Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-01
Tariff Revision Soon.

Tariff revision cannot be postponed
much longer in the opinion of politi-
clans here. and it would not be surpris-
ing If the first session of the next con-
gress should enact tariff legislation of
Il moderate character il the republicans
are successful in the fall campaign. If
the democrats should win it is believed
congress at the short session would re-
der republican auspices. A majority
of the republican members from Illi-
nois, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska Mich
igan, Minnesota. and other western
states are heartily in favor of tariff re-
vision. The action of the Iowa con-
vention has brought the tariff question
prominently to the front 1t is pretty
we'll understood now among the repub-
lican leaders that Il 2 tariff question
can not be kept out of the coming cam
paisn in the congressional districts. for
the democrats in their hue and cry
against trusts which they insist on
making the leading issue of their cam
vass, are constantly telling the people
that the trusts are children of the
tariff.
How general will be the necessity
for the republican speakers to meet the
tariff issue can not be fortold. but the
action of the Iowa republicans has put
it beyond question that tariff revision
will have to be much talked about in
that state and probably in other parts
of the middle west during the coming
fan. The most prominent Iowan in
Washington at the present timeemcmc
Washington at present is secretary of
TIE treasury Leslie NJ. Shaw. He will
not discuss political affairs, but it is
known that he has recently been in
communication with Senator Allison
and other political leaders in his state,
and that he recognized the placing
of a strong tariff revision plank liz the
Iowa platform as a necessity.
II is pointed out that the Iowa re-
lublicans are at present more inter-
ssted in this subject than in any other,
end the action of the state convention
showed this conclusively at a time When
many republicans from other parts of
the country would have preferred that
the Iowa platform contained no such
radical expression on the subject of
tariff revision as was adopted.
man of the senate finance committee;
Representative Payne, chairman of the
ways and means committees; Senator
Hanna. and Speaker Henderson were
opposed to the revival of the tariff
question at this time. They regard the
present tariff laws as satisfactory, and
deplore the unsettling effect which tar
if agitation would inevitably have on
business and commerce.
The attempt of the navy department
to get recruits for the service from
among the idle miners of Pennsylvania
has met with failure. Orders have been
issued by the department to Lieut.. j.
T. j. Ryan. who has charge of the re-
cruiting party, to abandon the rest OF
his itinerary and go TO Baltimore from
Bethlehem, Pa, where q recruiting de-
pot has been opened. On June Lieut..
Ryan, accompanied by Passed Assistant
Surgeon Frederick l.. Benton and some
warrant and petty officers, opened up
the anthracite region recruiting cam
paign at Scranton. Afterwards they
Transport, Harrisburg, Lebanon, Read
ing. and Allentown.
1t soon became evident that the strik-
ing miners did not want to enlist for
Il great many reasons among them that
they We're being supported by the union
and hoped TO be able to get back to-
work soon at wages ranging from SO
to So day. Lieut. Ryan and his as
sistants found also that most of the idle
We're not of a rowing disposition
and preferred to stay in the mining
region.
One curious outcome of the recruiting
was that few of the strikers who APP
piled for enlistment could pass the
requirements. The usual idea
of a. miner is a great, brawny fellow,
who is physically perfect, but Lieut..
Ryan found that nearly all of those who
were willing to go in the navy We're
weak chested and round
shollldered, and physically undesirable
inA nearly every Way. These short
conlings are attributed to going to work
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