Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-01

come, it must be interpreted in the
light of conditions as they exist when it
is to be applied.
In the absence of circumstances re-
quiring different Interpretation, de
msnd for an immediate reduction of
our tariff system to revenue basis
would naturally be understood to mean
demand for general revision of our
tariff laws, and reduction of all their
schedules to common level that would
produce needed revenue only.
This, however, is not as l understand
the Interpretation democrats at the pres
ent time put upon that demand.
1t must be remembered that it is
made in the presence of new conditions,
in the bright glare of which it must be
construed.
To the mind of democrat at least,
his country is threatened with unique
and overshadowing evils.
In the presence of the great combina
tions that have been and are being Or
gsnized in our Industrial pursuits, he
reads the downfall of independent eff
fort; the crushing in the youth of our
future of manly hope to stand at the
head of some business enterprise and
with brain as we'll as Drawn lead it up.
ward to success; the whitening away of
a great army of leaders who have stood
at the pilot wheels of our industries and
made the whole world wonder at Amer.
ica's business success, and looking on
into the future, he sees in the place of
these single Individual whom the
world dubs captain of industry, be-
decked with emblems of authority that
cost million a year to support, leading
behind him great columns of detected
men who never dream of a better place,
but come and go at one mans beck.
J, And turning from visions like these
he sees the wealth that millions are
made to earn emptied at the feet of
men whose hands were never stained
by toll, and then is it any wonder that
, he asks, is this the result of law?
And who are the men that see and
, speak like this? You, who would lead
: or drive them, call them the common
herd, but among them are millions of
men who drank from their mothers
| breast the milk of human Kindness that
makes every man brother, who learned
. at their fathers knee his Bible faith
J, the equality of man before the law.
To the worshlppers of protection lei
t me say, it is not the fetch you have
q made your God, these men are aftel
d now. An evil greater than that mus
+ be dealt with first. 1t is the heart Of
the trust they would reach. To do thi'
It they know the wall that shelters 1t mus
% be battered down, at the place where i
l. is concealed.
d If this should reduce our tariff sys
# tenn below revenue basis, they woui'
" help to build it higher whenever o
70 wherever trust is not sheltered benin,
it.
vi This is the present day doctrine of
+ tariff for revenue only as l understand
n it, and as shallinterpret it if l go tt
Z. congress-.
J. Do not understand me that l would
n do nothing more. There is not mis-.
# sic any human being can invent would
b not help to use if could, to drive thes
monsters from every inch Of our sol
Is and scatter them at once in their com
o. ponent parts.
h Every measure, whatever it may b
70 and wherever it may originate, tina
b would help to accomplish this would
/. have my utmost and never-ceasing sup
d port.
1t is unnecessary to extend this lette
ia farther. The creed of Iowa democrat
ie plainly written in their state pla
is form. With every line and letter of the
N instrument my heart and conscienc
alike are in full accord.
ns HORACE BoIEs.