Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-03
In Line With Iowa.

ana ms developed WOlGeIlullS III LIZ
& past two Years.
In Line With Iowa.
Hardin County Citizen.1
/ Ii might not be out Of place for our
friends who are advocating delay 20 an
/ unknown future to take note of the fact
that the republicans of New Jersey
/ Minnesota and Idaho have taken re-
served seats on the Iowa platform
There will be Others
i The Real Purpose in Revision.
Stuart Herald.l
/ Secretary Shaw takes the position
i that whenever congress reaches the
i conclusion that the friends of protec-
Ition are strong enough to conserNa-
lively modify certain schedules of the
tariff" then lie will be in favor of mod
| itication. But what ii the people in
4 their search for ways and means TO re-
store competition in certain lines find
that the trusts have blocked the way
with a monopoly in this country. Will
they not demand that the wall erected
against foreign goods be torn down and
foreign competition instituted? We
/, think they will If no better way is found
/ to restore lost competition. II is the
people and not congress that runs this
government and dictates its policies. 1t
| is the trusts that the people are after
in all this agitation about the revision
Iof the tariff. They are satisfied with
/ the general policy of protection, which.
/ if not perverted, will secure home COM
petition. But there is suspicion. to use
Inc more positive term. that in some
| way the trusts Of this country arc US
4 ing the protective tariff as a means
! whereby they can and do hinder COM
petition in this country. Had congress
Ito whom Secretary Shaw gives dicta-
torial power. acted upon President
/ Roosevelt's recommendation andadopt-
led measures for the control of trusts,
the people would not now be clamor-
Ioring for the revision of the tariff. At
least not for the purpose of Gripping
1.-The trusts in their effort TO destroy
Icompe.ition. The planks that are now
causing so much unrest in the east
adopted by the republicans of iowa,
minnesota and Idaho would not have
contained the startling declarations
that alarm the trust lnagnates and
hldebound pr0tecuOnlStS.
~
REASON AS TO REVISION.
Esprit Lake Beacon.l
Is tariff revision fatal to prosperity?
Many political leaders ana captains of
industry so affirm. Every time change
in any schedule is suggested it is the
chief particular business of these to
erect scarecrows at the point of the
proposed breach Thoughtful citizens
are asked to surrender their Judgment
and stultify their conviction in order
TO avert impending calamity. The con-
ciusion is irresistible that frequent
changes are necessary to equitable and
logical adjustment of tariff schedules.
Before the legislative convention last
Winter Senator Dolliver said:
Nobody is any longer blind to the
fact that in many lines of industry in
the United States the rates of duty
which in 1897 were regarded as reason
able and We're, in fact reasonable, have
since that time. owing to the curious
development of our industrial and COM
mercial life become unnecessary and in
many cases even absurd. They stand on
our statute books today no longer a
shield for American labor but have be-
come weapon of offense against the
American naarketplace itself"
This true statement illustrates the
point. 1t is peculiarly unfortunate il
the public must submit to the imposi-
5tions of 9 grotesque schedule or court
calamity by demanding action on the
part OF congress. 1t is more difficult
now than in the past, 1t will be still
more difficult in the future, to bring an
Intelligent public to q practical realiza-
ton Of such dilemma. 1t will not
subsidies 1T the command Of public SER
wants who would assume the role of
dictator nor under the persuasive soph-
istry of past masters; in the art of how
not to-Go-ft.
Responsive to the dictates of common
sense, thoughtful people will see that
danger turks not in the policy of fire.
quent modification in part but In a gem
eral revision which comes after years
OF congestion under pressure of indig-
nant popular demand. Our state laws
are amended at every legislative ses-
sion and revised every quarter of a
century. 1t might as We'll be urged that
no amendment should be attempted UNI
til sentiment for revision becomes ire
sisGble and then at a single session the
work of many years should be per-
formed in hurried and impractical
manner.
Discussion along this line should pro-
coed. 1t involves much more than the
naming of particular session at which
the tariff shall he amended. 1t has
much broader significance. None too
soon can an understanding be reached
as to the real mission of the protective
system. None too soon can the country
know whether or not schedules once
established must continue for a genera
tion, right or wrong, helpful or harm.
full. None too soon can 1t be understood
whether congress controls the country
or the country controls congress- The
people can easily endure little delay
in the shaping of tariff details, but
here in Iowa and thruout the nation
agitation should be pressed until doubt
no longer remains as to the fundamen-
tai elements involved in this tariff dis
cussion.
FOR BETTER OR WORSE.
[Chicago Tribune.l
A decision has just been handed
down in the appellate division OF the
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