The Irish standard., 1910-05-28

pIlCCS We pay 1OI SIlOp- WoiA loUAC-
men that we buy abroad.
Five million immigrants have land
ed on our shores in the past eight
years, and it is an open question
whether they have not been actually
damaged in their contact with our
political and economic system.
Our people of wealth and intelli-
gence are kind hearted and would be
really patriotic if they had the time.
tie opportunity to know or see any,
thing really important in connection
with our social life.
Would it not be well for some of
them to stop off day in Pennsyl-
vania mining town, or in a cotton city
of New England, and there observe the
social conditions that are rapidly TAX
ing shape in this republic?
Would it not be we'll for some Of
them to realize the tremendous i'm
migration of recent years, and their
own neglect of government is chang
Ing the type ana character of the peo-
pie, and will soon open the question
whether we are to maintain republic
can government in this land?
Would it not be we'll for some of
them to realize that the future of our
type and government is still swing
ing in the balance, and that neither
the future of their children nor of
their great possessions is yet secure ?
1t were dull and pedantic to repeat
the old truism, that no government of
the people is possible or secure unless
it is founded on fair dealing between
the poor and rich. Nevertheless this
dull truth still prevails.
Does the fair flower of our Amer
lean womanhood that have enjoyed ev-
cry advantage that wealth and leisure
gives, never stop to think their grand
fathers worked in their shirtsleeves
in the woods and upon the rocky
farms?
Possibly they do not stop to think
they are living in republic, and that
the real wealth of the nation is pro-
duced by the working people of the
land.
Do none of us stop to think we are
all of the same yeoman and peasant
stock, and the working man in the
mills was a companion of our grand
fathers some fifty years ago?
When we get rich, we all try to
persuade ourselves We are descended
from counts or dukes. All of us know,
that the American people came from
very plain persons in the middle and
lower classes. We ought to be pleased
that we did not descend from diseased
noblemen or from great families that
often started behind a throne.
Once in while, let us talk old
Gothic English, just for luck.
Tariff Made by Manufacturers.
1t is also stated that tariff rates
We're so framed because manufacture
ers stated that their business de-
manded these rates to make fair prof.
it's. Attention is likewise called to the
tariff plank which provides for such
fair profit. a.
The question naturally arises as to
what constitutes fair profit that the
people of the United States are re-
CURED to pay.
J. AS full partner in the national
economic system, the west would re-
gard a fair profit as normal return
upon real money invested.
1t does not conceive it to be a duty
Of the national life to guarantee a
profit on particular industries that
are overcapitalized from 200 to 800
per cent. On this basis, the increase
Of the tariff would only be limited by
the capacity Of printing presses to
turn out stocks and bonds.
AS concrete example, the west
sees no reason why many million of
it's working people should SILVER in
shoddy wooden goods sold at exorbi-
tant prices, to the end that er-pro-
tected mills may pay dividends of 25
to so per cent.
If it shall finally appear fact that
the change in economic conditions no
longer permits New England to pro-
duce without entailing the exhaustion
of the general public, some day in
quiry may arise as to the duty of the
whole nation to support one small por-
ton at an economic sacrifice to the
whole.
Stranger things have happened
Minnesota Republicans Not DisloyaI:
The republicans of Minnesota are
not disloyal to their party or their
party principles. Neither will they
tolerate any such assumption in their
future political life. Minnesota has