Show protection 40 THE THC CORRUPT ALLIANCE EXISTING BETWEEN THEM general thom ax to ewing kwang on an lh thi tariff tux ilow how tho party lollo only through sli it alft looking Lc okin back over its career tor lor n 11 quarter of a 1 century wo see tho 11 hc pub lican party ct at nil all times dominated on air tariff questions by tho the capitalists who ON own n the protected ind industries and wh whose ose vast for foi tunes have been made by tile the increased cricos given them by excluding foreign productions from the lhorne markets these increased prices of course are extracted from the lie pockets of the people and chiefly from those whose labor and products are not much if at all enhanced by the tariff the chief beneficiaries of 0 tire the tana have written the tariff laws ever sine since tho war when A change is proposed they ate are at the capitol in person or by their attorneys tho the republican party in every presidential campaign except tho the last solemnly promised the american people that the he enormous war duties would be reduced itras it has always broken this pro promise it has made on the average no considerable reductions but brit has ha held tho the great burden originally inZy laid as a war necessity on the shoulders shot of the people shifting it a little f froin tine to timo time in seeming compliance with it iti pledges but never making a change et except at tho the dictation or with tile tho a await ut of the manufacturers meantime it hu has resisted and defeated every reduction attempted by the democracy tho the protected manufacturers in ro turn for the service rendered them by tho the republican party in making thern them millionaires at the expense of the people have that party with wita ample corruption funds in every presidential campaign the alliance between them and the Pe republican publican party has grown closer and more obvious every year they lean on and trust each other othe r give and take in the last presidential election it was these beneficiaries of the tariff nv who hd supplied boodle for the floating votes in new york and indiana ant and who for their reward were allowed to tn dictate the he mckinley tariff because oi of this indissoluble partnership it is impossible that any ally substantial tariff reduction in tho the interests of the people eau can come through the republican party cut but it can call and will v ill come through ii the democracy each lacci democratic house of representatives since the war lias has labored faithfully for tariff reform wit 4 the morrison bill the mills bill and the four most reasonable tariff reform measures which passed the house lust last session and are now pigeonholed in the sell senate ale none hone of these proposed measures would have been destructive to existing indus bues tues ti acs ics tho the democracy has shown itself in si s apathy with the wage men in the protected manufactories manu factories as well as with the general beneral masses who get little or no benefit benefit from tho the tariff it his has shown itself worthy to be trusted by the people it proposes pi no sudden and destructive tive reductions it threatens only tho the abolition of monopolies trusts corruption in funds unnecessary and burd burdea ej some tho evil growths of tariff favoritism it promises to greatly in crease manufactures by making raw materials tree free to relieve labor by un nn tr taxing xing the necessities of life to purify national politics by striking down tho the lea league between the political bood boodle leri rj and the tariff barons |