Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-04-13
IndIana RepuhIIoana ''stand %"

indiana Republicans stand Pat"
In the platform adopted at their State
Convention, on Wednesday, the Indiana
Republicans declared: 1--WE adhere to the
time-honored Republican doctrine Of pro-
lection. Our commercial and industrial
experiences have fully vindicated the
wisdom Of this great economic policy.
The true policy Of protection is that
schedules are to be changed when ex-
peronce shall suggest their change The
Republican party tho friend Of the pro-
teotive policy through good and evil re-
port, can be trusted to make changes in
tariff schedules wheneyer more good than
evil will result"
This declaration is equivalent to "stand-
ing pat" For it is an Endorsement of
the present tariff, with only the indefinite
suggestion that SCHEDULES are to be
changed when experience shall suggest
their change" And even this exceedingly
cautious intimation that il might at some
time be desirable TO make a few changes
in schedules, is followed by the significant
insistenco that the work shall be entrusted
only to "the Republican party, the friend
Of the protective policy through good and
evil report" Only that party "can be
be trusted tosupervise the work Of tariff
revision.
So far as tho tariff question is con-
cerned, the Indiana Republicans have pro
sented a square issue. They have arrayed
themselves in favor Of the present tariff,
with al its iniquities. In the same plat
form they have Included demands for the
enforcement Of existing laws against the
Trusts, but they uphold the one law
which is the great bulwark of protection
to the Trusts, and without which Trusts
could not exist They have indorsed the
Trust policy Of maintaining high prices
for American products at home, while
selling them at much lower prices in tho
competitive markets Of foreign countries.
No antitrust declaration can amount
TO a row Of pins when made a portion of
platform in which the protective tariff
Is indorsed as unequivocally as il is in
the platform Of the Indiana Republicans.
Coupled with such an Endorsement. the
severest or tho mildcst arraignments Of
the Trusts are but a hollow mockery. No
friend Of the protective tariff can be am
enemy to the Trusts, for the protective
tariff Is the mainstay Of every offensive
and oppressive Trust in the land.
Indiana is the State Of ce-President
Fairbanks, and Mr. Fairbanks is an ac-
knowledged candidate for the Republi
can nomination for President in 1905.
This makes reasonable the presumption
that he is the author of the platform
adopted by this years Republican State
Convention in Indiana, or that it re-
coivod his approval before it was SUBJ
mitted for adoption The tariff doclara-
iion Of the Indiana Republicans there.
fore is undoubtedly expressive of tn,
attitude of Nice-picsidcnt Fairbanks. II,
is "standpatior" which means that D.,
iavors continuance of the present tariff
without a single change in the direction
OF the relief of trade from taxation. /
nominated for President he viii be th
candidate Of the Trusts and the taril
benefciaues
Mella Presidential campaign conducte,
largely ON the issue Of the protective
tariff would be good thing for IN
country.