Show FOB FOR TARIFF REFORM VOTERS MUST SUPPORT CANDI DATES SO PLEDGED each ballot cast for a republican congressman Is a vote to ma naj nta n the trusts in power support the democratic cand dates all republicans believe in krotec tion b it there la 6 a shade of differ ence between the schools into wit which lea they are divided the massachusetts school believes in free raw material the manufacturers there are demand ing it then ti ere is the iowa school which believes that the tariff fosters trusts wh wit ch eh so shocked speaker hen ilen derson that he dealin d to be a candi date especially as he found a great many republicans in his ii fi strict who bel eved that the trust protecting tar iff should be revised the largest school what magit be called the college of protection Is still the dominant faction these extreme and uncompromising protectionists have an organ the american acono mist it constantly denounces and de rides the reformers and preaches that it would be dangerous to disturb the present tariff law this being also the idea of senator hanna may therefore be known as the stand pat school the economist has been sorely trou brou bled lately and has eased its mind by formulating a tariff plank in which it says is told the whole story of the operation and effect of protection upon american labor and business that statement of course Is very mislead ing for it would require several large volumes to tell such a story but such exaggeration is constantly indulged in by the economist and its protection 1st followers it ends its plank with this declaration we therefore heartily commend the dingley law and demand that when any of its schedules are revised it snail shall be tor for the strengthening rather than the weakening of the protective policy as expressed therein that means even higher duties and that war is declared against the mas and iowa schools of pro so far it has not scared seared the new englanders but the lo waites have backed down from gov cum to senator allison and the can dilates for congress are now occupied TROUBLE IN THETA RIFF BAND WAGON A 11 spira 0 01 X 0 f f 1 in the perilous feat of riding the pro lection horse and the tariff fosters trusts horse at the same time and it need hardly be said that their paths lie in a different direction their ord object being to fool the voters to again vote the republican ticket the iowa idea was undoubtedly meant as a sop to the tariff reform cans who abound on the iowa prairies but even the wayfaring man tho agh a tool fool must see the republic can leaders have determined to quash the reform movement the economist or stand pat school will dominate the next con congress gres it if the republican party has a majority to organize it and the tariff will be continued as a tru trust 8 t breeder the only chance for revision and for stopping the fostering of trusts is for those republicans who believe that it is time to cry a halt on trust exactions to vote for candidates for congress who are not afraid to declare for radi cal reform that is to place trust pro dictions duct ions on the free list and thus make the trusts sell as cheaply in the united states as they now do in E i rope that is the democratic and the republican tariff reformers must adopt it it if they wish to accod anything A republican member of congress who believes in tariff reform when he enters the portals of the capitol will be like a sheep in the hands of the d and open not his mouth or he will be and driven into the political woods wood ical history tells of but few such pa iritts some may be found to tall in dependently before election but when hey they reach washington washinton and the f 11 power of the rep machine ana king caucus is ti arned on them they ike like their fellows will be clay in the lands hands of the oligarchy that dictates legislation the only beliet in sight for those voters who abo believe in tariff reform is 0 vote for the democratic candidates who are pledged to revise the tariff md and are not inder obi lations to corn com ines and corporations |