Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-31
FROM POLITICAL EDITORS.

IF congress should decide to let
in free of duty all building materials
intended for San Francisco, remarks
the Springfield Republican, what a
shocking confession it would be that
the tariff Is a tax and that The home
builder and the home consumer pay it.
The senate is still considering
the nomination of Barnes for post
master of Washington, but the Repub-
lican senators are supporting the
Roosevelt declaration that Barnes was
simply doing his duty when he or
dered Mrs. Morris elected from the
White House with force and brutality.
THE Republican leaders in CON
gress are so ratified and politically
scared that they can't settle whether
the Panama canal shall be built to sea
level or of the locks type. But Chair
man Shonts says he cannot proceed
with the digging until the question is
settled, so there will soon be 10000
men idle through the procrastination
of a Republican congress.
The administration has again
postponed the trial of Congressman
Binger Hermann, of Oregon, and thif
time it sis not to be later than tn,
first week in June" There is a par
tisy1 reason apparently for putting off
the evil day to that date, for the Ore
gon election for congressman takes
place the first week in June, when it
is hoped the voters will forget they
have no member of their delegation
in congress free from the laws
clutches.
Last year the Republican poll
ticians were admitting that the trusts
were selling many Of their products
cheaper abroad than to our own peo-
| pie, but they seem to have failed to
convince themselves that 1t was a po-
little step to make this acknowledge
ment. For now some Republican con-
gressmen are demanding of the Demo-
Gratis proof that the protected indus
tries are selling goods lore scheaply
abroad than at home, and the Demo-
Gratis are furnishing the evidence
they demand.
The Roosevelt administration
will soon come to be known as the
great compromisers, for in addition to
compromising on the railroad rate bill
and trying to compromise on the
statehood bill, it is now proposed by
Secretary Taft to compromise with the
senate on the Philippine tariff bill, by
raising the rate Of duties to so per
cent. Of the regular rates instead of
rs per cent. Can anyone give a fair
reason why the people of the Philip
pines should be taxed so per cent. n
the Porto Ricans and Hawaiians have
free trade with the United States, ex-
cept that the tobacco trust and the
sugar trust and the rice trust say 80?
The anthracite miners have
agreed to a continuance Of the 1903
award for three years more. They are
entitled to credit for yielding, under
the circumstances; and they have the
sympathy of the public. The oper-
ators held the advantage of a monop-
oily, and would have recouped from
the public all that It lost by reason
Of a strike, while the miners had no
such advantage. They, like the pub
lie, were at the mercy of the trust.
At the end Of the next three years, 1t
is to be hoped that the law will have
been SO fully enforced against the
Saers and Cassats, that the advantage
Of being in a trust will not be 50
great a factor in a contest between
labor and capital.