Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-11
/, TUESDAY. MAY III. 1909, /,
'GREPEpUBLICAN PROTEST

'ssE 'fha& the administration Is badly up
against in the proposed .Aldrich5 Payne
revision of the tariff is evident to the
most casual observer. r. Not only is the
Republican party badly split in the
senate on the high rates fixed by AL
: drich, but there is also strong opposi-
ton to the bill among the rank and file
of the parity This opposition is voiced
in the following from the Philadelphia
North American, one of the leading
, Republican papers of the country:
--r.,"Deep-rooted in the American nature
are respect for, tho frank courageous
opponent and hatred for the coward, the
trimmer and the trickster, In every
phase of politics this truth finds it's
fullest expression. Cleveland and Roose
welt are modern instances of strong men
who provoked respectful enmity. But
no swindler- or deceiver ever attained
such; eminence.F .....
"Often the national trait leads to evil
There is u queer kinl in the American
sense of humOr that prOvOkcS a'toler
ant understanding of the bold thief. The
wrongdoer who says, The public be
damned, the MAN who responds to an
unanswerable accusation with, What
are you going to do about it," the type
best represented by Tweed and Quay
and from Croker and Cox, always have
from the most honest.
I Rightly or wrongly, Americans are
.Overapt to tolerate the truthful pirate,
But the pickpocket and the sneak are
pretty sure to he thumped. "a
"a candidate or Il party. in city, state
or nation, my advocate q wrong anu
perpetuate it and be forgiven. But bit
ter punishment awaits the pledge
breaker. The man, the clique, the
faction or the party that attempts to
gold brick" the American people is tn,
;ertain acquisitor of a scourging that
will leave burning scars.
'The North American has said time
and again that the principle of protection
has become fixed, immutable part
If Americas national policy. That has
Jeen our belief. That we think still j.
he truth. BUTT will not remain truth
t thefei is persistence in the trickery now
n progress in Washington.
'Thcre will he peril for the protective
Tinciple and tho first grave danger fol-
he Republican party in thirteen years
(. congress sanctions and the president
pprpyes the thimble-rigging tariff plans
/ f.Aldrich.
IA thousand times during the cam.
align it was impressed upon the voters
hat the Republican party proposed t.
| sduce, modify and adjust the tariff
;hedules so as to meet equitably all new
onditions, check monopoly and benefit
ae consumer without doing harm to
ny legitimate industry. e.
Had that not been the understand
ig Of the American people every sane
bserver- knows that Taft would hav,
mt eight or ten Of the states he carried
nd while he might still have won be.
susc of lnistrust of Bryan, the present
9usc, would hold a Democratic ma ority
the platform had been the bill which
ldrich proposes to force upon the
Iuntry for the qualification of New
ngland. r.---.--... ,
"Are these supposed representatives
the people In Washington crazed or
ind? Do they not forese the danger of
'oviding the Democrats with the irst
rmidable campaign ammunition in fif
en- years. Are they. not conscious OF
re suicidal folly of COW Irdly submission