond their dreams.
Many of the industries that have
have been helped to their feet by
the tariff are now quite able to go
alone; for others varying degrees
of protection are still desirable.
Hamilton led up by his powerful
argument, which has ever since
been a classic, TO a proposal that
IN per cent, ad valorem duty be
levied upon manufactures of steel.
Today one corporation makes
more steel than all England, and
boasts Of its ability to produce
cheaper than any foreign competi-
tor. And yet we maintain tariff on
iron and steel that during the last
four years has enabled this con-
Germ and its constituent companies
to mulct the consumers to an
amount probably equal to the cost
of all their plants. To defend
such duties in the name Of Hamil-
ton is preposterous, and to treat
them as a part of the protective
system is to discredit and weaken
it. That any newspaper in a State
like Iowa should seriously defend
them and attempt to read a man
out of the Republican party for
Directing to them shows how a |
party has drifted from the old, the |
original, the legitimate, and the
deiensible policy of protection.
= y If the Republican party |
permits the policy of protection to
be distorted into policy of exclu-
sion and isolation, a policy that
narrows the nations opportunities
and iorfeits its advantages, policy
that shields such concerns as the
steel trust, the party and policy
viii SO into wrecl; together. "
1t is because the Republicans at
Washington, whose first and chief
aim is to secure and retain office,
realize that tariff agitation is likely
to arouse a resistless demand in
the country for revision, which
they dare not attempt to grant for
fear of their masters. the protect
ed interests, that they decry or
deny tariff agitation. Courier
Journal.
Republicans went away from
the people and by their legislation
nave caused greas monopoly
growth. The end of these com
pines being to grow richer, the
aster, caring not from whom the
gain would come, Republican
masses at this late hour are be-
coming cognizant Of the relation
If the common people to these
corporations and are de-
handing relief by insisting on
ariffrevisions. This position is