The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-15
UP TO THE VOTERS
CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS OF
VITAL IMPORTANCE
Advice of Trust Organ May Well Be
Studied by Those Who Would
Find Relief from Trust
Righteousness.

It is rather strange that the Bulle.
tin of the American Iron and Steel
association should be the first to dis.
cover there is a free trade element
in the Republican party" Such a good
authority upon the tariff policies with,
in the Republican party can hardly
be mistaken, yet it is singular how
we'll the secret has been kept. There
are, 1t is true, some tariff refOrmers
in the Republican ranks, such as the
Iowa idea" men, who were led by
Gov. Cummins, and who now appear to
be without a leader, but they are not
free traders, they merely had some
how absorbed the idea that the tariff
shelters the trusts. Then there was
a band of Minnesota Republicans who
wanted reciprocity with Canada, but
their demand appears to have
dwindled since the flour milling trust
has been allowed to import Canadian
wheat In bond and ship it abroad after
its conversion into flour without pay
ing duty on the same. Those Mime
sofa Republicans were surely not free
traders. Then we have just heard the
demand for tariff reduction from the
American Manufacturers association,
who mainly want cheaper iron and
steel, but even the most radical of
them are not free traders.
OF course, we must bear in mind
that The Bulletin is devoted to the
interests of the steel trust, and it's
vision Of the gulf between tariff revi-
sion and free trade may be thus vast
ly diminished. 1t says that while
Taft's candidacy was engineered by
President Roosevelt" it is "eminently
true that it vas acceptable to and
was supported by the free trade ele-
ment in the Republican party"
The Bulletin would undoubtedly like
the tariff to be let alone, or else re-
vised higher, and this may have
warped its ideas about what the free
trade" element in the Republican party
intends to do. If the Bulletin and the
interests back of it will stand to its
guns and await events, it will find, if
the Republican party should be sue
in electing a president and
congress, that its free trade bOgy will
prove to be nothing but a Pigment of
its own editors brain, caused prOba-
bly, by thinking too much about the
enormous profits that the tariff COM
pels the people to pay its friends, the
which would be abolished under
real tariff reform.
The situation is certainly exasperat-
ing from the viewpoint of The Bulle-
for it fears that Taft is not
sound on the tariff issue and it evil
IDENTIFY grieves over the fact of the
unsatisfactory record of the new
leader of the Republican party"
This organ of the trusts finally re-
solves that the best must be made of
1 bad situation" and the only thing
hat can be done is to "see to it that
he members of congress to be elected
his year are pledged to resist all re-
AUCTIONS in duties that would carry
With them sharper foreign competition,
ess work at home and lower wages
American workingmen."
That's it, See that Uncle Joe and
he other stand-pat statesmen are
again to congress and rely
lpon their Interpretation of the am
tariff plank of the Republican
platform, that a maximum tariff and
reasonable profit" for the trusts,
means to revise the tariff higher.
There is food for reflection for Demo
rats in the reliance of the trust organ
Ipon electing a stand-pat congress,
which should urge them and all who
eel they are being p%lundered by the
a~riff-protected trusts to "see to it that
he members of congress to be elected
year are pledged for tariff re-
Orm.