The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-04-06
CLINICS TO TRUSTS
REPUBLICAN, PARTY Is TRUE TO
ITS FRIENDS.
Bill Authorized by Leaders Adds 25
Per Cent. as the Maximum Rate
The Cardinal Principle Of
G. O. p. Legislation.

G. o. p. Legislation.
We now have an authoritative an
nouIcement of the position OF Mr..
Roosevelt on the tariff from reliable
| Republican sources and 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 tidfngs that the presi-
lent is moro than willing to see h
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 lone 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 pro-
fane 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
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 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 Hamiltonian ideas Of the
Advertiser, Senators Lodge, Aldrich,
ct 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 nat
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 n
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
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 70 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 Sc 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 tariff revision until the
great majority of Republicans demand
it will be to postpone it 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 $1,000 900 to elect Mr.
Roosevelt, and a Republican con.
gress, 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 enormo income
shall remain untouched and, in fact
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 frenzieC
inanciers Of Wall street, who also con
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 rs pc
cent. as the maximum rates and keel
the present rates as the minimum
rates. That is what Congressman
McCleary proposed as the ultimatun
of the Protective,Tarif league, and a
he was defeated for reelection by hi
outraged constituents, the administra
ton has appointed this lame duck
to be second assistant postmaster gen
oral annarentIv as a reward for hi
services towards revising b tar1i
higher.
What do those Republican voter
] who were promised tariff reform b,
the candidates of their party for col
2 gress think of the prospect? Wa
51they accept more promises and stf
vote. for those who will p~erpetuate tn