Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-10
is ONLY ONE WAY
TO SECURE RELIEF FROM TRUST
ExToRTloN.
Republican Monopoly-controlled Sen
ate Stands in the Way Of Tariff
Revision-Demoeratic Party
Pledged for Justice.

Where does the Republican party
stand on the tariff? Secretary Taft
has been telling us, and he is the
spokesman of the administration, that
the tariff will be revised after cleo
ton. But a much greater influence
In the Republican party than Sec
rotary Taft, the Protective Tariff
league, looks upon Secretary Taft as
having placed himself outside of the
pale Of true Republicanism and adj
vises protectionists to bestir them
selves in the matter of the selection
Of sound protectionist delegates" to
the national convention. 1t is to be
presumed that Sound pr~otectionists'
are those who would stand pat or re-
wise the tariff higher.
What will the Republican voters do
about it? Will they follow Taft with
his indefinite revision of the future,
or stand pat with the league.
In either event, whether Taft or
the league prevail in the Republican
convention, there will be no revision
that will take from the trusts the
protection from competition that the
tariff has thrown around those grasp.
ing corporations. The old protection
ist ring is ~entrenched in the senate.
and many of them enough for a ma
jorlty Of the Republican membership,
can only be ousted when the voters
determine to replace them with Dem
ocrats. The contributions Of the tar
if protected trusts will be used TO
keep the protectionist ring in power,
and most of them have their W mil
lions to buy legislatures. That class
of Republican senators will find them
selves reinforced by ~Guggenheim of
Colorado, of the smelter trust, which
controls silver and lead; Du Pont of
Delaware, of the powder trust; Smith
of Michigan, attorney for the beet
sugar trust; Borah of Idaho, the at
torney of the Mine Owners associa-
ton, and others.
What chance has real tariff re-
form, or even a revision of any
kind that would reduce the protec-
ton to the trusts, in such hands?
So it is safe to say that even with
a promise of tariff revision in the
next Republican platform it would be
evaded when Il reform bill reaches
the senate, however the house of rep
resentatives will stand when it Or
ganizes in December, 1909.
So what is the use of Secretary
Taft, or any other Republican, or the
party representatives in convention,
promising tariff reform, even if they
really wish to accomplish it?
There is only one way the tariff can
he revised after election and that
is by the voters electing a Democratic
president and a Democratic congress-,
and then enough Republican senators
like La Toilette and Dolliver would
perhaps Join with the Democrats in
voting for a partial revision made on
lines that they would stand for. Then,
with the voters fully aroused to the
enormity of a tr~ust-controlled senate
standing in the way of further re-
form, the legislatures of enough
states might be carried to knock out
enough of the trust,controlled Repub-
lican senator's and replace them with
Democrats.
Just think it over and if you feel
the pinch of trust high prices vote
accordingly, The Republican voter is
as much interested as the Democratic
voter in abolishing, or, at least, so re-
ducing the tariff that the fear of for
eign competition will compel the pro-
tected interests to lower the price of
their products.