Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-05
MY. HOW THEY RUN.

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| Baatan Inv the force of their own logic
and driven into ridicule by the govern
Ior,s recent utterance regarding the
/ tariff plank in the coming state PA.
| form such chronic kicl>ers as the eullol
of the Vinton Eagle have been sent
scampering elter-skelter for cover, but
Murphy himself is nothing II not per-
sistent. Picking up Il carelessiy pup
Ilished headline in the T.-R. he says in
fp,rt regarding Governor Cumlnins en-
eorsement OF last years republican
platform:
Even those who criticised his Min
neapolis speech never doubted that lie
was protectionist. All they We're
afraid of was that he might get carried
| off his feet with that new sentiment
among some republicans called tariff
lrevision. The fear was that If his dec
laration on that point was adopted as
one of the planks of the coming repub-
lican state convention all old literature
would have to be destroyed and new
line of editorials written
Fear of tariff revision" sounds very
mild now when the refrain of danger
Gus free-trade doctrine has scarcely
died away, but this is Murphy's eNcusa
LATE Young, realizing that to be con.
sistent in censuring Governor Cummins'
fault with the Cedar Rapids platform,
complains that the platform was am
biguous, that it gave solace to the tariff
reforn,er.
Now what the governor said at Min
ncapolis was: Il believe that some
branch of the government must be em-
powered to remove the duties upon i'm
ports upon those commodities respect
ing which competition no longer exists
in our own country / have long been
Il most devoted adherent to the princi-
pie of protection and my zeal for 1T has
increased rather than diminished with
the progress of time. 1 believe it has
zone more for the dignity of the Amer
lean laborer. the prosperity of the
American producer and the enrichment
of the American consumer than any
other policy which has ever found ex-
preston in our laws; but nevertheless
believe that the consumer has a better
right to competition than the producer
fas to protection. Competition we will
have: that OF our own country pre-
ferred. but that of the world il neces-
sary."
This utterance could mean but one
thing. 1t came from the heart of a
strong protectionist and advanced the
proposition that when some trust or
trade combination, protected from for
esgn competition by a tariff wall, should
gain control of all home production and
hold the consuming masses of this
country in the relentless grasp of a mo-
With authority to let down the bars and
invite competition from "the world if
necessary" in case that at home is
prevented. Speaking plainly up
on this subject the republican
platform adopted at Cedar Rapids last
year said:
We favor such changes in the tariff
from time to time as becomes advisa-
bic thru the progress of our industries
and their changing relations to the
commerce of the world. We
favor any modification of the tariff
schedules that may be required to pre-
Vent their affording shelter to monop-
oily"
Cummins would remove duties upon
imports of commodities respecting
which competition no longer exists in
our own country" and the republican
platform would modify the schedules
tc prevent affording shelter to monopo-
ly." In one case it was republican
platform. but when Cummins said it the
utterance was Dangerous free-trade
doctrine" and now that such a conten-
ton has been made ridiculous the Cum-
Minis speech was only feared as threat
cning to carry somebody "off their feet
for tariff-revision." To be consistent
LATE Young saw that he would have TO
criticise the platform, so he dubbed.
Consistency has never troubled th,.
slumbers of Editor Murphy.