The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

Opposed to Free TRADE.
Dubuque. Iowa, Sept. 1.-THE fol-
lowing letter was addressed tc c. e. AL
brook, chairman of notification COM
mittee, Eldorado, Iowa, by Speaker
Henderson:
81 have never answered the kind no.
tice communicated by you and your as
sociates advising me of my nomination
for the eleventh time by reclamation
as Republican candidate for congress
from the Third congressional district
of Iowa. Reported conditions in the
public mind in my district upon public
policies induced me to make this delay.
Since my return to the district have
mace a careful study as to the sent1-
ment in the district and state, and |
believe there is no little sentiment and
a growing sentiment, among Republl-
cans, that | do not truly represent their
views of the tariff question. Believing
this condition to exist, and knowing
that | do not agree with many of my
people that trusts, to which | am ana
always have been opposed. can be cur
ed, or people benefited by free trade, in
whole or in part, | must decline to &C
cept the nomination so generously and
enthusiastically made. l have devoted
twenty of the best years of my life to
the service of my people and my u
try, and | nave fought for what | be-
lieved to be best for the farmer, laborer
and business interests of this district
and state. | am grateful for the dew
ton that has eve been accorded me
and to the hour of my death, | will hold
in a grateful heart the memory of that
devotion. | will give, later on, in some
detail, my views and convictions on our
conditions, and on public questions,
and will state my reasons why the Re-
publican party and it's policies should
continue in the confidence of the voters
of the United States and why the doc
trines of the Democracy should find no
Judgement in the faith and teachings of
the Republican party"
Speaker Henderson announced his
withdrawal after a conference of sew
eral hours with Chairman CHASER of
the congressional committee friends
this afternoon. Henderson has been
contemplating this action for two
weeks, but had intimated nothing of it
to his friends until yesterday. At to-
days conference his friends implored
him not to take the action, but to no
avail. He said he had MADE up his
mind and no argument could cause him
to change his decision. When asked for
his reasons for withdrawal, Henderson
said:
My letter to Chairman Albrook is
the whole thing in a nutshell. o can
not kill trusts by applying free trade
without killing our industries. Foreign
trusts are fighting American trusts, and
| don't believe that, for the purpose of
oOptro1Iipn A p1aripon tructc wa should
make a market for foreign trusts, there
by crushing out industries in this oun
try. After my conference last Satur-
day at Waterloo, and hearing the views
of the chairman of my district, | con-
cluded my views on the tariff question
were at variance with those of many
Of my party, and | did not desire to ap-
pear in a false position"
Henderson gave out an address this
evening which states his views on the
tariff and trust questions, and because
these views, in his opinion, are not in
accordance with the state platform and
with the opinions of prominent mem
bers of his party. he declines to accept
the nomination. His address is "To Re-
publican Voters of the Third Iowa Dis
trict,' and he says, being a Republican
he is a protectionist, and if ne ever en-
~tertained a doubt as to the wisdom of
a protective policy a hasty comparison
between the present and past would
blot out such doubt. He then speaks
with satisfaction of the tariff planks of
the last two national platforms.
Continuing, he says: For three
years | nave advocated giving control
of trusts to congress. In my Judgment,
proper supervision can never be had
until ongres has power to treat them.
| am glad to see from speeches made
by our fearless and upright chief eXecu-
tive that he is advocating federal con-
troll over these corporations. and, while
in some quarters they may sheer at 1t
| have not seen any proposition yet, eX'
cept this, that seems at all likely tC
bring relief. No proposition has ever
been MADE by the Democracy excepting
to put everything on h free list ant
give the country free trade. In Other
words, they propose to Kill the chile
dead in order to cure it. They propose
to slaughter every interest in thu
United States. whether capital or labor
in a wild and blind effort to provide
! remedy for trusts. In my opinion, i
combinations could be regulated a n
l controlled we would have very little de
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tariff laws. To show how strongly tn
! Republican party feels upon the sub
| ject, in its state platform this year i
declares in favor of any modification o
the tariff that may be required to pre-
vent affording shelter to monopoly.
= Our Democratic friends treat thi
as moving into free trade grounds.
is nothing of the sort. 1t is a bold dec
: laration that if notifications of tn
. tariff are required to prevent monopol
" from sheltering itself under the wing
= of protection, then the tariff shall b
- modified to prevent that condition. Flo
= my part, if any great interest in thi
country is prospecting through proteC
u ton policies or any other Legislation
: and is using it's advantages of growt
I and prosperity to plumber the Ameri
y can people, |, for one, am ready t
strike it by whatever legal means W
Il may be able to adopt, provided that /
so doing we do not hurt innocent inter
ests. | am not prepared to say | woul
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