Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-03
LOYAL 70 IOWA |D[A
Senator Dolliver Makes a Great
Speech Before National Re.
publican League
DEFENDS THE IOWA PLATFORM
He Declares the Tariff Plank Is Not
Radical and Is Endorsed by Men of
Long Service in the Party-some In
terestins Facts and Figures About
the Trusts.

Chicago, Oct. 3-The iowa idea"
came to the surface last night at a
mass meeting under the auspices of the
National League of Republicans Clubs,
which met in annual convention here
yesterday. United State Senator j. P.
Dolliver, of Iowa, was responsible. Sem
ator Delivers distinction as an orator
and statesman insured him in advance
the enthusiastic reception he received
from an audience that filled the First
regiment armory. Interest became in
tense when 1t was realized by the DEL
egates to the convention and spectators
that they We're being treated to the
first public speech on the subject by a
national leader of the party since the
Iowa republican state convention.
Mr.. Dolliver 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 because
it has arisen to give it a universal adj
vertisement. 1t is said to have been
presented to the country as the sudden
impulse OF dissatisfied mischief makers
within the republican party. On the
other hand, it is the mature judgment
of man whose wisdom has never
failed the republican party in the forty
years of his uninterrupted public SER
vice.
Our people recognize the value of a
large capital. for the transaction of a
great business. and especially for the
commercial conquests upon which we
are now entering. But they recognize
also the danger of abuses. both in the
organization and management of great
industrial enterprises. and would have
the government of the United States
st:.nd between the community and the
reckless perversion of the beneficent
law of corporate property.
1T is evident, that even ii it We're de-
sirable to kill the trusts, it could not be
Done by merely renting the duties
which their foreign competitors pay at
our custom houses. Even MrBryan. who
talks of putting the captains of indus
try into a chain gang and sending j. +.
Morgan to the poor house and then TO
the penitentialy, admits publicly that
the free trade remedy fails very far
short of the object he has in view.Near-
ly every sober student of the subject
admits that 1t was the pressure OF COM
petition which has drawn some of our
industries first into groups and then in.
to gigantic combinations. under a sin
gle cooperative management. confess
that as q lifelong friend of the pro-
tective system, j take a very profound
interest in the question. Fortunately
for all it is question which can be dis
cussed now TO better advantage than
even five years ago, and it is to be
hoped that the disquieting etfec; OF
mere camors upon the subject Will
gradually pass away. A successful at
tempt to repeal the law of competition
in the American market place would
be speedily fatal to the protective tariff
system, because the wholesome design
of that system rests upon the uniln-
paired vitality of that law. Our tariffs
have been defended out of considera-
ton for infant industries. but that Is
not the foundation of the protective
policy They have been defended on
account of the difference in the wage
scales Of Europe and America; but that
is not the foundation OF the protective
policy.
Principle of Protection.
"Tlle long debates that We're held IN