The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30

from Increased production, other mar
kets must be found Furthermore,
when our manufacturers are dependent
on raw materials in whole or part i'm
ported, IL is vital to the extension of
their markets abroad that they secure
their materials on the most favorable
terms
Our martyred president. william Me-
| KfnIey, appreciated this situation He
pointed out I'm his last address to the
people that We must make sensible
trade arrangements IL I'VE shall ex-
tend the outlets for our increasing sur
plus" He said. "a system which pro-
vides a mutual exchange OF
ties is manifestly essential to the con-
tinued and headthfuI growth Of our
export trade The period
of exclusiveness is past. The expan-
sion of our trade and is the
pressing problem. Commercial wars
are Improbable. A policy OF good will
and friendly relations will prevent re-
prisals. Reciprocity treaties are in
harmony with the spirit of the times;
measures of retaliation are not"
This argument was made in the in
terest of our manufacturers whose
products. he urged, have SO multiplied,
hat the problem Of more markets re-
quireS our Urgent and immediate at
tention." He had come to realize that
the so-called stand pat" policy must
give way-that there must be a re-
duction of duties to enable our manu>
to cultivate foreign
The last words of this president-who
had won the affection of his country
men ought to be studied by every
man who has any doubt of the ne
cessity of a reduction in tariff rates
in the interest of the manufacturer.
They present with c~learness a situa-
ton and a proposed remedy that
yarsnvonfn6 tho nrnViCinn in OH FltQf-
form which declares that, w "
liberal trade arrangements with Cam
d and with peoples of other coun>
tries where they can be entered into
with benefit to American agriculture,
manufactures, mining or commerce"
The persistent refusal of the repub>
lican majority in the federal senate
! to ratify the reciprocity treaties ne
gotiated in pursuance of the policy adj
vocated alike by Mr.. Blaine and Mr..
| Mckinley, and expressly sanctioned in
the fourth section of the Dingley act,
is a discouraging exhibition Of bad
| faith. AS already mentioned by me,
the exorbitant duty imposed on many
| an imported article by the Dingley
| tariff was avowedly intended by its
author not to be permanent, but to
| serve temporarily as a maximum, from
| which the federal government was en-
| powered to offer a reduction, in return
for an equivalent concession on the
| part of a foreign country. President
| Mckinley undertook honestly to carry
out the purpose al this section of the
| act. A number of reciprocity agree
ments were negotiated within the
prescribed limit of two years, which,
if ratified, would have had the wo-
, fold result of ~cheapening many inn
ported products for American consum-
ers, and of opening and charging
4 foreign markets. t0 American DrO-
ducers. Not one of those agreements
has met with the approval of the re-
publican masters of the senate. In
deed they did not even permit their
consideration. In view of the attitude
of the present executive, no new agree
ment under the general treaty power
need be expected from him. Nor does
the republican platform contain q
favorable reference to one of the sus-
pended treaties. This section of the
Dingley act stands a monument o1
legislative cozenage m political bao
faith.
INDEPENDENCE FOR THE FILL.
PTNJOS.
In some quarters it has been assum.
I'd that in the discussion Of the Philip,
pine question in my response, The
phrase ''Self-goveTnment," was in
tended to mean something less than in
dependence. 1t vas not intended tina
it should be understood to mean, mol
do l think as used it does mean less
than independence. However, to elm
mate all possibility for conjecture,
now state that I am in hearty ACCORD
with that plank in our platform tina
favors doing for the Filipinos VIVA
we have already done for the Cubans
and | favor making the promise tt
them now that we shall take SUCH &C
ton as soon as they are r~easonabl.
prepared for it. If Independence, suci
as the. Cubans enjoy, cannot PRUDENT,
be granted to the Fiiipin0s at this time
the promise that it snail come the mo
ment they are capable of receiving
will tend to stimulate rather THAI
hinder their development. And thi
should be done not only in justice t
, the %Fflipinos, but to preserve our owl
, rights; for a free people cannot with
, hold freedom from another people am
themselves remain free. The to1era
!, ton of tyranny over others will 500
> breed contempt for freedom and SELF
government, and weaken our power o
resistance to insidious usurpation o
our constitutional rights.
2 AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.
, The pledge of the platform TO Sc
: cure to our citizens, without distinc
ton of race or creed, whether nativ
born or ~naturalized, at home an
abroad, the equal protection of tn
laws and the enjoyment of al tn
rights and privileges open to ther
under the of our treaties, a
their Just due, should be made good t
y them. In the accomplishment of tina
!, result it is essential that a paSspoI
issued by the government of the Unite
States to an American citizen sha
be accepted the world owe as proof c
, citizenship.
CIVIL SERVICE
t The statute relating to civil servic
I is the outcome of the efforts c
: thoughtful, unselfish and public spirit
e ed citizens. Operation under it ha
frequently been of Such a character a
g to offend against the spirit of the stat
ute. but the results achieved, eve
= under a partial enforcement of tn
law, nave been as to 10Th deserve an
command the u%tterance of the demo