Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-09

betimes harassed by fear, It has fought the
way In leadership Of the rights OF man.
The republican party was the creation
territory OF the United States for FREQ
men. In that service long years were
spent. eliminating In the war for the life
OF the union, wherein vas washed out with
the blood of patriots the stain Of human
slavery from our nag
In all crises this party has been ma.
hr and In every crisis 4 has won , en-
n ted States; the people of our continent the
!. 1t Is TO the glory of the national repub-
of our country have been closed and as
Judgment was given freedom TO review the
writing, the concensus Of all opinion has
of the nation and 10 the undylng fame
OF the captains of our hosts.
II Is my. ardent hope, as IL Is your. that
to Its birthright and faithful to Its IS trad a
lions.
l do not say--it would be folly TO affirm
that the republican party has been free OF
human agency composed of faliible' men.
The wisest among us are as children. and
not far can men of the strongest vision
would contribute what In his weak strength
he may to the honor OF Its name aud the
opportunity of Its people, there is high
satisfaction In the knowledge that the
merit OF accomplishment has dug timely
graves and buried from our common sight
the weaknesses and failures OF our strug.
gle.
We look UPON the landmarks OF our his.
tory and pronounce them good ana we 40
this without contentious partisan division.
Therein, IL | mistake not, Is the best OF
speech In behalf of the republican party.
These landmarks stand for liberty, for
equality OF opportunity, and for humanity.
Through all the long years of political
strife, through all those terrible years of
civil war, down to the present hour In
elusive OF the time when our young men
answered the call to arms In the same
spirit as the fathers, there has been In
spiration In the battle cry OF freedom. The
as a heritage to free labor and free men.
With the accomplishment of that end, the
struggle has been and now is to keep the
way open for our men---to enlarge and pro-
tect their opportunity
The republican party is the party of pro-
gress. Ii must spy out the way and blaze
II; and that II has been doing since "
was born, and that IL Is doing now. Nor
is the country whitening and It's power de.
parting under its leadership.
For some reason or other, at any rate,
the working people OF the United states
as they have now; and that they are ne.
glectful of their opportunity cannot be
Prosperity under the gold standard, Is
being made TO serve everybody.
The republican party takes to itself some
credit, as 1t has the right.
There Is close relation, my. friends, be.
tween individual liberty and industrial
freedom. The republican party. has never
failed to keep this relation In mind, though
1t has often been charged, as 1t Is now
charged, with indifference toward one or the
other. But ! insist, and you Will insist,
that the party has been steadfast IN us
support of the underlying and vital princi.
pies f TRes fo S&s Years II into BEING war;
blighted hopes and broken promises, the
rule Of the democratic party at Washington
was broken by the return of the republican
party In 1897 to Its rightful place. In the
st. Louis convention of the year before.
In the platform upon which Mckinley wal
elected and In the platform upon which a
republican congress was elected, the ma
I'VE renew and emphasize our allegiance
to the policy of protection as the bulwark
ton Of american development and pros
perity. This true American policy taxes
foreign products and encourages home In
dustry; 1t puts the burden Of revenue on
foreign goods: IL secures the American
market for the American producer; 1t up.
holds the American standard Of wages for
the American worktnghan; 1t puts the
factory by the. side OF the farm. and makes
the American farmer Iess dependent on for.
egn demand and price; it diffuses general
thrift, and Pounds the strength OF all In
hs stf1Sh G 5 1a IN an s
equally opposed to foreign control and do.
nestle monopoly, to sectional discrimination
and individual favoritism"
That, ! take 1t, Is the tariff platform
of the republican, party OF Iowa. The re-
publleans Of this state have made no de-
parture; they are unlikely u do so, They
stand by the historic policy OF the repub-
lican party In giving protection to home
industries, and point for Its ample yindca-
tion to the extraordinary rnpldlty with
which our national resources ave been de,
yeloped and our Industrial and financial In.
denendence secured
The republicans of this state, II know
their minds, have no reservation in affirm
ing, In the language of the national plat.
form OF 1900, this statement:
1--WE renew our faith In the policy of
protection to American labor. In that policy
our industries have been established. dl-
verslfed and maintained BY protecting
the home market, competition has been stlm.
ulnted and production cbeapened. Oppor.
pie has been secured and wages In every
department of labor maintained at high
rates, higher now than ever before. always
distinguishing our working people In their
better conditions OF life from those Of any
competing country"
=, The The pe!iGy Is one thing; tis application
other thing. While we Insist on stability
of economic policy MS a prime and economic
need ofour country. take Il the republicans
Of Iowa agree to fhe declaration of the pres.
ident and of the United States in his last
annual message that this stability should
not be fossillzation." 1t would be ex.
tremely unfortunate. as the lessons OF ex.
perience give us warrant for believing. IL
sweeping and violent changes in our tariff
system should be Undertaken. aid especially
so, as the president polnted out In his re-
cent Minneapolis address, III approached
on the theory that the principle OF protec-
five tariff was 10 be abandor,l l." The fact.
however, is not for one moment to be lost
sight OF that change Is inevitable OssnI.
zation will not be tolerated Dictatiofi
apart from consideration Of the broad In
terests OF national welfare will not be en-
dured. where the Industrial conditions so
frequently change, MS with us must OF ne
cessity be the case" said the president In
his late tariff speech sit IL n matter of
prime Importance that we should be able
from time to time to adapt our economic
what our platform In 1901 declared That
Is What our platform In 1902 reaf6rmed.
The expressions have quoted give clear
definition OF the policy OF protection. The
republican party from the beginning OF its
history has given the policy uniform In
with raising revenue, to safeguard the In.
dustral interests of our own peope--to pro-
tect the labor OF our county against I'M
equal competition. II follows. of course,
that: as conditions change, some Of orr
should be raised; It Is even more likely
that some Of our tariffs are too high and
such tariffs should be reduced. The labor
of the country, under the best and wisest
application Of the PrGtectiys policy, is not
but 1t is also to be protected In what 1t has
to buy.
Tariff changes should be well considered.
They should be made cautiously and con.
by mere politics. Every change should
have the support Of sound business reason
Every change should be made In strict con-
formity to the general policy, which we