The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22

tcontinue@ from First Pagsl tne last appeal of party advocacy are so saturated with concealed and tHesolne cIdims of infallibility and with supel sp,,. o,l lous disdain of all political efforts ps eAosp. sueh as are attempted under the pailei VI fepuplicansms. Shall this current coii tlnue at a time when at the partihs oi 1 the ways in our nations development we | are especially called to patriotic ehousn. iulness and careful contemplation ol Palts 1 ueslgns and to vigilant Watch asaiist oangers that beset us? My 1alth III my l countrymen will not permit me to pelleVe this, or to doubt that they will insist upon l examining for themselves the accounts or l party stewardship.
 People Among Every Station
 They know that their countrys pros perity like the rains of heaven, should be distributed among all the people in every station of life; and they will chal- lenge the claim of a party which boasts of a prosperity 1t has wrought which gives to it's pampered favorites added op- portunites to increase their riches while the poor and those who toll wait like | Lazarus to be fed from the crumbs Whlch Tall from the rich mans table
 The party will be given Just credit which early or late has endeaVored 10 | SdIeSuard the SOununeSS CT lHe Hdtloh D currency, but the people will reject as | savoring of presumption the insistence that only those belonging to one party | organization. can claim to be the protee- tors and defenders of our fianancial in- tegrity, nor will they forget that the fght was hotly on when many of the leaders of the party now making such an insis- tence were worse than lukewarm in the cause.
 "A party may indulge in self-congratu- lation when 1t has effectively defended the | people in their daily life from the rapacity of trusts and combinations which thrive as private enterprise Is strangled and which grow fat as by their control Of the | cost of living they cause the homes or | our land to grow lean; but the people will hardly approve the vociferous pride which claims that a successful attack up- on the merger of the stock of certain com peting railroads has rescued them from their oppressors.
 Combinations Still FlourIshlng.
 'They will not fail to observe that the huge combinations which directly injure them still flourish, and they may also re- call how the consternation among those implicated in such schemes who once feared general pursuit was quieted when the soothing assurance reached them that the government did not intend | to run amuck' Nor will they probably accept the suggestion that repentance or a change of heart accounts for the man ner by which the threats and animosity of many powerful trust magnates have been displaced by their approval and substantial support of the party which seeks to convince the people of it's trust destroying procliyities.
 This item of account will not be passed over without reference to the platform statement that protection which guards and develops our industries Is cardinal policy of the republican party, nor with out noting the declaration of the candi- date standing on this platform that the protective tariff policy ought now to be considered as definitely established
 "The question will be asked, which are the American industries that at this time are in need of the shelter of such tariff as now in force? And is there never to be a time when American enterprises American ingenuity and American oppor- tunity will free our industries from their stage of infancy and permit American inspiration and American self-reliance to cast away the leading strings of a defi- nitely established protective policy? The people know that this policy has given rise to reckless greed and to worship of gain menacing patriotic sentiment and
 
 greatness, and they know that at best 1t lays burdens on the consumers of our land.
 Restrain or Destroy.
 With these tendencies and these bur dens in mind, they will ask the party protesting It's anxiety to restrain or de- stroy harmful combinations, which pro tective tariff policy should be considered
 
 definitely established which in addition to its other sins, contributes to situa- tion that permits a combination or mo- nopoly to sell abroad articles of our man. ufacture at lower prices than are exacted from our own citizens at home. They will see the sheer wrongfulness of this condition so clearly and they will so firm ly believe that in this way they are made to bear tariff burdens In order that they may be discriminated agaist in favor of foreign consumers that they will not be satisfied with the assurance that the tariff has nothing to do with the trusts.
 They will consign such an explana- ton to the limbo of negation, to take it's place with worn-out deception that the foreign exporter pays our tariff taxes. and With two other weak pretenses-one that the tariff should be reformed only by its friends, and the other that the party which believes that protective tariff policy ought to be considered as definitely established, loves reciprocity in trade
 Crushed Out Resistance.
 When the platform boast is made that in the Philippines we have suppressed instruction, established order and given to life and property a security never known there before the confession will be extorted that the insurrecton sup | pressed was not more than the thrashin out of resistance to the army of the United States, while engaged In the sub Jugation of people thousands of miles from our shores. whom an incident of war undertaken by us in aid of those struggling for liberty and Independence in another quarter had put within our power; and the people will ask under what sanction was this subjugation en- tered upon by a nation pledged to the doctrine that all just powers of govern ment are derived from the consent of the governed; and they will deny that im- | perialsm and our forcibe rule of foreign people will have any place among the purposes of our national life.
 When credit is claimed for securing a route for a long-desired interoceanic water way, it will not be in a carping spirit that the people will look at the incidents accompanying this achievement They do not undervalue the object gained, but they keenly appreciate the importance and value of our national honor, our na- tional good name and above all our na-