Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-17

With such things as he had.
And shook their heads and smiled.
PARTNERS IN MISREPRESENTAT ION.
A combined attack from two distinct
)ources has served to give the recent
Iowa republican platform false rep
fesentation before the public. Discus
Zion will in time bring out its real merit
and even has already done SO. but the
work of its traducers Is q fit subject for
notice. In the first place the radical
element in the republican party, which
has been SO extreme in its opposition to
Che party platform of the last two
sears, was prepared with weH-laid
plans to misrepresent any platform that
might be adopted into a vindication of
us own extreme position. On the other
hand it was to be expected that the
democrats would be shrewd enough to
claim that the republicans had repudi-
ated themselves in their platform be-
! cause the democrats have a deliberate
political purpose in wishing 1t SO. How
ever. all such claims when given care
1ui consideration fall to the ground
from inherent weakness.
Turning to the first falsifier one has
only to read the platform to see that
while the radical standpatter was con-
coded change of language to eliminate
the phrase shelter to monopoly" he
was not conceded his main contention
to let we'll enough alone in tariff sched-
ules. but instead the platform declares
that schedules must be fair and I'm
partial, equally opposed to foreign con-
troll and domestic monopoly, and must
from time to time be changed" No
man can read this platform without
realizing fully that the republicans OF
Iowa believe in changing tariff sched-
U!es whenever such schedules cease to
oppose monopolies at home, and this
language, to their mind, expresses their
idea of tariff changes fully as we'll as
khe shelter" plank ever did. The man
who has not time to read the platform
should take note of the fellows who are
doing the kicking about it. There
were such revisionist leaders as Alli-
son. Dolliver and Cummins applauding
the platform and endorsing its every
word, while standpatters IKE Lacey and
Cousins were SHINING" the repub-
lican party of Iowa for trying to "gnaw
thru" the Dingley tariff wall.
But. with a democrat, the deception
is not so easily exposed. He appeals
to the fellow who wants the tariff
changed just because it is a protective
tariff. He contends that the republic
ans started toward good democratic
doctrine with their shelter plank. He
gets his cue from the standpatter's
foolish ranting and reiterates it because
he thinks 1t wilt embarrass the repub-
flcans. Now that the republicans have
declared for their own kind of conserv-
ative. scientific revision in language
changed, altho no less clear, he pur-
poses to make 1t appear that the repub-
lican party has receded from its Just
position and that 1t no longer opposes
those schedules that shelter domestic
monopolies.
w. j. Bryan, the king of artful dodg-
ers. wakes eloquent in his indignation
al republicans who would adopt plat
fny -, "a,
low should be increased and duties that
are too high should be reduced" VAL
iantly does he declaim that any fool
could devise such platform so axio-
matte in language. If this were all that
the republicans had said Bryans ex-
element would be justified, but when
that artful gentleman says that the re-
publicans In 1901 believed that any
schedule that afforded shelter to mo-
nopoly was too high and when he says
that those same republicans believe
this year, with Lacey's standpat the
DRY, that any schedule that will not
provide adequate shelter to a trust Is
too low, he deliberately presents a con-
clusion unfounded from the premises
and totally denied by the republican
platform. That platform declares that
schedules should be equally opposed to
foreign control and domestic monop-
oily This means clearly that sched-
Jules that do not oppose and effectually
prevent foreign control of our markets
are too low and should be raised. This
Is the fundamental principle of protec-
ton. Experience, however, has taught
that where protection from foreign con-