Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-02
DECEPTION In MOVE
FuTILITY OF THE "AFTER ELEc.
TON" TALK.
Republican Leaders Ready Enough to
Promise Tariff Reform in the Hope
of Once More Deluding
the Voters.

It's very comical to see the anxiety
of some Republican politicians Tor
tariff reform. There is Uncle Shelby
Moore Cullom, of Illinois, who has
been senator from Illinois for the past
24years, and a member Of the house OF
representatives for 16 years before
that, now says I'VE must have tariff
reform"
Uncle Shelby probably does not
care whether the principle OF protec-
ton" is again Endorsed by the Repub-
lican party, or whether a maximum
and minimum tariff, which would raise
the tariff higher, is the outcome after
election" but he wants it understood
that before election he is for reform
of the boldest kind without specifying
what schedules shall be abolished or
revised.
Your Uncle Shelby is nc better or
worse than the average Republican
politician, and his bold announcement
for tariff reform Immediately after
election is a strong Indication that
the great majority of the people OF
Illinois have been clamoring for tariff
reform before election, and that 1t
is the part of wisdom to try and con-
sole them with a promise for the fu-
ture.
Can the people of Illinois be kept in
line for the Republican party again
by promises? What will they do to
Uncle Shelby and the other Repub-
lican politicians who represent them
if their favorite son, Uncle Joe Can
non, is reelected speaker again, and
persists in appointing a stand pat
way and means committee like the
present one that laughs and gibes
at tariff reform of the slightest kind?
Uncle Joe is backed by all the pow
err and money of the trusts, and moth
ing but a political revolution will un'
horse him.
In fact, nothing but a Democratic
majority in congress, continued for at
least four years, will reform the tariff.
If the Democrats control the house
of representatives of the next congress
and pass a tariff reform bill, your
Uncle Shelby will probably vote in the
senate against it. But eve If he
forced by public opinion, should vote
for a tariff reform bill, there are more
than enough friends of the trusts and
combines In the senate to defeat it
1t is no good to try and fool the PEG
pie with promises all the time. II
they want tariff reform they must moi
only elect a Democratic house of rep
r~esentatives, but a Democratic major
ity in the senate also. The people o.
Illinois will have the opportunity O.
defeating the reelection of Senator
Hopkins this fall, if they really wan
tariff reform, but they will have tt
elect a Democratic state Legislature
to do so. There are over 20 states
that will have a similar opportunity
But will they do it? Two years late
they will elect 80 more United State
senators and it will need a majorit,
tariff reform. Any reform of valu'
that will prevent the trusts from
charging high prices, or from selling
cheaper abroad than at home, vii
never come from the Republican part,
!, as now constituted.
, The voters who want reform vii
. have to be steadfast in well doing, TO
it will take a long pull and a stron
7 pull to force the trusts to give up thei
strange hold on the American people