The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-14

other state, has the right to claim
the benefit of reciprocity of its manu-
featuring or agricultural products.
andthat all the other states of the In
ion shall remain the victims of mon
oDoly and extortion. The maximum
figures in the existing law were not
placed there to stay. They were plac-
ed there SO that they could be lowered
in order to meet the necessities Of our
export trade, but they never have
been lowered and there they stand, a
glazing and a patent fraud upon their
face. We must meet the Protective
League with facts and proofs and fig
ures, and not with glittering generali-
ties. The time has gone by for dis
cussing the general policy of tariff re-
form.
TIRED OF BEING ROBBED.
THE people are tired of the policy
of being robbed, and We want to
take up the items and show them how,
under this statute, the tariff-protectad
interests are reaping a harvest that it
was never intended they should make
when the schedules OF the present bill
were adjusted. Without holding Mr..
DingIey responsible for the shameless
trick that was perpetrateG in The frame
work of the bill that bears his name,
We are able to prove demOnSrtabiy the
fraudulent device that underlieS il
and how President Mskinley himself
was misled and deceived When the bill
was drawn. The exposure of fraud is
the order Of the day, and if our party
has the courage Of its conviction It is
an issue now upon which it may sue
coed and conquer by making inroads
in the agricultural and manufacture
ing districts of republican states that
are in open rebellion against the en-
DargC that is laid upon American pro
ducts, and that is permanently under
mining our commercial intercourse
with the trading nations of the world.
OPPOSED TO TERRITORIAL Elk.
PANSION.
SSNAAAo ~ LIN tLAth' VIC uClt1oNI dI1C !
party is unified also in opposition to
territorial expansion, and that this
IS destined to become d vital problem
before the people. At the next SESSION
If Congress we will probably have al
of our expenditures in the
Philippines. The departments are now
1t work upOn the Investigation. Al
he last session Of the senate a re5o-
utiOn calling for a statement, offered
~ a democratic senator. was practi-
ally tabled upon the objection of a re- .
'ubliCan senator. When the report is ,
endered, judging FROM the meager in .
0rmation that is now in our possess
the figures will be. startling and
APPALLING. This statement will net ,
axe into account the loss of life and {
ealth sustained and suffered by our +
forces upon these pestiien- ,
iaI shores. This fatal blunder is here
stay so long as our present foreign
Olicy is maintained. but while il is
ur heritage, it also affords a solemn
'arning against its repetition in the :
lture. There is no objection to this :
Overnment becoming a world power =
pom the field of civilization and hui
anity; but the democratic party, il it .
true to it's traditions, must make its
against this government, either .
or jointly with any other gov
entering a scheme of depre- :
ating upon the helpless races Of man. :
ind for the purpose of apportionlng :
heir liberty and plundering their pos r
essions. ,
OPPOSITION no SUBSIDIES. t
"It is safe to say hat the democrat t
c party will take a firm stand against
he reckless expenditures that always
'revail under a republican admins
ration and will declare for economy t
n the public service and the cutting s
Town of the extravaganza expenditures
hat in every department If the admin
are far beyond the necessi
les and emergencies of the case.
I'm this connection it viii record its
NSoAAAoS 4C 81 i VI 0uISl@
in every form. and it will take
great pride in the fact that at the last
session of Congress it's representatives
stood in solid line against the raid
hat was contemplated upon the Tres
Try in the interest of shipping leagues
a select class of monopolists, VINO
With n hand are willing to build
heir w ships with government mon
y and with the other to lay an OPP
'ressivetribute upon the American peo-
Die for almost every article of neces-
ity and comfort that with their per
mission may be landed upon our
.hores.
EXECUTIVE USURPATION. !,
This brings me to several PROPOSE
ioDc tho+ T hovo froo1np+I1- 5;~o,--ol