The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-21
By SAVOYARD

In this town. and the second was the gen. erai order of the Afro-American council, assuming command of the Republican party throughout the Union.
 That Is the kettle of fish Senator Foraker has cooked for his party in Ohio. The ne- sroes of that State have marked Taft and Burton for slaughter It is rot a Demo cratic row. and every Democrat can con- template the melee with extremest satis- faction.
 Burton ts as able a man as Foraker though by no means effective an orator In Congress or on the stump Nor Is he the virile leader Foraker is. Foraker did not hesitate to challenge Theodore Roosevelt in the Senate and out of 1t. and in that behalf he delivered himself of preachments that no man can controvert. and did 1t in . way to extort the admiration of enemy we'll as of friend. Burton Is hostile to the present extortionate tariff Foraker was to the rate bill: but Burton allowed the tar If reform contingent on the Republican side of the House of Representatives to drift as aimlessly a straw in a tickle wind. If Foraker had been as impotent in the Senate the outrage of Joint statehood for Arizona and New Mexico would have been perpetuated. As Lucan said of his brother-in-law. Cardigan. who led tho charge of the Light Brigade and whom he hated with all the rancor of his stern na- ture. so it>can be said of Foraker: "Yes. he Is brave: d-n him. he is brave"
 Cuf bono? The Republican party will form the tariff about the time the brewers bring about total abstinence Parson Brown low said he would be a Democrat when Queen Victoria was content to be divorced from the Prince consort by decree of a coun- ty court in the then Territory of Kansas. and the Republican party, will begin to think seriously of tariff reform some quarter of a century after Ben Tillman shall deliver the oration at the unveilinE of a monument to Collector Crum. erected by the white folks of Charleston. g. c. There was in 1860 more sentiment for the emancipation of the slaves in the eleven states that seeded than there Is sentiment for tariff reform In the Republican party in 1907. There were emancipationists at the South. thousands of them brave soldiers in the Confederate army. and there are tariff reformers in the Republican party. they call themselves tar if revisionists." No two of them agree. and If all of them agreed the standpatters would not allow them to budge a peg. Figs do not grow missiles. nor are grapes gathered from thorns. If this country Is in need of tariff revision. 1t must apply to the party that keeps it in stock
 Here is Massachusetts demanding tariff revision "by the friends of protection" She wants the tariff revised down on hides and revised up on boots and shoes. Iowa. anoth- CT Republican State. also demands tariff re vision ''by the friends of protection" She wants the tariff on hides revised up and the tariff on boots and shoes revised down. Scratch a Republican who is for tariff re- vision, and here is the label you will reveal: q am for free trade in what have to buy and for prohibitory tariff on what have to sell" That layout could not .'revise' the tariff between now and judgment day.
 And what a harvest for the Democratic party if the Democratic party enjoyed the blessing of personal liberty! The Sixtieth Congress would be Democratic If the club of government ownership of railroads had not been supplied the Republican party to beat our brains out. The next President would be a Democrat and the next Congress Dem- ocratic If the Democratic party had not all ready been given orders not to make the tariff paramount The last Democratic Pres ident was elected on the tariff issue. The next Democratic President. If there is to be another Democratic President. will be elected on the tariff issue. The octopus has been chased and all that. Who has put cheaper rag on his back. cheaper mouthful down his throat? Who has found living cheaper? Who has not found It hard CT to make buckle and tongue meet. not withstanding this prosperity that is so boasted?
 Why? Why? Why? The tariff which pro- tects the products of labor that belong to capitol, while allowing free trade In labor itself that comes from abroad at the rate of 1.2bo,o0o per year. But what is the use :? The fiat has gone forth to subordinate the tariff to octopus chasing-and the result will be the same.
 
 And so the Ohio Republicans are perfect ,v safe in cutting anothers throats. The Democrats will not be allowed to avail themselves of the advantages that family TOW offers.
 Put away the poor little tariff issue It may he of use some time in the remote fu- ture
 Washington. July 6. 1907.
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