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MR. ROOSEVELT’S MESSAGE
Telegram to National Irrigation
Congress at Ogden, Utah,
Last Year.
“GREATEST STEP FORWARD”
Such Im the President's Opinion of
Irrigation—Message Shows Vast Fund
of Information on Reclamation
of Arid Lands.
President Roosevelt sent the following
au-osage to the National Irrigation Uon
gres* in session nt Ogden. Utah, Sept.
15, It is characteristic of the
man. It shows a broad, deep, patriotic
interest in both irrigntion and forestry,
ft also shows his masterly intellectual
grasp of any and a!! topics concerning
the public welfare:
Oyater Ray. > Y . Sept 10. 1005.
The pNH*n"p ..f tli<- X.jlo, i' Irrigation
Lfi^was mn* of t lie tr?f< stej s. not only
tn Hr forward pro., •> of He- States, but
to that of nil mankiiKl
It was the begliiiihr.' of mi aeblevemeut
«<• great that we h.sit He to predict the
o'Oeouio, lii*t It was only the bcxltiidng.
b •>* tnst tin* lan Is an idimiplDheil fart.
th:o must he given effect. * •'to that end the
iertainatlon servh e organized under the
Nsflmial Irrigation l.nw of June 17. Vxrj.
luk t> mi pushing its surteys and examlmi
Ii »n of possible irrigation projects enor
icti ally In «a< h of tin thirteen States and
Hir»” Territories named in the mt. Some
of *he projects which promised well at flrst
nee found on careful study to be imprac
* ticahle, either Iwvau- es . anty water sup
ply or of great east. others meet await
higher values In hind, while still eth-rs
stand the test and are ready for Immediate
construction.
Necessity of National Aid.
The feasible projects are always large
and costly, because private enterprise lias
already seized upon the smaller and less
expensive ones, leaving to the government
the great works whl. h are to be so essen
tial a part hi bringing the nation to its
full development, ’.rent care and the high
est ejtgineenig skill are required to plan
and build such works, which are among the
most difficult undertakings of mankind. They
must lie bulk for per<uiuence ami safety,
for they are to last mid spread prosperity
for centuries. To design mid build such
works a body of engineers of the highest
character have been brought together In
the reclamation service, for only men Im
partially selected for capacity nloue are
capable of creating these great structures.
M<tU must govern, not only In the selec
tion of men. but still more In the selection
of the projects.
Every reclamation project selected for
♦•oust ruction must possess the qualities
which commend it as a national undertak
Ing. certain to reclaim large tracts of arid
land and to support In well being a dense
mid vigorous population. Vast though the
benefits of the reclamation law, there will
be many disappointments, which necessarily
await both the advocate of special projects
and tiie men whose desire of accomplished
results outruns the slow and steady devel
opment of these great undertakings. It
should be borne in mind that a broad sur
vry of all possible projects gives the con
rept lon of their relative value, and that a
work of prime Importance to one group of
men may seem less desirable in the light of
wider knowledge.
Caution Urged.
Nor Is it wise in large affairs to begin
construction first, and elaborate details of
torwards. Ka ch important point must be
carefully studied In advance, and the whole
Idan tested and approved before work can
•vgla. Vet If we proceed both cautiously
ami persistently under this beneficent Inw.
we may confidently expect the Imgvst pos
sible development of one arid lands and
tholr settlement by industrious, prosperous,
aelf-rospevlliig luvn mid women, who will
exchange the products of Irrigated ugricul
Cure for the products of mills and factories
throughout the. United States. Communi
ties flourishing In what is now the desert
will finally take their places among the
Strongest pillars of our Commonwealth.
The Irrigation development of the arid
West cannot stand alone. Forestry is the
companion and support of Irrigation. With
out forestry, Ir/uiitiou must fall. Uerman
ent irrigation development and forest de
alnu-iion cun not exist together. Never for
get that the forest reserve policy of the
national government means the use of all
the resources of the forest reserves. There
is little protit In destruction compared with
use
jlnme*M*king Chief Object*
The kcltlmnent of the great arid West by
th< makers of homes is the central object,
both of th** irrigation and the forest policy
of the Unhid States. hi forestry, as in
Irrigation, the Immediate private interests
of some individual i iust owushmalli yield
to their permanent advantage, which is the
(ȟblie good. The benefits of forestry are
not «mly for the future, but for the present,
she forest reserves are for ail the people,
but. first for the people In the imim diute
-neighborhood, for whom supplies of wood
and water are among the West iirwsruirieM of
life With the wiser and more skillful
<mi mi cement of the reserve by trained men.
the greater obviously will their usefulness
be to the public.
Utt {.mate >ucce*« Sure,
We must never allow our chagrin at tem
porary defeat and dlllhultlcs in the man
ageimyil of the forest reserves to blind us
the absolute maes^itj of tin sc reserves
*e tjiv People us lh< West.
Kujiport of the io.rst reserve policy has
grown with wont!, rfui rapidity In the West
during tin* hist few years It will continue
Co grow Lill the hist vestige of opposition,
now almost gone, has wholly disappeared
before ike uml>*i>.( Hiding of the object and
the effect of the n*s« rvutlon. The greater
the support of the forest reserve by the p,
pie of the West, the greater the assurance
Hint the outiomd k»* w ut4oa policy will not
Cail, for the pn .• ; volem <»f the forests is
vital to the au* ss of this polk y.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Booster Stewart of Nevada See* the
(• real Light*
Senator Slewart "ot Nevada, the last
of the Silveritcs, has seen the great
white light. His visions are those of
Joseph and the seven fat years. His talk
is of minerals and Nevada, and the bless*
Ings of the Dingley tariff on borax and
wool. lie said.
“President Roosevelt is very popular
in the motmtain States of the West.
Through his mfiueuce the irrigation law
^as pits Med The Dingley tariff is a
great blessing to the far West. The
tariff vn lead, borax, wool and hides is
«s|»eciMily tH-nplicinl to the interior moun
tain States. The people of Nevada nre
f^ginniit^lu realise that the silver ques
tion has been relegated to the rear as.a
result of (he enormous output of gohb
during the last eight years. Those voters
ho left the party'on account of the
silver issu«* are returning and. with the
Drmucr.it* ulm desire practical good, qre
uniting in -mpuuri of h h . administration.
My informali'iii K that Nevada will go
Republican." ‘
Farm nod Fact .ry Reciprocity.
(Farmers’ Sentinel.l
Prole*, tiuni d sentiment is growing in
Canada, and appeals are made t<» the
farmers Io snppurt that policy on the
theory of the mutual helpfulness of fac
tory .-Hid farm. American experience is,
4»f‘course, appealed to. The farts that
«>i|i ■ fn• mers Hcd rh»-ir best customers in
^ruai m.Tnnf.Hlmhig centers built up by
protection, and that our manufacturing
States and section are also the area of
high farm laud value* and agricultural
prosperity form an object leaaon ^that
must appeal powerfully to Canadian
farmers who are handicapped by th*
lack of a near home market for their
produce. The people of our manufac
turing States receive in wages and sal
aries $2,194*93(1,683. a large proportion
of which passes eventually to the farm
ers. It is a system of close mutual in
terchiinge mid support, of domestic farm
and factory reciprocity, which, with our
gr(*nt natural advantages. has made
America a synonym for prosperity the
world over.
RECLAIMING THE ARID WEST
(Sentences from President Roosevelt’s
Utterances on Irrigation.)
Successful home making is but another
name for the upbuilding of the Nation.
Tiie products of irrigation will for a
,time be consumed chiefly io upbuilding
local centers of mining and other indus
tries, which would otherwise not route
into existence at all.
No reservoir or canal should ever or
built to satisfy selfish, personal or local
interests, but only in accordance with
the advice of trained exports, after long
investigation has shown the locality
where all the conditions combine to make
the work most needed, and fraught with
the greatest usefulness to the commu
nity as a whole.
The believers in the need of irrigation
will most benefit their cause by seeing to
it that it is free from the least, taint
of excessive or reckless expenditure of
the public moneys.
Whatever the nation does for the ex
tension of irrigation, should harmonize
with and tend to improve the condition of
those now living on irrigated lands.
Whoever controls a stream practically
controls the land it renders productive,
and the doctrine of private ownership of
water, apart from land, cannot prevail
witnout causing enduring wrong.
The passage of the National Irriga
tion Law was one of the greatest steps,
not only in the forward progress of the
States, but to that of all mankind.
The benefits which have followed un
aided development in the past, justify
the nation’s aid and co-operation in the
more difficult and important work yet to
be accomplished.
The larger development which national
lid insures should, however, awaken in
•very arid State the determination to
make its irrigation system equal in jus
tice and pffiM-tiveness to that of any
•ountry in the civilized world. Nothing
ould he .more unwise Jhan for isolated
communities to continue to learn every
thing experimentally. Instead of profit
ing by what is known elsewhere.
A careful study should be made, both
by the Nation and the States, of the irri
gation laws and conditions here and else
where.
It is as right for the national govern
ment to make the streams and rivers of
the arid region useful by engineering
works for water storage ns to make use
ful the rivers and harbors of the humid
region by engineering works of another
kind.
In his second mewnge to Congress
December. 1902, President Roosevelt
*aid: "Few subjects of more importance
have been taken up by Congress in recent
years than the inauguration hf i.ie sys
tem of nationally aided irrigation of the
irid regions of the far West. A good
'eginning therein has been made. • • •
far as they are available for agricui*
lire, and to whatever extent they may
»e reclaimed under the National Irriga
tion Law. the remaining public lands
should be held rigidly for the home
builder—the settler who lives on his land
—.'ind no one else.”
SECOND TERM QUESTION.
Roosevelt** Claim tn the Presidency
Wronger than Any Other Man**.
(Kansas City Times. Inde|>endent.)
if President Roosevelt had been elect
ed to the office he now occupies. Judge
Barker’s dwlaration that, if chosen Pres
ident, he would not be a candidate for
re-election, might have some special
ueight in the present canvass among
those who are bi-lievers in Ihe one-term
principle. But President Roosevelt came
into office by accident. He was made
Viet. President against his personal
wishes and political judgment. He was
hity bound and lie voluntarily pledged
Liniself to carry out, so far as possible
•he policies of his predecessor. If he
has done well, he is especially entitled
to the vot^s of the people. Under the
• ircumstances his claim to the presidency
is stronger than that of nny ordinary
nndidat'- could be. for if he lias faith
fully fulfilled the office to which he was
•ailed by accident, he .should be honored
with the same office by election. His
UH’imbeiiey of the presidential
l»o<t shoald at leq<t servo as a reliable
probationary service. It Is for the peo
pie to answer to his administration, for
ir it has been equal to or above the aver
nge, or satisfactory generally, he has
stronger claims than any other man
could have, for he asks an indorsement
where another would ask for a trust.
And this is the way the country is likely
to look at the situation. President Roose
velt has mntle himself tremendously
strong with the masses. He Inis con
vinced the nation of his honesty, courage
and capacity. He has pleased vastly
more Democrats than ho has offended Re
pubkdans. And both the admiration he
I’.nsfSi roused on the one hand and the en
•'nvendered on the other are
'‘trHjlilcs to Ids virtue nml motives.
”W* e*cli au<l all owe a duty to the
commnnlty Ntid tn the Mate. It I* a
poaltiv* duty, and th nt ia tn aid In *e
curina <nol Inw, nnd their faithful
euforvem^nt. V e are not menaced by
fofe K n fnov We hove no fear nf alien
attack. W<- noth'ng wltbla to
dread «kc*M the Indifference of the
intelligent cit ix<*n to the dl*ehar'geof
hlv civic <>bl|f;atinn*.**—Hoa. U. W. Fair
l auks at Fn eh . <l. A. J . j uue >7. IWA
In the government printing office at
Manila there are 240 r ilipiuos einilUyed
and only du \mcrirans. The natives nre
being educated in the printing art —a step
toward sei f-gov ernmeut.
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jPot
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LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD —*‘l 3 that you, Grandma Parker?”
WALL STREET WOLF—”Sure!”
TRADE WITH THE EAST.
We Have a Pathway to Aala and Will
Maintain It.
There exists, practically, no limit to
the enorfaous possibilities of trade with
Asia for our Western wheat-growing
.Stales, Japan will be the entering
wedge. Already we are in touch with
Japan, already we are on the friendliest
of commercial relations with her, rela
tirms errtflin to -lierome cb>ser anil clos
er. Already Japan is beginmag to eat
wheat instead of rice. Her many mil
lions of tons of rice Japan consumes
every year cannot, of course, be defin
itely ascertained. The total is some
thing enormous. But the sudden fact
appears that already Japan is begin
ning to eat wheat instead of rice.
\\ ith mutual regard and commercial
good-fellowship existing, and with Japan
now turning to flour, and with the whole
western side of our vast empire with
flour to give to the rest of tiie world,
the rendition becomes most simple. For
the good us all concerned, whole nations
considered, it is necessary that we should
put our wheat and flour across the Pa
cific Ocean and give td our brothers,
of any color, what they may require,
and, so, l>enefit them and greatly benefit
ourselves.
The fact that the Japanese army is
using the American hard-tack cracker ia
a fact the tremendous consequences of
which, in its commercial posaibilties, has
not yet been realized. It means that
Japan lias begun trading earnestly with
the I nited States in the cereal upon
the production of which so much of our
commercial welfare depends, and yet this
is hut a starting point as to what is
coming to the United States in supply
ing Asia with food. Japan is our friend
and will undoubtedly remain so through
out the future, but Japan, wonderful as
she is. is but the fringe nearest to us
of that great Asia, overpopulated and
hungry, and looking to this newer hemi
sphere to feed it, under newly existing
conditions.
The conditions have been provided by
the accidental i»ossessions following a
sudden war. We have made our path
way. Not to maintain that pathway,
with its landing nt the other side of
the Pacific—which means the Philippines
—would be a < rime against th» interests
of this country and a crime against the
interests of the Asiatic nations.
This crime will not be committed. The
great commercial road secured across
the greatest of the oceans, will be re
tained and maintained by the United
States of America. “Imperialism" as
they call it. or not, the bald fact remains
that under the present Republican ad
ministration it is proposed to hold what
Providence has given to ns and with it to
do what seems best for the ultimate wel
fare of the people of two hemispheres.
TARIFF TRIMMING
Why the Work Should lie Intrusted
to Republican*.
This is but an allusion to a phase of
what the Republican party, as it exists,
is doing and is going to do, n particular
phase to which reference in made, casu
ally, ns to the regulation of the tariff in
the future. Those who make thing*
know best what to do with the things
they have made. The Republican party
having made the tariff, which has made
this country the most pros|>erouß of all
the countries of nil the world, is the
only party 'which can readjust the tariff
as occasion may demand.
Naturally, and very properly, from
their point of view, the opponents of the
Republican party concede nothing. As a
preliminary, they claim the tariff is a
monster of some sort; that it is bad and
has been ever bad. Nevertheless, under
certain ex latent circumstances it seems
to have worked well, and our great trade
adventurers and our manufacturers and
<>ur farmers and our work-met fatten un
der this same tariff.
So goes the present situation. Where
has lM;en exhibited intelli-,. ~ ~ should not
intelligence be In the future?
The party which has made the tariff is
the party which will revise the tariff
under the suggestions of common sense,
as occasion may demand.
So potent have been the results of the
tariff in the past that it appears almost
innossible that its effects should be
brought up as an issue in the present
campaign, but yet the trimming of sails
is always a vital issue in all sailing. The
Republican party will trim its own sails,
and it will be extraordinary should the
American people delegate the task to any
one else.
THE AMERICAN COURSE.
A Policy that Worka to the Advantage
_.Qf Commercial Intereata.
We are what we have become, and we
propose to hold our interests as a world
power for the benefit of the American
iwople. This is the Republican program.
Hence the recent Shanghai incident.
China is an enormous nation occupying
an enormous country, just now in a state
of dissolution or reconstruction—no one
can tell which. The various nations with
various interests look upon its territory
with longing eyes, but it does not seem
best, with the interests of all considered,
that it should be dismembered. It ap
pears to be best for the interests of all
the other nations of the world that it
should be aided rather than divided.
This course has been decided upon by the
leading nations of the world, following
the suggestion ami with the assistance of
the present Republican administration of
this country. This attitude is certainly
fright morally, and, in the long run, must
be right as to material interests, particu
larly for the people of the United States.
Russia and Japan are at war. There
has arisen an incident which is some
what an^anomaly in international affairs.
Warships have fled into a neutral port of
China ami other warships have pursued
them. Under the laws of nations no
battle may occur in a neutral port, such
ns that of Shanghai. The United States,
taking the initiative, has promptly inter
vened to see that no violation of the laws
of nations may occur, and has done this
because of the helplessness of China, vast
ns the empire is, to enforce all proper in
ternational obligations in its own har
bors.
This is but in keeping with the tone of
what the United States under the pres
ent administration has done before. It
suggestisl and induced an agreement be
tween the great nations that China
should not bp dismembered. Having tok
en the initiative in this respect, it was
but right nnd proper that we should take
the initiative in seeing to it that what
was suggested and built up by us should
be enforced. This has been done.
That is the way the present adminis
tration of the government is doing things.
That is the way it will continue to do
tilings. The doing of this is for the
greatest good for all tiie commercial in
terests nnd other intones of nil the
world. Tiie doing of this implies and in
volves hnmediate executive notion by the
administration of the United States, it
is for the good of the world.
Imagine such prompt, sensible and
forceful notion und^r thA administration
of a man like Parker, admitting for a
moment the possibility of his election.
Well, we can’t imagine it!
The cry that President Roosevelt, If
re-elected, will pick a quarrel and plunge
the country in war is raised by the Dem
ocrats for the purpose of scaring the
farmers, who are peace loving. The ef
fort will be in vain, ns the farmer, as
does everyone else, knows that President
Roosevelt, while urging thnt the country
at all times be prepared to defend itself
and maintain its policies, is for peace.
Carefully prepared statistics show that
the number of business failures in 1802,
the last year under President Harrison,
was 10,344.5vhi1e in 1893. the first year
of his Democratic successor, they Were
15,242. A party whose success always
alarms capital and cause* an increase in
the numlMT of business failures In not
one for patriotic Americans to support.
The auspicious and momentous fact
ja that never before in the history of the
world has comfort been enjoyed, educa
tion acquired and independence secured
by so large a proportion of the total
population of the world in the United
States of America that has occurred
under protection.
COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY.
That Is What Will Follow Our Central
of the Pacific.
Laying aside the other questions to
be affected by locality, is it possible
that any sensible human being, living
west of the Rocky Mountains, could do
anything but support what those who
are fumbling for objections to the exist
ing administration call “Imperialism”?
This attitude is not confined to those
wesrt us the Rockies’’alone—far from IL.
because, with new means of trade com
munication, we arc as one people in our
handling facilities across this continent
—but to the people of all the Pacific
Coast States especially must appeal the
fact that much of their future welfare
must depend upon the new and extra
ordinary pathway the United States has
made across the greptest of all the oceans
and has so connected itself, for all com
mercial purposes, with the greatest of all
the old nations of the Orient.
Business is buainess. We have taken
into our hands the management of the
Pacific Ocean and we are quite capable
of retaining that management under any
circumstances. Upon our retention of it
depends, to an extent, our commercial
welfare. We are the great producers
of a new land—a vast continent yet in
its infancy, and our welfare must year
ly depend to a groat extent upon what
we export. We have exported to Europe
and the East and exploited the Atlantic
almost to its utmost; now we purpose
to export across the Pacific and supply
with whatever they may need the teem
ing millions of the Asiatic continent.
Upon the realization of thi§ great indus
trial dream, which has become a fact,
must largely depend, in the future, the
commercial welfare of the American peo
ple. Does any group of fatuists, oppos
ing whatever has become an absolute es
sential. think that by raising the cry
of “imperialism,” the course of demands
of great lines of trade of a great nation
can be deviated for a moment? Non
sense!
PARKER IS NOT A SAFE MAN.
Will Be Influenced by the Radical
Element in Ilia Party.
(Mansfield (O.) Nows.)
If his own utterances are to be cred
ited—and nobody is disputing them—
Judge Parker in and 1J)OO was not
for free silver, but on the contrary was
an advocate of the gold standard, and
jet he admits to having voted for Bryan
and free silver twice. How strong his
convictions and principles were for sound
ami honest money may best be judged
by his profession of one thing and his
practice of another.
If then as a virtually private citixen.
protected as it were by the divinity he
seems to think hedges in the judiciary.
Judge Parker—possibly then without
thought of further political preferment
—could ndt bring himself to elevate
principle above politics and to place pa
triotism above partisnnism, how could
he be expected, in the fierce light that
beats upon place of political power and
preferment, to prove other than mildly
plastic and complaisant to the wildest
demands of the Democratic Huns and
Vandals who would rend asunder the
very fabric of government 4n their wild
scramble for place and pie, pelf and
self?
Is it not wiser for the people of this
nation to keep erring and sinning Democ
racy, possibly, but not positively peni
tent, on probation awhile longer—at least
until it ha* brought forth fruits meet
for repentance?
"Distrust whoever pretends to offer
you a patent cure-all for every 111 of
the body politic, just as you would a
man who offers m medicine which
would cure every evil of your Individ
ual body. A medicine that io recotu
mended to cure both asthma aad a
broken leg Is not sood for either."
From Roowelt's Speech at Providence, R. 1.,
August 23, 1901.
Here is a veritable Roosevelt family:
E R. Conley, a farmer, who lives nt
Westfield, 111., has six sons, six grand
sons and three sons-in-law. All, includ
ing Mr. Conley himself, will vote for
Roosevelt in November.
AFRAID OF IWil KEW:
Democrats Think Free TraGa
Panacea Harmless, Becaus»
It Cannot Be Taken.
COWARDLY INCONSISTENCY
Of Party Leaders Exposed by a Demo-
cratic Free Trade Paper—G iraian
and Davis Placed in an
Unenviable Light.
A comic feature of the present politi
cal campaign is the effort of the Demo
cratic lenders to minimize the popular
apprehension that harm might follow
Parker’s election through the break
down <>f the system of protection, by ex
plaining that after all it would be im
possible to bre^ik down the system be
cause the Republican Senate would
stand in the way.
The logic of this Democratic reas-m
--ing is somewhat like that of the h>y
who explained that by refusing to eat
pins he had saved his life—only that in
the Democratic rase the country would be
saTed not by the Democratic refusal to
do harm, but only by the Democratic
inability to do the harm it wn« openly
trying to do. Judge Parker in his sj>eech
of acceptance mid:
“IT IS A FACT AND SHOULD BE
FRANKLY CONCEDED THAT
THOUGH OUR PARTY BE SUC
CESSFUL IN THE COMING CON
TEST WE CANNOT HOPE TO SE
CURE A MAJORITY IN THE SEN
ATE DURING THE NEXT FOUR
YEARS. HENCE WE SHALL BE
UNABLE TO SECURE ANY MODI
FICATION IN THE TARIFF SAVE
THAT TO WHICH TIIE REPUBLI
CAN MAJORITY IN THE SENATE
MAY CONSENT.”
Mr. Parker further thinks that this
fact of Democratic inability to modify
the tariff should serve to prevent a re
currence of “THAT SENSE OF UN
CERTAINTY AND INSTA BI LITY
THAT ON OTHER OCCASIONS
MANIFESTED ITSELF.”
Dem wratic Courage Weaken*.
At the rerent Democratic ratification
meeting in Brooklyn a lurking fear was
shown of the effect on the minds of
workingmen, of Democratic talk against
the tariff. The tenor of the remarks of
the big Democrats who talked was to
the effect that free trade was a beautiful
theory and the Democrats should be
pot in power Ibecause they stood sponsor
for it; and since, after all, they would
be unable when put in power to put That
theory Jnto practice, the country with
perfect safety could indorse Jhe beauti
ful theory by putting its sponsors into
power.
The New York Evening Post, a mug
wump fnee trade organ which is actively
MYLporting Parker, but nevertheless can
not resist the temptation to expose cow
ardly inconsistency when it sees it. had
this to say about the Brooklyn ratifica
tion meeting:
“Now that the party orators are face te
face with the voters on the hustings, their
courage has weakened. Haring. In their
exalted momenta, declared that protection,
as a principle, is robbery and works incal
culable harm to the people, they shiver
at the possible effect of their pronounce
ment nt the polls. In a word, they shuf
fled on the tariff. Listen to Edward M.
Shepard, who presided at Brooklyn. He
said that the 'Democratic nominees stand
for a sincere and persistent effort to re
form the tariff, and eapeclally to abolish
or reduce those duties, the plain effect of
which is ‘not to extend or diversify Amer
ican industry.’ How striking the contrast
to the St. Ix>uis declaration! The obvious
implication is that no fault can be found
with protection if It extends and diversi
ties American Industry. But when It Is
admitted that protection Is a good thing
in certain eases, who is going to fix the
number and variety of such cases? Ths
argument that protection Is an evil per M
is apparently thrown overboard.
The Alarm of Senator Bailey.
“Aa much fault can be found with Sen
ator Bailey's speech. One feels one*a
courage mount high as he declares: ‘I da
not hesitate a single moment to deciare
it aa my belief that any law which levlea
a tax not for the purpose of raising revenue
to support the government, but for the pur
pose of compelling an American citizen ta
pay more for the goods which he must buy.
Is a perversion of governmental power and
a downright robbery.' This has the true
ring, but immediately it produce* a great
fright in the Senator's mind. His prophetic
soul sees the Republican orators using tela
words to stir up alarm among the work
ing men. So lie crlea out to the 'wage
earners of this country who are employed
In protected Industries,' and who are sure
to be told by the Republicans 'that the
Democratic purty favors absolute free
trade,’ not to be afraid. THE DULLEST
MAN IN ALL HIS AUDIENCE, be pro
tests, KNOWS PERFECTLY WELL THAT
FREE TRADE IS AN ABSOLUTE IMPOS
SIBILITY IN THIS REPUBLIC. 'EVDN
WHEN THE DEMOCRATS ARE CALLED
BY THE VOICE OF AN OUTRAGED
PEOPLE TO ADMINISTER THIS GOV
ERNMENT.' he wails. 'WE WILL FIND
IT IMPOSSIBLE, HOWEVER MUCH WB
MAY DESIRE TO DO SO, TO REDUCB
THE AVERAGE DUTY BELOW A POINT
THAT WILL BE HIGHER THAN TUB
MOST EXTREME OF THE EARLY PRO
TECTIONISTS EVER CLAIMED WAS
NECESSARY, AND HIGHER THAN ANT
MODERATE PROTECTIONIST OF TO
DA^ BELIEVES ESSENTIAL for the pro
tection of any legitimate industry.*
"Such 'Good Lord, good Devll r talk will
not help the Democratic party .n th* least.
If protection, us Democratic platform*
have so repeatedly affirmed, is In Its very
nature evil, it Is a thing to be got rid of
as promptly aa possible. If the party
orators should frankly say that, no one
would misunderstand them/’
Protection for Democratic Leaders*
The cowardly inconsistency which th*
Evening Post thus exposes is character
istic of most of the Democratic lead
ers. They are afraid of their own medi
cine, which they advertise to the coun
try as being such a fine thing— e*peciid*
ly WHEN NOT TAKEN.
When the Wilson tariff bill mu
frames! prominent Democratic leader*
took the pr^audon to se*t to it that
industries in which they themselves hap
pened to be Intereated wire not ad
versely affected by the bill, no mat tat
how much harm might befall other in
dustries. For instance, Senator Gor
man took pains to keep the sugar trust
protw'tad. The present Vice Presidential
candidate, Henry Gassaway Davis, took
pains tu see that coal was kept off the
free list, for his own immense tortun*
was largely represented in the coal lands
of West Virginia.
Compare the ruin and disaster during
the Inst Dcmoc-stic administration with
the prosperity trarywHce seen to-day
'The contrast is an unanswerable argu
ment in favor of Republican rule.