Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07
TRUSTS AND TARIFF
Senator Dolliver Declares That
Combination Scare is Groundless.
"IOWAIDEAn is NOT REVOLUTIONARY
Maintains That 1t is in Perfect Ac--
cord With the Well Tried Principles
u OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Before
National Republican League.

Chicago, Oct. 3.-"The scare over
trusts is practically groundless," de-
clared Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver,
of Iowa, in an address delivered here
last evening before the convention OF
the National Republican league. The
enthusiastic reception accorded to the
Ipwan by the audience was evidence
of the distinction in which he is held
as an orator and statesman.
Senator Deliver also discussed at
length the tariff and brought forth and
explained what is known as the Iowa
idea" His, treatment OF this subject
was received with intense interest by
the delegates, as they realized that it
was the first public speech by ma
tional party leader since the adoption
of the state platform by the Iowa re-
publican convention in Des Moines.
Delivers Address.
Senator Dolliver reviewed the his
tory of the national administration
since the election OF William McKin-
ley in 1896 and showed how through.
out these years the policy of the oppo.
sition had been one OF obstruction to
the working out of questions of the
public welfare. Coming to the discus
sion of the tariff question, he said in
part:
"Let us look at the Iowa idea for a
minute, and l select that only because
am more familiar, with it and be
cause circumstances have arisen tC
give it universal advertisement II
has been presented to the country as
the sudden impulse of dissatisfied mis-
hi f ,,1y No TNia1,1 moi
party On the other hand it is the ma
ture judgment of a man whose wis
dom has never failed the republican
party in the forty years of his unin
terrupted public service.
"Our people recognize the value o.
large capital for the transaction o.
great business and especially for the
5 commercial conquests upon which We
are now entering. But they recognize
also the dangers of abuses. both il
organization and the management o.
great industrial enterprises, and
would have the government of the
United States stand between the com
munity and the reckless perversion o.
beneficent law of corporate proper
ty.
at is evident dat even if it were
desirable to kill the trusts, it could
not be done BY merely renting thu
duties which The foreign competitors
DIV ct c,,- nm houses. lSearl.
ewerv selstr trident of the subjec
rar'is- L. veg the pressure of com
'i'tc-e = h has drawn some of on
ind: Il into groups and thel
il1io cn7s binations under ;
gfgs2ti ratc management.
c.,sr-roa Ct Protection.
81 ocaf;ss hat as the lifelong frient
of the ITO ectiye system, | take 9
very prcfouu1 interest in the question
Fortunately for all, it is question
which can be discussed now to a bet
ter advantage than over five year!
ago. and it is to be hoped the dis
quieting effect of mere clamors upol
the subject will gradually pass away
ANY successful attempt to repea
+ the law of competition in the Amer
can market place, would be speedil
fatal to the protective tariff system
because the whole design OF that sys
TEN rests upon the unimpaired vital
ty of that law. Our tariffs have bee
defended out OF consideration for tn
infant industries, but that is not
foundation of protective policy. The
have been defended on account of tn
difference of the wage scales of Eu
ope and America, but that is not
foundation of protective policy. TIL
long debates held in other genera
lions about rates of duty, failed ute
ly to comprehend the principle whic
has identified the doctrine of pr
lection with the present day miracle
of our industrial progress
Quoting Blaine's declaration tn;