The Hartford republican., 1904-09-09
STILL A SECRET.
What the Sage of ESOpus Really
Believes Remains a
Mystery.

What Judge Parker would do or at
tempt to do # he were to be elected
President, is little less an unknown
quantity than it was b, fore his speech
OF acceptance was given to the world.
' He would recognize the gold standard
and he repeats that he would regard
it Is firmly and irrevocable estab.
lished," but this vas known before
he added the second word. He thinks
he would like to have reduction oi
the tariff, but he Is not sufficiently
sure of this to intimate what degree
of reduction he would have upon any
one item on which he would have the
tariff duty changed in any way.
And the few explicit statements he
docs make emphasize the wisdom he
manifests In what he fails to say.
When he redeclares his belief that the
gold STANDARD is firmly and irrevo-
cable established " for instance. he
shows that he is ignorant OF fact
that exists In the mind OF most vo
ters at this stage and proceedings.
Almost evary body else by this knows
that the poli standard lacks a good
deal oi being irrtv Icably estsb ish ed
and even he would pr, b ably be con.
WINGED Of it if once he were called up
on to deal with it.
So also he suggests that he would
fix time to haul down the flag in
the Philippines, but he gives no hint
of tue year or the month or the time
OF day. On most things thai he
touched he leaves the reader to inter
almost anything that he woull like
to infer, especially il the reader Is
seeking an excuse for vote against
the admin s'ration. but explicit
statements In his speech of acceptance
are almost as rare as in the silence
that has prevailed for SO long a
Esopus.
In another explicit statement tha'
he makes he shows his wisdom In
avoiding such things AS much as pos
sible. For instance, he says tina, the
tariff furnishes the trusts market in
the necessities OF eighty million peo-
pie, practically excluding competi
tion." On the same day that this
l. speech was delivered came the an
nouncement that an independent con-
Germ had taken away from the trust
an order for l 900 tines of steel
plates.
The recod shows that while what
Is known as the steel trust began bus
mess with the control Of about i,hty
per cent. of the total output In two
years this had been red uced to fifty per
cent. OF less, due solely to competi.
tion here at home under this same
protective tariff. The salt trust un-
dertook to do business on the assump-
tion expressed by this Presidential can
didate the competition soon forced It
to reorg auize and pursue it's business
on the .spumption that 1t would have
the livelest sort-and even ruinous-
the competition if 1t attempted to
maintain extortior ate prices. About
two years ago the prune trust bad the
same experience. On window glass
the duty always has been high. IL is
so now; 1t was Sd under the Wilson
German bill and under the Mckinley
law and so on. Yet the combination
known as the window glass trust has
not been free from competition Tor
years, and this competition has been
of the keenest sort. Trust after trust
has failed because it attempt to do
business on an assumption similar to
to the one offered as sstatemanship from
this man at Esopus. Every one oi
them that has attempted this has failed
or been forced into the courts for reor'
eaniz ,tion on a different basis. II
this man Is fit to be a caudi date for
anything he knows this. Even cas-
ual attention to what has been goin 6
on in the courts of the land would
have rsvs a,ed this vital fact.