The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-09-21
TURNTODEMOCRA
FOR RELIEF FROM PRESENT
TRUST HIGH PRICES.
Calm Review of the Situation Shows
There Is No Hope to Be Placed
in the Republican Party.

Judging the future by the past, II 10
almost impossible to expect tarlH re-
form from the Republicans. The
Roosevelt wing of the party shows
but little more intention OF taking
from the trusts their foster mother
than the most ardent standpatter. III
the evils of protecting the trusts WIN
the tariff are so great, why should the
revision OF the tariff be again post
poned for at least two years! CON
eress will meet at the beginning or
next December, and ven in a presl-
Dental year there is no good reason
why it cannot spare the time until the
conventions meet in June or July,
1908, to pass a bill that would give
our people a share of the bargain
prices which the trusts now conhne 10
foreigners. There is but little leglsla-
ton on other issues that is imperative,
and the ways and mean committee
will have comparatively nothing to do,
unless they are put to Work at COM
piling a tariff bill. Under the rules or
the house, which the majority is GER
tain to adopt, the Republicans can
limit debate to suit themselves. SO
the Democrats will be powerless to
| hinder quick action if they wanted to.
The Wall street panic in trust
| stocks could hardly be more severe II
| all the protection these industrial cor
| porations now enjoy should be ruth
I--. - IN -nI +14 ~1,norN in hICI-
ness, which in spite of the optimistic
statements of the standpatters, has al
ready begun, shows that the boosted
prosperity is not produced by so-caled
protection. There is no doubt hat the
people would welcome relief, If the
| Republican politicians will grant 1t to
them.
Will the administration surrender
to Speaker Cannon and his tariff pro-
tacted trust friends as it has for the
| past three years, or will President
Roosevelt show his independence of
"a few ruthless and determined men
whose wealth makes them particular
" formidable, because they hide be
| hind the breastwOrks of corporate or
ganizations?" That latest description
by the president of the trust corpora
| tons was followed by the declaration
in his PrOvincetown speech that nc
such sinister combination shall rule
this government" Yet some occult
influence compelled the president tC
| cut out of his message to congress
| three years ago, and never to include
it in later messages, a tariff revision
recommendation.
1t is impossible to believe that the
bold and strenuous Roosevelt is afraid
to tackle the trust Octopi, at least the
bad trusts, and the good trusts, il
there are any such, cannot be plumber
ing the people by being protected in
so doing by the tariff schedules, OF
they would not be cited by the presl
dent as being good trusts" That the
trust %plundering is going on apacet
everyone knows who takes account OF
the enormous increase in the cost OF
living since the present tariff was con
cocted by the trust representatives
and the Republican leaders in 1897
1t is possible, of course, that the neces'
sity of the Republican party for trust
campaign contributions is the cause
of the constant representation, espe
cially since the railroad element OF
Wall street will not be very liberal
contributors, and the law that Senator
Tillman forced the Republicans to
pass, prohibiting contributions by ma
tfonal banks may also cut off some
large sums from that source To Gu
off the trust contributions by revising
the tariff which protects the corpora
tons, just before election, is perhaps
a greater risk than even President
Roosevelt is inclined to take. For the
Republican campaign managers with
out a chance to fry the fat out of some
corporations would be as helpless as
an automobile without gasoline. 1t is
hardly necessary to point a moral to
those voters who are suffering from
trust high prices, that relief will
never come from the Republicans, but
it may be well to add that the candi
dates of the Democratic party, which
by tradition and conviction favor
tariff for revenue, instead of protec
ton, should receive the votes of those
who desire reform.
Tariff and Patent Monopoly.