The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-22
The Business Party's Program,

upholding and expansion Of the re-
publican policies looking to the well
fare of the business and industrial
conditions of the country. The repub-
lican party has, pre-eminently of the
parties which, since 1889, have had
control of the United States govern
ment, had to meet and solve new bust
ness and industrial problems growing
out of the marvellous growth Of the
nation.
It maintained the integrity Of the
union and abolished slavery at a tre-
mendous cost and rid the country Of
a damaging handicap Of logged con-
servatism. This was business as
we'll as a great patriotic, proposition.
It demonstrated that the Jefferso-
MAN view Of statesrightism was abso-
lutely wrong, and showed the party
Of Jefferson that he himself had un-
dermined his own doctrine as to the
immutability of constitutions and
laws when he wrote to Madison that
every constitution and every law
naturally expires at the end Of thirty
it is an act of force and not right
meaning that conditions change, and
even an organic law, accepted in it's
literality by one generation, may and
ought to receive, in the course of
time, authoritative interpretations to
make it consist with greatly changed
! conditions and new necessities. Our
| federal supreme court has, since the
time Of John Jay, made a dominant
record Of Interpreting the constitu-
ton according to its purpose for the
welfare Of the people; in the inter-
est Of national integrity and pros
! perity.
The republican national committee,
in announcing it's purpose to pay spe-
cial attention to the subjects Of tariff
and trusts and industrial conditions
generally, during the campaign just
opening, say, with the view, prob
ably, of meeting some criticism upon
the Technology of the platform tariff
plank:
There has never been time during
the forty years Of republican control that
a popular demand for tariff changes,
whether an advance or reduction With
the record it seems unreasonable to as
sumo that any changes in the tariff justi-
fed by conditions will not be demanded
OF congress by the people thru the usual
channels of approach, bsst that the
changes thus demanded will be promptly
made as they always have been during
the record OF the republican party.
i The republican platform distinctly
announces that, while it is essential to
maintain the principles of protection
the measure of discrimination should
always at least equal the difference
in the cost of production at home and
abroad and the rates should be adj
Justed "only when conditions have sc
changed that the public interest de-
mands their alteration" and sucl
readjustment ought to be the work OF
the party which has been the recog.
nized champion of the protection OF
| our industrial interests, our manufac.
: turing welfare. The party platform
: and the campaign book of the party
commit it, not obscurely, not vaguely
: to tariff revision if the people show
| disposition to demand it; which they
probably will by the election of Roose
welt and Fairbanks on a revision plat
form.
Republican tariff legislation begal
? with the Morrill, tariff, under which
the average rate of duty on dutiabl,
goods was 1871 per cent. This tariff
act was passed by the house in tn,
session Of 1S59-60, preceding the cleo
ton Of Lincoln; the senate passed i
I began, and demand for larger revenu
$ from all sources was inevitable, Their
( followed higher tariffs in 1852 am
3 1854, but, at the close Of the war, re
r duction in the rates Of internal taxa
v ton began. Agitation also brough
;. reductions Of the rates on pigiron
e coal, salt, etc. BY 1880 the averag
$ duty was 43.5 per cent. Under tn
e present tariff law the average i
3 somewhat above that, with excessiv
$ rates in number Of cases maxim
: the benefit rather a bounty tina
|. necessary protection from foreig
h competition. Taking the party plat
form tariff utterances and the positio
9 of the republican national committe
; as the basis Of tariff revision an
4 action in response to the clearly ex
4 pressed demand of the voters, with
v good republican working majority /
), the house and senate, the republica
q party will be able in the f1fty-nint
q congress to strongly emphasize il
+ reputation as the party which stand
for the national integrity and mani
9 fold prosperity.
e Commissary General Weston has
Z paperweight on his desk in mis- office. !
: Washington, which is about, six incht
long, three inches wide and two inche
y thick 1t looks like a piece Of hardwoc
n and is as heavy as a stone, but it
: neither. It is six-day ration of drie
e fish for Japanese soldier and for tt
Jap's purposes, at least, it beats ZEN
g balmed beef all hollow. When the ia
q wants square meal no shaves off
i little Of the fish, boils it in cup of waite
7 adds little rice If he has it and asl
= for nothing better While on the marc
n he whites off a little piece of the stu
n that General Weston uses for pap,
y weight and chews it as he hikes alor
e thru Manchuria after the retreating Ru
n slams. No wonder the Jap has the b