The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-10-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondence of Intelligencer
Washington, d. c., Oct. 90. 1909.

Washington, d. c., Oct. 60. 1908.
The coming Fall elections are impor-
tant. as showing the drift Of pubic
opinion on political issues, and espea.
tally how the voters of the States in
which elections are held view the ezra
tic course of the Republican Admins
tration. If the Republicans hold
their own. it must be taken for grant
ed that the majority of the voters of
the United States are satisfied to con-
tinue the extortion of the trusts through
the protective tariff and the continued
high prices of the cost Of livirg. BY
endorsing the Republicans. the voters
Will sanction the program that the
leaders of their party have agreed
upon, OF allowing Congress to take no
action other than to pass tho appro-
priation bills and adjourn at the ear
liest day practicable.
Tibet would mean the transcontinen-
tai railroads have sufficient influence
with the Republican leaders TO prevent
the building of the Panama or Nicara-
qua Canal; That no action will be
taken upon treaties which President
Mckinley 80 ardentiy wished to see
ratified, to ward off the inevitable re-
form Of the tariff, which he foreeaw
must come unless some relief from
monopoly was granted; That the much
agitated labor legislatiou is again to
be postponed, and that the promises
made in the Republican platform are
again to be broken; That no investi-
cation of the frauds in the depart
ments is to be undertaken; That the
financial Legislation that has been de-
clared 30 necessary to prevent @ panic
Will not be attempted, and that Secre-
tary Shaw can continue to loan the
ssurplus, without interest, to favored
e md % = Al
for the protection Of the United States
by receiving doubtful security in place
Of United States bonds. which the law
plainly commando. Why is this Re-
publican administration afraid to Iegis-
late on these and other matters7 Being
in league with the trusts and COM
bines, 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 yotere are determined to turn out
the Republicane, with their numerous
scandals, and inaugurate the reform
that is 30 necessary for public welfare.
Equal rights to all and special privi-
leges to none'' 10 the Democratic slo-
gan. and as the voters are beginning
to see that trust prosperity means the
the favored few and no fair share to
the many, it is only reasonable to ex-
pect the voters will demand change
In political conditions. That the Re-
publican leaders are frightened to the
point of desperation 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 machine in Massachu-
setts, and to aid the disreputable crew
in Kentucky that call themselves the
Republican party in that State.
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
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 euthori-
ties are subservient to the Russian
representatives; In q word, Manchu-
ria is Russianized. The boost of the
Administration that the treaty lust
concluded with China gives us two
open ports ins that country is, there
foro. worthless, unless Russia opens
their doore. for she has the key to both
of them. Even IL these two ports were
open, are they OF value7 Mookden,
one or the two. is on small river o
hundred miles from the sea, accessible
by 8 scow, anu Niu Chwang, at the
mouth Of the stream, ia occupied by
the Russians. The other is q village
on the coast, but there is no harbor.
and 30 shoal is the offibg that no man.
of:war could approach within twenty
miles. The merchant who tries to get
will not bless John Hay and the Re-
The Sugar Trust having bought a
controlling interest in its Competitor,
the Beet Sugar Trust, the fight 40 long
waged between the Republican factions
over Cuban reciprocity will probably
cease. The reduction in the duty on
sugar for which Cuban reciprocity pro-
vides, will give the combined trust an
Of dollars on all the raw sugar import
ed from Cuba, and, under the ordinary
.,Swe OF trade. the price Of frefined sugar
should decline at the same ratio. But
the tr1at ts 80 fully protected by the
duty OF about one and one. quarter
cents q pound on refined sugar that
the foreign article eau hardly be i'm
EOA AsON AOAo W SVupoVo "1Cu ICu9C.
Freight, tariff duty and other charges
make the cost Of importing foreign re-
fined sugar about equal to the trnet
price. If raw and refined sugar paid
the same duty, the trust would have to
reduce its price accordingly and the
consumers Of the United States would
buy their sugar at retail for at ieast
one cent pound less than they now
pay for it.. That is the reason the
Democrats In the last Congress pro-
posed and passed through the House
the Cuban Reciprocity Bill abOlishine
the extra tariff duty on refined suear.
which is technically called the discrim.
mating duty. When the Cuban reci-
procity measure comes up at the com
1nG session Of Congress, the Democrats
will Offer the same amendments. How
many Republicans will be found voting
with themf The issue will be q plain
one-the trust or the people.