The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-07-31
IOWA REPUBLICANS.
They Select Ticket and Adopt
a Platform.
speclaI 70 tho DAILY HERALD.

Special 70 tho DAIBf HERALD
Des Moines, July 30.-The Repub-
licans of Iowa held monster and
harmonious convention here to-day,
selected a splendid ticket and adopted
a platform large enough for all to
stand upon. The morning hours were
devoted to district caucuees and 9TH
er preliminary affairs while the con.
vention proper opened in the Audi
forum at IL O'Clock. Chairman
Spence of the state committee called
the assembly to order, and his re-
marks were followed by music by the
Iowa Military Band, and by the invo-
cation pronounced by Rev. A. B,
Marshall. Hon. w. l. Smith, of
Council Bluffs, one of the Iowa dele
CATION in congress was named as
temporary chairman. His speech
was keen delineation of the cam.
paign and was received with enthus
iasm. He said in part.
Smiths speech.
Our Democratic friends contend
that they have discovered a general
principle which can be applied and
that the tariff should be removed
from all articles, the products of
| trusts. In view Of the assaults upon
| the tariff made by the Democratic
| party for two generations and it's well
| known anxiety to tear it down upon
any preteXt, it is but proper that this
| new assault upon it be scrutinized
with care. | will not take time to dis
cuss the question as to whether, as is
| claimed, the tariff is the mother of
| trusts, to dwell upon the multipliCa-
| ton of trusts in fTee-trade England,
! nor to more than refer to those like
| the Standard Oil Company, which
| deals in an wholly unprotected pro-
duct, but do want to call attention to
some of those classes of cases in
which the application of the principle
! cOntended for by our Democratic
| friends would do the people no good
| and the trusts no harm, but upon the
contrary would harm the people and
help the trusts.
II trust buys its raw material
abroad or buys it at home of produc-
erS in whom it has no interest, the
removal of the tariff on such raw ma
terial would not hurt but benefit the
| trust. To illustrate, the removal of the
tariff on cattle if it had any effect
would help, not hurt the beef trust, by
| simply enabling it to buy cattle cheap
! er to the detriment of the American
| farmer, but would not necessarily in
\ any way relieve the people from OPP
| preston, because the chief complaint
\ against the trust evil rests upon the
contention that it can and does by its
lpower hold the price of what it sells
out of due relation to the cost of pro-
duction.
| When a trust has so far developed
its industry as to be able to compete
in the market places of the world, and
when it's domestic competitors have
not so far developed their business as
to be allie to SO compete, removal of
the tariff would destroy not the trust
but the competitors of the trust, and
thus make the monopoly complete.
Where a trust controls the produc-
ton of an article here and the foreign
production of the same article is con-
trolled by another trust, the removal
| of the tariff would serve not to release
our people from the clutches of a trust
but to simply transfer them from the
| clutches of a domestic trust compell-
ed by tariff law to produce it's goods
| here with domestic labor to the Clutch
es of a foreign trust that would pro-
| duCe its goods abroad with foreign
! labor
If these three propositions are cor
rect it appears that the proposed plan
! is on a par with the wisdom of Dem
Ocratic craftsmanship generally, and
| that the Democratic party would if it
had the power injure perhaps Incl
dentally some of the trusts, at the
same time fatten others by increasing
their already unjust profits, rob the
| American laboring man of that work
which is justly his and bring about
another starving time.
The Republican policy is far differ
ent. 1t will thoroughly test the exist
| ing laws in the courts and if it is
| found that they are in any way def
cient will cause them to be amended
and strengthened so far as Congress
| has constitutional power to do so. We
| have seen the great, courageous and
| honest man, who now occupies the
| White House, attack the Northern Sc
Curities Company and the beef trust
under the law as it is, and it will re-
quire something more than the base
less insinuations of Democratic states