The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12
Is ONLY ONE WAY.
TO SECURE RELIEF FROM TRUST
ExTORTiON.
Repup,ican Monopoiy-C Controlled {
ate Stands in the Way OF TariH
Revision-Democratic Party
Pledged for Justice.

Where does the Republican party
stand on the tariff? Secretary 1ait
has been telling us, and he is the
spokesman of the administration, ina!
the tariff will be revised after cleo
ton. But a much greater influence
i'm the Republican party than Sec
rotary Taft, the Protective TarlIf
league, looks upon Secretary Tart as
having placed himself outside of the
pale of true Republicanism and al
vises protectionists to bestlr them-
selves in the matter of the selection
of sound protectionist delegates 10
the national convention. 1t Is to be
presumed that Sound protectlonists
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
list ring is ~entrenched in the senate
and many of them enough for a ma
jority 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, CT even a revision of any
kind that would reduce the protec-
tion to the trusts, in such hands?
So it is safe to say that even with
Il promise of tariff revision in the
next Republican platform it would be
eyaded when a reform bill reaches
the senate, however the house of rep
resentatiyes 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 car
be revised latter election" and thai
is by the voters electing a Democratic
president and a Democratic congress
and then enough Republican senators
like La Toilette and Dolliver. would
voting for a partial revision made OF
lines that they would stand for. Then
with the voters fully aroused to the
enormity of a truSt-cOntrOlled senate
standing in the way of further re
form. the legislatures of enough
states might be carried to knock our
enough of the trust-contrOlled Repub
lican senators and replace them with
Democrats.
Dust think it over and if you fee
the pinch of trust high prices vote
accordingly. The Republican voter /:
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 O
their products. The Republican lead
ers will raise a fog of some other is
sue in the coming campaign to tr!
and delude the voters into the belle
that other and greater interests ar
at stake than paying tribute to trusts
But when you come to consider tina
the tariff proteced trusts have in
creased the price of their products o.
the average Owe 81 per cent, SO tina
where you were spending n dolla
you now have to spend $1.54 for tn
same quantity and quality of goods
no other issue can compare with tn
tariff issue as far as dollars and cent
are concerned.