Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-02

quiring q different Interpretation, a!
demand for an immediate reduction
Of our tariff system to revenue basis
would naturally be understood to mean
demand for a general revision OF
our tariff laws, and reduction of all
their schedules to a common level that
would produce needed revenue only.
This, however, is not as | under.
stand the Interpretation democrats at
the present time put upon that de.
mand
1T must be remembered that it is
made in the presence of new condi.
lions, In the bright glare of which It
must be construed.
ITO the mind of democrat, at
least, his country is threatened with
unique and overshadowing evils.
in the presence of the great COM
binations that have been and ale be-
ing organized in our industrial pur-
suits, he reads the downfall of indie.
pendent effort; the crushing in the
youth of our future of manly hope
to stand at the head of some business
enterprise and with brain as well as
Drawn lead it upward to success; the
whitening away of great army Of
leaders who have stood at the pilot
wheels of our industries and made the
whole world wonder at American bust
ness success; and looking on into tne
future, he sees in the place of these a
single individual, whom the world
dubs a captain of industry, bedecksd,
with emblems of authority that cost,
a million a year to support, leading.
behind him great columns of defects
ed men who never dream OF a better
place, but come and go at one mans
beck.
And turning from visions like
these, he sees the wealth that millions
are made to earn emptied at the feet
of men who's hands were never stained
by toll, and then Is it any wonder
that he asks, Is this the result of law?
And who are the men that see and
speak like this? You, who could lead
or drive them. call them the common
herd, but in among them are millions
of men who drank from their mothers
breast the milk of human kindness
that makes every man brother, who
learned at their fathers knee his bible
faith-the equality of man before the
law.
ITO the worshipers of protection
let me say, IL is not the fetch you
have made your God, these men are
after now. An evil greater than that
must be dealt with first. 1t is the
heart of the trust they would reach.
To do this they know the wall that
shelters it must be battered down, ct
the place where it is concealed.
IF this should reduce our tariff sys-
tenn below a revenue basis they would
help to build it higher whenever or
wherever trust Is not sheltered be.
hind II.
This is the present day doctrine OF
tariff for revenue only, as / under
stand 1t, and as | shall interpret it II
go to congress.
do not understand me that would
do nothing more. There is not mis-
sile any human being can invent
would not help to use IL l could to
drive these monsters from every inch
of our soil and scatter them at once
into their component parts.
Every measure, whatever 1t may be
and wherever it may originate, that
would help to accomplish this would
have my utmost and neyer-ceasing
support.
1T Is unnecessary to extend this
letter farther The creed of Iowa
democrats is plainly written in their
state platform. With every line and
letter of that instrument my heart
and conscience alike are in full ac-
cord. Horace Boies."