The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-19

tiol Aii1Sd WIFI OFQ9fS, the demand fOr
labor was lessened, and the price of la
Dor began to go down. There lis no
more highly protected industry In the
country than the steel and iron indus
Try, yet this last week In Chicago,
before board of arbitrator, agreed
upon between the Republic Iron and
Steel company and its employees, the
board of arbitrator awarded a reduc-
lion OF 2 to ID per cent upon the wages
OF the employees of that company,
Which they had to accept Does not
this, and hundreds of other instances
! like this, demonstrate that the tariff
has nothing whatever to do with the
price of wages. but that they are regu-
lated solely by the great law OF supply
and demand?
! The price of steel rails, however,
has not decreased they still being held
at $2S per ten. solely because the giant
monopolies that control the steel rail
output are able also to control the
price. which must be paid them for
| their output
| The farmers, the labering men, and
business men Of the great Middle
2HeSt and Northwest, fully understand
this question. They are FESTIVE under
the burdens of the Dingley tariff. They
know and feel that they are being
robbed day by day through, by and
under this most infamous tariff. If
, the Democratic party will convince the
people of the country that they are
IN earnest in their intentions to re-
=, wise the tariff in the interests of the
| whole people. there would be no ques-
ton that the result would be an over
whelming victory"
The young men who have come to
be voters during the last eight years.
who are attracted in a measure by the
personality of President Roosevelt,
land who have not heard a full discus
sion of the tariff since they came to be
voters, would, upon such a discussion
being had, and an appeal being made
to their conscience upon great prin-
ciple, answer such an appeal by vot-
ing for the party that believes in the
equality of burdens and equality Of
opportunities. There is ample time for
this discussion now. / trust the lead
ers Of the party have sufficient nerve
not to be scared by the cry that dis
cussion OF the tariff would disturb
, business interests, and will bring this
| issue forward at once.
Cannot Disturb Business
IF the Democratic party is right in
its position upon the tariff; If it is cor
rect in principle, then discussion OF
this position ought not to disturb this
business interests. If it does disturb
them; if we are right, it simply follows
| that something is wrong with the bus
| mess interests of the country and that
they had. better be disturbed
William P. Black, one of the leading
Democrats and a distinguished mem
Der of the bar of Chicago, expressed
his confidence in the outcome Of the
campaign assfolIows:
Il believe that the great business
interests of the country have decided
that Judge Parker is safe and con-
sentative man, and that they will elect
him to the presidency. I cannot how
ever, lay claim to any special knowl-
edge of the situation other than thai
ton in an incidental way.
TT is my conviction that, from the
time President Roosevelt entered the
White house, the interests to which I
refer have regarded President Roose-
welt as an unsafe, disturbing and per-
haps unreasonable element. On the
other hand, it is equally evident that
WINGED that Judge Parker is a man Of
decidedly conservative tendencies, a
man who would always have in mind
the great business interests of the
country and would be very careful to
do nothing that would unduly disturb
them or threaten their peace. III
L more than this. it is apparent that
-CuS ouDSldIlldl DuSlllCSS- IllGn OG tilG
country, and especially those in the
! centers of commercial operations, figure
that, with Judge Parker in the White
house and with a Republican senate in
/ condition to act as a check upon him,
they would be in a far safer position
than with Mr.. Roosevelt as chief execu-
tive. 1t must be realized that a presi-
dent of strong and aggressive personal
will can coerce the members of his own
l. nQrfxy in aifhar hn1ICa af ipfn
the support Of measures to which they
are really opposed.
Presidents Override Congress
There was time when all presf-
dents were very serupulouS in their re-
gard for the constitutional limitations
and distinctions between the various
branches Of the government. This
practice, however, has in recent years
fallen decidedly out of fashion until
now it seems to be the accepted thing
that the president feels at liberty to
use all the power of his great position,
of its patronage and its other~infiu-
ences, to force his will and his policies
upon the legislative branch of the gov
eminent If not upon the judicial.
This statement is. I think, sufficient
to indicate why the leaders of business
prefer to have a conservative Demo-
cratic president in the White house,
Willie the senate must certainly remain
in Republican control and perhaps the
house also. In other words, am in
clined to think that the fact that the
senate will remain Republican will in
f1uence many strong interests and many
strong men to- support Judge Parker
in the present campaign, while they
would not do so were there any chance
that the senate would be Democratic
Men who would naturally be inclined to
support a Republican president, but
who are sensitive on the score Of Presi-
dent RooSevelt's sdiSpositional attitude
toward fixed commercial and industrial
interests, will undoubtedly labor earn
estly for the election Of Judge Parker,
believing him to be the safer and more
conservative man, and saying to them
selves that anyway, he will not, with
Republican senate, be In position to
do any harm that hundreds, il not
thousands, of substantial business men,
who have been alarmed by President
Roosevelt's aggressive and radical
course, will look at the matter in this
way / cannot doubt
"It looks to me like Democratic
year, and the feeling of Democratic vic
tory seems TO be in the air. The situa-
ton in New York and several other
Eastern states, as well as in Indiana
and Wisconsin, is decidedly hopeful"
N o. F.
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