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Show H Iff PARKER AND FREE TRADE. !! There are loud wails of horror in that portion I of the Parker press which looks upon tariff reform I as a sacred thing because of President Roose- velt's flat-footed declaration in favor of the pro- i tective system as something so firmly established h in the! minds of the American people that it is ; folly to think of changing it. Hh, , v Well, what is Parker going to do about it? 1 1: vWill he come out in favor of immediate and radi- H I J cal tariff revision? Wili he take his stand square- Mfv ly oil the St. Louis platform, which declares that H(; ,)' "Protection Is robbery?" Will he follow the lead ;,'; of the New York Reform Olub and make" that K view of the tariff the leading issue of the cam- j I paign? m' , It will bo interesting if he does, for ho took H ' occasion in his speech of acceptance to say that B , he was in favor of moderate and deliberate tariff B reduction, but he begged to assure the American B:;j.; people that they need have no apprehension, be- Bijh cause the Senato would be continued to be con- B :i trolled by the Republicans for four years longer. B; and the Democrats, if put in power, could not do H. ; any harm anyway. Do the free-trade worshlp- Hi'ij. pers wish to. prod him into making himself ridic- Btilj ulous? Hii |
