Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-04
wilson II DYSARI
The Secretary Of Agriculture
Addresses a Big Republican
Meeting at Dysart.
Reciprocity Will Not Be at the
Expense Of Cur home
Industries.
Conditions In This Country
Changing and Grain Exports
Will Become Less.


4 urday night was Secretary of Agricul
y ture Wilson, who said, in part:
Cuba disenthralled and being set oil
her feet as an Independent nation i
4 preparing to act for herself. Port
Rico is very prosperous. The Philip
pines are getting schools and roads anC
learning local self government. The,
came under the flag by treaty as lowe
| came. and will be as happy as lows
people when they have developed st
! far
The nation has prospered beyond al
! precedent: every industry is thriving;
| the balance of trade is heavily in our
| favor; our treasury has more money
! than any nation ever possessed our
| per cent bonds are at premium; our
merchants find markets in every cline.
our workingmen are well paid and all
employed; property values appreciate
steadily, and the nation has reached q
place never reached before. The gov
eminent in the hands of President
all lines expected by the people.
Reciprocity has been seriously
thought of by our public men since the
late President Mckinley was chairman
Of the committee on ways and means of
the house of representatives. II was
entertained favorably by him and 9TH
ers as method by which our nation
could secure trade advantages in those
countries that sold TO us heavily OF
things we do not produce and were ua-
der no binding obligation to buy from
us What we desire to sell, but which
they could buy as we'll elsewhere. 1t
was never entertained as an expadlent
by which trade could be extended to the
advantage of some one of our industries
at the expense of others. 1t would have
had scant welcome in any republican
convention had it been proclaimed as
measure by which new industries that
gave promise of supplying the home de-
mand should be sacrificed in the inter-
ests of strong industries that have long
enjoyed the Partially of the American
people.
The soul of reciprocity is arranging
for buying things from certain coun-
tries that we do not produce at nome,
and selling to them what they re-
quire and cannot produce. This is a Ia
vorable arrangement to both sides. No
party authority has ever suggested
reciprocity at the expense of our home
Industries. That would be to secure
trade broad at the expense of develop
ment at home. We may have interests
that would like to thrive upon the decay
of others, bur they have no warrant for
their tendencies from the opponents of
the republican party. whether they be
individuals in position to speak fer the
party or delegate conventions in
trusted with it's future policies.
Reciprocity may become the auxil-
larry OF protection by opening markets
tor our surplus products of field and fac
tory in countries where we buy what
we do not produce, or where we buy
much more than we sell, or, it may be-
come the assassin of our protective pol
icy by admitting to our markets what
we produce that needs protection, for
the purpose of getting new markets for
some of our products that no longer re-
quire any favors.
THE American manufacturer has
been developed by protection. Ills most
reliable friend has been the American
farmer, who has had little direct benefit
from customs duties while he has had
great benefit from the home market al
the factory.
rs there danger Of combination
against our exports in European coun-
tries? There has been, and there is, a
desire in foreign countries to check our
shipments, in the case OF meats particu-
larly. Our grain food products so
abroad because foreign countries need
them Where heavy duties make them
dear to the laboring people they come to
this country. When foreign country
liz hostile to cheap food we get their
people, and so increase our home mar
kets.
Our manufacturers are at an advan-4
tage compared with foreign manufac
turers because of the abundance and
cheapness of food products here. Our
grain products are so cheap compare
lively that they go everywhere.
Conditions in our country are chang
irg. Our population is rapidly increas-
ing. while new lands on which to grow
grain are not increasing. 1t is within
our power TO increase stne grain ylelC
of our acres by hybridizing. selection
and better farming. but the age of very
cheap grains is passing, not to return
While present conditions are maintained
"Our meat, poultry and dairy products
are being gradually excluded from the
countries of continental Europe. but our
home market needs more as population
Increases and our meat supply is not
keeping pace with the population
There is a struggle among nations at
the present time for the commerce of the
world. and abundance OF cheap food is a
prime necessity in this race The ma
tion that excludes cheap foodstuffs will
fall behind in the contest. The heavy
to our shores is a continual
reminder that people come for better
vases food. clothing. education and
general elevation in the scale of life.
The growth of our country in so
many directions iustifies the conclusions
that we are developing toward a condi
ton of completeness as a worlds ma
tional unit
Deaths in Sac County.
Sac City, Nov. A daughter of Pro-
lessor A. f. Clarendon. superintendent
Of the city schools, died Thursday eve
ming, after lingering Illness with con-