The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-06-22
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Democratic newspapers are present
ing figures showing the appropriations
made under the last administration of
Grover Cleveland and those made un-
der President Roosevelt, and declaring
that they prove that the present admin
istratiOn has cost more than did the
last period of Democratic power in ma
tiOnal affairs. The truth is that no one
has ever been able to compute the cost
to the country Of the last Democratic
administration. If the figures were at
hand, the figures showing just what
the people of this country lost in
wages, in value of property, in all that
goes to make a country prosperous,
the total would be of staggering i'm
mensity. The last Cleveland admins
tratiOn cost this country more in dol
lars and cents than the aggregate of
the national debt at the close of the
Civil war; and all the people of the
United States got out of it was fund
of experience which will prevent them
from trying another experiment of that
kind until the memory of the last one
has been obliterated.
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The independence" of the Indianap-
oils News is illustrated in it's COM
ments upon the appointment of Attor
ney General Knox as senator from
Pennsylvania to succeed the late Mat
thew S. Quay. Mr.. Knox as attorney
general has done more to enforce the
antitrust laws against illegal combina-
tions of capital than all his predeces-
sOrs in the department of Justice. 1t
is a part of the official record that he
has pushed to a successful conclusion
the most important cases ever insti-
tuted against such corporations. 1t is
known of all men that as a result of
these prosecutions the most prominent
representatives of these great COM
bines are engaged in an effort to bring
about the nomination for the presiden-
cy against Mr.. Roosevelt of some
safe" man who will not interfere with
them. This is history. But the News
the statement of some reporter who
alleges that the appointment of Mr..
Knox as senator is the result of the
Vaccinations of certain capitalists
Upon the basis of this newspaper ru-
NOR the News turns it's back upon we'll
established facts in the history of the
country and proceeds to denounce the
administration because it has not been
sincere in prosecuting the trusts!
Here is q performance which for hide
bound narrowness or downright dem
I'D in
newspaper protesting to be partisan,
and it is accomplished under the hypo-
critical guise of independence"
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When Democratic leaders permit
themselves to speak in public of pro-
lection as an abomination, they should
remember that the people are inclined
to give a second thought to things
now and then. For instance, the voter
is likely to ask himself why protection
should be looked upon as an abomina-
ton. And he is likely to recall the
experiences that have come to the
country under protection. And then
he is likely to recall the experiences
that the country has had when an at
tempt has been made to tamper with
the tariff question on any other basis.
In other words, he is likely to consider
results rather than theories. And If
he does this. whether he considers the
results in other countries or in this,
he finds that in every land develop
ment Of the country and it's various in
dustries has come under this policy.
Even Great Britain, which time and
again has been held up to us as the
ideal free trade couptry-even the
commercial supremacy that came to
Great Britain was built up by Gen.
turtles of protection. And now,
after half a century under a tariff
for revenue-the nearest approach to
free trade-that country, as John
Sharp Williams, the Democratic lead
er, explicitly declares, is preparing to
return to protection. We say the voter
is likely to think of these things when
the anti-protection advocate pretends
to look upon protection as an abomina.
ton. And 1t would be well for these
same leaders themselves to get down
to some hard thinking on this same
| subject, for the truth is that the ordi-
| nary voter can give them many a point
that they themselves are too much
inclined to ignore.
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