The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-07
Convention

Why not defend the republican party
 in It's hour of non-action. passivity, | negation and mere obstruction? Indeed
 he and the president have had minds
 SD much alike that they have been sus- | pected of unconscious identity of cer- l ebration," of thinking the same | thoughts in the same words.
 I have heard that in October. 1892, | MT. Root made a political speech in | Cooper Union, New York, in which he used this language:
 If a tariff law has on the whole | worked well. and if business has pros \ pered under it ana is prospering. 1t is better to endure some slight inconve- | niences and inequalities for time | than to incur the uncertainty and dis turbance of business which necessarily | results from the process of making | changes. The mere fact that differ | ent rate of duty would be better than l the rate fixed in the statute does not | settle the question whether the change | should be made now or should be de- | ferred Every tariff deals with duties | on a vast number of articles and in wolves vast number of interests of l ten conflicting and whenever the law l is taken up by Congress for considera | tion with reference to one change ev- | cry schedule in that law is going to l find some one urging a change in that
 schedule: and all the business inter | ests of the country are going to be 1 left during a long continued discus
 sion in a state of uncertainty as to | what will be the outcome of duties on | the things they are producing. and | therefore in uncertainty as to what competition from abroad they will be | obliged to meet"
 And I have heard the president in l his political tour through the west in | the spring of 1903, made q speech in which he used this language: If a tariff law has on the whole | worked well, and If business has pros pcred under it and is prosperinR, it may be better to endure some inconve- niences and equalities for the time than by making changes. to risk caus ing a disturbance and perhaps paraly- sis in the industries and business of the country. The fact that the change in a given rate of duty may be thought desirable does not settle the question whether it is advisable to make the change immediately. Every tariff deals with the duties on thousands of articles arranged in hundreds of para graphs and in many schedules. These duties affect vast number of inter- ests which are often conflicting. If necessary for our welfare, then of
 
 question of changing the law as a whole or changing any given rates of duty, but we must remember that whenever even single schedule is considered some interests will appear to demand a change in almost every schedule in the law: and when it comes to upsetting the schedules gene rally, the effect upon the country would be ruinous"
 Verify SOnlS with hut ei O1 thought. Two speeches that read like one"
 That Single Thought. And that single thought so harmo- niously expressed is not to force a sin gle special interest to take it's lips from the public breast for fear the public. finding them unnecessary, might shake them all off.
 It is not, therefore. to be wondered at that the peroration of the greatest of these" was a sort of deification of him who had dubbed him. Greatest of these" It was almost as natural as self appreciation. It was only alteregoism after all What a magnificent piece of humor is this un- bounded adulation of our fellow citi zen in the white house by the chief of these" How humorous to praise so highly our fellow citizen in the white house who in the long line of great men who have filled the seat he now occupies has himself found only about three in his opinion worthy of any thing like unstinted praise? George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and himself. Verify. the other humorists will have to retire from business. The chief of these" Is MT Root.
 The temporary chairman said, speaking of the Republican party, through it more than any other party the moral sentiment of the American people finds expression"
 God save us. Where? Going back to ancient history in the Credit Mo bilier? In the long saturnalia of Sou thern reconstruction, or. in recent his tory in the postoffice department? In the public lands bureau? In the full sway of bosses. formerly cursed so bit terly and now taken SO fondly to his bosom by the president? In the pitia ble telegrams ipquiring just when the patriotic and unassisted revolution" of fifty or one hundred men was slated to come off unexpectedly in Panama? In the celebrated order of Hell roar ing Jake" Smith prescribing ten as the age above which children were to be killed in one of the islands in the Philippines? In the universal honey combing of our national life with the corruption of egislation-bought special privileges? Time fails me to ask where. What mas ancient histo- rv to do with present iniauities. any how.
 Mir Root says offenders have been relentlessly prosecuted and sternly punished" Isn't this remarkable laundering in the index" for you when compared with actual Republican ac- complshments. especially when com pared with the refusal of a Republican House of Representatives tn make cul-