The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-08

! not believe such nonstrous libel
| George III did wrong. Our fathers
( fought and conquered him. Theodore
/ Roosevelt does wrong. We will OPP
( pose and overthrow him.
Support the Presidents policy, ehc
VIII some gentleman please tell what
that policy is. Has he any? If so
why does not he say so? The truth
! is. he has none. He is an opportunist
waiting for something to turn up. He
/ is letting things drift, and they are
4 drifting to the deuce. Meantime. our
/ soldiers are being killed and are dying
[ of disease in the Philippines. For what
! purpose? Will anybody undertake to
! say? l defy any lingo to stand up
! and declare with a stright face what
| the Presidents policy or the Republic
! can policy is. No one will say; no
| one can say; but some say-more's the
/ pity and shame-'The President is
wrong; but we must support the Presi-
dent To this complexion has it come
at last by reason of the new-fangled
| 1ingoism that we must shut up our
thinkers, close our mouths and chloro-
form our consciences in order to be
: considered patriots.
1T aVails nothing to claim-as some
/ dO-that Col. Roosevelt is better than
his party. 1t is to be hoped most fer
Vently that he is-a great deal bet
ter, but in truth to tell a President
cannot be better than his party.
Even if he tries to be he is ruined
politically. Johnson, Hayes, Arthur
and the younger Harrison all tried that
experiment, and all of them were re-
fused second terms, either in conven-
ton or at the polls. So it will be with
Col. Roosevelt His particular friends
may deem him better than his party.
He may think so himself but never
| theless the party will drag him down
to it's level. No man ever found him
self in worse political company than
does President Roosevelt in this year of
grace. He is in the hands Of the Re
publican Philstines, and they will bind
him with their Withes.
In every state in the union it is
felony to get property of any sort-or
attempt to get 1t, by false pretenses.
If the same rule applies to the getting
of offices or attempts to get them the
whole Republican party could be sent
to the penitentiary.
zone of their false pretenses-the one
on which they harp the most this year
is that the Democratic party is in
favor of free trade. The charge is ut
terry false-a lie made of whole cloth.
There are individual Democrats who
are free traders just as there are in
dividual Republicans who ire atheists
but it would be precisely as true and
fair to denounce the Republican party
as the party of atheism as to denomi-
nate the Democratic party as the par
ty of free trade.
1T never was a free trade party and
is not now. The man who charges that
it is does so because of his ignorance,
or because of his mendacity.
Democrats favor the cutting down
of exorbitant tariff rates to a reason
able basis. They believe that in many
schedules 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
tariff schedules that may be required
to prevent them becoming a shelter
for monopoly. / wonder if Mr.. Sec
rotary Shaw ever heard those words
| before? They are taken verbatim from
the Iowa Republican platform of 1901.
The secretary whooped it up at a great
rate for Gov. A. b. Cummins and 9TH
ers nominated on that platform. He
scornfully denounces it now as the
dead Iowa idea"
But it was a righteous declaration
borrowed from Democrats. and is not
dead-not even dying.
Where tariff rates are so high they
enable American manufa cturers to sell
their wares abroad cheaper than they
do to Americans here at home. we say
that they ought to be reduced. Is this
anarchy or treason? If so, make the
most of it.
Cheap Abroad, Dear at Home.
Let Republican spellbinders and ed-
tors explain why an American farmer
should pay from a third to one-half
more for an American pillow than his
competitor in farming pays for it in
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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.
THE stand pat organs and speak
ers claim that only Anticipated sorts
of our manufactured articles are sold
abroad cheaper than to Americans at
home. That theory is very ingenious
but, unfortunately, it 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 rails remain the
same or substantially so.
win he or some other stand patter'
explain why Americans should be
made to pay third more for Amer
| lean steel rails than the citizens of
other nations pay for them?
The true Democratic position on the
tariff is this: Recognizing the fact that
| large portion of our revenue has al
ways been raised from customs duties
| or taxes Democrats divide all i'm
ports into three cases-nec ries,
comforts and luXuries, and contend
! that the tariff taxes should be highest
/ on luXuries, lower on comforts and
! lowest or none at all on the necessities.
! They furthermore say that taxes
/ should be uniform on all articles be-
! longing to one class. That is the
! Democratic party's position, from which
/ II will not be driven or coaxed or bull
! lied No amount of misrepresentation
will cause them to bulge from that
position, We say. furthermore, that not
one dollar more i'm the shape of tariff
/ be taken from the people than is neces-
sary to pay the expenses of a govern
ment 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
Our Merchant Marine.
when Napoleon signed the title to
! this vast country west of the Missis-
| sippi he turned to the American COM
/ missioners and said: Now, ! have
| given England a maritime rival. and
so he had until Unsuitable greed and
criminal maladministration banished
the starry banner of the republic from
the high seas and ahdicated the right
of domain Of the ocean. In 1860 we
had the second largest merchant ma
rine i'm the world-our sails whitened
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