Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-19
No Reason for Confusion.

a repu 0llcan contemporary WILL
strong bias in favor Of the Dingley
tariff and its brood of trusts quotes
The Endorsement by many republican
papers Of the Iowa republican resolu-
ton in favor Of .'any modification of
the tariff schedules that may be re-
Qnired to prevent their affording
shelter to monopoly" and says:
If the republicans are to go into the
cam paignS OF 1892 and 1904 declaring
Intentions that differ ia degree only,
not in kind, from those which the
democracy is already ayowing in such
definite shape as Mr. Richardson's
house bill No. 10, 100, for example,
there is sure to be. more or less con- |
fusion in the minds Of the voters who
are asked to choose between the two
parties.
There need be no confusion. All
citizens who honestly want such re-
vision of the tariff as will prevent it
"affording shelter to monopoly" will
vote for democratic candidates for
congress.
The republicans have had many op-
portuni ties to stop this abuse Of the
protective principle, but they have in
variably refused to do so. When the
| Mckinley tariff bill was before the
senate John Sherman suggested an
amendment providing for the suspen-
sion of any duties that fostered and
| protected ,monopolies, but his party
| associates would not hear to it. When
the campaign contributors were per
| mitted to write their monopoly
sheltering duties into the schedules
of the Dingley bill this obvious rem.
edy was again proposed, but did not
get even the scant courtesy Of a con-
sideration.
| Near the close of the recent session
of congress the democratic members
of the house adopted in caucus this
resolutions:
We favor the immediate passage OF
a measure to amend the present anti
trust law so as more fully to protect
trade and commerce against unlawful
restraints and monopolieS, and also q
meaSureto reduce the duties on all ar
ticleS and commodities manufacture
ed and controlled or produced in the
United States by trust or trusts Sc
dis to destroy such illegal combinations
and to reduce the rate OF duty on any
article or commodity manufactured
, in the United States and sold in ;
foreign country more cheaply than ii
the United States. We oppose tht
adjournment of congress until thu
measures mentioned above have beer
enacted into law.
This resolution is in full harmony
with the spirit of the Iowa resolution
{ but the republican leaders in congress
! would not even permit the consider
] alton of bill TO give it effect. Not
g only so, Tut representative Babcock
S chairman Of the republican congress
sional campaign committee, who ont
r year ago maintained that sit is par
of the policy of protection to protect
the consumers" and declared thai
"we can to-day produce and under
sell the world" and that therefore ;
sstaX on articles which we export" en-
0 ables those who are thus secur
against competition to ''tix exorbi
+ tant prices in the domestic market,
e now defends the trust policy of giyin
: foreigners the benefit of cut prices OF
the ground that to dump the sur
plus here would demoralize markets.
j A tariff for monopoly only natural
gives the benefit of low prices to for
) eigners only.
In view of these facts and Of thi
record, why need there be any "con
fusion" in the minds of voters VIII
d really desire to do away with dutie
i that shelter monopoly?
! World.