The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-12
We're After the Dentist +!
DIR. Edwin D. Morrow

803 Commercial Ave-, Cairo, Ill,
the Democrats claim. and refers ID
the reduction Of the tariff by the VII
son bill as follows: III Is bur zen
years since the last attempt was
made. by means of lowering the tar
in, to prevent some people from pros
pering too much. The attempt was
entirely successful. tariff Iaw
that year was among the causes
which in that year and lor some time
afterwards effectnally prevented
anybody from prospecting too much,
and labor from prospering at all. I'm,
doubtedly II would be possible at the
present time to prevent any OF The
trusts from remaining prosperous by
the simple expedient of making such
sweeping change in the tariff as to
paralyze the industries of the conn.
try. The trusts would cease to pros.
per; but their smaller competitors
would be ruined, and the wage-worlx
ers would s.arve, while ii would not
pay the farmer to haul his produca
TO market. The evils connected with
the trusts can be reached only nv
rational effort, step by step, along
hines taken by congress and the ey
ecutiye during the past three years
II tariff law is passed under which
the country prospers, as the country
has prospered under the present tar.
In law, then all classes wfil share In
the prosperity. If a tariff law i,
passed aimed at preventing the pros
perlty of some of our people, 1t Is as
certain as any thing can be that this
aim will be achieved only by cutting
down the prosperity of all Of our
people
From time to time" however, he
says, schedules must undoubtedly
be rearranged and readjusted to meet
the shifting needs of the country |
but this can with safety be done only |
by those who are committed 70 the
cause OF the protective system. To |
lproot and destroy that system
would be to insure the prostration Of
business, the closing of factories
he impoverishment of the farmer
he ruin of the capitals and the
starvation of the wage worker" He
Iefends strongly the principle or
protection and declares fhat the
ountry owes its prosperity for the
ASH forty years to It, THE genuine
Underlying principle OF. protection.
e declares, ''as ii has been embod
ed in all but one of the American
arm laws for the last forty years
as worked out results so beneficent ,
Q evenly and widely spread, SO adj
analogous alike to farmers and can
-allstS and workingmen, to con
aerce and trade OF every kind. this
ne american people, If they sho
heir usual practical business sense
all insist that when these laws ara
lodifled they shall be modified with /.
he utmost care and conservatism ,
nd by the friends and not the enc. !
hes of the protective system. The,
annot AFFORD to trust the modifioa.
ON to those who treat protection
nd robbery as synonymous terms. /,
a Large Army. 4
He defends his position in favor of
standing army of $4,000 men. and If
avs the army is now relatively small II
than II was in the days of Wash r
lgton.
lie also defends his attitude as tc a
Aciprocity with Cuba, and declares +
Ia, the Democrats are opposed to it h
The Treasury Deficit. b
lie declares that the deficit in the b
easury, about which the Democrats il
e talking so loudly. is imaginary c
e says; The alleged deficit is OBJ a
ined by including in the ordinar, z
lrrent expenses the sum of fifty {
illions, which was paid for the rigt F,
way OF the Panama canal out an Il
e accumulated surplus in the treas.
y. Comparing the current or.linan 1t
penditures for the two years, there II
as a surplus OF nearly eighty mil. a
rs for the year 1900, and of only . ia
lie more than eight millions for the
ar that has just closed But Thu
intuition OF the annual surplus NJ
Is brought about by the abolition ar
the war taxes in the interval be- ri,
cen the two dates. The acts Of ~
'rch 2, 1901. and April u. 1902, cut II
wn the internal revenue taxes TO m
amount estimated at one hundred :
4 five millions a year"