Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-08
THE COUSINS SPEECH.

1t was an observation OF the late Mr..
Lowell that the only faith that wears
we'll and holds it's color in all weathers
is that which is woven Of conviction
and set with the sharp mordant OF ex-
perience.
Those of us who have lived in this
great state of Iowa and In the repub-
lican party all our lives, as have our
fathers and grandfathers during their
latter days, having had opportunity to
witness and compare the operation and
results OF various political policies and
experiments that have been promul-
gated and tested from time to time,
have reason now to exult in the high
and fortunate estate to which all our
people have come thru the uncom-
promised principles and practical work
ings of original and genuine repub-
iicanism. Asserting fact that is with
in the knowledge and experience OF ev-
cry citizen of Iowa and of the whole
country, it may be said without fear
of responsible dispute, that during the
the last six years the people Of this
country, of all classes and of all voca
tons, have enjoyed the greatest and
most uniform prosperity they have ever
known. Not within the memory or eX.
perience of any living man has the
general welfare of our people equalletl
or surpassed the conditions that have
existed since the Gath day Of July. 1897
the day when the mounted carrier OF
the American congress carried to the
white house the Dingley bill and re-
turned within thirty minutes bearing
the eager and illustrious signature of
William Mckinley.
That Dingley bill was the result of
long Investigations. much discussion.
many conferences and of the wisdom
and united efforts of such statesmen as
Senator Allison and Nelson Dingley
and their colleagues. 1t is the law of
the land today and has been for six
years and is likely to be substantially
for some time to come. Hence the
great and assuring confidence that
exists turnout the country today.
1t Is what we old settlers and repub-
licans call a protective tariff law. 1t
Is the wall Of American protection upon
which the feet of industry and labor
leaped out of the mire Of idleness ami
panic and disaster Of 1896 waving the
flag of employment and prosperity and
independence in the face of all the
world 1t is not quite so high as the
former Mckinley wall, on the average.
and not SO low as Great Britain,
France, Germany and the free trade
contingent of America would have II.
but it stands on the rock Of reason
and experience with the vines of thrift
and plenty streaming over it in the
sunshine Of gladness and in the golden
glitter Of a full treasury. The COM
mercial moles of Europe have tried to
burrow under it. the rodents Of reform
to gnaw thru it and the democracy
to tumble it down, but it rests secure
in the judgment of a people who know
by sore experience the difference be-
tween buying abroad and buying al
home-sending their money away and
keeping it here-as we'll as they know
the difference between winter and sum-
mer.
It is said of William of Orange, that
when he saw the troops of Louis XIV
covering Holland, he said: Break
down the bikes and give Holland back
to the ocean, Not until the CONNER
cial forces of Europe with their hordes
of cheap labor, assisted by the free
trade contingent in our own midst,
shall overrun the fair and prosperous
land of America, will such desper-
ate command be given for the destiny
of the United States. A dozen words,
"a single sentence from the lips of Abra-
ham Lincoln: This country with its
institutions belongs to the people who
inhabit It." is worth more for the guild