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in favor of revising the tariff is plain,
but that the stand patters who control
the Republican machine do not propose
to permit it is equally clear. They
! rolled Governor Cummins of Iowa at
the Chicago convention. They bullied
Mr.. Babcock Of Wisconsin, chairman
for twelve years of the Republican
congressional campaign committee, in
to silence after he blossomed forth as
moderate revisionist.
Recently when Mr.. Roosevelt and
Mr.. Secretary of War Taft, outraged
by the unpatriotic extortions of the
stand pat tariff barons, declared that
in purchasing ships and other supplies
for the Panama canal they would buy
where they could buy the cheapest,
such roar went up from the stand
patters as must have startled the man
in the moon. A woman scorned or a
she bear robbed of her cubs was an
amiable creature compared to them.
The American Economist, organ of the
American Tariff league, danced a reg
ular war Jig on the president and his
secretary of war and caused those il
lustrious patriots SO it seems to mere
locker on in Vienna, to suddenly let up
on their policy based on justice, pa
triotism and common sense. l say, it
seems that the president and secretary
have let up, for it is still to be hoped
| that they will live up to their pro-
nunciamento, thereby giving the coun-
try an object lesson in tariff reform
which even the dullest cannot fail to
comprehend All save idiots must rec
ognize the fact that if buying where
one can buy the cheapest is good for
the government it is also good for the
individual Convince the majority of
that and the stand patters would be in
the condition of Othelio, for their occu-
patton would be gone Even if Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Taft
have recanted or shall recant, still they
have set in motion forces which they
cannot control if they would. So it
looks like fight to a finish between
the two wings of the Republican party
Force the Fighting.
said awhile ago that to all appear
ances all the Democrats have to do is
to stand still and see the salvation of
the Lord. But it is not the part of wis
dom, of good politics or of patriotism
to stand STILL We are right on every
public question Therefore we should
boldly take the initiative and wage an
aggressive warfare against the out
RACES of the Dingley bill and in favor
of genuine tariff reform. inviting all
tariff revisionists to join us, for it is
our thunder they are stealing. We will
welcome to our ranks all who are will
ing to bring forth fruits meet for re-
pentance, not scanning too closely their
antecedents. A policy of negation does
not commend itself to the people.
Hence the Democrats should buckle on
their armor and force the fighting all
along the line-on the tariff, on the
trusts, on the Philippine opaganda
and on regulating interstate commerce,
for that is really Democratic idea in
jected into public consideration by that
pure and ilIustrious Democrat. the late
Judge John H. Reagan of Texas True
Senator Shelby M. Cullom, Repub
lican, managed to fasten his name on to
the bill creating the interstate com
merce commission just as Americas
Vespueius fastened his name upon the
western world, but nevertheless Co
lumbus discovered America, and Rea
gan is the father of the interstate com
merce regulation.
In advocating a thorough regulation
of interstate commerce President
Roosevelt is standing on Democratic
Reagan and other Democrats years
ago. Democrats are glad to have his
aid. He is a valuable reinforcement.
From his coign of vantage he is potent
for good So long as he uphoids Dem
ocratic ideas we are with him; but in
this he is following in our footprints
not we in his 1t is well to state the
case thus plainly on the principle of
sshonor to whom honor is due"
The theory is industriously propagat-
ed by interested parties that regula-
ton of Interstate commerce which will
really regulate inevitably leads to pub
lie ownership, and they shake that
bogy man in the faces of the Ameri-
can people to terrorize them into mac
ton. 1t is superfuous to discuss pub
lie ownership here and now. 1t is not
at the present moment an issue, but it
soon may be. We do not have to cross
that bridge til. we come to it. Suffice
it to say that the people will have a
thoroughgoing regulation of interstate
commerce. Their heads and hearts are
set ON that By fighting it the great
captains of interstate commerce, coal
barons ct id genus omne are doing
more in a year to build up a sentiment
in favor Of public ownership than all
the agitators In Chrlstendom could ac-
complish in a century. They are play
ing with fire.
They must make up their minds at
n11ra and For ,f that il fS tbornIfol-