The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-08-27
ROGER q. MILLS AT IOWA CITY.

ROGER q, MILLS AT IOWA CITY,
The great apostle of tariff reform
delivered a telling speech at lows
City the 9th inst. More than 5000
people listened to the great states.
man. The following are extracts
from his speech, and will be found
interesting reading just now:
Taxation is necessary" Mr.. Mills
said. Ito support the government, but
it ought to be equal in the burden it
puts upon each citizen. Democrats
stand for equal rights to all, except
tional privileges to none. Republi-
cans tell us protection stimulates the
growth OF manufacturers and secures
higher wages, that it is wholly for
the laborer's benefit and the capital
list does not get bit. Capital, how
ever, is taking splendid care Of itself,
while the laborer is fed on taffy and
wind, principally the latter. In the
present distress of labor in many Sec
tions of the coutry every democrat
can say:
''Shake not thy CORY locks at me.
Twas not that did it. You talk OF
mortgaged houses. Who mortgaged
them? BY their votes. You, you re-
publicans. Don't try to get out of
it by taking yourselves of to the dis
guise of your beliefs under new
political name, but repent. Confess
your sins AMI come to the democracy.
In 1870 and for many years thereafter
your own Allison stood for low tariff
and praised the Polk tariff of 1916 as
the most perfect ever framed. An
other senator, James +. Wilson, ap.
peared before the committee on ways
and means, of which, was q member
asking lower tariff on steel rails,
that the transportation charges OH
western wheat and corn might be re-
duced and that reduced cost added to
the farmers income. Chairman Nor
rison said: They call you protect
ZIONIST, but claim you on my side.
Yet Wilson voted against that reduct.
ion. You democrats of Iowa are not
responsible for Allison and Wilson,
and here is the simple plain difference.
Republicans are wrong, the democrats
are right. Another Iowan, John HI.
Gear, when governor, asked the legis.
lature to memorialize Congress for a
reduction ON steel rails. Yet Gear
voted against such q measure. John
A. kasson condemned a protective
tariff as destructive to the country.
Where are these men now? On their
knees before the altar of protection
reciting their party creed. They
have gone away, gone east-[ap
plause and laughter]-gone into the
combination of millionaires."
''Blaine's reciprocity is merely the
stealing of democratic thunder. He
is standing on democratic ground.
and ought to shed q few tears, pro.
fess repentance, and come over to us.
Under the tariff OF 1916 trade greatly
increased and in 1856 the democrats
declared for reciprocal trade with the
world. The republican party is for a
wall of fire, oceans as barrier, a
self-sustaining and independent ma
ton. 1t is the democrats who have
advocated reciprocity. Many things
can be grown or produced cheaper
abroad than at home, and our people
should have them in exchange for
their own surplus Of the goods and
grains We can most cheaply produce.
The policy of high protection is re-
sponsible for the lnassing of vast
fortunes in the hands Of a few. Forty
years ago the millionaires of the coun.
try could be counted on five fingers
and they were all little ones. Now
there are 10000 millionaires and half
the wealth of 1900, 900 of people is in
the hands of %, 900 men. The fathers
well said political power would fol-
low pecuniary power, for the wealth
of the people is used to buy and en-
slave the people,