The San Francisco call., 1904-10-22

flourish. and they may also recall how the
CONSERVATION among those implicated in such
schemes who once feared general pursuit
reached them that the Government did not
intend to run amuck." Nor will they prob
ably accept the suggestion that repentance or
a change of heart accounts for the manner
by which the threats and animostiy Of many
powerful trust magnates have been displaced
by their approval and support Of the party
which seeks TO convince the people of its
trust destroying proclivities.
This stem of the account will not be passed
over without reference to the platform state
ment that protection which guards and de-
velops our industries Is cardinal policy of
the Republican party, nor without noting
the declaration of the candidate standing on
this platform that the protective tariff policy
ought to be considered as definitely es-
tablished." The question will be asked, which
are the American industries that at this time
are in need of the shelter of such tariff
that now in force, and Is there never to be
a time when American enterprise, American
ingenuity and American opportunity will free
our INDUSTRIES from tneir stage OF infancy and
self reliance to cast away the leading-strings
of definitely established protective policy?
The people know that this policy has given
rise to reckless greed and to a worship Of
gain menaeing patriotic sentiment and our
love for high standards Of national greatness
and they know that at best 1t lays burdens
the consumers of our land
With these tendencies and these burdens in
mind, they will ask the party protesting its
anxiety to restrain or destroy harmful COM
binations why protective tariff policy should
be considered Cennitely established which, In
addition to its other aims. contributes to
situation that permits combination
nopcly TO sell abrad articles of our manu-
facture at lower prices than exacted from
our own citizens at home.
TARIFF AND THE TRUSTS.
They will see the sheer wrongfulness OF this
condition so clearly. and they will firmly
believe that in this way they made to bear
tariff burdens in order that they may be dis
eliminated against in favor of foreign consum-
ers. that they will not be satisfied with the
assurance that the tariff has nothing to do
with trusts They will consign such an ex-
PLANTATION to the limbo of negation, to take its
place With the outworn deception that the for
eIgn exporter pays our tariff taxes. and with
two other sadly weak pretensions. that the
tariff should be reformed only by its friends,
and the other that the party which believes
sidered as definitely established loves reci-
procity In trade
When the platform boast is made that "in
the Philippines we have suppressed insurrec-
property security never known there before
the confession will be extorted that the insur-
reotion suppressed than the
crushing out of resistance to the army OF the
United States while engaged in the subjuga-
tion Of q people thousands OF miles from our
shores whom an incident OF war undertaken
by us in aid Of those struggling for liberty
and independence In another quarter had put
within our power; and the people will ask under
what sanction this subjugation entered
upon by a nation pledged TO the doctrine that
all just powers of government are derived
from the consent of the governed. and they
will deny that imperialism and cur fcrcible
rule of foreign people have any place among
the purposes of our national life.
When credit is claimed for securing q route
for a long desired interoceanic waterway II
will not be In q carping spirit that the people
will look at the incidents accompanying this