The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-10-15
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In his speech at Hampton, Iowa, Gov.
Boies took occasion 10 call down some of
the Republican editors and speakers who
nave been changing front Oh the tariff
question, and he showed cOnclusively
that the Republican party had changed.
He gave brief sketch of tariff history
from l846 to the close of the war Then
he said:
have with me manual of Iowa poll
tics which gives the platforms of the re-
sneotlve parties from the beginning of
the state down to the present time, and
as turn its pages l find that in 1870 aud
1871 the Republicans and Democrats alike
were passing resolutions demanding
reduction Of the war tariff. The Repub-
ltcan party was as strong in its demand
for this reduction as the Democratic
party through the '70's. Year after year
into the platforms of both these parties
plank was Incorporated and endorsed by
the citizens demanding tariff for rev.
enue alone. There YVES no mincing, no
backward step, no effort in anyway to
uphold or defend the war tariff in Iowa
from 1870 until 1880.
Some of my Republican friends are
now particular enough to remind me
that was Republican once. They tell
me that am responsible in q measure
for the policy that 1 now condemn.
say to these gentlemen that they are mis-
taken; either wilfully or ignorantly.
And to day point them and this grand
audience to the record of the Republican
party on this great question of tariff
reform in this, their own state, since
1870, and say to every man present, SO
that may he corrected if am wrong,
that from 1870 to 1880, over and over
again, plank declaring in unequivocal
words that they partly demanded tariff
for revenue alone was inserted in the
Republican platforms. Now that is all
the Democratic party demands to day.
If was Republican then and support
ed policy demanding tariff for rev.
enue, then why is it wrong that as
Democrat to day should demand pre-
cisely the same thing that should de-
mand as Republican from 1870 to 1880.
Why is it, my friends, that the parties
have drawn apart on this question? Why
is it that the lines are drawn upon an en-
tirely different tangent? Why isit that
the Democratic party stands before the
people declaring that tariffs can only he
1CNACO AOi idlSluS VI utCtSSulf ItNGu-
lie, and that the Republican party stands
bofore the people declaring that they
may be levied for an entirely different
purpose, that they may also be levied for
the purpose of building up certain indus
tries; in other words for the purpose of
enriching certain classes. When the
necessity for reducing the tariff was first
advocated in this state, your members of
congress and senators were earnest
pleaders for revision of the tariff upon
a revenue basis, and all but one Of your
representatives we're Republicans. But
some time In the early 'S0sa class of
American citizens, very few of whom re-
sided in Iowa or in any Of the agricul-
tural states, began to SEQ that an assault
was being made upon tariff under
which they had grown immensely rich,
and tariff That am willing tu concede
had stipulated and built up immense
manufacturing industries i'll the east,
and they thought that the time had come
when it was necessary for them to get
control of one Of the political parties in
order to maintain that tariff, and so they
succeeded in sitting that demand for
revision in Iowa.