The Cairo bulletin., 1906-08-04
RALLY ROUND THE FLAG. BOYS

: the tariff as u paramount issue ]
: American politics Wrong II think
that the south. have gone into mani
! featuring and tasted Protectionisn
0 likes the draught and cannot be N
duced 10 put the chalice aside. Wronl
again. II ascribes Free Trade, as |
calls II, to Sectional prejudice AM
hate, Wrongest of all
The Protective Tariff is the fathel
and mother Of the Trust and Of Trust
ism. II stands living object lesson
in Criminal Wealth II bagat the Re
liglon of Commerce. TO II. primarily
/ our political emoraliZation--the boss
and bossism graft and the CRATER, the
4 lowering Of all the standards of our
/ public life--may be directly traced.
( High tariff was the progeniior Of high
/ finance The Robber Baron IN his
| Pennsylvania castle get the pace ror
/ The Trust Magnate in his iron clad
Corporation.
The evil results Of forty years Of
dishonest accretion spring from tariff
impositions. levying tribute upon the
whole peopla to enrich a few favored
monopolists. The Bandit fortunes
which threaten the life Of our free
institutions spring from the tariff The
deepening contrasts of life in the
centets of population. breeding discon.
tent and sowing dragon teeth, spring
from the tariff Protectionism is the
gospel OF graft It is lie out OF
whole cloth and very rotten cioth--a
lie pure and simple-hayng no gene
sis except fraud. no terminal except
popular spoiation and national dis
grace.
is history Is replete with double
dealing and evasion. regeneration
and corruption. exclusive privileges
for the selfelecr, taxation and the bag
to hold fer the masses who hew the
wood and draw the water.
There can be no such thing as free
trade as long as we must collect three
or four hundred millions through the |
custom houses. The only safe and |
sound rule Of procedure. in the levyina |
Of these import duties. is laid in the |
simple principle that the government |
has no right Of taxation either In |
equity OF law except for its own sup I
port That is the Democratic gospel
the doctrine alike Of Justice and the |
Daniel Webster began his career q
New England Free Trader: John c
Calhoun South Carolina Protection
LIST, Later along they exchanged places
Did this sectionalize the tariff? Wa
Robert j Walker. a Southerner, hat
ng the North? Was David A. Wells
Was Frank Hurd? Was William r
Morrisln2 Were Professor Summer
AID ilssi late Professor Pcrry2 II John I
O. Carlisle or the Editor fthe Cour
ier-loarna,
Go TO, thou bounty.fed aon-ofa NV |
MILL organ OF greed grab and party |
ism, go TO and read the history Of thy |
country,
The New Institution Of American |
Slavery is laid in The Protective Tariff /
Every schedule of that tariff is a sink |
hole OF inequity Every classification /
Of that tariff Is delusion aud a snare /
Hell yawns and Satan smacks his lips |
whenever that Robber Tariff is men |
toned, wherever Rober Baron |
shows his face. African slavery was /
bad enough in its day. 1t lives again /
in that Thieving Tariff II has trans |
ferred its spirit of caste, its disdain OF |
its sectionalism. lust and
lash 10 the lords of the North and !
East supported by few would-be |
lords of the South, who do not want /
the pillage to top until they, too hav,
grown rich and mighty. like Mr. Rock
eteller and Mr. Carnegie off subsidy /
wrung from the people
So down with the Thieying Tariff
say we! Down with it, OF with the
Roosevelt mask Of bogus reform, Up /
with the standard Of UntarrifieC
Democracy bringing with It the de
mand, written in letters of gold and
siler, yea of paper convertible into
coin on demand, that All Taxation. In
ternal and External shall be for tho
support OF the Government Economic |
ally Administ 5red' And, come along
Mr.. Bryan-right along home-to tell |
Us once more thriee-told tale thai /
still has music in Il. alike to the cor |
fusion of The Capitol and the White 1
House at Washington and the Tall /
Tower in New York, And. our re- |
ponse shall be:
I'VE rally round the flag boys
Rally once again,
Shouting the batle-cry Of freedom"
Courier Journal