Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1905-05-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
fpr I'M our Regular CORES pondent


Washington, d. c.. May 20.-Ras
Pres ident Roosevelt entered the wedge
for a split in bis party which will rend
it wide asunder? This 10 the question
which is being discussed wherever
politicians. or even business men, are
gathered together in Washington and,
Judging by the reports, in business
houses and clubs all over the country.
If one listens for few minuets to
group of stand patters, as they are
called who rigidly oppose any change
of the tariff schedules, he will he con-
WINGED that the Republican party is
doomed to disruption and defeat and
their reasoning is not surprising. AS
the servants of the highly protected
industries all over the country Repub-
licans in Congress have been d1llgent-
| Iy opposing every move toward lower
| ing the tariff schedules and have denied,
with naughty indifference to facts,
that American manufacturers were
selling their products abroad for prices
| far below those charged In this cOun-
try. They have refused to listen to
the people who have read the last Dem
ocratic Campaign Book and who there
saw long list of articles with two
prices opposite each, one the price
charged the foreigner, the other the
price charged the American for the
same article and with difference OF
about so per cent. in favor OF the for
eigner.
| Now the American public is inform
ed that the claims of the Democrats
are absolutely correct; that two ships
which the Panama Canal Com mission
wished to buy were placed at 81 AGO.
600 in this country, while Identical
ships. constructed Of steel plates made
by the American Steel Trust, could be
bought in Europe for $3.50 900; that the
domestic price of steel rails ID $33
ton and the foreign price for the same
rails, with freight prepaid to Europe II
$40 a ton, and, incidentally, that the
cost of the rails is only $l2 ton; that
1.-THE protected hogs have their hind
feet in the trough and that 1t is hlgf
time they were taught a lesson; that
the tariff shelters monopoly and that
in a word, the American consumer Il
being robbed. Aud the informant Of
, the American people on all these points
is none other than President Roosevelt
, the leader of the Republican party. Ii
if any wonder that the stand patter
see defeat ahead; that they forese'
their doom for the reason that they
have always been elected by the cam
paipp contributions of the trusts ant
now that the party of which they arr
} members must follow it's leader ant
/ elect to Congress men who will vot'
, for tariff revisision, thsir reason for be
, Ing has ceased. nv,
i 1t all came about in this way. Th
? President discovered that the Panama
, lanai Commission, was being roDDe
:. bv a combination of American trusts
. that. as the Democrats Lave Away
! claimed, the tariff has created mono
poles which were so bold as to try t
rob the government which by lts ia
yOritlsm has created them and as un
grateful as the viper which stung To
bosom that cherished it. When rumor
q of this condition of affairs tirst reaches
b the President he did not believe them
d | but be began an Investigation. F'lrs
he Determined to get rid OF Admlra
u Walker. chairman of the old COmmls
s sion. Congress, that is few leader
: in Congress, killed the bill that CAV
Z the President authority TO reOrganlZ
the Panama Canal Commission Du
the resourceful President found
s way" when be had gotten rid OF walk
q er and the old Comm ission be place.
4 men whom he knew in charge anu Toll
them to report The facts to hun. w nel
they made their report he found tina
!, the rumors were true and he Decaln
r angry and used strenuous-noI stron
q but strenuous, language. referred u
:, the trusts as hogs WHO had put no
alone their fore feet but all four lee
9 into the trough, ETC., and then ne rem
n dered his now famous decision tnaG 20
Commission should either compel Tn
American trusts to grant their larges
< discount or else buy the machinery ant
D supplies for the canal aOroad. Ih'
president is a protectionists, but N