The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-29
TELLS PEOPLE OF MARSHALL.
TOWN NOT TO BE SCARED
AT IOWA IDEA"
THINKS IT HAS BEEN
PARTLY MISINTERPRETED
Even If Iowa Does Declare for Tariff
Revision 1t Is Not Necessary, He
Says, for Congress to Act in That
Direction-Says Sherman Act Will
Correct Trust Evils.

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, Oct. Is
The largest meetings of the Iowa cam
paign were held here this afternoon
and evening. Senator Allison delivered
the principal address in the afternoon
and Secretary Shaw also spoke briefly,
covering his views of the tariff revision
and the iowa idea" Secretary Shaw
was the principal speaker tonight. His
address was as follows:
THE campaign in Iowa has assumed
it seems to me, more than merited no.
toriety. 1 confess to seeing nothing in
the Iowa platform which justifies the
controversy. | was at Cedar Rapids
when the Republican platform was
adopted a year ago and while recog-
nized and called attention to the fact
that the language employed was liable
to be misinterpreted, / did not discover
any difference of opinion as to the in
depreciation it ought to receive. Per-
sona1ly | have always regretted the
money plank of the Republican ma
tional platform of 1892. It too, was am
biguous, and some construed it as de-
claring in favor of the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver. The tariff plank
in our state platform is not a declara-
ton in favor of tariff revision, nor Is
1t declaration against tariff revision.
OPEN BANK WITH DYNAMITE.
Not the Republican Position.
"Our political enemies demand a de-
Tense of the details of the present tar
if law and they charge us with stand
ing pledged to the maintenance of ex-
listing rates. This is not the Repub-
lican position, and so to officially an
sWer the charge it is eminently proper
to make the declaration contained in
the Iowa platform. For a month or
more it was published broadcast that
Massachusetts was ready to declare
for tariff revision. The Massachusetts
platform is in harmony with the Iowa
platform, but 1T is a little more specific
and therefore I like 1t quite as well. II
the state convention of Iowa should
declare specifically for tariff revision
or for any specific remedy for trusts
doubt not the Iowa delegation will be
very prompt to heed, and certainly the
Iowa members Of the cabinet will bring
the subject to the official attention of
the president. This has not been done
as yet, and therefore neither tariff re-
vision nor anti-tariM revision is a par
ty measure in this state Whether con-
gress would give heed to an utter
calculated to qualify or enlarge the
declarations contained in the national
platform, I am not prepared to say,
though 1 remember that even the
members Of the Iowa delegation did
not consider themselves bound by the
anti-Porto Rican memorial passed in
1900 By the lower house of the general
assembly. How soon we may expect a
substitute for the Dingley tariff law I
am not prepared to predict. The re-
sponsibility is with congress. The Re-
publican party never submits details
of legislation to vote at the polls. 1t
lays down the great doctrine of pro-
lection to American industries and 1t
fights for this principle at the polls.
but it leaves to the congress elected
by the people the task of carrying out
the details Of legislation in harmony
with principle.
Secretary Expects Opposition.
ct anticipate some opposition will be
engendered among Republicans and
Democrats alike if an attempt shall be
made to remove the tariff from such
articles as are produced by large cor
poration, popularity called trusts. The
idea is not new. 1t has been urged in
times past and some very excellent
people, both East and West, whose
good judgment is entitled to the
weightest consideration, are now urg-
ing it. We can stand high prices far
better than we can idle labor.
Before the remedy can be applied
1t will become necessary to determine.
first, whether a trust exists or not.
and if it exists and that fact can be
established, the Sherman law is quite
sufficient to correct the evil. Certainly
no one will wish to apply the Breck-
inridge idea of a removal of the tariff
on trust-made goods upon a naked ru-
NOR that it is controlled by monop-
oily, but 1t will take no more evidence
to throttle it under the Sherman act
than it will to lay the foundation for
the application Of the Breckenridge
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