Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 13, Plymouth, Marshall County, 2 January 1902 — Page 2

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EsUbUsbed October 10. 1901. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. R. B. OGliHSBHiS, Edit OF. Telephone No. 27, OVFICE In Bissel! Block. Corner Center " nJ Laporte Street. 1DVEBTI8ING RATES will be . xnd knows on application. Entered the Postoffice at Plymouth. Ind., 9 second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION: One TT ear In Advance $1.50 Six Months 75 cents; Tnree Months 40 cents.de livere J at any postoffice. Plymouth, Ind., January 2, 1902. We sincerely wish each of our readers a happy ana prosperous Xew Year so happy and so prosperous that they will hasten to settle for the paper. Maclay says that as to him "the incident is closed." Yes, and it closed vi th quite a snap,too; but it ought to ive closed on him like a steel trap aso, for the honor of the navy irtment. Che Christraas number of the Argos factor was in every way one of the tost creditable "pieces of newspaper work ever gotten out in iLSxounty. The local illustrations and historic!. articles are of great interest and value. The democratic press is exhausting Its ingenuity in the invention of motives for the various acts of President Roosevelt, not being able to conceive of the one motive, honesty, that has always inspired him in all his official career. The annual report of the Indiana state factory inspector shows that at this time the demand for labor in the mills and factories of this state is in excess of the supply. That the same is true with the railroads has been evident for some time. Certainly it is not. the laborer who ??as ground for complaint as the first year of the century closes. Down in South America they evidently believe in the adage, "In time of peaoe prepare for war.' Chile and Argentine have signed a peace protocol and are both engaged in vigorous preparations for hostilities. War loans are being negotiated, fortifications are hurriedly going forward and armies are being recruited in both countries notwithstanding the agreement for peace and harmony. It is of no consequence whether Admiral Schley is a republican or democrat. The general impression is, however, that he is the latter, but no word of that officer's can be found to sustain the claim, and in certain quarters it is denied. In the whole controversy he has preserved a dignified silence which will in the end secure him greater regard than will the championship of those who would use him for political ends. The trial of Xeely, the Muncie protege of Ferry Heath, will begin at Ilavana Jan. 2. This leads the Logansport Journal to express the hope that we may Celebrate a conviction by the Fourth of July. We do not feel sanguine in this matter, "Farmer" Xeely has already.succeeded in getting enough legal knots into the record to keep the courts busy the rest of his natural life. The one source of satisfaction in it all is that the government has kept him from enjoying his ill-gotten gains and will continue to do so indefinitely, which is the same as a term of imprisonment under a sentence so far as he is concerned.

PERSONAL RESENTMENT IN POLITICS. There are indications that the democratic leaders will pursue the same tactics against Roosevelt that they pursued against Lincoln in 1664. On the great questions of national policy Roosevelt, as was Lincoln, is almost unassailable, so the democratic leaders turn to the fomenting of popular resentments. They arc see?dng candidates not for close identfication with democratic policy in the past, not for the principles that they represented, but for their ability to pose as martyrs before the people. . The success ot such u movemont depends largely upon the shrewdness with which a plainly artificial appeal to popular resentment is urged. In previous movements of the kind the American people have been quick to detect the (alse note, -and they, have not responded. In J 864, when certain disaffected republicans attempted to use the disappointments and resentmentsof John C. Fremont and his friends against Lincoln, and placed him in nomination for the presidency, it seemed a$ first that that they might be able to exercise some influence. But in the end Fremont was persuaded by the same friends to withdraw from the contest, and the battle was fought on an issue between Lincoln's personality and policy on the one side and McClellan's jealousies, resentments, and disappointments on the other. ffy rj"rre"'4,.:fl republicans

worked up the same sort of artificial movement against Grant. They failed utterly, and the democratic leaders who had consented to or advocated the nomination of a candidate for the presidency who had been a life-long enemy of the democratic party were discredited.

The same sort of democratic leader ship has now in training for presiden tial honors General Miles, a life-long republican, whose whole stock in trade in politics is resentment against his superiors and against the leaders of his own party who have failed to consider him as an available candidate. With him is put forward Admiral Schley, whose friends, disappointed over the decisions of a court jf inquiry called at his own request, are seeking to make political capital out of the circumstance. This policy cannot win. So movement based on mere personal resentment or disappointment can succeed. The present agitation is significant as showing that the democrats have no hope of succeeding in 1904 on a question of principle or national policy. They base their hopes for success on the belief that the American people can be deceived by an artificial issue in a 'campaign where the interests of the nation are at stake. In this belief the democratic leaders are at fault. The people divine Ntfreaj?j that Mr. Gorman and his associates care little for Admiral Schley or General Miles, but are willing to use both or either to defeat the republican party. This feeling will grow stronger as the months pass, and the outcome will be a reaction against the men who permit themselves to be used by designing and unscrupulous politicians. Chicago Inter Ocean. x THE -ROUND ROBIN" EPISODE There is a disposition on the part of some democratic newspapers to criticise President Roosevelt for reprimanding General Miles. They assume that the President's past military record is open to criticism on account of his action in the matter of the celebrated round-robin episode in front of Santiago. This criticism of the President, in the opinion of The Tribune, is not justifiable. The round-robin period was one of great stress and storm at Santiago. A crisis apparently had arrived of such a nature that it involved the fate of an army. Colonel Roosevelt as he was at that time could not act differently without failing to perform what he conceived to be a patriotic duty, and one which appealed to the higher sentiments of humanity. Hence it was that mere considerations of military etiquette weighed so lightlv with him. It was not so much a question in Colonel Roosevelt's mind at that moment whether he should be censured or not. The alternative presented to him was whether he should keep silent or whether he should speak out, and in so doing possibly save the lives of thousands of his fellow-soldiers and fellow-citizens. Colonel Roosevelt, caring less for the observance of military punctilio than for the preservation of the lives of his comrades, preferred to speak out. In so doing he accomplished that which he set out to do. It must be sa'fl, too, that he was in excellent company ID the "round-robin" period. Xo soldier need, be ashamed of seeing his signature recorded in history by the side of those of Generals Kent, Bates, Chaffee, Sumner, Ludlow, Ames, and Wood. Already history has vindicated the wisdom of Colonel Roosevelt in joining in the 'round-robin." If he had been "censured" a hundred times by the authorities at Washington he would have been justified in signing it. The reception which it met with from the whole country was a sufficient justification of it. Probably no single act of President Roosevelt's life was more generally approved by his fellowcitizens th'a.i that brief story of the perilous situation at.Santiago, which resulted in the removal of the army at a critical moment, from a station where it was exposed to grave danger without any possible benefit accruing therefrom to a' position of comparative safety. General Miles was not spurred on by any such necessity. He was not-compelled to speak out for Admiral Schley or anybody else. It was not a life and death question. It was a matter of pure volition, and he exercised it well knowing he was indiscreet and perhaps expecting even inviting the "reprimand" which followed. We do not -choose to put these two cases in the same class and probably the public will not do so. Chicago Tribune. Center Township Democrats. The denyxiracy of Center township met at the court house Saturday afterhöon pursuant to cali for the selection" of committeemen and delegates. C. W. Metsker made a hard but ineffective effort to secure a place on the delegation to the district convention. The committeemen chosen are the usual wheelhorses, Yinnedge, Logan, Corbin and company. Tho delegates are Adam Wise, Louis McDonald, James Anjlin, V. J. Kruyer.

AMERICAN

BRIEF R&VIEW OF THE SEVERAL STAGES THROUGH WHICH THE POLIGY HftS PASSED SINGE JEFfERSON PROPOSED THE "FRIENDLY ARRANGEMENT"

J ST. Pakt One Although the practical application of reciprocity in our relations with other countries is a matter of recent date, the birth of the principle itself was almost contemporaneous with the organization of our national government. In 1778 the continental congress negotiated a treaty with France which is usually referred to as a reciprocity treaty. The colonies, then at war with England, made trade conces sions to France in return for the help of the French government in our war of independence. The broad principle of reciprocity, which has come under discussion in recent years, in which we make con cessions in tariff duties on goods im ported from another country in return for like concessions on the part of the other party to the treaty, was first enunciated by Thomas Jefferson. In 1791, while Mr. Jefferson was secretary of state in Washington's cabinet, the congress, by a resolution, asked his advice as to means for pro moting the commerce of the United States with other countries. In his report Mr. Jefferson said: "As to commerce, two methods occur: First, by friendly arrange ment with the several nations with whom these restrictions exist; or, sec ond, by the separate act of our own legislative for countervailing their efforts. There can be no doubt but that, of these two, friendly arrange ment is the most eligible." "Some nations, not vet ripe for free commerce, in all its extent, might still be willing to modify its restric tions and regulations for us in proportion to the advantages which an incourse with us might offer. Particu larly, they may concur with us in reciprocating the duties to be levied on each side, or in compensating any excess of duty by equivalent advantage of another nature." Although so clearly outlined by Mr. Jefferson, reciprocity did not receive serious consideration on the part of our government for more than half a centurv. The international relations V of the leading nations of the world during nearly all this period were such that the opportunity was not ripe for fostering international trade along the lines proposed. First came the wars between England and France, out of which grew our own troubles with England, which caused ill feeling towards the mother countrv. Napoleon and the British government during their wars each sought to pre vent the United States from trading with the other, and our foreign com merce was conducted under such difficulties that we finally adopted the policy embodied in the embargo act of 1808, and the non-intercourse laws which followed it. The war of 1812 created a feeling on the part of our people towards England which for a generation after precluded any effort towards excessive friendliness in commercial relations. France and other natio" were under no necessity of seeking our trade. In 1846 congress adopted a revenue tariff, and the policy of reciprocity remained in the background for a time. In 1854, however, we took the first practical steps to put this policy in effect. A treaty was negotiated with Canada, which provided for the free admission into the United States from Canada, and into Canada from the United States, of bread stuff, provisions, live animals, fruits, fish, poultry, hides and skins, furs, stone, ores and metals, timber and lumber, unmanufactured cotton, flax and hemp and unmanufactured tobacco, the list of articles being identical for each country. This treaty went into effect September 11, 1854, and continued. to March 19, 1866. The trade between the two countries under the treaty showed a very great increase. During our civil wir, under the double influence of anger over the movements of rebel refugees in Canada and of the competition of Canadian products with those of the border states, that treaty was denounced by the United States, and our markets were in effect denied to Canada. It should have been amended, not nullified. Canada has changed her policy from free trade to protection, and undertaken to make her own manufactures instead of buying ours. In addition to a protective' tariff for their own products and manufactures wh::ch has drawn our capital in large amounts into Canada, they have recently allowed to the manufactures of the mother country a discriminating tariff 33 per cent lower than that which is applicable to our goods. The next step in the development of our reciprocity policy was in the treaty with the Hawaiian Islands, which was ratified in 1870 and con tinued in force with few modifications until the islands were annexed- in 1898 This treaty provided for the tree admission into the United States of sugar, molasses and other products of the islands, and for the free adiuis-

RECIPROCITY it ision into the islands of bread stuffs, provisions and manufactured goods. This treaty was very profitable to both parties. Early in the eighties it was dis covered by our statesmen at Wash ington that the high tariff, which had been maintained with more or less modifications since the civil war, was producing more revenue than we need ed for the expenses of the government and for a gradual reduction of the public debt. Two methods of reducing the revenue were considered, one by a general reduction of the tariff, and the other by placing on the free list sugar and other articles of universal consumption. The fact was taken into consideration, however, that a reduction in duties often had the effect of increasing the amount of revenue, which had been demonstrat ed by experience in 1857. At the same time the feeling in favor of maintaining the tariff as a protection to our industries was pronounced. As a result of the agitation a tariff commission was appointed which made a report that formed the basis for the tariff law of 1883, in which certain ariicles were placed on the free list, but there was also a general reduction in the duties. It had been proposed to place sugar on the free list, or to reduce "considerably the duty on it, but this proposition was strongly resisted by the friends of the Louisiana sugar planters. As the years passed the sentiment in favor of reducing or dropping the duty on sugar increased. and out of this agitation grew the policy voiced by James G. Blaine for an American Customs Union which was considered by the lan-American conference of 1889. Before this convention, however, steps had been taken in the direction of reciprocity with the countries to the south of us. In 1883, General Grant in behalf of the United States negotiated a reciprocity treaty with Mexico. This treaty failed to receive consideration in congress chiefly because it made concessions to Mexico on sugar, and the feeling in congress was so strongly in favor of protecting to the limit the planters ol Louisiana that our people would not consider concessions on even the small amount of sugar that we might import from Mexico. The first clear definition in recent times of the policy of reciprocity, as we now understand it, was in President Arthur's fourth annual message, in 1SS4, which, curiously enough, follows almost the same lines as were laid down by Jefferson. President Arthur proposed: A series of reciprocal treaties with the counties of America which shall foster between us and them an unhampered movement of trade. The conditions of these treaties should be the free admission of such merchandise as this country tlocs not produce, in return for the admission free, or under a favored scheme of duties, of our own products. It is by no means desirable, however, that the" policy under discussion should be applied to these countries alone. The healthful enlargement of our trade with Europe, Asia and Africa should be sought by reducing tariff burdens on such of their wares as neither we nor the other American states are fitted to produce, thus enabling ourselves to obtain in r:turn a better market for our supplies of food, of raw material and of the manufactures in which we excel. It seems to me that many of the embarrassing elements in the great national conflict between protection and free trade may thus be turned to go.d account; that the revenue may be reduced so as no longer to over-tax the people; that protective duties may be retained without becoming burdensome; that our shipping interests may be judiciously encouraged and above all such a unity of interests established among the states of the American system as will be . of great and ever-increasing advantage to them all. One of the pioneers in this movement to secure recognition for the policy of reciprocity was Senator Aidrich of Rhode Island, who introduced in the senate in 1886, the following resolution: That the President is requeFtCjl to enter upon negotiations with the governments cf the several principal sugar producing countries of the world with a view of securing mutual agreements by which the United States shall agree to admit at its ports, free of duty, sugar and molarses, the produce of such countries or their colonies, when transported in vessels hnder the flag of either of the contracting parties, and upon which no export taxes or other export charges shall have been levied, upon the condition that such governments shall agree to admit into their respective countries or their sugar producing colonies, free of duties, the agricultural, mineral and manufactured products of the United States.. Makes the fires of life burn with a steady glow. Renews the golden, happy days of youth. That's what Rocky Mountain Tea docs. 35c J. W. Hess.

CHILDREN BORN TIRED

A Preacher's Apt Illustration in a Temperance Talk. "There are lots of people who are born into the world tired," said a minister the other day. "There's an old, .slangy expression about being born tired, but there is truth in it. It is biologically correct. Thousands of children are born literally tired, weary before they are ready to take up life's activities. "I went into a little hovel in this city a few days ago where a child had been born some hours before. The walls and the cupboard were equally bare. The miserable place groaned of a wrecked man. The woman who had borne the child was a poor creature shattered by hard labor. Probably a few hours before the child was born she had bent over a wash tub. That child was an accident. It was not born because of definite parental ambitions. It was one of the accidents which are constantly happening. No joyful anticipations of fatherhood or motherhood preceded its birth. The wretched mite was an unwelcome visitor. "It was born tired. Years before in the stony stratum of life into which it came to fight its way, its progenitors by alcohol and hardship had weakened it before it was thought of. Its nerves were corded, its brain was spongy, its blood was poisoned. It was a tiny bit of weariness protesting with squalling voice against the evil which had been done it. Is it necessary to remark that intemperance was largely responsible for that imperfect child?" Testing Trainmen's Eyes. The Pennsylvania company has fitted up a car for the examination of trainmen's eyes. The safety of hundreds of passengers often depends upon the ability of the engineer and fireman to distinguish the color of signal lights, and above all other requirements of a railroader, this is esteemed most important by the railroad officials. Systems to detect the weak-eyed and the color blind have long been in use by the various railroad companies, but the Pennsylvania is preparing to perfect these systems and, with this end in view, have fitted up a car with all the modern devices and tests. The first work was done at Fort Wayne Thursday when firemen, engineers, conductors, brakemen, switchmen and others connected with the road service were invited to step in and be tested. A M.

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