The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-02-05

say in their campaign book, is to the
glory and honor Of the American manu-
facturer.
A great packing house realizes
profit Of 35 per cent. The breakfast
table is taxed. woolen and cotton
mills declare dividends amounting to
G6 per cent. The President says that
the object Of revision was not to re-
duce prices but to prevent an advance.
A revelation this-but even this object
has failed. There has been saturna-
liza Of high prices since the new law
was approved but you need no other
reminder than experience. The Presl-
dent has also assured us that tho new
low Is the best law ever enacted by the
Republicans. What splendid COM
plimcnt. If the increasing duties be
the test 1t In par excellence the best.
MIR. Cleveland should have vetoed
the Wilson German bill The Dem
ocracy defaulted it's bond, violated its
plighted faith to the American people.
Mr.. Taft should have vetoed the Payne
Aldrich bill. The Republicans have
defaulted their bond, violated their
faith and deserve defeat. If Mr.. Taft
had vetoed. the bill, had insisted that
his platform pledge be redeemed in
good faith, had appealed to the coun-
try, the people would have vindicated
and q. revision would have followed
that would have justified the hopes and
alleviated the burdens Of the consumer
The contest must go on until we OBJ
tain a reduction .of duties that will re-
ducc the cost of living, until the Amer
ican citizen can buy American goods
as chenply as the stranger across the
sea. ! think that the humblest Amer
lean citizen is as royal as a king, and
Is entitled to greater consideration At
the hands of our government than all
the crowned heads that ever oppressed
and plundered mankind. Let us con-
tinue to tell the people until we con-
vince them that trade Is q blessing and
not a curse. The standpatter believes
that trade Is curse instead OF bless
| ing. We expend money to dig canals,
to dredge our rivers, to deepen our
harbors, in order to facilitate trade,
and we erect tariff walls In order to
obstruct and prohibit trade. All his
| tory bears witness that the commercial
nations have been the progressive ma
Hons. BY lowering taxes, by reciproc-
ity treaties, by a customs union or n
commercial union with the nations of
the west, would extend our commerce
to all the marts and all the market
places of the earth.
The tigress has returned with her
whelps-thc tariff and it's brood OF
trusts. Havemeycr admitted that the
tariff was the mother of the trusts. He
knew their pedigree. Protective duties
have shielded the trusts against fore-
ign competition. Rebates have shield
ed them against domestic competition
and abroad, they have waxcd omni-
potent. We must remove the cause IL
we should remove the effect. To sup
press the brood we must suppress the
mothrr--revoke the favors of which
they are born. Tax their excessive in
comes that they may share the bur.
dens as we'll as the blessings Of the
government that protects them. Tax
wealth as well as want. Do not tax the
rags of Lazarus and exempt the riches
of Dives.
The name of the trust is legion, but
as If the number was not sufficient
we are to have another through the
means of the ship subsidy. 1t comes
with the pleasing plea Of increasing
our trade and upbnilding our navy, bu'
it's real purpose is to pension the shI
builder at public expense. Foreign
, governments tax their people to pa,
our freight We must shield ourselves
against that calamity by taxing oul
own people to pay the freight upo1
: cargoes that we never ship and fo
t services that we never receive. Amer
r lean ships have been driven from tn
sea not by hostile fleets, but by hostil
r laws at horne. American capital nov
3 owns more than three hundred vessel