The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-05-24


general value OF our own hand, buti
cIear-headed about the probable vaIus.l
OF the other mans hand.
"Paraphrasing Mr.. Lincoln's. hofaely|
wisdom, it may be said that Yea can
bluff some of h people all IA time,
all the people some OF the time.
but you can't bluff all Of the people
Jail the time.
The most ardent tariff revisicnistl
has only words of praise for the Ding,
ley law. 1t was most necessary when
lenacted, and ii has justified itself a
hundred times over. Everything that
was promised in its name has GOMEZ
Ito pass. American industries that
iweTe ianguishing have revived and are
lf~ourishing. New ventures have taken
and are in promising condition
Work is plentiful and wages are good.
THE farmers have forgotten what q
mortgage looks like, and there are
ichickens in more pots than we have
lever known in this country before.
The times are excellent.
Neither is there any condemnation
lof the principle of protection. Even
Those democrats who a few a ago
Iwere classed as rabid free traders are
Iconceding now that protection is a
lgood thing. and are anxious to have
lit understood hat they do not medi-
itate fits destruction. They assure h
country hat If their party is returned
to power no step taken by it shall be
laimed at the policy as a policy which
is SO deeply rooted in American favor.
Protection then as a policy is not in
lperil, and cannot be brought into
peril by what is proposed in the in
lterest Of tariff revision. The advocate
lof the Iowa idea is as much a protec-
Zionist as the standpatter. He cannot
be driven away from protection.
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THE Dingley law in some directions
ihas fulfilled it's mission. Certain in
ldustries have been so greatly benefited
by il that they are enjoying, not pro-
lection, but bounties under it. Mr..
Mckinley saw this, and spoke of 1t
lat Buffalo. Any we may believe that
if Mr.. Dingley were now with us he
would agree to the same proposition.
schedules relating to those Industries
ARE not only not sacred, but have be-
Icome injurious to the public welfare,
They ought to be revised. And they
will be revised"
The Washington Post has the fol-
flowing to say regarding the action OF
Ethe stand p~atters' in over-rutng
the Iowa idea" republicans in the
Estate conventions in Ohio and Illinois
1t seems from this that the former
carried their principle toe far to suit
the administration and to such an ex-
tent as to give it alarm and to cause
it to take steps to counterfeit the
Ievil effect of over-zealousness along
this line The Post says:
Plausible explanations will doubt.
less be forthcoming for the peculiar
latitude on the questions of tariff re-
vision and reciprocity taken by the
republican conventions in Iowa and
lOhio. On the face of the returns i
Hooks very much like the standpatter
had taken the bit in their teeth anG
lcarried the president and his peIitica
advisers far ava from the path o
party policy marked out by AIR. Nc
lKinley and which the present admin
listration so frequently promised tt
carefully follow. 1t is not clear hoy
far the president has gone in approx
ing this departure, and there are som,
indications that the party manager
lhave taken advantage of their powel
land pushed him ahead farther thar
he had planned to go. This is strong
lily indicated by the action of the low:
republicans. Secretary Shaw, recogniz
led as the presidents strongest politica
lieutenant in Iowa, has even beer
Ioverridden by the convention and hi
proposition for a harmony TART
Iplank rejected"