Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1902 — Tariff and Trust Issue. [ARTICLE]

Tariff and Trust Issue.

In respect to a revival of the tariff issue It may be assumed that the American people know a good thing when they have It in hand. They will not soon forget the paralysis of American Industries caused by the tariff the Democrats formulated when they last had the opportunity. It required some years, even after the Cleveland-Wilson tariff was abolished, for the country’s industries to rally from Its blighting effects. But gradually, under the revivifying Influence of a Republican tariff, normal conditions were restored, and as a consequence we to-day see the era of greatest prosperity ever enjoyed by the American people. It Is equivalent to an Intlmatlow that the jieople have “gone daft” to assume that they would be willing to exchange present tariff conditions for the paralysing system that wrought disaster before. Not Much Campaign Capital. The American people want none of the policies of Populism nor will they countenance any flre-ln-the-rear efforts against American soldiers. So far as the Issues to be made of the tariff and trusts, with the great benefits accruing from the protective tariff system visible on every hand, and with the Republican admlnlstrtltlon actively prosecuting the trusts which are operating In spite of a Republican anti-trust law, there does not appear to be much campaign capital offered here either for Democratic solace. Galesburg (Til.) Mall. Remember, woman Is most perfect when asset womanly.- Gladstone.