Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-10
With Caution He Expounds The
Iowa Tariff Revision
Platform
MONOPOLY PROCLAIMED CRIME
Iowa Favors Reduction of Duties by
Means of Reciprocal Treaties and
Would Not Protect Monopoly at
AII-ouotes Blaine and Mckinley
Now Is Time to Act.

mine for lawful profit but it shall moi
be used as a sword for industrial piracy
or as a mint for Illegal GAIN
In these words Governor Albert IS
Cummins of Iowa expressed what he
holds is the fundamental principle OF
iowa republicanism' at the Marquette
Clubs Chicago day banquet at the Au-
ditorium last evening. And almost in
the same breath he made this common,
on the schedules of thee present tariff
law: They We're inspired by patriotism
the hand of God instead of the hand of
,Dingley had penned them, the mighty
transformations of five years would
have untitled them, or some of them,
FOR conditions as they now exist"
Governor Cummins' speech began
with jubilant republicanism. and ended
with prophetically triumphant republi-
canism, but the body of it was filed
with spirit of reform. The spirit of
E the times, he held, was for a moditica-
ton of the tariff schedules, but ever
and again he raised a note of insistence
that the reforms proposed were truly
republican reforms. Only once did he
refer to President Roosevelt and tIs
other party leaders in connection with
their different policy in the treatment
of trusts and then it was to say that
Iowans did not maintain that modifi-
cation of the tariff was "a remedy for
the trusts, but that they held rather
that 1t was one of several steps neces-
sary for the defeat of monopolistic
trusts and the maintenance of free
competition.
He said in part:
Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen:
In ancient times the Bourbons fair
" earned the motto to which history
has securely linked their name
Forget nothing, learn nothing.
In later days the democratic party
succeeded to the title and will. 1
trust, forever enjoy its undivided and
undisputed possession. With this
motto in mind it is easily understood
Why that organization has never con-
frontcd serious difficulty from which
Z 1t did not recoil, never met a duty.
that 1t did not shirk, and never en-
countered responsibility that 1t did
not eyade. mean no disrespect there
fore to the democrats when draw the
curtain upor. them, their platforms,
and their policies, and turn to the only
living. moving, efficient political force
in the government of the United States
the party to whose welfare this club
has devoted its unsurpassed zeal and
Ats widespread influence.
thank God that the republican
party has never carried upon it's ban
ners the whitening maxim of paraly-
sis and decay. 1t learns and there
fore it lives. 1t moves on, and there.
fore 1t controls the destiny of the best
people on the face Of the earth. 1t
stands always in the illumination of
the last recorded moment and there
fore 1t promotes the public welfare
and leads the human race in the
march of progress. In its early days
1t was not affrighted by the unparal-
led difficulties of a civil war; and ii
went hand in hand with Lincoln to
the Emancipation Proclamation. and
with Grant to Appomattox. 1t did
not shrink from the new problems of
reconstruction, and it kept every star
blazing with full radiance in the azure
field of odd Glory" Careless of the
the snarling constitutionalists of Amer
lea, it carried the principle of pro-
lection to its Hottest heights and trans
formed the republic into the work
shop of the world. Amid the fiuttering
OF weak hearts. it boldly wrote Cold
into it's platform; and the fevered,
wasted pulse of great industrial ma
ton was steadied and strengthened
with a rush of rich red blood such as
never before filled the veins of a happy
and prosperous people. NOtWithstand-
Ing the signs and lamentations of the
disciples OF belated conservatism it
widened the limits of the republic, Until
now, altho am speaking In the mid
watches of the night, the MONDAY sun
lighting up the lovely colors of the
Stars and Stripes as they proclaim our
sovereignty in, the faraway islands OF
the Philippines. bring all its glories
into single thought when 1 remind
you that forty one years ago, when the
republican party passed into control
cf the government of the United States,
this dear old flag was, at home under
the heel Of an organized rebellion;
while now it floats full and free, east,
west, north and south as the symbol
OF the most perfect union ever main
tanned among men, perfect not alone
In the formal phrase of the constitution
and the laws but perfect in the illimit-
able, undying love which every citizen
OF the republic bears to the flag of
his country: and when 1 also remind
you that then, this same flag was
dropping in humiliation under the in
difference and contempt of all the puts
SAINT nations Of Europe; while now
every civilized man upon the face OF
the earth takes off his hat and bows
as "O1d Glory goes streaming by.
Ever as the republican party hay
pressed on to do these things in times
gone by, SO it will press on to do
other things in times to come. 1t can
not stand still without being false to
its splendid traditions. 1t mus obey
The impulses under which IL has lived
for nearly a half century. There is
sense in which it announces no new
doctrines: for II does nothing more than
apply the principles of good govern
ment to every condition as it appears
1t undertakes to make the. laws and
policies of the country answer the
changing needs of men and whoever
stays it with the injunction that it
has done enough, will at the same
time pronounce the decree of it's dis
solution and death
iowa Never Fails Republicans.
do not forget that I have been