Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10

standing room. Always having been
free traders they would welcome any
little word that would taeitly or other
wise recognize that the taflit IS the
parent of the trust They are not pre-
pared To admit that the tatlii mas
brought present prospective IAey are
satisfied that the present prosperity
comes from God. and good crops ana
| that we could have it just as Wen uhaer
free trade or q tariff for revenue. Iney
have forgotten that in 1892 the country
accepted the advice of the muSWuihps
and lost the prosperity then enjoyed by
the country, tho God and the crops re-
manned. They are saying now that the
whole power of the country could be
turned loose to destroy every item oil
the tariff that has built up American
business. without destroying the coun-
Try, or without destroying the prospell-
ty These mugNumps say that the tar
/ if is robbery and that We are foolish at
the present time for paying high prices
for everything we buy: that we could
lust as Well have low prives for every
thing we sell and that these results
could be produced if only congress
would commence cutting and carving
the tariff wherever it is the shelter to
nonopoly." Why. bless our dear souls,
the tinplate industry is now an Ameri-
can monopoly, and it was built up by
the protective tariff; take away the
tariff and the monopoly would disap-
pear and the tinplate industry would
disappear with it, But under the Iowa
platform. as great many would like
to have it. the tariff on tnplate
would no Ya,,oyaJ bar1llSn III "SheltprS
monopoly When you come to think
about it, the tariff is made to shelter
a MONOPOLY. Ii is the ambition of the
American farmer to furnish this coun-
try all its beef cattle. therefore he
wants a tariff on Mexican and Cana
dian cattle that will shelter his monop-
oily and he has it ut the present time.
The farmers OF Michigan, Wisconsin
and Nebraska, who are growing beets
from which to make sugar want a tar
iff that will shelter beet sugar mo-
nopoly and enable all our sugar to be
made in the United States instead of
importing 80 per cent of it. If we had
:. tariff that would shelter him and his
monopoly in ten years America would
not be importing one pound of either
raw or refined sugar. The tariff on steel
and did for a time do so until the de-
mand for steel rails was so great that
the American iron mills could not fur
nish the rails and We're compelled to
import some of them. But to start the
steel rail industry and to bring it to its
present point it was necessary for the
tariff to shelter a monopoly"
The Iowa republican platform last
year, was a good one and if it shall be
re-adopted the present year the entire
republican ticket will be elected: every
congressman will be elected, but for the
sake of the standing of the party in the
country al large the words faNorinS
ANY modification of the tariff sched-
ules that may be required to prevent
their affording shelter to monopoly"
should be changed or omitted. An ex-
preston could be substituted suggest
ing that republican congress would
make any tariff changes which the in
terests of the country might make nee
essary But the recognizing of the re-
latons. by the democratic party
charged to exist, between the tariff
and monopoly" or the trust, should
not be repeated.