The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-05


this number has been increased since
that time l do not know but the work
has gone merrily on Whatever the
number may be-we only have to COM
pare the general situation and known
facts now existing with those existing
when the Dingley law took effect to
see how prolific this most exorbitant
of all schemes for tariff protection, has
been of these industrial contrivances.
The Parent of Trusts.
l ought not to fatigue your intelli-
gence by detailing further facts show
ing that the protective policy which
the Republican party has imposed up
on the country and which that party
in the pending campaign noisily de-
tends, not only has something to do
with trusts, but that by it's very ma
ture as well as by it's natural results
1t is the parent and accessory of the
robbing marauders which vex and af-
fiict our peoples life and demand trib-
ute in every home of our land. They
dictate the prices we shall pay for the
food we eat, the clothes we wear and
the habitations in which we live. We
are within their shadow from the
cradle to the grave. Even beyond
the grave they follow us. We hear of
a Tombstone Trust, protected by a
tariff duty of from 3S to so per cent;
and the newspapers informed us only
few days ago that a convention of
associated undertakers was thrown
into CONSERVATION by the non-appear-
ance of its treasurer.
You cannot wonder that I am star
tied by the difference between condi-
tons now and those that prevailed
when / visited Newark in the presi-
Dental campaign of 1884. Then the
people were not in the letters of
the trusts and combinations; the ex-
penditures of the government were
careful and economical as compared
with the extravaganza Of these later
days; and the rate of tariff taxation
which the Democracy then condemn
ed as yielding more than sufficient
revenue for government needs, was
moderate as compared with present
eXactions. / come again after TWEEN
ty years. The rate of tariff taxa
ton has decreased by one-fourth, the
expenditures of the government have
more than doubled; and hundreds OF
Industrial trusts and combinations,
the vicious progeny of extreme tariff
protection. openly or stealthily search
the pockets OF our people. Again / use
my words of twenty years ago: The
right Of the government to exact trib-
ute from the citizen is limited by its
en- from the people beyond that re-
CURED for their protection by the gov
eminent is no better than robbery"
A Deep Specification.
AS I repeat those words. the ques-
ton Is I'm my mind whether the start
ling charges we contemplate Will add
force and emphasis to this sentiment,
which IN 1884 WAS Endorsed by our
couptrymen, or whether with those
changes another OF deeper and sadder
Significance has taken place in our
PEOPLES modes OF thought and their
conceptions Of Americans sturdiness Of
citizenship. Has the steady growth OF
public extravaganza been 30 artfully
concealed by glorihcation Of their coun-
try's progress that thew no longer
consider public frugality as a funda-
mental element IN governmental duty
which they cannot remit either with
safety 10 our institutions or Justice 10
their own best interests
Have our people been 20 misled by
ne glamour of unsound prosperity and
% deceived By the pretense that an