Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-10-07

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Facts and Figures Which Will Open the Eyes
Of the PeopIe-Roosevelt Ignorant of Ship
ping Conditions Island prince Cupid
-Sehleys Autobiography.
(From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. 30.
Representative Cowherd, Chairman
OF the Congressional Campaign Com
mittee, is back at his headquarters in
the Riggs House, after visit to New
York. That visit seems to have been
productive, as Mr.. Cowherd was en-.
gagged in drawing checks when your
correspondent called yesterday. He
is greatly pleased. not only with the
Democratic handbook which is out
after running the Manhattan gauntlet,
but especially with Judge Parker's
letter of acceptance, which he is issu.
ing as a campaign document by the
million. Chatting with Mr.. Cowherd
was Stewart w. Walker of Martins.
burg, w. Va, candidate for Congress
against Representative Dayton. He
is making a whirlwind canvas and de.
clares that he is sure of winning. The
State now has solid Congressional
Republican delegation in both Senate
and House, but Mr.. Walker thinks
that tho Democrats will this year
elect two and probably three men,
bers.
The Democratic campaign textbook
now being sent out in carloads con-
ssts OF over 300 pages largely Occu-
pied with the liveliest speeches OF the
leading Democrats in Congress. The
most space is given to Imperialism and
the tariff and trusts. Great emphasis
is placed on the well-known fact that
Americans are compelled to pay much
higher prices for our own manufac.
tured goods than foreigners do. Near
ly all kinds of hardware, implements,
machinery, tools, paints, oils. ammu-
milton. watches, baking powder, con-
densed milk, canned goods, and nearly
every kind of steel products, are shown
TO Re sold to our consumers at prices a
quarter larger than those paid for the
same goods by Europeans. Ample
demonstration is furnished that al
most all of our exports Of iron and
steel merchandise, amounting tO$1ll,-
600, 600 last year are sold to the Euro
pean at about four fifths the price
charged to Americans. This, OF
course, results from our iniquitous
tariff. The tariff amounts to Sill to
each American family, of which only
SlG.52 goes into the U. S. Treasury,
and the balance 1914 per family. or ST.
COO. 600 600 for the seventeen million
families in this country, goes TO the
protected trusts. This is regarded as
the most effective arrangement OF the
Republican party that has yet been
made.
The Presidents letter of acceptance
is being vigorously overhauled. In it
he says: cit is not creditable to us as
nation that our great export and
import trade should be well nigh
exclusively in the hands of foreigners"
and he bewails the fact that little
American shipping is seen in the
harbors Of Europe. The President is
not acquainted with the subject.
When ship subsidy bill was before
Congress twenty years ago, called on
the millionaire merchant, II. b. Chaf-
lin, in New York, and interviewed
him. He was Republican, but he
said People of the United States
cannot afford to own sea-going ships.
Building and owning ships is about
the poorest business in the world. l
have sold my ships and would no more
think of owning another than OF cart
ing my own trunk home on my back
when | arrive at the Grand Central
depot. We have thousand kinds OF
business that pay better. Let the
pauper's OF Europe do our porterage."
The President ought to have consulted
some great importer or exporter before
writing his letter. 1t might have
taught him that bloated tariff was
quite as bad as a subsidy bill. and that
the paupers of Europe ought to be
permitted to make for US the things
we cannot make at profit.
A very lively interest is felt in tins
city in the career of "Prince Cupid
do not now allude to the little blind
god, son of Vulcan and Venus, whose
wings have been clipped by Corbin late
ly, but to that tawny scion OF the
royal family of the Sandwich Islands,
who is known in the blue book 81
Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole and who