The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-12-08

pointed.
4 successful Tariff is huge COM
bne and TO the uninstructed econ
omist artifcial-unnatural. But it
is a combine embracing the whole
nation, against Europe, and for the
benefit of all our people, especially
of the farmers and wage carners.
To effectthls combine the greatest
difficulties must be encountered and
overcome.
American industries are almost
inconceiyably interviewer and inter
dependent. Every one must buy
raw material of many kinds. Wool
is raw material 10 the cloth maker,
steel to the cutler and so on
through the whole gamut of the
tens of thousands of
Industries. But wool is the finished
product of the farmer, steel of the
steel mill. Nova Scotia has great
beds of bituminous coal, said to be
owned IN large part by syndicate
of Cleveland Free Traders. New
England factories would like free
coal; New England cutters want free
steel. The factory owners. unedu-
Gated in the higher, broader, more
abstruse laws of trade, think The
duty on coal, steel, ETC., is paid by
them. They do not stop to con-
slider what the price would be
should the competition of the United
States supply be cut off by Free
Trade in coal. The shoe and hal
ness maker, hoping for cheaper
leather, wants free hides.
So when Tariff bill is to be
framed or revised these gentlemen
swarm into Washington, and, with
the frantic zeal of mere money get
tiers, vex the atmosphere with a
clamor and clatter that would make
bedlam seem like a haven of peace.
To reconcile these conflicting in
interests and frame wise and fair
bill is a titanic task. No one who
has not Witnessed work like this o.
watched it closely can form any
just conception of its pitfalls and
nerve ,ac sing difficulties. Poor
Nelson Dingley, the noblest, ablest,
purest of American statesmen, gave
up his invaluable life to the task.
In 1883 Kelly weakened in strength
while the battle was on, and Has
kills, of Kansas, sought to relieve
him. Both soon went to their re
pective graves. Scarcely an item
could get into the Protective circle
without prolonged conflict with somt
one; generally more, industry which
was itself Protected.
The election of Cleveland and a
Democratic Congress in 1892
brought such universal disaster upon
! the country that the contestants
were more easily persuaded to give
and take. But even with this ad
vantage, so sharp and prolonged
: was the conflict that Dingley's noble
) live was wasted. There was strong,
! numerous and alert minority ready
! to spring upon the bill at the first
division among the Protectionists.
Before the bill could be passed
all these conflicting interests must
be persuaded and reconciled. For
III lumOcT De lclt OulJ mlShi gan
Minnesota, Wisconsin. Washington
and Oregon would desert the Pro
tecuve ranks. If coal be omitted
West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Hi
nois and Iowa are mistreated. Ii
WOOL be neglected the Middle,
Western and the whole Western ano
Northwestern States will rightfullJ
resist and so on through the whole
glmut. These and like industrie:
hold the balance Of power in Il
industrial States. For certainty
these do, with respect to the main
tenance of Protection, look very
few of them, perhaps even one OF
two, and the whole wall trembles.
This is what the clamorers for II,
vision mot Governor Cunuins)
hope and expect. This is the