Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-23
MASSACHUSETTS MACEDONIAN CRY

1T makes heap difference whose is gored.'
This is old saying and trite one, but it is pc
cuiarly applicable just to the political situation
in Massachusetts, and through general terms, to that
IN the whole country. For just in the centuries
past Massachusetts, led the colonies in their fight for
political liberty, she seemingly is taking the fore
front similar battle for industrial and commercial
freedom.
The issue in Massachusetts right is tariff
vision. Strangely enough the Republicans making
the fight for it. Not that the Democrats idle they
never have ceased to battle along this very line But
hitherto the Republicans have been rockribbed be-
levers in the protective tariff the higher, the better.
Dingley, whose adorns the present customs law,
is from Mane onetme colony of the old Bay state,
and Aldrich, who, with Lodge Massachusetts,
senator led the upper house fight for the odous
law is from Rhode Island Hence, the Dngey bill
may be presumed to have embodied the quintessence
Of the desires of Massachusetts Republicans tariff
lines.
But Massachusetts Republicans in rebellion
against this very law. They have arisen In their
might and have joined in demand for reduction,
which has shaken the very foundations of the stand
patters" citadel! They declare the existing sched-
ues "exorbitant, unjust iniquitous and damaging"
They have faith in thom, and they join the Demo
Gratis in a vigorous howl for tariff for revenue
only"
And we'll they may, for no part of the United
States has suffered greatly from that infamous law
than has New England of which Massachusetts is the
heart. Essentially a manufacturing country, its poor
soil and rigorous climate making agriculture precarous
best, it's farms out and its shipping trade
Iangushing New England must depend it's factories
its life. Great and these and staple
their products. One would surmse that If any
region in the land would prosper under high tariff,
this would be it,
But while the farming communities everywhere,
whom the tariff ignores, are rolling in wealth, New
England, and especially Massachusetts, suffers. The
mills are closing, the looms idle the factories
stand in quietude, the great power plants cold
raw producets which the food of these industries
if the products to be sold at living profit. The
shutting in New England and cutting 1t off from the
rest of the word-the producing world. And so thou
sands go hungry and sit in dleness while this
fetch of the Republican party remains impregnable.
The Macedonian cry has therefore gone out The
Republicans of Massachusetts their own OK gored
and they send forth desparing wail Come over and
help us!" The most pronounced advocates of monu-
mental duties when they supposedly profitable,
they find that the Frankenstein they called
forth Is their Nemesis. Well may they shout
for relief in their dire needfor relief there
is none. The party turns them deaf Arrogant
and stiff necked supreme in its power, 1t scorns the
plea of a small district, which 1t may we'll do with
out.
The Republicans of Massachusetts are "up against
it," Their party holds for them hope. Only in the
answering policy of the Democracy and its war cry
for a quarter of a century is there a sign of relief