The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-04-05
CLINCS TO TRUSTS
REPUBLICAN, PARTY rs TRUE TO
ITS FRIENDS.
Sill Authorized by Leaders Adds rs
Fer Cent. as the Maximum Rate
The Cardinal Principle Of
G. o. p. Legislation.

nouncement OF the position OF MI.
Roosevelt on the tarin from reliable
Republican sources and Why he has
not recommended congress to revise
the tarif In accordance with his past
promises. The Boston Advertiser is
the Republican organ that blooms
forth the glad tidings that the presi.
dent Is more than willing to see the
tarin 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 II 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 OF course. No pro.
a n Democratic hand must be put
forth TO even prevent this Republican
ark of the covenant from fulfilling its
destiny of protecting the trusts. That
coyczaLt is alone between the protect.
ed trusts and the Republican high
priests Of protect N. No heather
Democratic eyc must be allowed to
pierce the veil that shrouds the tariff
holy OF HOLES from the great majority
of the people. II 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 Hamiltonian ideas OF the
Advertiser. Senators Lodge. Aldrich.
et al.
But that is not the Democratic
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 80 per cent. higher
than il was before this Republican
theory Of protecting the trusts was
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
better off? 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 on tariff revision until the
great majority of Republicans demand
II will be 10 postpone il forever, for
the Republican leaders are partici-
pants in the large profits that protect
ing the trusts has produced. and every
Republican campaign fund has been
repleted 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 81. 900. 900 to elect Mr..
Roosevelt, and a Republican con
g-ess. with perhaps the promise
declared or implied that the steel
schedules OF the tariff that per-
nit the steel trust to pay interest
on bonds and watered stock. from
which he draws his enormous income.
shall remain untouched and. in ;act.
be perpetuated. The tainted money
of the life insurance companies was
not lacking towards the same Repub-
lican victory. and those corporations
were in the control of the frenzied
%financiers of Wall street. who also IN
troll the industrial corporations. The
only tariff bill introduced by a Repub-
lican member of the ways and means
committee Of the late congress was
to increase the present rates % per
cent. as the maximum rates and keep
the present rates as the minimum
rates. That is what Congressman
McCleary proposed as the ultimatum
of the Protective Tariff league. and as
he was defeated for reelection by his
outraged constituents. the administra-
ton has appointed this lame duck"
to be second assistant postmaster gen
eral. apparently as a reward for his
services towards revising the tariff
higher.
What do those Republican voters
who 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 fer those who will perpetuate the
tariff protected trusts In their plumber
ing through high prices?
Re Not Deceived.