The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-08

mer SnOutQ pay rom a tnir0 tO One- half more for an American blow than his competitor in farming pays for 1t in Australia or South America, or the ends of the earth. Democrats say it Is wrong and they stand by the Ameri- can farmer. Republicans say 1t Is right and they stand by the Australian and South American farmers.
 Few Lucid Intervals
 Choose ye between us In November. Not quite all Republican statesmen be- lieve 1t right. Once in a while ray of light breaks in upon the benighted intellect of a Republican. For exam | pie. year or two ago Hon. J. W. Bab- cock, of Wisconsin. Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, had a lucid interval and advocated in lseveral interviews the cutting down Of tarin rates when they are so high as to encourage the formation of trusts and when they enabled the manufac- turer to sell his wares cheaper abroad than at home. He went further and introduced bills to that effect. but the Republican leaders got hold of Bab- cock, and by coaxing. bullying or otn- CT means checked his ardor as a tarin reformer. since when he has been as dumb as an oyster.
 am citing Babcock's performance in his moment of lucidity to show that to advocate the cutting down Of out rageous tariff rates in the foregoing cases does not prove that man is the enemy of his country as the staho- patters would have you believe
 The stand pat organs and speakers claim that only antiquated sorts Of our manufactured articles are sold aoroao cheaper than to Americans at home. That theory is very ingenious, put un- fortunately 1t is not true, for steel rails are sold abroad at $S per ton less than they are sold at home and the fashions in steel rails remain the same or sup stantially so.
 Will he. or some stand batter explain why Americans should be made to pay one-third more for American steel rails than the citizens of other nations pay for them?
 Tarin Frauds Exposed. He may answer as did MT. Repre- sentative Olmstead of Pennsylvania. that railway companies pay Tor the steel rails and that 1t is the business of nobody else how much they pay for them. but Olmstead had more cour- age than information. for everybody with two ideas above a Hotteutot knows that everybody that travels on railroad, everybody that ships any thing on one, everybody that uses any thing so shipped. helps pay for the steel rails. The railroad companies foot the bills in the first instance then make their customers repay them with interest at the highest rate the trafhc will bear.
 Of a piece with the foregoing false pretense Is that other one that Demo- crats would destroy American indus tries There Is not a syllable of truth in 1t. Why should they desire to de- stroy industries? They are yitally in terested in maintaining them and they wish to see them prosper by giving to them all an equal chance and not fos- ter some at the expense of others. The true Democratic position on the tarim | is this:
 Democratic Position on Tariff. Recognizing that a large portion of our revenue has always been raised | from customs duties or taxes demands divide all imports into three classes lnecessaries, comforts and luxuries- and all contend that the tariff taxes
 should be highest on luxuries, lower
 on comforts and lowest or none at nll
 on the necessaries. They furthermore
 say that taxes shall be uniform on all
 articles belonging to one class. That
 is the Democratic party's position, from
 which 1t will not be driven or coaxed
 or bullied. No amount of misrepresen- Itation will cause them to budge from that position. We say furthermore that not a dollar more in the shape of tariff taxes or any other sort of taxes
 should be taken from the people than is necessary to pay the expenses of a
 government economically administered On these propositions we believe we
 are right, and on them we confidently
 rely in our appeal to the American
 people in November.
 Marine Policy.
 | When Napoleon signed the title deeds
 to this vast country west of the Mis-
 sissippi river he turned to the Ameri- lcan commissioners and said: Now have given England a maratime rival. and so he had. until unsuitable greed
 and criminal nal administration ban- ished the starry banner of the republic from the high seas and abdicated the rich domain of the ocean. In 1880 we lhad the second largest merchant ma
 rine in the world-our sails whitened
 every harbor and our flag foated In
 every breeze under the heavens. How sadly all this has changed after thir- ty-fve years of Republican misrule Last year of all the merchantmen that
 went through the Suez Canal, not a single vessel. great or small, except lbattleshirs, bore the American flag al it's masthead. and our flag Is seen 1T foreign waters only when nylns oVel a man of war. Worse than this-mort lhumiliating than this--a few years ago
 when Congress appropriated large
 sum of money to buy corn and whea
 and meat to send to the famine-strick en of other lands there was no Ameri can vessel to send it in. but our grea
 humiliation was to hire a foreign shiI lin which to send over charity to oul
 starving fellow men.
 | When an American goes abroad h'
 must sail under a foreign flag, on {
 foreign ship. under a foreign officer.
 Why have things come to this shame full, this pitiful complexion in a coun try that has the finest material fol
 ships and sailors in the world? Be
 cause our exorbitant tax system ha!
 made 1t impossible for an American
 to build a ship in competition with th'
 British ship builders on the Rivel lClyde.
 Yet the Republican gang has the in
 finite gall to prate about it's patriotism
 Our boys are rushing off to fac'
 death in search of gold in the Klon ldyke region. when the oceans of th'
 world contain million Klondykes i the Republican party would only per
 init them to work the watery main.
 Alleged Trust Busters.
 | Republicans claim in public to b. la. htic