Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-12

 there and ourselves. Could compla- cent and reckless effrontery have gone further than it has gone in making this statement? There is a succeed ing statement, however, which will vie with it. It is where the platform ia vors commercial reciprocity whereev- CT reciprocal arrangements can be ef- fected without injury to American az riculture, American labor or any Amer ican industry"
 The word any is good in that con nection. What a stop cog that is 10 the turning of the wheel of American reciprocity Think of its full import.
 Injury" is good in that connection too. IL all depends upon what is meant by the word. If the audience will ex- cuse me for quoting myself. will read what an interview contained on that subject:-
 If the phrase means anything. II means this. that the Republican party is not willing to secure immensely larger markets for the products Of our farms, mines, forests or even manufactures abroad. if in return for Nutln II Sudli Ut ~ into competition with even the least Of our industries any articles Of foreign growth or production"
 Republicans Challenged.
 This construction of the plank is in keeping, too, with the utterances Of Mir Dalzell Of Pennsylvania. perhaps the most highly accredited floor lead CT of the Republican party, who, amid an outburst of Republican applause. said on the floor of the house that the Republican party would have recipro- city except in 'non-competing arti- cles." He and his colleagues on the Republican side were then challenged to name a single article produced any where in the world that either was not produced or could not be produced somewhere in some of the states or territories or experiment append ages" under the Stars and Stripes. Of course this. if it means anything. means that there is to be no sort of re- ciprocity al all l venture my head that MT. Dalzell is delighted with any"
 Then there is cunningly concealed in the Republican platform the hydra head of vet a worse form of special legislation. namely. by direct subsidy taking money out of the treasury and handing it over bodily to a special class-in this case the class Of ship builders and shipowners.
 It will be noted also that the Repu5- lican party was not quite brave enough to say "out loud" what it want ed and intended to do. This ship sub sidy plank is bolstered by the usual false statement. this time innuendo. that the English merchant marine. the most prosperous of all-is dependent upon subsidies. Every dollar paid by the English government 10 owners of private ships is paid for carrying the mails. and is paid to the lowest bid ders and foreign ships are permitted to bid. How plain tale doth put them down.
 Then our friends and enemies speak of the Republican policy of Chinese exclusion. and boast of recent legisla- ton upon that subject as a reason for longer staying in office. Again no mention of salient facts, to-wit: That the votes of the Democracy were unanimously cast for the proviso pre- sented by Mir. Hit to continue by leg station the exclusion policy of the Chinese treaty about to expire. nor of the fact that Mir. Hit yielded to the Democratic leader on the floor to speak in its advocacy. The difference between the two parties when they vote for the Chinese exclusion is this: Democrats vote in accordance with the tradition and principles of the party.
 Democrats as a rule make no dis guise of the fact that they want to re tain this country as far as possible as a home for the white man and a nurs- cry for his civilization, and that they desire as far as possible to have homogeneous population. so that when they vote 10 exclude the Chinese they cast a Democratic vote. Republicans voting the same time antagonize the professions which they themselves make in connection with other radical questions. They profess as a party to believe that men are equal and ought to receive equal government and so- cial recognition. regardless of race When the Republicans have voted for Chinese exclusion they have cast a good vote, a wise one. but undoubted- y a Republican one. Certainly if it be willing to discriminate at all be- cause of race. if the professions of ad herence to the doctrine that all men of all races are equal. be sincere. then the men making that profession cannot vote to prevent a yellow man from earning 9 living by the sweat of his brow in America: the right to earn a kving being much more sacred and in alienable and God-given thing than the statutory privilege of voting or the social provision of touching with you
 Protection of Citizens
 We pledge ourselves to instit upon just and equitable treatment Of our citizens abroad" says the Republican platform, and in another place. fit is a duty to procure for all our citizens, without distinction, the rights of tray eI and sojourn in friendly countries. :" True, true. I say, it is Daniel come to judge"
 But our fellow citizens of Russian birth and Jewish extraction, who can rot procure from the state department . raeznorf to revisit Russia without