The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-25
CLEVELAND SCORES
REPUBLICAN PARTY

TONS curTeacy: but the people will re
5ect as sayor!ng OF presumption the IT
sistence that only those b~esonging ID
n party organization can claim TO
be the protectors defenders OF our
financial integrity: nor win they forget
that the fight was holly on when many
OF The leaders Of the party now max
insistence, were worse b a lukewarrn
in the cause.
ATTITUDE TOWARD THE TRUSTS.
"A party may indulge in self con-
graduation when IL has effectively dc
Tended the people in their daily life
from the repacity OF trusts and comb
nations. which thrive as private ente.-
pr:ses are s~trangled, and which grow
fat, as, by the control OF the cost OF
living. they cause the homes of cur
land to grow lean. but the people will
hardly approve the VociferouS pride
which claims that a successful attack
upon the merger of the stock of car
tam competing railroads has rescued
them from their oppressors. They VIII
not fail to observe that the huge COM
olnations, which directly injure them.
still flourish, and they may also ,e-
call how the CONSERVATION among those
implicated in such schemes who once
feared a general pursuit was quieted
+. when soothing assurance reached then
tnat the government did not intende TO
run amuck.' Nor will they probable
accept the suggestion that repentance
Or a change Of heart accounts for the
manner by which the threats and ami
mostly of many Powerful trust mag
mates have been displaced by their an
proval and substantial support of the
party which seeks to convince the peo-
pie OF its misunderstanding pr~oclivities.
H POLICY OF PROTECTION.
This item Of tho account ~-;II
De passed over without a reference 70
the platform statement that 'protec-
tlon, which guards and develops our
| industries, is a cardinal policy Of the
! republican party nor without nor
:nT the declaration of the candidate
~@ncing on this platform, that the pro>
>>~ive tariff policy ought now to be
considered as definitely established
Inc question will be asked, Which are
the American industries that at this
Time are in need of the shelter of such
d tarlf such as that now in force: and
Is mere never to be a time when Amer
lean enterprise, American ingenuity
n American opportunity will free
our industries from their stage of in
aancy ana permit American aspiration
and American self reliance to cast
away the leading strings of a definite
4 protective policy? The
people know that this policy has Civ
en- rise t oreckless and to und7thfiesn
en- rise to reckless greed and to a wor-
snip OF gam, menacing patriotic senti-
ment n our o for high standards
Oh national greatness and they knox
at the best it lays burdens on the con
SumerS Of our land.
HOME CONSUMERS DJscPUurr,n
ED AGAINST.
with these tendencies and these bur
dens in mind they will ask the marty
processing its anxiety to restrain or
destroy harmful combinations. why .
protective tariff policy should be cons
sldered definitely established. which. in
ADDITION to it's other sins, contributes
10 a situation that permits a comnina.
t'on or monopoly to sell abroad ar
tlcles of our manufacture at lower
prices than are exacted from our own
cltizens at home. They will see The
sheer Wrongfulness of this condition So
clearly and also firmly believe that in
this way they are made to pear tariff
burdens in order that they might De
olscr1m1nated against in favor of for
elgn consumers, hat they will not be
satisfied with the assurance that the
tdrlH mas nothing to do with trusts.
Ihey VIII consign such an explanation
70 the limbo of negation, to axe It's
place with the out worn deception tina
the foreign exporter pays our tariff
taxes, and with two other sadly weak
pretenses-one that the tariff should
be reformed only by it's friends, and
the other that the party which believes
that a protective tariff policy ought to
be considered as definitely established,
loves reciprocity in trade.
THE PHILIPPINE RESURRECTION.
When the platform boast is made
that in the Philippines we have sup
pressed instruction, established order
and given to life and property a securr-
~ never known there before, the cons
%fession 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 a people
thousands of miles from our shores,
whom an incident of a war undertaken
by us in aid of those struggling for lib
erty and independence in nother uuar-
ter, had put within our power; and
the people will ask under what sanction
was this S~ubjgation entered upon by a
nation pledged to the doctrine that all
just powers of government are derived
from the consent of the governed, anc
they will deny that Imperialism and our
forcible rule Of foreign people have any
place among the purposes of our naA
tional life.
AN EXHIBITION OF INTERNA-
TIONAL RUTHLESSNESS.
The credit is claimed for securing a
route for a long desired inte-oceanic
waterway, it will not be In a carpins
spirit that the people will look at the
incidents accompanying the achieve
ment. They do not underyaIue the