Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-04-07
home markets with less protection tfke q.
60 ~ and 100 per cent?
Would Cut Duties.

home markets with Tess protection tfks q.
60 ~ and 100 per cent?
Would Cut Duties.
81 believe our manufacturer and farm
ers must depend very largely on foreign
markets for the growth and success OF
their business in the future, and II they
are forced to sell such a large per cent.
of their products in competition with the
rest of the world why should we not adopt
a national policy that will enable them
to place their products in foreign markets
at as little cost as possible? That is the
way to capture the worlds trade, for Gus
TONERS as a rule are going to buy where
they can get the best bargains.
'In order to do this We must give our
manufacturers CHEAPER raw material. our
farmers cheaper machinery and our peo-
pie cheaper necessaries Of life. Such a
policy will not only be beneficial to our
manufacturers and farmers, but for the
best interests of all laboring classes. The
cheaper you make farm machinery, the
cheaper you make clothing and other man
ufactured~ products, the more of those prod
ucts will be sold both at home and abroad,
and the more sold the greater will be the
demand for labor in their production.
Fallacy of Protection.
zone Of the most plausible arguments
ever advanced for protection was that it
would build up home industries which. by
competing witt each other, would bring
down prices to consumers. Now, when our
people who AVE been taxed so long to pro.
tect these home industries see them COM
bining with each other to destroy home
competition they think they are no longer
entitled to protection against foreign COM
petition. And this is why so man, believe
nat the duty should be reduced on all those
articles controlled by the trusts, not as a
complete remedy, but a sound one so far as
il extends.
while the democratic party has no war
to make on honest wealth or property ac-
cumulated through honest and legitimate
methods, and while 1t recognizes that an
aggregation of capital and a consolidation
of enterprises may cheaper the cost of
production in the interest Of consumers,
yet it insists that all those vicious COM
binations formed for the purpose of de-
s~troying competition, monopolizing com
modities and forcing from the people UNI
just and unreasonable profits should be
suppressed by proper legislation n a
strict enforcement of law.
Trusts Find Roosevelt Harmless.
"If the republican party desires to take
the trust question out of politics let it go
on with its prosecution in good faith. The
49, "fNh sStAA, AtA - hsS -" - -
with them let congress amend the law be-
fore it adjourns; every democrat in con-
gress is ready to vote necessary amend
ments,
at is true Mr.. Roosevelt a short time be-
fore he became president made some pref
ty severe declarations against the trusts,
but just as soon as he was " a position to
do something his indictments against
trusts were mere apologies for their exist
ence, and the greatest joke ever, attempted
on the American people was the report that
Theodore Roosevelt was to be the anti
trust candidate for president. Whatever
might have been their fear in the begin
ming, the trusts have long since learned
what a harmless agitator he is.
Republicans Hide Postal Frauds.
again, Mr.. Chairman, it seems to me
the republicans in congress by refusing an
investigation of the post office department
have made the public scandals of this adj
ministration a very pertinent issue in the
next campaign. No one can read the re-
port of the bribery and larceny that lave
been going on in the post office department
and the reckless and notorious methods
with which they a " been allowed to con-
tinue for years without fixing some re-
sponsibility for those official crimes on the
head of that department.
with the most serious charges of cor
ruption pending against the post office de-
partment, the general land office and the
Indian bureau, the republican party is on
guard at every door leading to these cham
bers of public plumber, refusing admittance
to the peoples representatives to make q
full and fair investigation into the rotten
ness Of those great departments and re-
port TO the country how its business has
been conducted.
1.-THE refusal of the republicans to allow
a nonpartisan investigation of the crimina
conduct that has been going on in tht
post office department can bear but ont
construction, and that is they are afraiC
an honest investigation would uncover new
crimes that would cast further reflections
on this administration.
Roosevelt Unsafe President.
at might be well for you, gentlemen, tt
remember that in 1876 a democratic presi
dent was elected on the issue turn tht
raScalS out
at is no longer Il secret that the bushes!
interests of the country, including man!
supporters of President Mckinley, do no
regard Mr.. Roosevelt as a safe man 70
the position he is now attempting to fill
BY many his administration is considered
a continuous experiment too theatrical 70
the business interests of the country, with
out sufficient time between acts to ALLOW
the people a good breathing spell.
'"There are some recent incidents in hi
administration to justify the Apprehension
that on some strenuous occasion he is liza
BILE TO go off too suddenly and inconsider
ately and greatly embarrass the country il
some of the graver affairs of government
So, all conditions considered, there is mucl
to encourage democracy in the approach
ing campaign.
Democrats United.
IT desire to call the attention Of tn
country to the fact that the republican pres
| Is doing everything in its power to max
} the country believe that the democrat
will not be united in the next election. ]
Is to the interest of the republican part
that such an impression should be ere
ated. 1t helps to retSin in its " rank
those republicans dissatisfied with this ad
ministration. And as a part of their pla
the republicans are doing everything pos
sible TO induce democrats to line up wit
some radical candidate and disorganiz
themselves into a hopeless division befor
the national convention meets. But ! don
believe the great body of democrats will b
e influenced by suggestions from any sue
r source"