The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-06

the teeth of the refusal of the Republican
administration to take any initiatory
step looking toward the reconvenins OF
the joint high commission for the pur-
pose of esta blishing reciprocal trade re-
/ lations between our northern neighbor,
Canada. and our children there and
ourselves. Could complacent and reck-
less effrontery have gone further than
| it mas gone in making this statement
There is a succeeding statement, how
ever which viii vie with it. 1t II
where the platform favors CONNER
cial reciprocity wherever reciprocal ar
arrangements can be effected without in
jury to American agriculture, American
labor or any American industry"
The word "any" is good in that con-
nection. What a stop-cog it is to the
turning of the wheel of commercial
reciprocity! Think of its full import!
Injury is good in that connection,
too. 1t all depends upon what 10
meant by the word. If the audience
will excuse me for quoting myself, I
on that subject: "'If the phrase means
anything it means this, that the Re-
publican party is not willing to secure
immensely larger market for the
produce of our farms. mines, forests,
or even manufactures abroad, if in re-
turn for them it shall be compelled
to admit into competition with even
the least of our industries any articles
of foreign growth or production.
Judging by Senator Lodges records in
opposition to the French reciprocity
and sent to the senate by PresidentA
Mckinley. it would mean that the Re-
publican party would refuse, If they
were offered, greatly extended mar
kets for western and southern and
middle states products if thereby it
were threatened to cut down per
cent. of the possible charges of a Mas
sachusetts cotton knitting mill"
To Be No Reciprocity.
This construction of the plank is in
keeping, too, with the utterance of Mr..
Dalzell, of Pennsylvania perhaps the
most highly accredited floor leader of
the Republican party, who amid an
outburst OF Republican applause said
on the floor of the house that the Re-
publican party would not have reci-
procity except ''in non-competing ar
ticles."
He and his colleagues, upon the
Republican side, were then challenged
to name a single article produced
anywhere in the world that either was
not produced or could not be produced
somewhere in some of the states or
territories or Experiment append
ages under the stars and stripes. OF
course this. if it means anything,
means that there is to be no sort of
reciprocity at all. L venture my head
that Mr.. Dalzell is delighted with
any" There is cunningly concealed
in the Republican platform the hydra
head of yet worse form of special
legislation namely, by direct subsidy
taking money out of the treasury and
in this case the class of shipbuild-
ers and ship owners.
1t will be noted also that the Re-
publican party was quite brave enough
to say out loud 'Ey1at it wanted and
what it intended TO do. This ship
subsidy plank is bolstered by the
usual false statement, this time in
nuendo, that the English merchant
marine-the most prosperous of all
is dependent upon subsidies. Every
dollar paid by the English government
60 49,
carrying the mails and is paid to the
lowest bidder and foreign ships are
permitted to bid. How plain a tale
doth put them down. 1 say it is the
worst form of special legislation. be-N
cause it is naked and without hyproc-TN
risy and hypocrisy is the reverence
which vice pays to virtue. An indi-
rect subsidy, like prOtectionism, is at
least yelled with the pretense of being
necessary taxation and that hides it's
enormity from the public view. Things
days of the Roman republic when
government consisted chiefly in dis
tributing bread and giving circuses.
The worst of all this is that II is
sought to be justified, like protection
ism upon the pretext that it is done
for the benefit of american labor"
If you want to give labor by legisla-
ton panem ct circenses, why not give
it directly? If you are going to take
money out of the treasury in order to
increase the remuneration why not do
it frankly ana honestly IL your CD
ject in ship subsidy is to increase the
wages of the sailors, why not decide
upon the percentage of increase advisa-
BILE, make the appropriation and pay it
over to the sailors themselves. 1t would
be no more justifiable to pass law to
give every sailor and man and woman
in the United States earning less than
one dollar day increase of so per
cent than it would be by protection
ISM or ship subsidy, to pretend to have
that end in view, while the money rails
ed from consumers by taxation, instead
of being paid directly over to the la
borer who constitutes the pretext of the
law, is percolated through the hands
of others to whose fingers most of it
publicans say that the law will make
the corporations liable to pay higher
wages" Who is going to intercede eff
with the almighty to make
them willing to do it?
Chinese Exclusion.
Then our friends and enemies speak of
the the Republican policy Of Chinese exclu-
staying in office. Again mo no mention of
salient facts, towit: that the votes Of
for the proviso presented by VI G. H:tt to
continue co, by LEGISLATION the exclusion pol
pire, nor of the fact that Mr.. Hit yield
s TO sRe in s b on
between the two parties when they voted
for the Chinese excluslonist is: Demo
ton and principles of their party. Dem
0crats, as a rule, make no disguise of the
fact that they want to retain this country
as far possible, a home for the
white man and a nursery for his civili-
zation, and that they desire, as far as
possible to have homogeneous population
so that when they vote to exclude the
Chinese they cast a Democratic vote.
voting the same way antaRo-
1ize the professions which they them
selves make in connection with other ra-
,ial questions. They profess, a party,
10 believe that men are equal and ought
10 receive equal governmental and So
,ial recognition regardless of race. When
he Republicans have voted for Chinese
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