Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-25

MAKES OWN PLATFORM
Tariff and the Trusts Are the Issues
Made by the Democratic Ex-Gover-
nor of Iowa Who Wants to Fill
Speaker Henderson's Shoes.

Waterloo, Sept. 25.-RaiSing as his
campaign cry, Tariff and the Trusts!'
former Governor Horace Boies has
made public vigorous letter, discuss
ing that issue and accepting the nomi--
nation for congress in the third dis
trict, which is now represented by
Speaker Henderson. The withdrawal
of the speaker and the advanced
ground taken by Mr.. Boies on eco--
nomic policy are regarded by many as
making the former governor a possi--
BILE presidential candidate.
Mr.. Boies declares fatty for tariff
for revenue only as a cure for the
trusts, and pledges himself, if elected
to do all in his. power to carry out
such a policy.
His letter which is addressed to p.
.. Quinley L. F. Springer and Henry
Parrott, the notification committee, is
in part as follows.
What seems TO me the most i'm
portant question that now agitates the
public mind is the nations duty in
dealing with the great combinations
of capital that have been and are be-
ing rapidly organized in many of our
industrial pursuits, and which have
came to be generally known as trusts
1T is no eXaggeration to say the
great mass of our people are profound
ly disturbed by what seems to them
the impending evils of this new depar--
ture in SO many of our business enter
prises. The remedy that must be
found for the danger they threaten.
Protection System Blamed.
"The teachings of democrats logic
ally lead them to believe that our pro-
tective tariff system has made the or
ganization of these trusts possible, and
so long as it is continued they also
believe it will furnish defensive
breastworll behind which they can find
shelter for every shaft that could reach
vital part
THE futility of legislation other
than tariff reduction in restraint of
such action (the alleged methods of
trusts is to them demonstrated by the
fact that the great bulk of our trusts
has been openly organized in the face
OF anti trust laws carefully prepared
and incorporated into the statutes of
the nation and many of the states.
They insist, therefore, that mas
much as the plain object Of these com
binations is to destroy competition
among themselves and thereby be-
come able to fix their own prices upon
whatever they produce, there is but
one remedy for the evils they threat.
en-, and that is to take down the wall
that shelters them and compel them
TO compete with the world at large.
For Revenues Only.
''In this view heartily concur, as
do in the old and revered democratic
doctrine that tariff which is nothing
less than a tax on consumers can
rightfully be laid for one purpose on
ly, and that to raise needed revenue
for the use of the government.
The doctrine must be interpreted in
the light of the conditions as they ex-
ist when it is applied
1T is the heart OF the trust they
would reach. To do this they know
the wall that shelters it must be bat
tered down at the place where it is
concealed If this should reduce our
tariff system below the revenue bars
they would have to build up higher
whenever and wherever a
trust is not sheltered be-.
hind it. This is the present
day doctrine of tariff for revenue only
as | understand it, and as | shall in,
terpret 1t If | go to congress"