The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-07-07

ana are uylnK OF disease al siiohfS' rof
what purpose? VIII anybody undertake
20 say? I defy any lingo to stand up and
declare with straight face what the
presidents policy or the eRpublican pol
icy is. No one will say. no one can say;
but some say-Imores the pity and shame
the president is wrong but we must
support the president"
To this complexion has IL como at last
by reason OF the new tangled Jingoism
that we must shut up our thinkers. close
our mouths and chloroform our CON
sciences in order 10 be considered pa
triots
ROOSEVELT AND HIS PARITY.
II avails nothing 10 claim-as some do
that Colonel Roosevelt Is better than his
party. II Is 10 be hoped most fervently
that ne Is a great deal better, but truth
20 tell a president cannot be better than
his party. Even II he tries to be he In
ruined politically. Johnson. Hayes. Ar
thur and the younger Harrison all tried
that experiment and all OF them we're
refused second terms either in convention
or at the pools. So II will be with Colo
mel Roosevelt His particular friends may
deem him better than his party. He may
think himself. but nevertheless. the
party will drag him down TO its level.
No man ever found himself in worse
Roosevelt In this year OF grace. He Is In
the hands OF the Republican philistines
and they still bind him with their wtthes.
In every state In the union IL is felony
10 get property OF any sort or TO attempt
TO get 1t. by false pretences- II the same
rule applied TO the getting OF offices or
10 attempts 10 get them the whole Re
publican party could be sent TO the pen
itentiary.
FALSE PRETENCES.
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which they harp the most this year is
that the Democratic party Is In favor OF
free trade. The charge is utterly false,
a lie made OF whole cloth. There are In
dividual Democrats who are free traders
Just as there are individual Republicans
who are atheists. but IL would be precise
~ as true and fair TO denounce the Re-
publican party as the party OF atheists
as 10 denominate the Democratic party
as the part OF free trade.
1t never was free trade party and is
not now. The man who charges that it
is does so because OF his Ignorance or be-
cause OF his mendacity.
Democrats favor the cutting down OF
exorbitant tariff rates to a reasonable
basis. They believe that In many sched-
ules OF the present law the rates are too
high. those that are too high we are In
favor OF cutting down.
I'VE favor any modification OF the tar
iff schedules that may be required to pre-
vent them becoming a shelter for mon
opoly."
NOT DEAD OR DYING.
wonder IL Mr.. Secretary Shaw ever
heard those before? They were taken
verbatim from the Iowa Republican plat
form OF 1901. The secretary whooped Il
UP at great rate for Governor A. B.
cummins and others nominated on that
platfrom. He scornfully denounces It
now as "the dead Iowa idea"
But ii was a righteous decision, borrow
ed from Democrats and Is not dead-not
even dying.
Where tariff rates are so high that they
enable American manufacturers to sell
their wares abroad cheaper than they do
TO Americans here at home. we say that
they ought TO be reduced. Is this an
archy or treason? II so. make the most
of It.
LET THEM EXPLAIN.
Let Republican spellbinders and editors
explain why an American farmer should
pay from a third to a half more for an
American plow than his competitor in
farming pays for II in Australia or South
America or the ends OF the earth Demo-
Gratis say II Is wrong and they stand by
the American farmers. Republicans say IL
is right and they stand by the Australian
or South American farmers Choose We
between US In November.
Not quite all Republican statesmen be-
ffeve IL right. Once I'm a while a ray OF
light breaks in on the benighted intel
lect OF a Republican. For example a
year or two ago the Hon j. w Baboock
OF Wisconsin, chairman OF the Repubii-
can congressional committee had a lucid
interval and advocated in several inter-
views the cutting down of tariff rates
when they are so high as 10 encourage
the formation OF trusts and when they en-
abled manufacturer to sell his wares
cheaper abroad than at home.
DUMB AS AN OYSTER.
He went farther and introduced bills
TO this efrect but tho Republican leaders
got hold OF "Bab" and by coaxing bully
ing or other means, checked his ardor as
a tariff reformer. since when he has been
as dumb as an oyster
/ am citing Babcocks performance in
his moment OF lucidity to show that 10 ad-
vocate the cutting down OF outrageous
tariff rates In the foregoing cases does
not prove that man Is the enemy of his
country as the stand patters" would
The stand pat" organs and speakers
claim that only antiquated sorts OF our
manufactured articles are sold aboard
cheaper than to Americans az home That
theory is very ingenious, but. unfortu-
natey, II is not true; for steel rails are
sold abroad at IS a ton less than they are
sold at home. and the fashions In steel
rams the Siftle OF SUBSTANTIALLY so.
STEEL RAIL PRICES.
VIII he or some other stand pat" ex-
plain why Americans should be made 20
pay one third more for American steel
rails than the citizens OF other nations
pay for them7 He may answer as did
Mr.. Representative Olmstead OF Pennsyl-
vania. that the railroad company pay for
the steel rails and that IL Is the business
OF nobody else how much they pay for
them; but Olmstead had more courage
than information for everybody with twc
ideas above n Hottentot knows that
everybody that travels on a railroad
everybody that ships anything on one
everybody that uses anything SO shipped
helps pay for the steel rails.
Tho railroad companies foot the bills
in the first instance and then make their
customers repay them with interest al
the highest rate the TRAFFIC will bear
OF piece Of foregoing false pretence,
Is that other one that Democrats would
destroy American industries. There IL
not a syllable OF truth In H. Why should
they want 10 destroy Industries? They
are vitality interested In maintaining
them and they wish TO see them all pros
per by giving 70 them all an equal chance
and not by fostering some at the expense
OF others.