The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-09-28
cfnals hat j ma98 monarchs,"
~ sSnder zt Ee adds.
Thd 3ssueTof imAeriaIism involve

into the dangers here pointed ont /
50 strikingly the country has insenst
Wy -toeen led BIZ Sambitipus pa4tiasI4
dmAinations. But at no election have
de people ever givffn. A maanlalate i.qr
any authority to the Administrations |
TO prosecute am imberiahstio policy
i'm the Hight of the present csmpaigh |
OF education there Is every reason 10
3liailias m Iali Ekfsiis
believe. that the. American people are
y dignantly aroused by the evolution
ary nature and the frlghtful cost in |
blood and treasure Of attspmts to
make federal government an imperial
listic despotism.
The central feature Of Judge Par
ker's mastery letter is his bold expos |
ure of the tremendous burdens impos-
e. on the American people y the re-
publican system Of high protection
Ism and the fragrant exelusiyeness OF
The trust fostering Dingley train.
against which even many leading re-
publieans have protested and which,
because of its disastrous effects on orr
manufactures and export trads, led
President Mckinley in his last ad-
d,ess to declare THE period Of exclu-
slyeness is past"
In thus powerfully emphasizing the
paramount need of immediate tariff
reform and reduction of tariff taxa
Ition Judge Parker's letter is substan-
TALLY in accord with Mr. Cleyelands'
similar letter of 1892 in which he de-
clares that tariff taxes are only jus.
.itihable when laid and collected for the
purpose Of maintaining our govern
lment." and that this cardinal demo
cratic principle, exhibits as absolute
: axtortion any exaction by way Of tax
alton from the substance OF the PEG
. Ip'e beyond the necessities of a care
)Ifll and proper administration of the
government"
AS a great. but conservative tribune
S IT the people. which the author of this
siatesmanlike letter now shows him
SELF to be. his strong protests against
lie oppression OF monopoly and the
: subversion OF constitutional govern
ment and law by audacious and AFRO
giant extremists Of Imperialism wi
: have immensely greater weight witt
Z all Independent voters because TN
statements evidently emanate from
man who soberly weighs his words
:, /, the nice balances Of Judicial accu
: Tracy, and are supported by irrefutabie
! facts He backs UP his exposition
L of the enormous burdens OF republi
can taxation by adducing from TIL,
| governments own statistics the fright
j flu, increase of taxation during tn,
Hast four years of republican rule. Ant
Ihis arraignment of the Roosevelt ad
ministration for its reyel Of extray
Iasance and its mammoth expenditur
es must arouse the most torpid vote
II II, the perils of imperialism, militarisn
Il and an every growing centralism tina
$ drain heavily upon the earnings Q
& labor and of all classes of the people
His arraignment also adds immens
emphasis to what he says of the OF
g Ipressive tariff and the tariff bountie
n trusts 1t is an indictment temper
IS ate in tone but as whitening as tina
g which Governor Tilden delivered il
1876 against the gigantic" republican
extravaganza and taxation of that pei
od, which was the keynote of hi
celebrated campaign, paraNzed hi
oIopponents and rallied the d7mocrac.
> Ito make its desperate fight for reform
BY forcing the issue of tarff reform
!, lie the front Judge Parker strikes 1
5tS ggering blow at the corrupting am
sssndiose imperialism which SO rough
s. rides down the constitution itsel
:, land loads the people with mcnumenta
tariff taxation to supply !he vas
heards of money indispensable 20 car
~ out its wild schemes,
Judge Parker earnestly sdyoeate
!. rt cipro.ity, which he says is, like tar
/ lie reform, demanded by the best in
, teyests of both manu- acturers aud con
Isumers." If our milla and factories
IaIe to be kept humming, IL laUor is tC
profit by steady employment and Il
oul foreign commerce in manutactur
e. is to reap the golden harvest.