Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-10-16
passenger or freight rates on the ocean
would be any cheaper, but be governed
as they are now by International COM
petition.
Tarir ON Print Paper.

TariF ON Print Paper.
The price of print paper such as
newspapers are printed on has adj
yanced from $1.75 hundred pounds to
$3.50, and may go much higher. This,
Of course. weighs heavy on the just as
on the unjust, and proprietors Of DEM
ocratic newspapers have to. suffer for
the Sins Of their Republican brethren
without the compromising return OF q
share of the campaign fund graft, or
the advertisement Of many Of the tariff
protected industries. 1t is some con-
ISOLATION to Democratic to see the Re-
5publicans kicking at the result of their
own doings. The tariff tax on print
paper of from 10 to 20 per cent, and
on wood pulp Of 10 per cent on the av-
erage, protects the print paper trust in
keeping up prices. The Canadian gov
eminent has imposed, or Is about to 3
impose, an export duty ON. wood pulp,
and under the provisions OF paragraph
500 of the Dingley tariff law, the
amount of such export duty shall be
added as an additional duty on pulp
imported from such country. Thus is
the protection theory run mad, for we
not only tax ourselves to protect a mo.
nopoly Of our own, but add to the burden
a further tax because some other coun.
Try seeks to- prevent Its supply Of wood I
from being depleted. Our Republican
statesmen have refused reciprocity with
Canada, and when she seeks to defend
herself by increasing her export and
import duties, these trust protecting
politicians have provided we must tag
ourselves to help Canada protect her
spruce forest. Still the Republican or.
FANS stand pat and some OF them would
rather add to our tariff burdens than
decrease them, and all of them de-
ctare for the fundamental principle
,f protection And all the trusts say
amen. The only protection for the
newspapers published is to advance
sshe price at which they sell their pa
pers to the public, and that must fol-
low II the print paper trust is to con-
aiinue to be protected. So in the end
this robber system Of protection, on
what ever commodity the tariff tar rs
collected, Is paid by the public, the gov
eminent collecting about 81 per capita,
md the trusts about $50 per capita, or
500 for each family in the United
State. Do you, as voter, say amen
to that? u
No Third Term.
Son-in-Law Longworth, upon being
Interviewed at Cincinnati, declared
hat the Hawaii Interview in Which
he was made to. say that President
Roosevelt might accept another nomi-
nation if there was unanimous de-
nand of the people, was a raw fake"
Il will relterate," said Mr.. Longworth,
what have already said, that 1 do
not believe there Is any possible situ-
alton or combination Of circumstances
that could lead the President to
change his mind and become a candi-
date. Els decision ID, absolute and fire.
yocable." But perhaps the President
has changed his mind since he stated
his position to his son-in-law, for 1t 10
some time since the Longworth's have
been at Oyster Bay. AS the old Indian
said, white man mighty uncertain,
Still 1t seems but fnir to accept Mr..
Rooseyelt's declaration on election
night in 1904, that under no circum-
stances would he accept n third term,
and he considered he had just been
elected to a second term. Yet, accord
ing to information from Oyster Bay,
there are now two conditions under
which President Roosevelt would ac-.
.cept the nomination for third term.
The first is a unanimous demand. The
other is opposition to Ills nomination.
Now, either there will be unanimous
emand forsshis renominatio or else.
there will be some opposition to 1t.
But, In either case, he will be a candi-
Idate. This is also Mr.. Bryan's posi-
ton. VIII we ever get rid OF these ac-
cidental products Of sad catastrophes7
Is there still hope at the bottom Of
Pandora's box?
Az Expensive Experiment..
The President, as conimander-in-
chief. has the undoubted right to order;
either the army or navy to, Smnneuver
whenever he deems best, and sending
the battleships TO the Pacific would
seem to-be covered by that authority.
But congress has control Of executive
action, through the constitutional pow
err over expenditures, and 1t Is claimed
that without special appropriation
for the great expense of the cruise Of
the battleships, as ordered that the
President has exceeded his power In a
time Of profound peace In time Of