Arizona republican., 1904-09-12
legal remedy against monopolies."
 THE TARIFF

of the tariff We are at once confronted by the doubt as to whether our oppon- ents do or do not mean what they say. They say that protection is robbery" and promise ito carry themselves ac- cordingly if they are given power. Yet prominent persons among them assert that they do not really mean this and that if they come into power they will adopt our policy as regards the tariff; while others seem anxious to prove that it is safe to give them partial power, because the power would be only partial, and therefore they would not be able to do mischief. The last is certainly a curious plea to advance on behalf of a party seeking to obtain control of the government.
 Of course, if our oponents are not sincere in their proposal to abolish the system of a protective tariff, there is no use in arguing the matter at all, save by pointing out again that if on one great issue they do not mean what they say, it is hardly safe to trust them on any other issue. But if they gre sincere in this matter, then their advent to power would mean domes- tic misfortune and misery as wide spread and far-reaching as that which we saw ten years ago. When they speak of protection as robbery they of course must mean that it is im- moral to enact a tariff designed Gas is the present protective tarif) to se- cure to the American wage-woIker the benefit of the high standard of living which we desire to see kept up in this country. Now to speak of the tariff in this sense as robbery" thereby giving it a moral relation, is not mere Iy rhetorical; 1t is on its face false. Our opponents assert that they be- lieVe in reciprocity. Their action on the most important reciprocity treaty recently negOtiated-that with Cuba tdoes not bear out this assertion. More over, there can be no reciprocity unless there is a substantial tariff; free trade and reciprocity are not compatible. We are on record as favoring arrange ments for reciprocal trade relations with other countries, these arrange mentS to be on ar equitable basis of benet to both the contracting parties. The republican party stands pledged to every wise and consistent method of increasing the foreign commerce of the l country That it has kept it's pledge ! is proven by the fact that while the domestic trade of this country exceeds | in volume the entire export and inn i port trade of the nations of the world.
 In closing what I have to say about the system of promoting American in- ; dUstry let me add a word of cordial i agreement with the policy of in some way including within it's benefits, by appropriate legislation, the American merchant marine. It is not creditable | to us as a nation that our great eX- port and import trade should be well nigh exclusively in the hands of for eigners.
 It is difficult to know if our oppon- ents are really sincere in their demand for the reduction of the army. If in- 1 sincere, there is no need for comment and if sincere, what shall We say in speaking to rational persons of an ap- { peal 10 reduce an army of 60 thousand men which is taking care of the inter- ests of over eighty million people? The army is now relatively smaller than ii was in the days Of Washington, when on the peace establishment there were thirty-siX hundred soldiers, while there were a little less than four millions oi people, smaller than it was in the peaceful days of Jefferson, when there were fifty-one hundred soldiers to five million three hundred thousand popu- i latiOn. There is now one soldier tC every fourteen hundred people in this . country-less than one-tenth of one pel cent. We cannot be asked seriously tC argue as to the amount of possible tyranny contained in these figures. The army as it is now is as small as it car possibly be and serve it's purpose as ar effective nucleus for the organization 1 equipment, and supply of volunteel | army in time of need.
 PUBLIC EXTRAVAGANcE.
 Our opponents contend that the gov ernment is now administered eXtrav- agantly, and that whereas there wa:
 "a surplus of $50, ,OOO, ,OCO in 19OO'' there i.
 "a deficit of more than S40,01O 0CO' il
 the year that has just closed.
 T'hi deficit is imaginary, and is ob-
 tained by including fn the ordinary current expenses the sum of fifty mil lions, which was paid for the right
 of way of the Panama canal out O.
 the accumulated surplus in the treas
 ury. Comparing the current or ordi
 nary expenses of nearly eighty million! for the year 1900, and of only a little
 more than eight millions for the yea
 that has just closed. But this dimin' ution of the annual surplus. wa:
 brought about designedly by the aboli
 tion of the war taxes in the interva between the two dates. The acts O.
 March 2, 1901, and April F, 1902, GU
 down the internal revenue taxes to aT
 amount estimated at one hundred anC
 five millions a year. In other words
 the reduction of taxation has been con
 siderably greater than the reduction 1T the annual surplus. Since the close
 of the war with Spain there has beer
 no substantial change in the rate O
 annual expenditures. As compared witt
 the fiscal year ending in June, 1901 for example, the fiscal year that ha: II just closed showed a relatively small
 increase in expenditure Excluding the
 canal payment referred to), while th'
 year previous showed a rela lively sm1l
 decrease.
 THE PHILIPPINES.
 Our opponents promise independence
 to the Philippine Islands. Here agail
 we are confronted by the fact tha
 their irreconcilabIe differences of opin
 ion among themselves, their proved in