Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1906 — A REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLE [ARTICLE]

A REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLE

la Unconscteuaty Eraorsed By Denw *“Bratlc JWwspa p era— Tra d e at ' »' Mome v ■ • (St Ijwub Globe Democrat) The Moberly Democrat says that ’"if there is a factor of any kfndli the city mahffig anything that can be us.ed In your home < rtyvit is your duty to patronize it. justas it jig the duty of others to buy from home merchants ■whenitfry'csfifiut -ehat they want ” In copying this rgrression the Jefferson City Tribune , Dem. t indorses it, and adds on its own account: "There is just one way to make a city, -and-that is to patronize home merchantsand industriesecven if you can s*Ve a few cents by going elsewhere.” All this is good Republican doctrine, out the Republicans expend it farther. ■They du not restrict It to any city or i«tate; out they matee ;it cover the swholc nation. When tbe Republicans -say. Patronize home merchants and (industries,” they do not?mean merely the industries and the -merchants of Ct? Louis, Chicago, Boston or Jefferson City. They mean those As the entire rinited.Stateß. (In carrying out their aoctrlne the RTejHsblicans, by a tariff system which ha* given a preference te 'the Americas oter the European or ifijtie Asiatic producer, has built up an industrial system which has placed America far it the" lead of all the rest of the countries of the world in the variety and the scope of its activities, and they hav* made the Americas people the moat jprosperous persons #n the globe. To the -Democrats, however, just as to Hanwock long ago, the patronizing of home industries is only a decal issue. Like the Jefferson and the Moberly editors, their view is shut in by the few thousand persons qt their own little parish. They know nothing and caae nothing about abotgt the people and the interests of the rest of their state and country. Louisiana shrieks for protection for the sugar planter, but she howls against protection 4c.r the sheep rais.ar, the lead prod now and woolen .and <the cottton manufacturer. If the doctrine of the Jefferson City and the Moberly editors had been followed by the Republican party Joplin would be as <MataPfiF~l9o6 as it was when De Soto went down through that country. This parochialism prevents the Democratic purty from ever becoming a national organization. It is obstructed by local prejudices and boundaries. The Democrat is constitutionally prohibited from thinking or acting nation ally. The only national organization which the L’nited States has is ths Republican party.