The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-20

Treasury. There is no such thinG
 as an American merchant marine en-
 gagged in foreign trade at this time | bHN Dr Gallinger, of the Senate, and | Giknfral Grosvenor, of the House, pur.
 pose to make one by means of what
 known to all downright folks as sub sidy. What is the merchant marine
 to do when 1t is created? Why, haul
 raw materials away from American la bor to be wrought into finished pro-
 ducts by pauper labor over the way.
 Germany has a protective tariff but
 Germany has free raw materials. No
 German labor has licked them into
 finished products. And the same is
 true, and even truer. of England-a
 free trade nation that does more than
 half the commercial business of the
 world. Even Germany goes to Belfast
 for merchant ships. and more than
 half of the ocean, going craft of the
 entire world. naval and merchant. Is constructed In British yards.
 That is true simply because we suf- fer 1t to be true; just as we ship raw materials because we are content to manufacture for the home market on- ly. when we might manufacture for the worlds markets as well. France llds lHt Hld&iuluLI anu The Mckinley administration negotia- ted a treaty with France by which we were admitted to her markets un- der the minimum" schedules. It was a reciprocity treaty and drawn before riciprocity became disreputable in the estimation of Republican states men; but 1t seems that under the our markets certain cotton stockings of French make that would come in with stockings made by a certain establishment in England that employed some eIght-score hands. That beat the treaty, Eighty millions of Americans were deprived of a wider French market for 16O cotton spinners is estimated that the South loses every year by the failure of the Kasson treaty with France many millions on cotton seed oil. and the country would have made money by pensioning every one of those stocking weavers-the whole I60 of them-and paying each | 5 900 a month to let the Kasson treaty | become law.
 That is what that beggar industry | cost us--reciprocity with France. Mir l Kasson negotiated many other recip- | rocity treaties with other countries, all | If which were suffered to die for like | causes
 Some two years before the last election, MT. Babcock be- sought the Republican party to cut | some of the economic graft out of the ariff He was put off with the asser ion that it was no time to reform an lbuse just before an election. The | election came on and the Republicans swept the country on a platform that ,retended to promise revision, and was so exploited in Iowa and Mime iota And now a Congress enormously Republican in both Houses tells the Republican President and reformer hat after the election Is no time to evise the tariff. and immediately the President reformer though he is, Il marches his forty thousand down the II ill.
 And what about the materials and | supplies for the proposed Panama Ca al? Will MT. Roosevelt and his Sec etary of War march that army down ill, also? We recollect with what flourish of trumpets and fixed bay | nets the President and Secretary marched forty thousand men up hill. II t looked like there were four hun red thousand of them. All the | from Paterson, N. J., to 'ittsburg, Pa, and from Pittsburg. Pa, o East Liverpool. Ohio. took to the yoods Nobody could tell which side f the G o. P was devil. or which ide was monk; but all at once the louds rolled away. and the standpat- CTS were serene.
 Then. they say that Uncle Cannon oes not intend that the c. O. P. shall 1n its hand into that railroad mess l