The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03
Senator Simmons Presag-
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xictims while the price of the staple
products of the farm was low, or was
it bountiful harvest and high world
prices, which supplied the non-pro-
tected customers of our protected in
dustries with money to buy their pro-
ducts, and by furnishing. them with
well-fed and Well-supplied victims,
put into effective operation the con-
fiscating schedules of that system of
tax injustice and discrimination?
Know Trust Got Lions Share.
I know, and you know, and we all
know, that the trust has got the lions
share Of this prosperity, but that does
not prove that the tariff made the
prosperity, it only exemplifies the sue
cess of this Republican tax system
i'm transferring profits from one mans
pocket to another's.
Not Free Trade.
The Democratic party is not a free
trade party either in theory or in
pra ctice, but it does demand that the
monopoly schedules of the present
tariff shhall be revised and reduced
to the point of reasonable profits to
the producer and a living price to the
consumer.
If Industries.
If industries have grown up under
the protection of duties which are
unjust and excessive the excessive
and unjust duties imposed by these
laws, the Democratic party would not
destroy or cripple those industries 1t
would say TO them, live and prosper,
but it would also say to them, let 9TH
ers live and prosper also.
Recognizes Tax Necessary.
The Democratic party recognizes
the necessity OF tariff taxation to de-
fray the expenses of government, and
i'm levying these taxes within the linz
it's of revenue requirements it would
accord to the domestic producer such
Advantage over his foreign competitor
as will enable him to pay the Ameri-
can scale of wages and dominate the
domestic market upon the basis and
within the limits of fair profits for
himself and living prices for his
home customer.
Republican Party Stands Pat.
The Repupncan party says: stand
pat upon every schedule Of the Ding
ley tariff Touch it not! 1t is a sa-
cred thingi
Democratic Party Says.
The Democratic party says Revise
it! In a spirit of justice and cohser-
tism, with due regard to the just
rights and interests of both the pro-
Queer and the consumer, take not
from the one the opportunity to make
a fair profit, deny not to the othe:
the chance to buy at a fair price!
Prune.
Redue and prune down these on
fiscating, monopoly-subsidizin Trust
ti,ne
make it a system OF justice and fair
dealing between the government and
the people, between the citizen ana
the itiZen, so that no man can say,
my country denies me an opportunity
to make money and prosper, or i'm
poses upon me an unjust burden!
Record Trust and Reciprocity.
The record Of the Republican par
ty upon the subjects of trusts and
reciprocity. is a record of duplicity
and treachery. For more than two
years President Roosevelt with kettle
and drum has been waging a sham
war against the trusts The cam
paign has been in charge of his late
Attorney General, himself a trust at
torney and a close friend of Carne gie,
Frick and the rest of the big trust
magnates. These doughty warriors
after two years OF noisy clamor and
beating in the air with the whole
machinery of the law at their COM
mand, with scores of district and spe-
cial attorneys to do their bidding,
with a $500 10000 speial appropria-
ton at their disposal haze brought
only two of our three hundred and
odd illegal combinations and onspira-
cies to trial and the judgment finally
rendered in these two cases is but
little better in effect than the old ia
nf n 1c1of nj
ed on payment of costs and recogni-
Zance for good behavior"
Farce Ended.
at last the miserable farce is end
ed The pyrothechniCs have all been
extinsuished. Mutual congratulations
have been eXhanged. The Attorney
General at the request of the enemy,
has been transferred for conspicuous
service to the Senate. The curtain
has fallen upon the pitiable scene. and
the banner of the trusts floats trium-
plant in the heavens.
Plumed Knight.
Since the day Of the plume knight
of Kepublicanism, reciprocity has
been proclaimed by the Republican
party as the hand-maiden of protec-
ton. and one of the three great won
ders of Republican achievement.
Blaine Christened.
Blaine christened it; Mckinley sa.e
It's praises, and Dingley sought to.
smooth its pathway, by admittedly
placing certain schedules of his bill
purposely too high to be brought
down in its interest while Democrats
hailed it as possible angel of mer-
cy to smooth down the asperities of
cruel and merciless taxation and open
the poor to neighborly intercourse
with our brethren in other parts of
the world Mckinley put his heart
in the work, and just before his un-
timely taking off negotiated thirteen
treaties to put the reciprocity provis
ions of the Dingley law into effect,
and his last public utterance was
pathetic appeal for their ratification,
and warning to his party and the
people. that exclusie and infexible
prohibitory tariff schedules meant
commercial isolation.
Gone Under Control of Trusts.
All of that was before the Repub-
lican party had gone absolutely UNI
der the control of monopoly stand
patism." The men who now control
the Republican party do not want the
tariff reduced by reciprocity. or 9TH
erWise and so it happens, that reel