Show TO FRIGHTEN CONGRESS i One set of enemies of ot the tariff bill arc are predicting serious labor ances if It tho the reduction in steel duties Is Insl Insisted ted upon They are aro using some expressions of ot Charles M. M Schwab tho the well know steel mill owner as asa asa a a. Justification of or their prophecies According According Ac Ac- cording to these stories strikes are to tako place in tb tho Alabama district and the these o are aro to extend to Pennsylvania Penney Pennsyl vania West est Virginia Ohio Illinois and and tho rest of or tho the steel manufacturing ing territory Mr Schwab has sent word along the line lino that if it tho the duty i ls Is reduced on Iron and steel the wages of the men must come came down In pro pro- portion In Iii this way RY rune one of ot tho the stories Tho The sequel eq to these tales says that a a. cut In wages ages will wUI start strikes that these will wUl retard th the return return re re- turn of or prosperity and that as a a. consequence consequence con con- sequence th the Republican party willbo will willbe willbo bo be seriously hampered in th the congressional campaign of or 1910 As lJ tho se selection selection so- so lection of ot candidates for tor the election of or 1910 will begin within a n year after the tho close of ot tho the pr present session the these Q stories are aro intended to frighten the Republican Congress and got It to to leave loav the tho steel duties as na tile the they arc aro in inthe the tho existing law This menace 1 is not like likely to be bo ef ct- A general strike always in injuries le- le juries the party In control of or tho the gOI gov gow- I The Homestead lockout lockout-In t i 4 S t I tho the spring and early summer of ot 1892 undoubtedly took away avay many votes otes from tho Republicans in that year and helped to defeat Harrison for tor ro- ro But how can the tho proposed etl cut on steal neel be used against t the tho Republican Re Ito- I. I this 1 Tho The publican party in exigency Democrats the cut not because because be bEl- cause they think it goes too loo far but because it docs not go far enough Instead of reducing the duties from 30 to 60 50 per cent as q tho the Payne bill does docs oes tho the Democrats if It in control of ot Congress and tho presidency would woul reduce them per cent Thc They would put steel on tho free list to keep company with Iron ore oro from which tho the bill takes away the tho duty of ot 40 O cents a 9 ton The men who are making threats against aln t tho the Republicans Republicans Re Re- publicans publican on account of ar the tho slight ElIght re re- re of ot steel duties either cither have htwe nol thought of tho the treatment which a Q Democratic Congress Congre would woold give them or they Imagine that this truth can call bo kept out of ot tho the knowledge of ot the stool workers whom they are to dupe Probably Mr r Payne rano and his Republican associates will point this out The Republican nC newspapers of ot the tho country will be certain to call the attention of or steel etcel workers to this out out- come One tory story from froni the Alabama district says MYS tho the miners and s teel workers rs there thero are arming that that state will unless the Payne Pane bill Is la materially changed have ha a Q bigger strike on its Us hands in 1 1909 09 than it had in 1908 and anti that tho the loss lOlls of life lite and property will be much greater c now than It was waa then If It tho the Alabama Alabama Ala Ala- bama district feels like lilo this then the Republicans will begin some sonic missionary missionary mission mission- ary work thero there at once which ma may be relied on to alter its mood Let tho the persons who ho aro are denouncing tho the Republican ways was anti and means menns committee committee com corn for making malting Its alight slight cut on steel tal tako o a n. glance glanco at tho the Democratic position on that issue In Its national platform of ot 1908 the Democracy said ald Wo Yo w welcome the belated promise of ot tariff reform now offered b by the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- recognition of or orthe publican party in tal tardy the righteousness of tho the Democratic position on this question but the people can not sael safely the execution oxe- oxe cution of ot this Important work to a n party part which is so deeply to the tho highly protected interests as is the Republican party Wo Yo call attention atten aUen- tion to the tho significant fact tact that the tho promised relief is postponed postpone until after the tho coming election election election-an an election election elec elec- tion to succeed In iii which the Republican Republican lican party must have e the tiso caine support support support sup sup- port from the beneficiaries of the high protective tariff as It has always heretofore received from them And it added We Wo favor the tho Imme immediate late revision of ar the tariff by the reduction of import duties Articles entering into competition with trust controlled products should bo placed upon the reduction tree free list and gradual should be made macic In such other schedules sched ules as aa ma may be bc necessary to restore tho tariff to a 3 revenue basis As un- un tho interpretation steel products of all 1111 sorts are arc in the hands of trusts steel would be placed ploce on the freo free list if it the Democratic party were In power The reduction which the Democrats Democrat's threatened to tomake tomake tomake make In tho rest reet ot of the tho schedules so as aa to restore the thc tariff to a 3 revenue re of ot basis means that every vestige vestige- protection would be taken taleen away from the domestic manufacture and work work- er cr What do the Alabama miners and steel workers think about the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic threat In Its platform of or 1908 If Ir a n cut ut of af 50 60 per cent in steel by the Republicans angers Mr Schwab and the other mill mm owners how would the they and their thelt dupes bo be helped by y supporting a J. J party which would make malee maleen a n cut on their products o or of per percent percent percent cent |