The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-04-05
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 and why he mas
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 tdlngs that the presi.
dent is more than willing TO see the
tariif revised when Il 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 antagonism In the
Republican party; but 1t must be the
| party Of protection which alone there.
fore should be trusted to undertake
| tariff revision" or course No pro.
| fame Democratic hand must be put
forth to even prevent this Republican
ark of the covenant from fulfilling its
| destiny of protecting the trusts. That
| covenant Is alone between the protect.
| cd 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 holies from the great majority
of the people. 1t Is for them to re.
main without the veil and take for
granted what the Republican high
| priest thinks proper to reveal, accord.
| ing to the llamiltonian ideas of the
| Advertiser, Senators Lodge, Aldrich.
| ct al.
But that Is not the Democratic
| way. The trend of the times rcpels
| 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 50 per cent higher
than II was before this Republican
theory of protecting the trusts was
saddled on them in the Dingley law.
/
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
better of? Are the steel schedules
| and the wool schedules, which tax the
consumers over 20 per cent. and fill
the Golfers of the steel trust and the
WOODEN trust, much beyond what they
should naturally enjoy, to forever re-.
main? Because the Republicans are
copartners Of these trusts, and be-
cause the Democrats would so revise
the schedules under which these trusts
are protected, so that competition
would force them to revise their
| prices to what is reasonable and Just,
are these tariff taxes to be revised
higher? For that is the program OF
the Republican leaders.
To put OFF tarifI revision until the
great majority of Republicans demand
1t will be to postpone it forever, for
the Republican leaders are partlci.
pants in the large profits that protect.
ing tho trusts has produced and every
Republican campaign fund has been
repletcd with trust and corporation
cash and the contributions OF the mag.
mates who control such organizations
Mr. Carnegie alone In 1904 said he
would give $lO0O.0O0 to elect Mr.
Roosevelt, and Republican con.
grcss, with peshaps the promise
declared or implied that the steel
schedules Of the tariff that per.
init the steel trust to pay interest
on bonds and watered stock from
which ne draws his enormous income.
shall remoin untouched and. in fact.
be perpeCuated. The tainted money
of the life insurance companies was
not lacking towards the same Repub.
lcan victory, and those corporations
were in the control of the frenZied
fnanclers of Wall street. who also con
troll the industrial corporations. The
only tariff bill introduced by Repub.
lcan member of the ways and means
| committee of the late congress was
to Increase the present rates 25 per
cent. as the maximum rates and keep
rates That is what Congressman
McCleary proposed as the ultmatum
of the Protective Tariff league, and as
he was defeated for reelection by his
outraged constituents, the admlnistra.
tion has appointed this lame duck
to be second assistant postmaster gen.
e:cl. apparently as a reward for his
services towards revising the tariff
higher.
What do those Republican voters
VINO were promised tariff reform by
the candidates of their party for con.
greSs think of the prospect? VIII
they accept more promises and still
vote for those who will perpeiuate the
tariif protected trusts in their plumber.
Ing through high prices?
Be Not Deceived.
| The Democratic Dosition on the tar.