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form hopes. the room of the committee on !
wayS and means.
have introduced bills to cut the tariff
On farming implements, salt and other
nsessseries Of life to the bone My bills
slssp In the same grave with those of my
troduosd similar bills, and they have all
sharsd the same fate.
Duties that are too high should be re-
duced!' Oh, yes, but l violate no conf
dence In stating that SO long as Repub-
lean stand paters" rule the congressional
roost the tariff rate on no schedule what
gosver will be reduced.
On the 18th OF March the Republicans Of
Minnesota In convention assembled nomi-
mated ticket and made declaration Of
principles. In their platform they say:
1--WE favor such notifications of tariff
Dchedules as from time to time are re-
Quired by changing conditions and insist
that such changes shall be made in line
with the fundamental principle of protec-
ton"
That 10 a remarkable declaration, an eff
fort to mix water and OIL an endeavor to
ride two horses going in opposite direc-
lions. palpable attempt to hold with the
hare and run with the hounds. The first
half 10 ''the Iowa idea" the last half is
the stand pat" creed.
These Minnesota platform makers-art-
'Palter with US In double sense;
They keep the word of promise to our
ear
And break 1t to our hope"
All representatives are. Of course, famil-
lar with the Bible and have read the
twenty-seventh chapter of Genesis, in
which 10 recorded that weird story de-
scribing the ingenious plan which Rebek-
ali devised to enable her favorite son ia
cob to secure from his father Isaac the
blessing which was intended for his IA
vorite son Esau. Isaac was old, and his
eyes were dim. so that he could not see,
but his sense Of feeling was still acute,
and when Jacob presented himself to re-
ceive the blessing which did not belong
to him, but to his hairy brother, Isaac,
being somewhat suspicious. said unto Ja-
sob:
Come near. pray thee that I may
feel thee, my son, whether thou be my
very son Esau or not
And Jacob went near unto Isaac his
father, and he felt him and said, The voice
IL Jacobs voice, but the hands are the
hands Of Esau.
'And he discerned him not, because his
hands were hairy. as his brother Esau' 8
hands. so he blessed him.
''And he said, Art thou my very son
Hsau? And he said, am"
Governor Cummins and Brother Dalzell.
representing the extreme factions In the
Republican party, will have to exercise all
their senses of seeing, smelling, tasting.
hearing and touch to Judge whether the
and will even then find themselves in
gravest doubt.
The Des Moines Register and Leader,
the Republican organ of Iowa, edited by
Hon. George E. Roberts, President Roose-
volts director of the mint, not long ago
contained these vigorous, not to say saw
age, editorial sentences touching the
stand patters:"
when President Mckinley announced
that 1t was our plain duty to grant the
Porto Ricans free entrance into the Amer
lean market the ways and means commit
tee Of the house of representatives at once
took up this hue and cry for narrowing
the field for American labor. Was 1t wise,
they asked, to dump the sugar and other
products Of Porto Rico on the American
market when our own citizens were en-
gaeed In producing these things and to
deprive the American laborer of his job?
ut was with great difficulty that Re
publicans in congress- brought themselves
to yield to the weight and influence of
President McKinley's judgment and to
consent that at the end of two years Por-
to Rico should be granted free market
exchange. Now. what has been the re-
suit? Has the influx of Porto Rican prod
ucts narrowed the field OF American la
bor7 Porto Rican exports have jumped
from two millions to several times that
amount-we do not have the exact figures
at hand-and yet the United States, like
the individual who hires ten laborers in
the place of two, has broadened Its own
domestic field of operations, for it Is sell.
ing to Porto Rico in exchange more in
proportion than Porto Rico sells to it, sc
I that today the cash balance OF trade in
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to Porto Rico were ten years ago.
THE individual who spends an after.
noon in painting his own fence in order
| to save a half dollar and thereby misses
| hundred dollar deal is the exact type OF
| the public man who today in the United
States advises against the broadest COM
mercial reciprocity on the theory that
everything that we import narrows the
| field Of domestic production. Such 9
| spigot watching policy makes misers OF
men and backwoods settlements of ma.
lions. No individual ever gained wealth
or influence by it. and no nation ever de-
veloped its real resources. There Is g
J philosophy in the old Bible injunction
1 that there IL scattering that yet in.
| creaseth and withholding of more thar
II meet that Ia much deeper than a great
| deal of our modern day craftsmanship Ii
| able to realize"
| Whenever our stand pat'' friends gel
/ into a hole they resurrect the bogy man o,
free trade and hold him in terrorem ovel
| the heads of the American people.
! Nobody knows better than they do thai
there Is no free trade party in the United
States. and they ought to quit asserting
that there Is. We can all be honest ever
II we can't be great.
BY the unanimous vote Of the Demo
cratic members Of this house Hon. Johr
Sharp Williams Of Mississippi was at tn,
beginning of the extraordinary session O
this congress- made the minority leader
and he has demonstrated over and owe
again that he Is leader who leads. q,
use his own language, he has been con
stituted "the mouthpiece Of the minority
on this floor He speaks, therefore, b.
authority, and he speaks SO clearly tina
even the most stupid can understand him
J His black plume, like the white plume o
Henry of Navarro, points the way to vic
tory-not temporary victory in this are
! ma, but to ultimate victory in the countr,
at large.
| In the February number of Everybody
| Magazine, In a thoroughly considered ant
| felicitously expressed article, he define
the Democratic tariff position, definition
which he has frequently given in practi
cally the same shape in his speeches ii
this body. He says:
LAS to the tariff the Democratic part,
! stands for the principle that protection
4 Ism Is a system of taxation whereby man!
are robbed in order that few may b.
hothoused by legislation into artificial
| prosperity. The method whereby protec
ton does this is by DETECTING capital ant
labor from naturally profitable pursuit
into pursuits made by legislation proflta
| ble pursuits which without Legislation
would have been less profitable or perhap
| not profitable at all.
"The ultimate goal of Democratic striv
ing is tariff for revenue only. but in tn
striving toward this goal common sense
good judgment and conservatism will pre-
vail, and time will enter as factor. Per
haps 1t might be said that an ideal Dem
ocratic tariff for revenue only woul,
consist in leYying import duties upon al