The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-09-02

KIND or another per annum. Onr do
mestic trade is thus twice the aggregate
export trade of the world, / snhmit
that this is worth looking after. But in
PROOF OF my previous statement that
the republican party has not neglected
the export trade, the United States has
the largest export trade OF all these 60
countries, and more than oneeighth of
the aggregate.
make the assertion. without fear IF
even an attempt at contradiction. that
iree trade and tariff for revenue only are
ioehtieal. This is proven, as we lawyers
say, Id the horn books. All elementary
WORKS on political economy use the
Terms synonymously. Great Britain
Is uotori0usly Tree trade country. 1t
= Cne only tree trade country of any i'm
portance. Yet England raises more
Caril revenue per capita than the United
states. Her tariff revenues exceed 81
per capita, and our tariff revenues are
about $3 80. But Great Britain levies
her tariff for revenue only. She Ievies
none Tor protection. We levy some for
revenue, but mostly for protection.
About the Trusts.
9, On the subject OF truets, Secretary
Shaw said:
| IN put these four men in front ofIme
III trust. Wen say thev are mapufar-
Curers OF cOrnstarch. Under the old
way Of organizing trusts. which thew
wanted to combine to raise prices tbev
would have appointed trustee to take
charge OF their product. They wouId
| nave turned it over to him. and no
would have marketed it. Controlling
the entire product. he would put the
price up as high as he pleased. Final
y ne would tell one of the concerns to
close lCs factory, and it would be done:
out the profits from the product of the
other three would be divided with the
one which closed"
Secretary Shaw pointed out that this
CONDITION In the business world became
SO prevalent during the first Cleveland
administration that q democratic con-
sress appointed commission to nvesti-
edCe. lie emphasized this fact as show
ihg ChaC the republican party and it's
poilcy were not responsible for the ex-
lsIehce OF trusts, and that they are not
a recent innovation. He pointed out
that the commission appointed to in
vestlgate did not report until two days
before the Harrison administration went
into office, and then was unable to
agree on remedy.
In the very next session of congress-
John Sherman introduced his antitrust
Dill. 1t passed both houses of congress.
winch were republican, and was signed
oy republican president. 1t made
combinations in restraint Of trade NM
ishaDle by imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary.
The hrst antitrust platform was re-
ported by William Mckinley in the ma
tlonal convention of 1888. The first
antitrust bill was drafted by John Sher-
man and signed by BENJAMIN Harrison.
The first hard, relentless effort to enforce
that bill was made by your present
heroic president, Theodore Roosevelt.
Such, my friends, is the record OF the re-
publican party on the trust question:
ssnrvDaty in the Philippines.
On the Philippine question Secretary
Shawtsaid in part:
In dealing with this question | al
ways use parable. For nearly a CEN
tury Uncle Sam had listened to cries of
murder by night and in the morning had
seen blood on the doorstep of his little
nelghbor across narrow strip OF sea.
One morning he arose and said to his
family; I'm going across the way and
put a stop to that And his family
with one voice bade him go.
he DID put stop to it. But as the
result OF the fracas in which he engaged
he came back with a squalling infant on
his arm-the Philippines. He didn't
want the little brat, but what was be to
do with it? Some of his children wanted
to turn it adrift-give it away, or leave
1t on a neighbours doorstep; Others
wanted to adopt it as a member of the
family. But the majority of his kith
and kin concluded that he should do
neither They concluded that he should
bear the expense Of raising it until it
reached manhood's estate; that he
should put up with the trouble incident
to its raising, and, when it reached ma
turity, should then decide what it's future
should be. 1t was policy OF human
ity."
Secretary Shaw argued that no man
in this day could say what should be
the final disposition of the Philippine
islands; that was a problem for future
generations to settle after the work of
civilizing the FilipinOs had been accom-
plished. He excOriated the democratic
party, and W. j. Bryan in particular,
for conniving at the ratification of the
treaty whereby the islands we're secured,
and then injecting it as political issue.
Always Hunting An Issue.
never indulge but one criticism of the
democratic party. | concede that some
OF the highest minded, some of the best
educated some of the most patriotic
and some of the best men in the world
disagree with me politically.
My criticism is this: 1t seems to me
that the leaders of the democratic party
are exercising more anxiety TO discover
an issue on which TO win a campaign
than in formulating a wise policy for the
management of the government after
they have won their campaign.
The year 1892 was the most prosper
GUS this country had ever seen. Meas
ured by the amount of business done,
measured by the money on deposit in
the banks, measured by anything and
measured by everything. 1892 was the
best year this country has ever seen.
Looking for an issue to win campaign
upon, our democratic friends declared
protection both unwarranted by the
constitution and vicious.
generation had grown up under the
protective principle and knew nothing of
the evils that always have and always
will and always must result from tariff
for revenue only. As a matter of po-
| litical expediency, "Down with high