Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-03-31
TAX AND ~TRUST-RlDDEN.
Republican Promises Broken at the
Behest of Combine and Mo-
nopoly Managers.

When you hear a republican saying
ask him why the rates in the Dingley
bill-the present tariff law-were made
SO much higher than the Mckinley
law, which was higher than any other
previous tariff. The fact that the rates
are higher now than ever before would
seem to demand reform.
1t was admitted by Senator Dolliver.
of Iowa, in a speech in the senate that
the rates were purposely increased to
allow for reductions that might be
made in reciprocity treaties with for
eign countries. Mr.. Kasson was Sc
lected by President Mckinley to Ne
gotiate reciprocity treaties and he did
SO with France, Nicaragua. Ecuador,
Argentina and the British and West
Indies.
But the republican leaders in the
United States senate refused to allow
those treaties to be ratified, and the
Dingley law rates have continued to
be paid by the people Of the United
States without the small concessions
that the reciprocity treaties would
have made on some articles. And yet
the republican national platform Of
1900 contained these words:
RECIPROCITY and protection are twin
measures of republican policy and go
hand-in-hand." The Iowa state plat
form of 1901 said: "We endorse the
policy of reciprocity as the natural
complement of protection and urge its
development as necessary to the reali-
cation of our highest commercial pos
sibilities." And that tariff plank
closed with this important declaration:
"We favor any modification of the
tariff schedules that may be required
to prevent their affording a shelter to
monopoly"
Nearly every state republican plat.
form has declared for reciprocity, and
some of them declared for such modi-
fcations of the tariff schedule as may
seem to be required. The Idaho re-
publican platform of 1902 declared out
spokenly for tariff revision and con.
tanned the most radical antitrust plank
that any political party has declared
for. 1t says: 1--WE favor a revision oil
the tariff without unreasonable delay
which will place upon the free lis'
every article and product controlled
by any monopoly and such other arti
Giles and products as are beyond the
need of protection"
In spite of these declarations ant
promises made by the republicans
President Roosevelt and the leaders il
congress have determined to not evei
consider the tariff, or attempt to modi
fly those schedules that give the trust!
their monopoly of the market for man.
of the n~ecessaries of life. The repub
licans refuse to ratify the reciprocit.
treaties of their W making and the.
refuse to reduce the Dingley rates, al
though they purposely placed thos
rates much higher than the protecte
trusts asked, that when the reciprocit
treaties were ratified the trust an
combines would still be amply pre-
tected. But the trusts controlled tn
republican leaders and have bee
strong enough to keep the law intacr
and the protectionists declare it mus
not be touched.
, Thus are we tariff taxed and trus
ridden. Ask your republican neighbo
how he likes this do-nothing pre-
gramme of his party and If he thinl;
his prosperity is enhanced by 1t.