The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1903-01-07

cal pharmacopeia and none has
answered the purpose. The trusts
have continued TO grow and flourish
like chinch bugs in a corn field and
have everrun and overridden the
entire field of commercial endeavor
until the small merchants is a mere
serf and chattle with which they
play battledoor and shuttlecock,
and the man who earns a living by
the sweat of his brow pays the
freight. The Republican President
first suggested publicity as a REM
edy. That remedy was offered by
a Democrat Senator as an amend
ment to a bill in the Senate at the
last session of Congress, and was
promptly mashed in the earth by
Republican majority. Then they
talked of a Constitutional amend
ment and of tariff commission.
All of them have been cast aside
for the present makeshift and now
they will pirate about now they are
trying to break up the trusts. 1t
is all hypocrisy, false pretense and
rot. How much longer will the
people be blind to the facts in the
case?
The Republican party gradually
is coming to the Democratic con-
tenIion that we should have free
trade with the recently acquired
island possessions that came to us
as a heritage of the war with Spain.
Two years ago they passed bill
that gave the Philippines a reduc-
tion of twenty-five per cent. from
the rates Of the Diag!cy tariff bill
on all goods imported from this
country. 1t was the Democratic
position then that if those islands
were a part of this country, al
though they could not be held Con-
stitutionally as a province, they
should be given the same privileges
of trade that we enjoyed here be-
tween the States, and that the real
secret of the greatness of this
country was on account Of free and
untrammelled trade between the
States. The Democratic position
has not changed.
The Republican position has
changed. That party is essentially
a party of opportunists. 1t shifts
with the winds of public clamor
and opinion. 1t has no fixed prin-
ciples. 1t has policies only.
The Republican majority of the
House Committee on Ways and
Means has brought in bill to re-
duce the tariff on all imports into
the Philippines sevonty-fve per
cent. from the rates imposed by
the Dingley tariff bill, instead of
twenty-five per cent. which is the
present law passed by themselves
two years ago. They now think
those islands would be benefited by
this reduction. If twenty five per
cent. was good for them why not
seventy Ave per cent? If that is
good thing why not absolute free
trade as contended by the Demo-
cratsI
The Democrats will make the
fight for free trade with those is
lands and will put the Republicans
on record and there will be mnch
of good reading on the tariff ques-
ton which will be the bone of con-
tenticr Il The .ac1 t s.oat ;oatUie be.
fore the people.
Let us hope that the eyes of the
good people will have been opened
by that time and that they will
know their own interests when they
go to the polls. Hypocrisy cannot
triumph always.
Politics aside for the moment, the
readers of the MT. STERLING ADvo-
CATE may like toknow something of
the kind of people who make the
laws of the country in the National
capitol. They really are very diff
erent from the popular conception
of them.
The personal and individual
characteristics of our National leo