The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-18

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Der barons'' like those of the Rhine
in medieval times. Three Republicans
of four will tell you that Henry Wat
terson invented that smile; some say
it came from Frank Hurd, but it came
from John Sherman, and the speech
is in the old Congressional Globe, for]
l have there read it. Allison of Iowa
was bitterly opposed to protection of
all sorts, and David A. Wells, the
ablest man of the lot, was an out and
outer against protection.
So it was on the question of loyalty
that the Republicans rejected Cana
dian reciprocity then, but after while |
the G. o. P. became insane on the
tariff question. owing possibly, to the
fiat" that was fried out of the "robber
barons"with which to buy elections.
Look at Adams county, Ohio. 1t is
| lust as bad in rural New York. II
Teddy had got the campaign fund he
expected to get by his endorsement of
the infamous Payne-Aldrich bill, he
would have carried New York last
November.
For years and years Canadian reel
procity slept. Canadian laborers-
that Pig Iron Kelly called "paupers :
came here by the tens of thousands
and either took the jobs of American
laborers or reduced their wages. You
see there is absolute free trade in la
Dor. that the tariff barons buy, but
there is protection on the product OF
labor, that the tariff barons sell. Thus
they catch the coon "a comm an a.
gwine." No wonder New England and
PENNSYLVANIA are full of millonaires.
The rest of the country has been tax
5 ed for them for years and years
t But Canada is now strong and rich
r and absolutely independent as to the
s reciprocity treaty with the United
l. States, and it becomes manifest thai
s if the thing is consummated, Canada
s will write a great deal of it herself
e at least half and probably more. In
deed, Canada is coy and the United
States eager. One thing is certain
we can make no such good trade a,
we could have made forty years ago
D. If the treaty is ratified, we may de
= pend that woods, lumber and WOO
u pulp will be on the free list. So will
wheat and barley. So will fresh fis
and cured fish. So will coal. Flo
these our manufactured products wi
go into Canada free, or many of then
I expect to see the most strenuou
opposition to Canadian reciprocit
come from the Democratic cotto
South. There are some raw material
down there, and, unmindful OF tn
I old Democratic argument that the u
| innate consumer pays the tax, gu
l friends there insists that the mani
1 facturer pays it. 1t is true that tn
l manufactures pays the duty on lun
1 Der, but the man who bitches mul
1 to the pillow, the beam and handles
1 which are fashioned from that lun
/ Der will repay that manufacturer a
i he is out because of the duty on lun
= Der. The same is true of wool,
lead, of zinc, of iron ore, OF coal
y everything. We Democrats hay
been doing some tall lying for abol
fifty years and upwards if the consur
er does not pay the tax.
The Republican party is in the pr
else situation in 1910 that the Dem
Il cratic party was in 1894. l was tai
Il ing with leading Republican state
man the other day, national figur
whose name | withhold for ohvio'
reasons, and he said that daily
conferred with men of both factor
of his party, and that the chasm
constantly widening and the bitterne
daily increasing. He closed this wa
1T looks like your party is coming
its senses at last, and if you have Il
sagacity to nominate Harmon he W
sweep the country cleaner than I'll
yer Cleveland did in 1892"
For years we heard great dc
about the reorganization of the Den
cratic party. Now it is the G. o.
, that they are talking about reorgs
u izing: but how are YOU going to ma
Bristow, the trust-buster, with Ro