Bisbee daily review., 1904-11-17
INDUSTRIOUS INSTRUMENT

INDUSTRIOUS INSTRUMENT
 Continuing to discuss the political situation. after the recent republican victory, the Louisville Courier Journs | says:
 Next after the institution of African slavery, for which the south was no more responsible than the north, the protective tariff is the most monstrous instrument of classism and greed of legsli6ed robbery, jobbeIy and oorrup- tion. which the Iapacity of man and the malice of satan have ever devised to degrade and torture human kind.
 In the beginning, that is, after the war of sections which had ended slsv- cry. many of the dcctrinsires among the republican leaders were free trad CTS. Sherman and Allison; and Blaine were especially beterodox in their notions about protection David A Wells was a republican, not demo. crat. Garfield vent the length of be- coming member of the Golden club. The idea was that, having freed the nigger, they were going to free the trade. It was reserved for a demo- crat, mistaking himself for a revenne reformer. to save the protective system snd to dissipste twenty years of suc- cessful agitation after having swept the country on g radical demand that custom house taxation should be linn ited to strictly revenue basis.
 We do not mean to assau MT. Cleve- land. But if. on his return to the White House, he had called congress together. had framed tariff measure answering the terms of the platform and the demands of the people, we should not be where we now are. His bill would have been defeated in con- gress, of course; no doubt of that. But, it would have separated the sheep from the goats, it would have put the administration upon aD irresistible wave, so that he could have appealed to the country as never president, except Lincoln, had appealed to it. Instead of losing the elections in 1896, We should, on this clear cut issue, with it's object lessons, have swept the coun- try, and the administrs tion, instead of facing divided party and humil- isting dilemma, would have ruled the roost. Mir. Cleveland would have been, not only second Jackson, able to name his successor, but completely master of the situation. The house would have been chos ,n for distinct purpose. The senate would not have dared disohey. We should have had 8 Cleveland tariff rivsling the Walker tariff. We should have had no tergiv- ersation in either end Ct the capitol, no catching letters. no talk about "per- fdy" and ''dishonor," no refusal to sign. And. finally, we should have mad no silver split and no break up.
 Man proposes. God dispnses. Let us shed DO idle tears over the milk that is spilled. But we need not surrender an issue ss potential as Slavery, --L;ob .-sIl ,,a1ar Ea ,a4tia5 ,r4;l ;A ; settled right. The protective system is the mother and the father and the wet nurse of the trusts. The states of the great northwest cannot go on for ever voting to stand pat upon their own undoing. They will never vote the straight democratic ticket during the life of the present generation. But soon, or late, there is bound to be @ break. Does the Iowa idea mean nothing? Does LaFollette mean noth- ing? Is there. in short, only one way to cock beefstesk?
 Merely a word to the wise. That is all. No more at present-not even a detail, or argument. There will be time though. Let us of the south emulate tLe wisdom of the serpent. true to our racebood and our heritage of Amarican citizenship, disdaining only the corruptions alike of our poli- tics and our blRd, the purchase of onr manhood. which. thus far, at least, nothing has been able to subdue.