Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-22
PARTING OF THE WAYS.

PARTING OF
 THE WAYS.
 The broad fact that was brought into greatest prominence by the reef pr ,city convention vhicl ret in Chi cage last week, and by ;he discussions that will follow it, is that the Dingley trusts have been getting vastly more than their fair share of our much vaunted prosperity. Let it be granted that the prohibitive schedules of the Dingley tariff act have artifcially stim- ulated many branches of manufactur- ing industry; it cannot be denied that trust building has been more stimu- lated than any other activity or that the trusts so formed have, by combina- tions in restraint of trade, levied a heavy percentage of monopoly tax upon every dollar they have paid out in wages. They have taken an exorbitant toll, and by reason of the increased cost of living the dinner pail of the factory operative is no fuller now than it was before Dingley prosperity set in.
 No thanks are due to Dingley nor any of his tribe for the abundant crops which America has produced in recent years, nor for the good prices obtained for them Taking the country by and large it may be said that we will al -hsza 2noa -cco9s for th. fIIIlt: fu1ness of the American soil and ell mate are such that adverse conditions are never so- widespread as to bring anything like famine here. For the good prices of these abundant farm products in recent years We have only to thank Providence, the increasing population of the country and the growing needs of foreign peoples.
 The agricultural interest owes nOth ing to Dingley. The American farmer has been prosperous not because ot him but in spite of him. While the trusts have contributed nothing to the welfare of the farmer, directly or in directly, they have taxed him heavily with robber prices for nearly every thing he has to buy. He has paiC more than honestly he ought to, fol his mowers and reapeEs, his binding twine, his thrashers, his blows, wagons and harness, more for his household utensils. more for his own clothing and that of his wife and children Without good corps and good price for them the farmer under Dingle. exactions would have been a poverty stricken man; his condition woul, have been better than that of tn French or German peasant.
 The legitimate fruits of the Dingle, prohibitive tariff are just now mos conspicuously seen in retaliatory er actments for shutting American pro ducts out of foreign markets, and a our exports consist most largely 0 farm products, our agricultural inter ests are the first to feel the pinct IL ID AA2dALlg ND NOlCc d pAOtCSt all initiate action against this hardshi that the reciprocity convention has SC on foot, though some manufacturin interests. feeling the same pinch, hay joined the movement Of course d commercial interests having to do wit the exportation of American farr products are actively or tacitly in syn pathy with it.
 In it's inception the reciprocity COT vention was a Republican revo against uncompromising Republica opposition to revising or otherwis modifying the Dingley tarih. even matters where experience has prove it to be intolerably burdensome an ruinous to American interest," Whether it shall go the length of r' viying the old quarrel between Wes ern farmer and Eastern manufacture depends a good deal upon the qualit of stiff-neckedness to be maintained b that narrow and short-sighted elemer of the Republican party dubbed Stan' patters. If the Republican party mus give all of it's fostering care to trus combined manufacturers and make n