Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-31
PARTIES AND REFORM
By sAvoYARD.

John Sharp Williams and other democrats who supu1rted the reci- procity convention with Canada have been reproached because they advO- cated a measure initiated by a repnb- lican president and which commanded the vote of Boise Penrose. But reel proeity with Canada has been a demo cratic policy for three score years. and but for the great var of ISe1-65. absolute free trade with Canada would have followed the reciprocity with that country adopted by the democrat ic administration of Franklin Pierce.
 It is history repeating itseif-when one party steals thes thunder of an- other. Sir Robert Peel, one of the most consummate parliamentary lead CTS our race has produced. was a pro tectionist. but he gave England free trade. Benjamin Disraeli. another superb parliamentary leader. discs tablished the Jewish church, a policy condemned by his ewn party and ad- vocated by his great adversary, Glad stone.
 And in our own country. the lowest tariff We have had since 1872. and bv some it is contended that it was the lowest tarlm we ever had, was passed by house Of representatives Of which Nathaniel P. Banks of Massachusetts. a republican, was speaker, and Lewis D. Campbell, an old Whig and a re- publican, was chairman of ways and means. Nor is that all, for Russell Sage was member of that committee and supported the bill. That was the Thirty-fourth congress, and the tariff bill it passed was a revision down of the Robert J. Walker tariff. which Mr. Blaine in his book calls the free trade tariff of 1s46"
 James A. Garfield made an elabo- rate speech in eulogy Of the low tar ifFof 1S57-perhaps the lowest in our history--but for that matter Garfield vas as much of free trade doctrinairs as Frank Hurd and a member of the Ccbben club besides; but he was a reed shaken by the wind morally, and absolutely dominated by Blaine. Schenck and other protectionists Of stronger will Indeed. when he was the republican caucus nominee for speaker of the Forty-sixth congress Pig Iron Kelly boIted him for his tar iff views and voted for Hendricks B. Wright. a democratic greenback of Pennsylvania and a Randalite on the tariff.
 The protective tariff would have died long ago if its gospel had not been "As long as the stealing is go. ing on want my share" Jonathan F. Deliver. the first man in the United States senate the last two years of his service in the body, showed that ! the infamous wool and woolen sched- ule K was the fruit of "a wicked con ! spiracy between the shepherds and ! the weavsrs to rob the people" The wool grower got protection for great CT protection to the wooden manufac- turers. As soon as wool goes on the ! free list, the protective features will go off the woolen fabric, and they who demand a tariff on raw wool will ! play into the hands of the wool man ufacturers.
 What said John Sherman, the most leonsummate political economist the republican party has produced from | lllc BtO-cIAtDAfSf eltu0AOiIl- f1tFt tl is. and every democrat ought to mem. orize 1t and throw it into the teeth Of every Randallite iu the party:
 The dogma of some manufacturers that raw materials should be admitted free of duty is far more dangerous to the policy of protection than the opposition of free traders; a denial of protection on coal. wool. iron or otbel raw material will lead to the denial o. of protection to machinery. to textiles to pottery and other industries
 There is the whole case. As long as the South demands protection fo' her raw materials, in decency she can not withhold from the North protec ton for finished product If tn. South shall taste of the forbidden fruit, she cannot reproach the Ncrti for gorging on 1t. The North is mucl more maxnanimous Aldrich says ( Btailey, Penrose says to Martin, Lidgf says to Simmons "Of course you art entitled to protection. Propose Wha you plesce and we will vote for it.' , Precisely. for they know that ever,