Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-04
SPEAKER AND PRESIDENT.

SPEAKER AND PRESIDENT
| The Washington correspondents are
now engaged in lurid descriptive writ
| ing regarding the fight between Speak
err Henderson and President Roosevelt
over the Cuban situation, the one re-
ported to be fighting any reduction in
the tariff and the other insisting that
something must be done for the relief
of Cuba. If it is true that Speaker
Henderson has set himself In the way
of tariff concessions to Cuba ii is great
/ ly regretted by his friends in Iowa. The
republicans of this state are in favor
of tariff reforms whenever such reform
clared themselves by platform adopt
ed unanimously at Cedar Rapids last
summer Iowa republicans believe that
the tariff ought to be amended by its
friends and are not so timid about
touching the schedules in the interests
of changed business conditions as the
venerable speaker seems to be.
President Mckinley in his Buffalo
address called out to his people in I'M
mistakable terms for tariff concessions
| to Cuba in order that the famine and
poverty of that land might be changed
to industrial prosperity, without which,
| as cited by Estrada Palma, no law nor
order will be possible. President Roose-
Welt is younger man and sees even
more clearly than did Mckinley that
| the time has come for this nation to
keep faith with it's Cuban promises and
develop in that country market for
American meats and manufactures.
Speaker Henderson belongs to the
older generation of statesmen and like
all men OF ripe years is opposed to the
| first suggestion of reform. He remem-
bers the dark days of democratic tariff
| tinkering, the years OF struggle over
the tariff question and the final tri-
umph of the protective idea, and he can
not be blamed for uttering n word of
warning against any unnecessary tink-
ering at this time, when conditions in
this country are everywhere so pros
porous, but Speaker Henderson is over
choice between the plan of Payne, Dali
zell Grosevenor ct AL, of the ways and
means committees to reduce the war tax
leo cents a barrel on beer. to make a
large reduction on tobaccos, on the one
hand and the plan of President Roose-
welt on the other to make a reasonable
tariff concession to Cuban tobacco and
sugar, so that the wheels of industry
| in the island will be set In motion, the
country is heartily in favor of the pres
| ident's side of thu, controversy. Speak
er Henderson should put his ear to the
ground and listen. He would hear the
voice of his people crying out for fair
| play with Cuba. Give her chance to
trade with us and we VIII get even by
trading with her. would be the gist OF
the sound vibrations coming all the
way from the backwoods districts. and
not a word would he hear from any vot-
err or any set of people. save possibly
the millionaire brewers. for reduction
of the tax on beer. The Times Repub-
| lican sincerely hopes that the Washing
ton correspondents are all wrong about
the attitude of Speaker Henderson and
that he may yet be found aiding the
president in his efforts to save Cuba,
rather than assisting Payne and Gros-
venor In their efforts to reduce the tax
on beers and tobaccos.