The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-17

opening for some months, as will be
racollected when we recall the recent
agitation concerning hides. harness,
leather and shoes, but the shoe men
were too well organized and watches
were seletteS. You see. the cry muss
possess perso nal interest to nearly ev-
'erybody in order to be effective POI
litically. Everybody wore shoes, but
there was too close organization there,
both among the dealers, who could
make votes, and among employees, who
were too numerous AMI too closely knit
together In labor unions to make it
Advisable to tamper with their sources
Of livelihood. The retail jewelers. are
not organized; the watchmakers have
no unions; everybody wears watches;
therefore "The people are being rob-
!" 1t is quantity prices from the
factory which the Democrats are about
to use In comparison with the retail
prices to the consumer In the coming
agitation fer free trade. How will the
retail jewelers. of the country relish
this sort of Interference and false de-
duction concerning their business?
They can prevent it as the agricultural
implement dealers did, by writing to
their congressman and telling them to
let watch prices alone during the com
ing campaign american JeTeler.
No Popular Demand.
No Republican from Wisconsin, Mas
sachusetts, Iowa or anywhere else who
has assailed the tariff this year has
voiced the view of the Republican par
ty. The Dingley act has been in OPP
GRAFTON nine years. 1t has had longer
life than the Wilson-Gorman law,
which 1t displaced. Also it has lived
longer than did the Mckinley act,
which the Democrats repealed when
they put the Wilson German law on the
statute book. So, likewise, 1t has been
with us for more years than was the
act of 1888, which the Mckinley law
succeeded. Dingley's tariff has had a
longer career than any other law in its
field since Morrills, which was passed
in 1861. But the Dingley act con-
tinues to give a good account of it.
self. 1t furnishes both revenue and
protection, and the Wilson act provid-
ed neither the one nor tine other. Moth
ing that any Democrat has ever said
against the Dingley law has been as
severe as Clevelands denunciation Of
the Democratic Wilson German act,
the party perfidy and party dishonor
law" which Cleveland contemptuously
refused to sign, but let 1t get ON the
statute book through the expiration of
the ten days time limit There is no
popular demand among the Republl-
cans for the repeal or material mod
ification of the Dingley tariff On the
contrary, any tampering with that act
at this time would arouse Republican
hostility all over the country. No Re
publican who assails it can long main
tain his standing in the party. A Demo-
cratic assault ON either the tariff or
the flag in the Philippines in the con-
gressional canvass of 1906 would in
sure Republican majority in the cleo
lions which would make all the off-year
Republican margins since 1894 look
narrow.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Right Sort of Madness.
The total salaries and wages paid by
the United States Steel Corporation In
1905 amounted to $12S,O52, $50, against
sos, 77S,276 In 1904. OF its preferred
stock 23.9s of shares were subscribed
for by its employees at the end of the
year at 800 per SHARE. Surely such
figures denote Protection gone mad"
and yet we caDnot have 100 much Of