The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-07-08
STAND-PATlSM THE MOTTO.
Republican Enumeration of "Prin-
ciples' Is an Insult to Intelh-
gence of the People.

b~N ~ eAN a UP
The platform adopted by the republic
can national convention is fundament-
ally Bourbon Nothing has been forgot
ten and nothing has been learned. All
the achievements Of the past are tagged,
catalogued and enumerated. but the fu-
ture played So trivial part in the de-
liberations Of the convention that it was
all but disreearded
Considered, however, merely from the
( point Of view Of the stand -pat-let-weil-
enough-alone republicans the platform
leaves nothing to be desired To peo-
pie who paraphrase Napoleon's maxim
and insist that time and the republican
party can accomplish everything this is
an ideal platform. because it leaves
/ everything 70 time and the party Every
where between planks is this admoni-
4 ton: Don't bother your blessed heads
( about anything We have already solved
a.. the political problems there are TO
solve but if any have been overlooked
we can be depended upon TO solve them
as they ought to be solved"
1t is in respect TO the Philippines and
the tariff that this masterpiece of
"stand-patism' will be most vigorously
and mostrighteously assailed Not even
the vaguest promises Of the most remote
( independence for the Filipinos are made
I The convention CURLY informs them
/ that they havesthe largest civil liberty
they have ever enjoyed" and by i'm
4 plication tells them to run along and not
\ bother the government by asking for
I anything more.
Tho tariff declaration. says the New
I York World, is equally patronizing A
platform that refers ~ the Wilson law
as an act biased on free-trade prin-
( ciples' informs the people with ar air OF
superb economic superiority that ito a
republican congress and a republican
\ president this great question can safely
be intrusted" This is to say that If the
I republican machine and the protected
manufacturers think revision Of
I schedules Is advisable the tariff will be
''readjusted" by its friends As all prev
ious reyisions by the republican party
have resulted in higher schedules. this
"stand-par' plank has a certain merit
+ that cannot be ignored II threatens us
4 With no new burdens.
The least tariff we can possibly toll
crate the convention tells us. must
measure the difference in the cost OF
production al home and abroad No
thing is said about the difference in sell
ing price Of American articles at home
and abroad by which the home consum-
or pays for extending the protected
manufacturer foreign trade. Neither
IS anything said about the fact that the
greater productive ability OF the Amer
lean workman has in many cases more
than overcome the relative diffefrffence
IN wages There Is no promise uttered
or implied that the Dinglev schedule
will be reduced TO point that viii meas
IRE the difference between the cost OF
production here and abroad Even the
Chamberlain campaign for a protective
ta-iR In Great Britain to retaliate
aeainst the United States and Germany
Is twisted into an argument in support
Of the nyiolability Of the Dinglcy
schedules
As for reciprocity. the party that tore
up the Kasson treaties Is willing to re- /
ciprocate providing il can be done with /.
out injury 10 American agriculture"
The part Is greater than the whole. and /
the interests OF all the people must not /
be considered as against the least. least |
trivial interest ofany class or individual /
Foreigners that wish 10 trade with us on I
living terms must produce something I
~
McKinley's admonition that we must 4
not repose in fancied security that we \
can forever sell everything and buy lit 4
tie or nothing" made no appeal TO the /
convention. Mckinley was long ago out
McKinleyed by his party If he were
alive he could have had no standing in
the Chicago convention. Possibly he
would have been denounced as a free
trader--a Cobdenite az the very least.
The thing TO do Is to stand pat and fry
the fat.
Gov Durbn. OF Indiana and other
slightly previous statesmen are SQUAD
bling over the Fairbanks senatorial
toga. MIR. Fairbanks winks the other
eye He has not resigned as senator yet.
Albany IN. ID Argus.
Secretary Shaw announces that
before the campaign - over government
statistics will show that wages have ad-
vanceG more than prices. IL one of the
bureaus Of the government is engaged
in investigating this point it would Gre
ate more confidence la its finding II the
secretary Ct the treasury did not an
nounce the result before il was reached.
-T.t.sbu Dispatch