The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-14

work Of organised labor. In opposition to
the protected interests
The home market no longer suffices TO
consume the immense production OF our
own manufactures and industrial enter
prises.
PRESIDENT M'KINLEYs LAST SPEECH.
President Mckinley, for long years the
leading exponent OF protection, recog..
nized that the time had come TO breach, 4
not tear down the Chinese wall with which
he had helped to surround US.
In his last speech. made In Buffalo, the
| day before he was assassinated, he said:
What we produce beyond our domestic
consumption must have vent ABROAD ne
EXCESS eS;a, must be relieved through foreign
can and buy wherever the buying would en-
large our sales and productions. and thereby
The period Of exclasiveness Is passed. The
expansion snls OF our trade and commerce ID sne
r00sm pocS N good w ~ ad
friendly trade relations will prevent reprlsals
Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the
| are not.
| The Republican Governor Of Iowa has
declared that he Is In favor of free trade
with Canada in agricultural products and
OF reciprocity with all the world.
President Roosevelt, In his message to
Congress, December, 1901, said:
II, Wherever the tariff conditions are such
that needed change cannot with advantage
b s made by the application Of the reGiiproGity
| the duties on given products.
=, Charles S. Mellen, president Of the New
York, New Haven d Hartford Railroad
Company, which trayerses the New Eng
1904, said that their railroad had been
forced to discharge its men because Of the
| general depression OF business throughout
the New England States.
He added that undoubtedly reciprocity
| treaties with Canada would restore the
| former business situation in New England.
and whatever benefited business in the
New England States would benefit the
whole country.
Yet in the face OF all this, the tariff policy
OF the Republican party this year Is fifty
expressed in the sporting phrase. stand
| pat
WHAT DEMOCRATS ASK.
| We ask revision and reduction Of the
| tariff to protect the home market and
home consumers from the greed of trusts
and monopolies fostered and protected by
| the present tariff laws.
We do not propose to use the barbarous
expression OF the administration, run
| amuck."
We do not propose to destroy business
| but to build 1t up; not for favored class,
but for all. Not to make radical changes
that will shake the business world.
We do not expect to accomplish every
thing at once, but to make steady steps
toward tariff reduction; no steps back
ward; with no favored classes. and no
| trusts or monopolies fostered or protected
| by law at the expense of all the people.
STATE ISSUES.
Judge Herrick then proceeded to discuss
State issues at length, along substantially
| the lines of his Buffalo speech, on Wednes-
| day evening, demanding, among other
things, that the books be opened, that I'M
| necessary offices be abolished, and that
the, persistent search for new revenues
give place to retrenchment Continuing
| he said:
There is another matter to which de-
sire briefly to call your attention, and that
is those features OF the Excise law OF the
| State which called into being what Is known
as the Raines law hotel. Any one who
keeps simply liquor saloon cannot legally
sell liquor on Sunday, but any one who
has a so-called hotel license is permitted
to sell liquor as freely on Sunday as on
other days, from early morning until late
at night.
"Of course, the dealer in liquors does not
wish to lose his trade. and he fears that
those who are accustomed to drinking on
Sunday will resort to the same place on
week days to obtain their refreshments.
His effort, then, is to obtain hotel license,
so, that he will have the privileges and
liberties appertaining to those houses
which have permanent boaTders, and
accommodate the travelling public.
The Raines law hotel is hotel with
bar it must have ten furnished bedrooms.
and it must have separate room where
meals and beverages are supplied. The re-
suit is that in all Of the larger cities OF the
State hotels have multiplied beyond meas
ure, far beyond the requirements of the
locality, or the needs OF the travelling
public. As a matter of fact, the large
majority Of them are not for supplying
any such needs. but are for the purpose
OF enabling the proprietors to sell liquors
at all hours, and upon all days OF the week,
without restriction, provided they. serve
something to eat, which usually takes the
form Of sandwich, which is seldom eaten,
and does duty over and over again until
finally it is worn out by use, but not by
mastication.
parts Of our cities. The so-called bedrooms,
which the proprietor is compelled to have,
are not used by permanent boarders or
by the travelling public. No inquiries are
made as to whether the guests who Use
them from time to time are or are not hus-
band and wife, but some revenue must be
derived from them, they cannot be per-
mitted to be idle. and male and female
guests are allowed freely to occupy. them,
until the result is that our large cities are
dotted all over with houses of assigna-
ton and i'll fame, and those who under the
old order of things did not know where
such places were to be found. now find
them in their midst inviting and tempt
ing young men and women to degradation
and ruin.
INCREASE IN DEBAucHERY.
They have been the cause OF an enor-
nous increase in immortality and debauch-
cry, and the continuance OF this sta,e of
affairs is reproach and shame to the
good name of our State. That portion of
the law which encourages and fosters the
creation of these resorts almost neces-
sarily houses Of vice and immortality, and
afterward protects them, should in the
name of decency be wiped from the statute
books of the State.
or course, it's always easy to criticise
but not always to remedy. 1t seems to
me that one way would be to require every
hotel to procure a license from the Mayor
or some other local authority responsible
to him. and prohibit the issuing Of any
hotel liquor license to any one not hold
ing local hotel license.
This would enable the local authorities
to exercise control; as 1t is, the State license
in a large measure protects the holders
against any action of the local authorities
to close or regulate their places. 1t would
restore one Of the most important parts
OF home rule to our cities, one which has
more to do than any other with good order