Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-28

and therefore like it quite as well
Listen to its language:
Changes which the worlds progress
and the interests of the American peo
4 PIE may suggest should and will b.
made by the republican party when.
ever they are of sufficient importanc,
to justify the check to business which
inevitably attends any revision OF the
tariff"
1 If the state convention Of lowe
should declare specifically for tariff re-
vision or for any specific remedy fol
trusts doubt not the Iowa delegation
| will be very prompt to heed, and GER
tainly the Iowa members Of the cabi-
| net will bring the subject to the care
ful attention of the president. This
has not been done as yet, and therefore
neither tariff revision nor anti-tarift
revision is a party measure in this
state. Whether congress would give
heed to an utterance of q state con-
vention in an off year on national ques-
tions, calculated to qualify or enlarge
the declarations contained in the ma
tional platform, am not prepared to
say, tho I remember that even the
members of the Iowa delegation did
not consider themselves bound by the
anti-Porto Rican tariff memorial
passed in 1900 by the lower house of
our general assembly.
l recently read with most intense in
terest a speech by our dear senior SEN
ator, certainly as well beloved and uni
versally respected as any member of
that august body, and noted his pre-
diction that the Dingley tariff would
not be revised during the short session
OF the present congress Whether 1t
will be in the succeeding congress no
man can tell 1t is long time before
the Fffty-eighth congress convenes,
and in the meantime" the progress of
our industries and their changing re-
lations to the commerce of the world"
referred to in the Iowa platform, may
work great changes, and these changes
may serve to eliminate all occasion for
revision. or they may emphasize what
come good people interpret as ademand
for revision. If the Fifty-eighth con-
gress, in its wisdom. shall give us a
new tariff law in lieu of the present,
certainly our people will understand
that it is done in their interests; but
II 1t is not done, hope the conviction
law has been permitted to stand in the
interests of the people.
Our senior Senator pointed out some
OF the difficulties In the way Of tariff
revision. No congress, republican or|
democrat, has yet been able to revise
or modify to any considerable extent,
IN detail. / carry as campaign docu-
ment every tariff law that has been
since the foundation of ourl
and have examined them
them with some care. Thus far revi-
sions have embraced the entire law or |
they have been very slight and unim-
portant. In 1867 machinery for the |
of beet sugar was placedl
On the free list, but the occasion was
: demand for such machinery and the
absence Of its production in the Unitedl
States. In 1872 tea and coffee were
placed on the free list. With a few
of this character both par
les have found it necessary to revise
Ill schedules or none.
Ihere are potent reasons for this. Let
ne illustrate. There is now a pretty
oud demand in some places for the re-
noval of the tariff on meat, on hides.
Ind on wool. If any revision is made.
hese items are among those most like
y TO be considered. In fact, one hears
10 other items mentioned east of the
ailegheny mountains. Now, suppose
he Iowa delegation should return from
congress having permitted remoyall
u the tariff on hides. Personally I do
lot think our people would be affected
any perceptible degree thereby, vet
doubt If any Iowa congressman
you'd be returned after havingvoted to
emove the tariff on any farm product.
lhiesS ne mad secured corresponding
eduction upon some item which Iowa
oes not produce, and which she does
onsume. In other words, the Iowa
elegation would be expected to have
to show for what they had
eleased. The same would be true of
representing constituents
ngaged in other lines of production. In
his country the people govern. We all
emand the ,b1oadest statesmanshinl
rom congressman and senators repre-
enttng other states, but we always
onsider 1t broad statesmanship on the :
art OF our own representatives to look
ut for their immediate constituents
nd our congressman understand It the
anne way. !
The republican party has tfirty-nine
laJorlty IN the lower house of the pres
Mt congress. 1t therefore follows that
"enty republicans voting with the Er
can dictate legislation. Now.
oppose eleven Iowa congressman and
Inc others from the Mississippi valley 6
1ould go to Washington pledged to a !
.ductfon Of the tariff on iron and {
eel. They could perhaps secure 1t by i
oting with the democrats, for the DEM r
,rats VIII vote for any measure that Q
Ill divide republicans, they might q
ave the same difficulty in securing
in this one schedule as r
,rty measure (and all tariff laws are II
arty measures) as republicans from q
her states would experience In secur- n
6 reduction on agricultural prod o
u.s. The same principle applies to a
'ery other interest, and for these and O
her reasons 1t has usually been found s
,cessary to enact a new tariff law s
heneyer a revision has been deemed Il
II
In substantiation OF the foregoing L
ggestions, permit brief reference to L,
story. In the early eighties. the anti h
became so numerous and 6
used SO much agitation that many il
publican leaders became frightened,
id commenced teaching the people 81
at 1t was necessary to revise the tar III
The American people have learned S;
trust the republican party and to be- ~
We in republican leaders, so when
ese leaders became teachers Of tariff hi
vision the sentiment increased amaz- q,
gly, and in 1885 a new tariff law was q,
acted. 1t is almost needless to saw ~