The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-28
GOVERNOR CUMMINS
IS FOR TARIFF REVISION AND
 SAYS THE DEMOCRATS
Will Do it if Republicans Fail-He Vans Action at Once and Says Henderson's Course is Mys-
 tifying.

New York Times.
 The Republicans of my State believe the time mas come for C tain changes in the tariff" said Governor Cummins or Iowa, yesterday to reporter for The New York Times, who saw him at the Waldorf-Astoria.
 "That is practically the unanimous sentiment of the Republican voters of the State. We are protectionists- good protectionsts as there are in the coun- try-but we insist on holding the protec- ton policy to its legitimate work. There has been a great deal of misapprehension about our tariff views. chiefly because very few persons in the East have read our platform. In that oeclaration of our opinions we say:
 We stand by the historic policy of the Republican Party in giving protection to home industries. and point for its ample vindication to the extraordinary rapidlty with which our natural resources have been developed and our industrial and financial independence secured.
 We favor such changes in the tarlft from time to time as become advisabis through the progress of our industries and their changing relations to the com merce of the world.
 We endorse the policy of reciprocity as the natural complement of protection, and urge its development as necessary to the realization of our highest commercial possibilities.
 We assert the sovereignty of the peo- pie over all corporations and aggregations of capital, and the right residing in tie people to enforce such regulations. re- strictions and prohibitions as will pro- tect individuals and society from abuse of the power which great combinations of capital wield. We favor any modification of the tariff schedules that may he required to prevent their afford ing shelter to monopoly.
 To the declarations in our platform we heartily subscribe. We mean what we say. Nobody has any right to dis count these declarations. They represent our earnest convictions. deliberately formed.
 we object to being spoken of as a faction. We are not faction. We are the whole thing. The Republicans oi Iowa-not a faction of the Republicans of Iowa-demand of Congress that 1t makes such changes in the tariff as are necessary to do away with the abuses that have been grafted upon the protec- tion policy.
 Formerly protection was understood to be an equalZng of the cost of labor in this country with that abroad, and was designed to enable the American man l. factHrer to hold his own against foreign competition. There are schedules in tn present tariff law which are not based on that beneflcent principle. and through some of these claus s onerOus and uu- n acessary taxes are collected from the pc )ole, and monopolies are fostered. Such clauses of the tariff law my people want changed, and we want the changes ma le Immediately.
 Those Republicans in other States who crticise us for giving emphatic express sion to our views say to us: 'Wait till we have to do 1t. he country is pros porous. Leave it alone. The time will come when we'll have to revise the tari'f For Gods sake wait till the avalanche comes. Don't go after It..
 We Iowans don't want any avalanche at all. There's no need to have one. We agree with our critics that an avalanche is threatened, but our judgment is that, If the Republicans in Congress act SC T. slhly with respect to tariff legislation. the avalanche will rot come. That it will come. If there is no Republican revision of the tariff in this Congress or the next, we feel absolutely certain. If it does come our enemies will revise the tariff. Revised it must be: the question is which party shall do the revising.
 If we make the revision we can pro- ceed in strict accordance with the prn- ciple of protection. in which we so thor outyhly believe. If the reyi5:on is made by the Democrats, as it will he if the Republicans stick to their present atti- tude, over will go the protective primer try.
 We in Iowa demand no radical tarff revision. Our complaint runs against abIses of protection mat are embodied in W nopolies. which could not stand for a minute if there was nothing but leGiti- mate protection in the Dingley law. We 5lor the idea that the Republican Party sh 1ud stand as shield for monopolies.
 We do not object to trusts per SC. We do not ask that the tariff he taken off all trust made goods. Toward trusts which are not monopolles and which do not abuse their powers we have no en- mty. We make 10 attack on legitimate busi less, legitiTpately conducted. It !s when the trust is a monopoly, when i; expresses the people that we demand modification of any clause of the tariff law that shelters it.
 As l said before. there is almost a unanimity on the part of the Republicans of Iowa in support of the tarin views set forth in their platform. I know no req son why any Republican should object to them.
 "Henderson's course is mystifyng. don't undertake to explain it. It was ah- and even now there is only one possible contingency in which the election of d Democratic Congressman in his district would be possible. Any good Republican standing on the State platform will carry the district handsomely; but if any Re publican attempts to carry it on plat form that is d repudia; of our State platform he will DC beaten as sure as fate.
 "The Republicans of Iowa will repud' ate any candidate who undertakes to re- pudiate their well-dehned ard carefully considered views 0n the tarin question We are in de1d earnest in our judgme It that there ought to be some changes in