Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-16

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4 al sstit,s y! i / 1ahI tru
should II fail to declare for the reln-
statement Of silver to its legitimate
place In the NATIONS monetary system.
But the Mckinley administration has
developed conditions and issues which,
were they to become democratic prin-
tciples and make it Of but little import
ance what kind OF q monetary system
prevails in the country. The very fact
that the republicans are determined, IL
possible, to smother the question OF
protection, trusts, imperial colonization
militarism, foreign alliance and kindred
issues, is sufficient reason why the
democracy should not permit them to
hide these burning questions. Our re-
publican friends will have ample OPP
lportunity with the cry of Cheap mon
ley and "debauched currency, to at
tempt to make silver "bogy man, y
but they will never again be able to de-
cefve the people as they did in 1896.
They are up to" other issues as we'll as
the money question, and will have to
meet and answer them on every stump
| in Iowa, and the more they try to
avoid, dodge, or duck, the more agrees
sively will democracy drive such issues
home and push them to the front. They
have made the new issues, are respon-
| sible for them, and must meet them
squarely, or desert the field and take
the consequences.
Republican Trust Plank.
| The trust plank in their state plat
form Is sufficient proof that Iowa re-
publicans believe in Emerson's maxim
that Consistency is the hobgoblin of
little minds, adorned by little states
men and philosophers and divines.' -
Their resolutions say in part, I'VE com
mend the action of the Iowa delegation
in congress in support of protection by
the Dingley tariff" and in direct con-
tradiction add. Industry and commerce
should be left to the natural laws of
the world" following which is this re-
markable, and so far as I have been
able to discover, the only reference dur
ling the proceedings of the convention
to the industrial conditions now exist
ling in the United States, "but when
business aggregations known as trusts
prove hurtful to the people, they must
be restrained by national laws, and II
need be, abolished" Thus they COM
mend the Dingley tariff made by ma
tional law in pursuance Of the McKin-
Hey policy, to restrain industry and
commerce according to the natural laws
of the world, and seek by subterfuge to
pose in opposition to the business ag-
|gregation known as trusts when, mark
you, not now, but when they prove
hurtful to the people" and that, too
in the face of congressional record
which puts them in the attitude of the
devil rebuking sin and which furnishes
\ the evidence for their own conviction OF
! Hypocrisy, insincerity and abject slav-
i cry to the masters whom they serve
! The object Of high protection is to pro-
4 hibit outside competition and the pur-
'lpose of the trust is to prevent inside
ilcompetition. Trusts are as much the
produce of high protection as disease
lis the result of filth, and the Iowa re.
publican congressional delegation knew
lit on March 81. 1897, when they voted
Ylagainst the Dockery amendment to the
lDingley BILL which provided for putting
lon the free list all articles manufac-
sltured by combination seeking to lin.
lit. regulate or control supply or price.
/ The Mckinley tariff laid the founda
A zion for the present trust system ant
4 the Dingley tariff raised 1t about II PEI
lcent.
i In 1890 the republican party placed
! custom duties at an average of 40 pc
cent. and in 1897 raised it to SO per cent
which is at least A3 per cent above for
eign competition. The s3O,0Oo,00O kni
! goods trust is protected and subsidized
). with 80 per cent: the $35, 100000 Nationa
} Lead Company trust, with cent and {
half pound on lead; the S45000,00
western lumber pool, with $500 PEI
VI thousand on lumber; the 1928 100000 su
. gar trust, to which we pay $4,000. 0O'
tariff taxes annually; the s3T5,000,0 0t
= steel trusts with $6T2 per ton on steel
u and the $4,000, 900 American tin plate
trust with one and one-half cents 6
pound on tin plate. And thus they rur
from toothpicks to patriotism.
\ A very large part of the trusts of the
II country are protected in like manner
j and while all have raised the price o.
lproducts nearly, If not quite, equal t.
4 the tariff or competition rate, in no In
u stance have the wages of labor beer
lcorrespondingly increased. The trus
prohibts competition, destroys individ
ual enterprise, raises prices, debase:
labor, transforms commerce into piracy
4 multiplies the accommodations of million
!; aires, increase poverty, breeds aristo
cracy of wealth and distrust of capital
1t is the antagonist of the public peac'
land the promoter of industrial distur
!. Dances. 1t is not that it may, or will
or when it does. for 1t is now suckint
1.-THE very blood of the people. The trus
lis the child of McKinleyism, and !
remedial legislation is delayed until re
publican conventions, congresses ant
Estate legislations declare that bushes
Iaggregations. known as trusts, have II
fact proved hurtful to the people. 1T viii
he only when the beneiciaries of specia
, Legislation have ceased to contribute t
|Hanna's campaign fund and his banefu
influences have been forever removed
iron the White House and Unite
Estates senate.
: Republican insncerity on the trus
|auestion is further emphasized by tn
latitude of Attorney General Griggs
who. relying on an adjudication con
Quoted by his predecessor. which di'
not cover the facts, declined to make
J test case, and in the most high hande'