The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1902-08-23
THE REPUBLICAN DEMAND FOR TAR
IFF REVISION.

plllIAN 'Nli'hl ll''li NV i' l4'll
of the recent Iowa Republican Convcn-
ton which declared it to he the opinion
of the Republicans Of that State, that
''such changes should be made in the
tariff rs from time to time may. become
advisable through the progress of our in
dustrics and their changing relations to
the commerce of the world" and the
further declaration that I'VE favor any
modification of the tariff schedules. that
may he required to prevent their afford
ing shelter to monopoly
1t is true that Iowa as an agricultural
State has never realized the advantages
of high tariff schedules in any thing like
the same measure, she would have real
lied them. had She been Il manufacturing
State. Her farming classes have borne
the burden of excessive duties for the
benefit of the big industrial establish
mcntS and great corporations of other
States. and it would appear, that they
have at last sensibly awakened to the
business necessity of relieving themselves
at least of portion of these burdens.
Her position rs IN agricultural State,
| is entirely different from that of a New
England State where on the contrary
the manufacturing industries are entire
ly paramount to the farming interests.
And yet, in the demands of the MasSa-
| chusctts manufacturers. where can be
found better illustration of the intense
commercial scliShncss and greed, bcgot-
ten of excessive tariff duties?
They vocifcrouSly demand that the
duty shall be entirely removed on raw
hides and leather. for the benefit of the
local shoe manufacturers, yet insist with
equal pertinacty. that the high rate of
duty on shoes should be maintained
Thus, they seek to win the game both
going and coming. in the lower price at
which they can secure the raw material,
and ut the same time secure the benefit
of an excessive duty on the manufactured
| article.
We take the case of the shoe manu-
facturers of Massachusetts, as one out
of many available illustrations, since the
same demand is made by the manufact-
| urerS generally, with Il view to secure the
double profit. one, on the price of the
raw material, and the other on that of
the manufactured article.
Now, although Iowa, and other prairie
states, where the farming interests are
the most important locally. are naturally
the localities where the strongest senti-
ment for Tariff revision is to be expect-
ed, yet the evidences are everywhere at
hand, that this demand is not confined to
the agricultural states of the middle and
far West. but is rapidly evolving in the
Atlantic Scahoard States. which are the
centres of the greatest manufacturing
interests.
The form III which we now wish To
consider this evidence. is found in the
language of prominent Republican news
papers. located in leading Atlantic Sea
| board cities.
In New York. the journal of Com
mercc, an influential Republican paper.
gives Tariff revision Il prominent place
| as one of ten subjects to which new leg
islation by Congress should be directed.
in the reduction of high duties to mod
crate revenue basis. especially on pro-
ducts dominated by large corporations"
In Pennsylvania, the North Ameri-
can" published at Philadelphia, recog-
nized Republican newspaper owned by
John Wanamaker, and managed by his
son, Thomas b. Wnnamakcr. is uneuui-
vocal in its opinion of the necessity for
| tariff revision.
1t declares cditorially in very recent
issue, that mo party can long ignore
| the popular demand for REIMBURSEMENT
of the tariff schedules that must arise,
when the abuses and irregularities of the
present system are finally exposed"
Again, the Baltimore American"
which its Editor, Gen. Felix Agnus
| claims, is the leading Republican paper
of the South, in commenting on the Iowa
Tariff Plank takes occasion to say. that
lin Iowa as well as in nearly every other
State of the West and Northwest. the
Tariff revision sentiment is growing with
great rapidity.
| I'm acknowledging the existence of
such sentiment and catering to its de-
sires the Iowa Republicans have taken
the surest method for retaining the popu-
lar favor in which the party is now held.
They would have the wishes of the peo-
pie complied with, instead of undertaking
to deny them through mistaken idea
that excessive protection is a thing to be
| enforced, no matter what the conse-
quences, just because it was once the