The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08

how much they pay for them, but olm-I stead had more courage than informa- tion, for everybody with two ideas above a Hottentot knows that everybody thatl travels on a railroad, everybody that shipsl anything on one. everybody that uses any, thing so shipped, helps to pay for thei steel rails. The railroad companies footl the bills in the first instance then makel their customers repay them with inter- est at the highest rate the traffic wiiIl bear.
 Another False Pretense.
 Of piece with the foregoing false pre{ tense Is that other one that democrata would destroy American industries. Ther8 is not a syllable of truth in 1t. Whyl should they desire to destroy ndustriesaI They are vitally interested in maintaining them and they wish to see them prosper by giving to them all equal chancs and not fostering some at the expense of others The true democratic position onl the tariff Is this:
 Recognizing that a large portion of ourl revenue has always been raised from cus- toms duties or taxes demands divide all imports into three classes--necessaries comforts and luxuries-and all contend that the tariff taxes should be highesh on luxuries. lower on comforts and lowestl or none at all on the necessaries. They furthermore say that taxes shall be uni- . form 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 mis- representation will cause them to bulge from that position. We say furthermore that not 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 0 government economically administered. On these propulsion we believe we are right, and on them we confidently rely in our appeal to the American people in November
 The Marine Policy.
 When Napoleon signed the title deeds to this vast country west of the Missis- slppi river, he turned to the American commissioners and said Now, I have given England maratime rival" and so he had, until unsuitable greed and crim- inal mal-administration banshed the starry banner of tho republic from the high seas and abdicated the rich domainI of the ocean. In 1860 we had the secondl largest merchant marine in the world our sails whtened every harbor and our flag noated In every breeze under the heavens. How sadly all this has changed after thirty-fiye years of republican mis- rule Last year of all the merchantmen that went through the Suez canal. not a single vessel, great or small, except bat tleships, bore the American flag at it's masthead, and our flag is seen In foreign waters only when flying over man-of- war. Worse than this--more humiliating than this-a few years ago when congress appropriated large sum of money to buy corn and wheat and meat to send to the ca ay,,t,, atrfo Eaa al Ind tna m send It in an American-bullt ship, for the all-sufficient reason there was none 10 send 1t in but our great humiliation was to hire foreign ship in which to send over charity to our starving fellow men.
 When an American goes abroad he must sail under a foreign flag, on foreign ship under foreign officer
 Why have things come to this shame ful, this pitiful complexion in a country that has the finest material for ships and sailors in the world? Because our exorbitant tax system has made 1t im- possible for an American to build ship In competition with the British ship build CTS on the River Clyde
 Yet the republican gang has the in- finite gall to prate about its patritoism.
 Our boys are rushing off to face death in search of gold in the Klondyke region, when the oceans of the world contain a millian Klondykes if the republican party would only permit them to work the watery main.
 The Trust Attitude
 Republicans claim in public to be the great and only trust busters, notwtth- standing the fact that under republican misrule trusts have sprung up like mush- rooms in damp cellar and have become plentiful as berries in June.
 It Is said that straws show which way the wind blows Here is a straw which indicates that the t3ists have nothing to fear from republican trust busters. It is the appointment of Attorney General Philander C. Knox. republican trust bus ter par excellence. to succeed the late Matthew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania in the senate of the United States. There would have been nothing strange or sus- picious1 about that performance were 1t not for the influences which secured ths appointment of MT. Knox. There can be no question about his intellectual quail ifications for the position. The same can be said truly of some other Pennsylvania republicans John Dalzell and Joseph C. Sibley. for instance.
 People will open their eyes in astonish- ment and begin to inquire as to the why and wherefore of his appointment when they learn that the transfer of MT. Knox from the attorney generalship to the sem ate was procured by the earnest and suc- cessfui efforts of Mir. Prick. MT, Cassatt and Mir Donald Cameron to induce Unit ed States Senator Boise Penrose the new republican boss of Pennsylvania to per init MT. Knox to be senator. for Governor appointment. does not appear to have been considered at all in the premises. The amazement of <S~ xs~S . . Sxs 1~~ -