The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-10-24
The Iowa Platform.

the Free Traders would, II theN
could, create the impression tina
it is a nationa issue. Let then
have it so if they will. There l.
nothing in the Iowa Republican
platform that is not in perfec
harmony with the Republican
National platforms of the past,
or that jars with any act of Re-
publican administration. t h {
Republican party stands squarely
on the doctrine of protection tc
American industry as the pro-
ducer of prosperity. In the Ma
tional platform of 1896, written
by William Mckinley, the great
champion of protection, the party
renewed and emphasized its allie
glance to the policy of protection
as the bulwark of American in
dustrial independence. The plat
form denounced the then existing
Democratic tariff as sectional, in
furious to public credit and de-
structive to business enterprise.
1t demanded ian equitable tariff
on foreign imports which come
into competition with American
products as will not only furnish
adequate revenue for the neces-
sary expense of the government,
but will protect American labor
from degradation to the wage
level of other lands. "
That is the clear and unmistak-
able policy of the Republican
party. And to show that the
party was not welded to sched-
ules, he platform declared:
"We are not pledged to any par
ticular schedules. The question
of rates is a practical question, to
be governed by the conditions of
time and of production"
The Iowa Republicans have
not pushed aside this national
platform. They endorse it and
declare that they favor "such
changes in the tariff from time to
time, as become advisable through
the process of our industries and
their changing relations to the
commerce of the world. "
That declaration is in perfect
harmony with the national plat
form of 1896. 1t does not de-
mand an immediate change of
schedules nor does it dodge the
protective policy.
The Iowa Republicans endorse
the position taken by President
Roosevelt in appealing to the
courts to secure regulations that
will control the great combina-
tions of capital that prevent COM
petition. They also favor strength
ening the interstate commerce
act to prevent determinations in
rate making. President Roose-
welt went farther than the Iowa
in his message to
congress. The Iowa Republicans
also favor "any modification of
the tariff schedules that may be
to prevent their afford
ng shelter for MONOPOLY They |
'ound this same principle ex-
pressed in other words in the
national platform of 1900 which
said: "We condemn all conspir-
lcies and combinations intended
o restrict business, to create
nonopolies, to limit production,
" to control prices, and favor
uch legislation as will effectively
estrain and prevent all such
buses, protect and promote com7
'etition, and secure the rights of
laborers and all who
re engaged in industry and
ommerce."
There is nothing new in the
owa platform. 1t has not a free
rade note in it. 1t is protection I
rom start to finish. 1t is Repub- |
can to the core. The Demo- I
ratio declaration for this cam
aign is "free trade would open
ur markets to benefit our own
The Iowa Republi-
ans abhor that doctrine as much
5 do the Republicans of Rhode
'land, Massachusetts, or Penn
ylvania. AS Chairman Babcock
lys, "the Iowa platform and the
idea of tariff reform
re as far apart as the heavens
-e from the earth. One is pro-
,ction The othar ic frae tra6a