The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
IOWA CAMPAIGN {
 sE UNDULY FAMOUS. Secretary Shaw Says the Mo- toriety is Unmerited.
TALKS OF TARIFF REVISION
Suggests That It Is a Question for Congress to Settle In Detail and for the Voters to Decide On
 as a General Question.

Marshalltown, Ia. October 2S-The 1arg- est meetings of the Iowa campaign were held here this afternoon and evening" Senator Allison delivered the principal ad- dress in the afternoon and Secretary Shaw spoke tonight. His address. in part, was as follows:
 "The campaign of Iowa has assumed it seems to me, more than merited noto- riety. I confess to see nothing in the Iowa platform which justified the con troversy. I was at Cedar Rapids when the same platform was adopted a year ago, and, while I recognized and called attention to the fact that language em- ployed was liable to be misinterpreted, I did not discover any difference of opinion as to the interpretation 1t ought to re- ceive. Personally, I have always regret ted the money plank of the republican national platform of 1892. It, too. was analogous, and some construed 1t as de- claring in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver. The tarifr plank In our state platform is not a declaration in favor of tariff revision. nor is it declar- alton against tariff revision. Our polit- ical enemies demand a defense of the de- tails of present tariff laws and they charge us with standing pledged to the maintenance of existing rates. This is not the republican position, and so, roo to answer the charge it is eminently pro- per to make the declaration contained in the Iowa platform
 Is More Specific.
 For a month or more it was published broadcast that Massachusetts was ready to declare for tariff revision. The Massa- chusetts platform is in harmony with the Iowa platform, but 1t Is little more spe- cihc and therefore like 1t quite as we'll
 If the state convention of Iowa should declare specifically for tariff revision, or for any specific remedy for trusts, I doubt not the Iowa delegation would be very prompt to heed and certainly the Iowa members of the cabinet will bring the subject to the careful attention of the President. This has not been done as yet and therefore neither tariff revision nor anti-tariff revision Is a party measure in this state. Whether congress would give heed to an utterance of state conven- tion in an off year, on national questions calculated to qualify or enlarge the de- clarations contained in the national plat form, l am not prepared to say. How soon we may expect a substitute for the Dingley tariff law, I am also not pre- pared to predict. The responsibility Is with congress.
 Leaves Details to Congress.
 "The republican party never submits details or legislation to a vote at the polls. It lays down the doctrine of pro- tection to American labor, and it fights for this principle and the polls, but 1t leaves to congress, elected by the people, the task of carrying out the details of legislation.
 q anticipate some opposition will be engendered among republicans and dem ocrats alike, if an attempt shall be made to remove the tariff from such articles as are produced by large corporations. popularly called trusts. The idea Is not novel. It has been urged In times past. We can stand high prices far better than we can idle labor.
 Before the remedy can be applied it will become necessary to determine the fact, whether trust exists or not, and if 1t exists and that fact can be estab- lshed, the Sherman law is quite suffi- cient to correct the evil. Certainly no one will wish to apply the Breckinridge idea of removal of the tariff on trust made goods to an industry upon a naked rumor that it Is controlled by monopoly, but it will take no more evidence to throttle 1t under the Sherman act than it will to lay the foundation for the ap- plication of the Breckinridge idea