The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1906-08-30
HAS MUCH MEANING
PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE or
THE TERM STAND PAT"
Il Meant a Great Deal More When
Hanna Injected II into Politics
and II Means More as the
Years Roll by.

slut what does Il mean to stand.
pati" This is the question PROFOUND.
ed in a do~ubleleaded and rather nerg-
GUS editorial by the New York Mail
Of July 2S. Il is easily answered. To
stand-pat means BOW precisely what
1t meant when that non-political eu-
phemism was projected into politics
by Mark Hanna FIVE or six years ago.
Mr.. Hanna saw a country on the top
wave Of a sea OF unparalleled prosper.
ity. "Stand.pat," said he.
He saw domestic production in
creasing at a tremendous rate 20 meet
domestic demand. -Stand.patl"
He saw domestic labor fully en-
ployed, at increasing high wages
"~Stand-pat,"
He saw savings bank deposits in
~creasing at the rate Of half a billion
dollars a year. "St~aad-patl"
He saw railroads carrying more
freight and passengers and building
more miles OF new road than ever be.
fore, 'stand-pat!"
He saw 10000. 600 farmers with
paid-on mortgages OF the tarin revis.
ion period OF lSs3-97 and buying pia
nos and automobiles. "~stand-pat,r
he saw an internal trade amounting
% twenty billions a year and growing
very fast "Stand.pati"
lie saw a foreign trade ass the
two-biilion mark and growing AZ the
rate OF $200. 600, 900 a year. Ot Is now
over three biliions) "Stand-pat,
He saw the outside world taking
more and more al our agricultural
and manufactured exports. stand
pat"
lie saw a big increase in our i'm
ports alike Of n~on-dutlable articles
for use in manufacture and OF dutla.
bic goods OF the competitive sort
"~Stand-patt"
He saw that the duties collected on
imports were yielding ample revenues
for the governments increasing re
quiremcnts StaHdpat,
He saw the excess OF exports over
imports bringing % as annual trade
balances averaging more than half a
billion dollars. "Stand-pat,-
Tie saw in consequence "a vast ln.
flow ~ gold. which Ga the PAST ten
years has added 500. 200. 600 20 uu-
supply OF yellow metal Sfaadfat,
He saw American sCcurities Eu.d
abroad sent back 90 aid In setinus eur
favorable balances OF trade aud the
amount OF American money sent
abroad 10 pay interest and dividend
on foreign capital invested In this
country reduced 90 less than haIf
what it was ten years ago ln "a tauT
revision period "StaudTat.
Tie saw the United States rayIng on
It's debts 20 foreigners and RAPIDLY be-
coming the money center. az O. has be-
come the Industrial cenier Of che
world. standpat,
He saw, 10 short, the most cxtraor
binary prosperity. the highest rate
Of wages, the highest standard Of li,.
Ing that the world has eyer known.
So he said, 'stand.pat!"
What Mark Hanna saw i've years
ago Is TO be seen today on a much
blgger scale. II ne we're living today
be would again say, "stand.pat,
He did not say. nor does anybody
now say, as the Mail seems To think.
that protection Is "a hoop OF iron. an
i%!heNible, memorable thing that viii
never permit Of the change Of a single
schedule. The Mail ought to
know better. That is not the staud-pat
attitude. That lie not what stand-pat
means. To suppose q "a 10 p a
silly thiug. Free traders aud chronic
tarin rcformers ought 60 De- given n
monopoly Of that Kind Of s~upposing
This Ia a stand-pat year 50 viii
next year be. and tho year after that.
and many years after that. We ahouid
~ hope When a different condition
comes, aud when revision 81 the tariff
ID called for 90 promote the sonsral
sood-wheu a decrease OF some OF
he schedules and an increase Of some
nf the schedules shall obviously WORK
10 he ADVANTAGE OF the country as "A
wholo-thcn iarin revision should
como and Will come
Should 80 come ans sooner than
IhatY The best sthtesmanship al the
country says NO. Tho business inter.
esta OF the country say no. Tho vage
OF the country say no.
Ihn IL uhnf IL utaawa a.. af.uH.F