Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-04
CLINGS TO TRUSTS
REPUBLICAN PARTY Is TRUE TO
ITS FRIENDS.
Bill Authorized by Leaders Adds rs
Per Cent. as the Maximum Rate
The Cardinal Principle of
G. o. p. Legislation.

We now have an authoritative an
nouncement of the position of Mr..
Roosevelt on the tariff from reliable
Republican sources ana why he has
not recommended congress to revise
the tariff in accordance with his past
promises. The Boston Advertiser is
the Republican organ that booms
forth the glad tidings that the presi-
dent is more than willing to zee the
tariff revised, when it can be shown
to him that the great majority Of the
Republicans of the. United States
want tariff revision" The defects in
the Dingley tariff" should be correct
ed, when it can be done without any
serious threat of a~ntagonism in the
Republican party; but it must be the
party of protection which alone there
fore should be trusted to undertake
tariff revision" OF course! No PIT
fame Democratic hand must be pu
forth to even prevent this Republican
ark of the covenant from fulfilling its
destiny of protecting the trusts. Thai
covenant is alone between the protect
ed trusts and the Republican high
priests of protection. No heather
Democratic eye must be allowed to
pierce the veil that shrouds the tariff
holy of holes from the great majorit!
of the people. 1t Is for them to re
main without the veil and take foi
granted what the Republican high
priest thinks proper to reveal, accord
ing to the Hamiltonian ideas of the
Advertiser, Senators Lodge, Aldrich,
ct al.
way. The trend of the times repels
mystery and silence. The people want
to know why the tariff schedules that
protect the trusts should not be abol.
ished, or so revised as to produce
revenue instead of trust protection.
They want to know why trust prices
should continually be advancing and
trust profits increasing and the cost
of living be over so per cent. higher
than it was before this Republican
theory of protecting the trusts was
I saddled on them in the Dingley law
Because a Democratic legislator has
not kissed the feet of the idol of pro
lection is he any less able to under
stand the Republican mysteries OF
, tariff taxing the people to make them
l better off? Are the steel schedules
. and the wool schedules, which tax the
consumers over 70 per cent. and fill
, the Golfers of the steel trust and the
! wooden trust, much beyond what the!
main? Because the Republicans arr
! copartners of these trusts, and be
cause the Democrats would so revist
. the schedules under which these trusti
. are protected, so that competition
' would force them to revise thei
prices to what is reasonable and just
1 are these tariff taxes to be revise
higher? For that is the program G
the Republican leaders,
d To put off tariff revision until tn
e great majority of Republicans deman
it will be to postpone it forever, 70
the Republican leaders are partic
II pants in the large profits that protect
ing the trusts has produced, and ever
Z Republican campaign fund has bee,
repleted with trust and corporatio
', cash and the contributions of the mas
mates who control such organization
y Mr.. Carnegie alone in 1904 said h
would give $1,000, 900 to elect Nj
~ Roosevelt, and a Republican COY
. gress, with perhaps the promis
. declared or implied that the stet
schedules of the tariff that pc
nit the steel trust to pay intereF
on bonds and watered stock, frol
= which he draws his m incom
snail remain untouched and, in fac
be p~efpetuated. The tainted mon
= of the life insurance companies wa
- not lacking towards the same Repu
a. lican victory, and those corporation
-, were in the control of the frenz1e
=. financiers of Wall street, who also co
troll the industrial corporations. TT
30 only tariff bill introduced by a Repu
80 lican member of the weys and meal
10 committee of the late congress WI
to increase the present rates 20 p'
cent. as the maximum rates and ket
I the present rates as the minimu
-. rates. That is what Congressms
McCleary proposed as the ultimatu
- of the Protective Tariff league, and
he was defeated for reelection by h
- outraged constituents, the administr
70, ton has appointed this lame duel
-. to be second assistant postmaster ge
:, eral, apparently as a reward for b
~ services towards revising the tar
nd higher.
lv What do those Republican vote
of who were promised tariff reform
the candidates OF their party for &C
:. gress think of the prospNtt? w
they accept more promises and st
vote for those who will p~erpetuate t
tariff protected trusts in their IluEd'
ing through high prices?