The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-22

and they know that at best it lays
| burdens on the consumers of our
| land
with these tendencies and these
burdens in mind, they will ask the
party professiong it's anxiety to re-
strain or destroy harmful combna-
tons, why a protective tariff policy
| should be considered definitely estab-
| lshed, which, in addition to its other
sins, contributes to a situation that
! permits a combination or monopoly to
sell abroad articles of our manufac-
! ture at lower prices than are eXacted
from our own citizens at home.
lis sheer WrongfuIncss.
"They will see the sheer wrongful
ness of this condition so clearly, and
they will so firmly believe that In this
| way they are made to bear tariff bur-
dens I'm order that they may be dis
| eliminated against in favor of foreign
| consumers, that they win not be sat
| isfied with the assurance that the tar
if has nothing to do with trusts.
''They will consign such an explana-
tion to the limbo of negation, to take
its place with the out-worn deception
that the foreign exporter pays our tar
If taxes, and with two other sadly
weak nretences-one that the tariff
should be reformed only by its friends.
and the other. that the party which
believes that q protective tariff policy
ought to be considered as definitely
established, loves reciprocity in trade.
subjugatiOn in philippines.
"Whcn the platform boast is made
that I'm the Philippines we have sup
pressed Instruction, established order
and given to life and property a Sc
curity never known there the confess
sion will be extorted that the insur-
rection suppressed was no more than
the crushing out of resistance to the
army OF the United States, while en-
gagged in the subjugation Of people
thousands of miles from our shores,
whom an incident of war undertaken
by us I'm aid OF those struggling for
liberty and independence in another
quarter. had put within our power; and
the people will ask under what sane
ton was this subjugation entered upon
by a nation pledged to the doctrine
that all just powers of government are
derived from the consent Of the gov
erned; and they will deny that impe-
rialism and our forcible rule Of for
eIgn people have any place among the
purposes of our national life.
National Honor and Morality.
when credit is claimed for securing
route for a long desired interoceanic
waterway, II will not be In a carping
spirit that the people VIII look at the
incidents accompanying this achieve
ment.
"They do not undervalue the object
gained, but they keenly appreciate the
Importance and value Of our national
honor, our national good name, and,
above all, our national morality. Not
even the great worth Of the thing ac-
complished will close the eyes of
thoughtful Americans to the fact that
in reaching the results we have ex-
hibited such international ruthless
ness, and such selfish International
immortality as have lastingly debili-
tated our reputation for good faith and
established a precedent, which In time
to come may be invoked TO Justify the
most startling and reprehensible aban-
Comment OF the high ideals which have
made us an example Of the best civil
ization--a people, happy as we are
intelligently free, strong as we are
scrupulously just. and everywhere
trusted and honored, as we undeviat-
ingly follow In the way Of uprightness
and rectitude.
Vanity of Republicans.
II have ventured to suggest the mis-
leading purpose Of the vain-glorious
claims made by a party organization
which seeks continuance OF political
control. and to intimate the humilin-
ton estimate Of our peoples intell-
pouoo aud pafrfotfe vigilance uhieb