Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-04-03
S[C'Y ROOT ON
TARIFF SCHEDULES
Calls Attention to Directors
Who See Nothing Wrong
in Existing Conditions
SAYS TARIFF is NOT SACRED
But He Holds Il Better to Endure some
3 Faults Than Destroy ny Ti"k"ri"s-
Expression Regarded - that Of the AZ
ministrati0n.

mini0trAtiOn.
Boston, April 3.-Elihu Root, secre-
tary OF war, and u. 8. Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, were
the guests Of honor and the principal
speakers last night at the annual an
ner OF the Home Market club, the rep.
resentatlve republican organization Of
New England. The occasion was OF
signal interest because last night the
speeches Of Secretary Root and SEN
atOr Lodge were regarded particular
ly as the words of the administration
at Washington on the anticipated IS.
sues of the next national campaign.
Secretary Root spoke on the tarin
and Mr.. Lodge on the question OF
Canadian reciprocity and OF the charg
es made against the American SOL
diers in the Philippines.
Secretary Root said in part:
II remember hearing Mr.. Tilden say
that If you put hundred men In q
room and made any proposition what
ever to them, some one of the hun
dred would dispute 1t.
Reducing this saying to its lowest
degree of one in hundred we must
look for at least 100000 among the
people of the United States in whose
<ery eyes everything that Is done Is
wrong, and whatever Is being done
ought not to be done, or ought to be
done otherwise.
'This useful but trying class OF our
fellow citizens has recently turned It's
attention to the existing protective
system of the United States. II we
had been a free trade country they
would have been protectionists. As
we have long been protectionist
country they are free traders. To
them are joined the members OF the
democratic party, who desire a change
of administration and who demand
what they call revision of the pro-
tective tariff, but which they really
mean to be- destruction Of the pro.
tective tariff. Along with them go. to
some extent, certain good men and
true men who urge real revision OF
the tariff, which they believe will
make it better protective tariff than
it Is now.
In speaking of the true nature and
necessary effect of the proceedings
which these citizens wish, congress to
take, the secretary said he assumed
first that the principle of protection
should be maintained, and next, that
the people of the United States are
now enjoying period of extraordl-
nary prosperity and that they don't
want that prosperity to end.
ks@,1 &ex %0t not
some other law we might or might not
have become prosperous, or whether
under some other law we may or may
not in the future attain prosperity.
1t is that the prosperity we have now
today is the prosperity of productive
enterprise which has adjusted itself
to the conditions that this Dingley
law has created, and the stability Of
those conditions in substance is essen.
tial to the continuance of this present
period of prosperity.
There is no fetish In the tariff
schedules and no sacredness in partic-
,,lar rates of duty. II sScough original
error of changes Of conditions the pro.
visions of the law work i'll to the
then at the proper time and
in the proper way sensible people
will change the law. If law is work.
ing we'll as whole, common sense
requires that we should endure some
faults, even though they are serious,
rather than destroy the general good
effect by constant tinkering."
Speaking of the cry for revision Ut
the tariff as being the protector of
q p0Nt cold n0Nnnf
get rid of trusts by revising the tariff
unless we are ready to reduce the
duties in the classes of manufacture
in which the so-called trusts are en-
is to say, in all the princt.
pal kinds of manufacture-to such an
extent as to put an end to all Ameri
can manufacture.
''In each class" said the secretary,
the trust is the strongest and If
duties are lowered below the point of
adequate protection, the independent
will so to the wall first.
It Is impossible that reduction of
duties should wipe out trusts except
rs it wiped out American manufac-
ture. When that happens, free
trader and protectionist alike
will have substituted the foreign
trusts for domestic trusts, and the
prosperity of foreign workmen for |
he prosperity of American work
men.
The question is whether there are
'eally existing evils to be cured as
,reat rs the evils to be endured from |
he long and difficult process of re-
yision.
In conclusion the secretary said: |
'In determining when and how that |
process shall be undertaken two car
linal rules should be observed
First, it should be done only when
congress Is as free as possible from
he distractions and temptations of an
ctive political campaign. When con-
ress settles down to attend to bust
ess it is a very wise complete and
Elective body. When it is playing
olltics it contributes more of bril-.
ancy to the impending campaign
Fairfield will vote April 6 on issu.
az $4,000 of school house building
onds. sG
A new school house will be built OF
'arden Grove.
Gutenberg has voted bonds to build
new school house.
Ladora will expend $4,000, on 4 new
chool house.
Taylor township, Marshal county.
ill build $4,000 central school.
Charles Weitz l. Sons of Des
ZONES, have contract for new
uildings at the Mitchcllvlle indus
'ial school.
Nashua will build a high school to
)st $4,000.
Oelwein voted $4,000 of bonds to
lild a new high school.
Tiflin will build a new school house
Wall Lake will put $4,000 into a
sw school house. - ]
The Scandinavian Lutherans viii
lid a church at Armstrong. :
The second Presbyterian society of {
edar Rapids has plans for G new