The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-08-06

Mute NcIsoH, United SJaJeS oeilaIc,
Washington, d.. C.. Dear Sir: The
people of the state of Minnesota in
particular and of the entire United
States in general, have good reason to
congratulate themselves on the fact
that Minnesota is represented by two
men in the senate who regard their
party pledges and prediction prom
ises on the tariff as something more
than empty words and phrases design
ed to catch votes.
Keeping Faith.
. We congratulate You most heartily
on your firm stand. You have kept the
faith and truly represent the senti-
ment of the masses who voted the
party again into power on the strength
of it's pledges to revise the tariff
downward.
No amount of evasion or chicanery
will blind the people. 1t must be re-.
vision downward and an equitable ad-
jnstment of the Anticipated tariff sched-
ule or betrayal.
Attitude of New England.
1t is most amazing that the New
England senators and their supporters
can be so deluded and so politically
blind that they cannot or will not see
that their unreasonable stand on the
tariff as whole, and on the wool tar
if in particular represents such a de-
parture from good faith that no voter
however humble can be misled.
If they force their extreme demands
on the country, their reputation for
political sagacity will suffer and they
will lose influence, as their sense of
proportion and fairness will seem to
have been impaired. 1t is difficult to
believe that even the high protection
environment of New England can so in
fluence them as to make them believe
that they represent the sentiment of
the whole country. If they would but
make trip through the west at the
present time they would become disil-
lusiOned They would encounter NUT.
terings that will soon develop into a
roar that will be heard from coast to
coast.
Party Pledges.
Prior to election the trainers of our
party platform promised honest revis-
ion. Any attempt to deny it is a
reflection on the intelligence of those
who voted the ticket. The party ora
tors preached it; every one applauded
it; the president himself clinched it
and elaborated the pledge. Will any,
one dare betray it?
We, at least, have too high an OPP
inion of the president to believe that
he will be party to any deception
or that in his own way and time he
will not grapple with the greed that
the present schedules represent. AS a
last resort we will rest our case with
him, confident that if the bill is passed
as it now stands he will set aside the
verdict of jury, which in such an
event would convict itself of being
stuffed for the sole benefit of special
interests for the satisfaction of their
Unsuitable greed.
Letters of Magnus Brown.
wish now heartily to endorse the
position taken by Magmls Brown, presi-
dent of the Minnesota Wool Growers
association, in his letter as published
in The Congressional Record. He ex-
poses the true inwardness of the wool
schedule and its actual effects from
the standpoint of the wool grower,
and what is more, it is presentation
of actual facts that the wool growers
would do well to weigh and that some
of the senators representing them seem
to be blind to.
Wcolen Schedule Monstrosity.
The wooden schedule is the worst
monstrosity that ever besmirched the
statute books of the nation and be-.
wildered long suffering public. 1t is
a product that so clearly bears the
hall mark of the combing interests as
to make any denial on their part seem
superfiuoas. 1t is an example of the
greed of special interests which, if
persisted in, will ultimately destroy the
interests responsible for affecting the
public with it.
Born in 1867, it has concentrated the
business in a few hands until it has
come to be regarded by influential leg
islators for New England as sacred
keystone to the whole protective sys-
tenn. 1t is the alpha and omega of
tariffdom, and is worshipped like a
craven image by its influential bene-
ficiaries to whom it bears rich gifts.
1t has smiled at you out of every
succeeding tariff bill through genera
lions until its countenance has become
as familiar as an old book. 1t is like
a lie that has been repeated so often
that its trainers have come to regard
1T as being as true and infallible as
Holy Writ. 1t is a mass of juggled
words and catch phrases, of wood
chucks and >jokers, intended to blind
not only the consumers but the wool
growers and the manufacturers, and
in fact everybody but its beneficiaries.
1t seems to have succeeded in mis-
leading the wool growers.
Interests of the Wool Growers and
Carders Identical.
The supporters of schedule X profess
that it protects the interests Of the
wool growers as we'll as the manufac-
turers. While it certainly protects the