The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-07-28
REFUSE TO REASON
ARGUMENTS OF "STANDPAT-
TIERS" ARE WITHOUT LOGIC.
1nsistcnce on High Tariff Rates Has
Become a Mania with Them, It
Seems-Welfa: of Country
Forgotten.

In the chaste language of the New
York Evening Post, Chasing the devi
round a stump is profitable exercise
compared with running down a stand.
patter." Well, that depends. If YOU
can give him a kick and make him
jump" your exercise will not have
been entirely in vain.
Secretary Shaw rOundly denounced
Gov. Cummins of Iowa the other day
on account of the ~latter's tariff revis-
ion prOclivities. Yet the secretary him
self had no hesitation in purchasing
$1,000 barrels of cement abroad when
by doing SO he saved to the govern
ment p cents a barrel, or $1,000. 1t is
proposed, in the event of combining bids
for mt terials for the Panama canal
construction to those of American
manufacture, to add the tariff duty to
the cost of such materials abroad, and
then further increase the expense by
permitting the bidder another addition
for IL reasonable profit" Truly, it
would seem that the Creator of all is
not the only being who moves in a
mysterious way. his wonders to per-
form"
But, as the same paper remarked in
another issue: "S~tandpatism is daily
mounting to new heights of unreason,
resembling mania. Like the defenders
of slavery just before the war, protec-
tiOniSts are making a religion of their
practice, and every man who dissents
from it is a heather and an infdel."
Ergo, Gov. Cummins must be a heath
en- and an infidel. Likewise Mccall
and Eugene n. Foss, of Massachusetts.
So, too, with the Massachusetts Re-
publicans who recently complained
that unless they were given free hides
and other raw material they could ce-
cure no markets abroad; w%hereupon
Mr.. Serene Payne serenely answered
that New England manufacturers need
no foreign market, being possessed Of
magnificent domains on u own CONT
Talk about your talkabouts!
There's an answer as is an answer.
But when some of our patriotic DEM
representatives in congress
pointed out that some of the most high
ly protected trusts, such as the steel
trust and the watch trust, for instance,
are 50 eager to secure foreign markets
that they sell their goods abroad more
cheaply than to the consumer at home.
Standpatter Hepburn took the trouble
10 explain that that charge was simply
a campaign rOOrback. Of course, We
are willing to take his word for that
until the figures prove differently.
When Mr.. Williams, of Mississippi,
eader of the house minority, occupied
days in piling up evidence to the
contrary, Mr.. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania,
kindly and frankly admitted that the
goods made ty protected American in
ereSts are sold for less money in Eu-
ope than at home, simply because they
Ire unable to secure the foreign trade
n any other manner
Of course, as Mr.. Dalzell so naively
outs il, 1t is a simple business propo-
ition-undersell the other fellow
whenever and wherever you can, no
natter who gets the benefit of the
over price. But wouldn't it be a good
to so adjust the tariff
chedule as to permit American citi-
ems TO purchase American-made goods
S cheaply as Europeans may purchase
hem?
That, of course, would be a patriotic
But who will accuse a
tandpatter, in these twentieth century
avs, of patriotism? Perish the
bought! Business first and patriotism
fter, is the motto of the trusts and
heir standpat allies, in congress and
AS some wives reach their hus-
ands' hearts through the medium of
he stomach, SO he who would chase
he standpatter round the stump must
ppeal to his pocketbook, regardless of
he welfare of the rest Of the commune
Y.