Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-26
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Gladbrook. Dee 26.-Very few have
read a report of the speech Governor
cummins was To have delivered in
Boston, So that the following report
OF it taken from the editorial columns
of the Hartford Courant Will be inter
esting to Iowa readers. and all the moe
so to a large portion of our citizens.
who will also enjoy the strong endorse :
ment given it, When the reader stops
to think that this iiattering editorial
comes from big daily, published in
the heart of protected manufacturing
industries, il viii seem that Governor
Cummins has Il following outside of
state borders, and inside the ranks OF
the republicans of the Nutmeg state.
Under the head of an address in Bos
ton it says:
Not many months ago shout went
up that the Iowa idea AN idea as
old and also as republican as the re-
publican party itself-was quite dead
and done FOR. There must have been
sorre error We are reminded once
more of the Scotch shoemaker's remark
to Alton Locke about premature in
eliiSiss' 'e A"a is ~
bostoh thursday evening, as puAoiii
az ever.
Governor Albert Il. 1umlhns was
expected. and a notable company of
Boston merchants and bankers as
sembled to welcome HIM and hsten to
him. Unfortunately sudden summons
nome deprived them OF that pleasure.
But the address which he had prepared
was read by a substitute; so we may
speak of the governor as intellectually
present at the Boston meeting thoush
bodily somewhere else. HIS topic was
the eountry's foreign trade ana ne pe-
gan by pointing out the vital import
ance TO Iowa and the other great crop
making states OF access 10 foreign mar
kets on the best terms obtalnaple WITH
out injury TO nome industry ana IN.
home markets. He described hlHsen
as no tariH ripper or lafiii buster. pu.
convinced protectlonlst. ne aliudea
10 the stories about MS haNlhg pesh
called down and silenced-storles oHi4
less humorous than false He directed
notice 10 the growing surplus OF 1arln-
products and mill products winch TINS
country has to sell to the foreign puf-
chasers. Under these conditions. ne
said, the statesman who allows him-
self TO be wholly absorbed In the TABOR
of excluding imports. and VINO mas
neither time nor thought tof' ihe ways
and means OF increasing exports, IS
drawing heavily upon the patience OF
the people. Remarking that we now
have the most eiliclent system Oh tarhl
duties ever devised. ne argued ihat eiie
time has come Tor supplemehlihg y.
Protection begins at nome. put II
ought not to end there. our producers
are Just ~ iHucH eh.tiSd ~ 'iie ''iu VI
their government IN taxing foreign
markets as they are 10 its aia IN hoio-
ing their nome M'rRets. lhey are
not getting that ala now, IN law OF
treaty. Such footing as they have IN
the foreign markets they nave game
for themselves without governmental
assistance. and they are exposed u
tariff reprisals at the hands OF the
continental states of Europe: they are
menaced by Joseph Chamberlain, the
success of whose policy would close the
only open market they have In that
part of the world. II is case in which
there is nothing 10 De done either iof
extending American trade or lor SAFE
guarding IL III 'here Is NOT, we mao
oest turn our ehersies III o.her ui'ec
tiohs anu Cease ,roupiins 'ne drea''is
OF those students OF pupiic hHalrs whe
nave promoted the mysuc words stano
pat into the chlet place among 'ht
apothegms OF ihaustrlai anu poii'ica
economy
Governor Cummlns rejects the notlor
that we can 40 hothihg Out 81. SUI
with hands folded, and endure wha'
comes. He is, as the Bostonians hearc
last evening q protectlonist OF the
school of Blaine and or Wiillam Mch'h-
ley. Hes for suppiementing portectioi
with roatS--reclprocity with Sal'-
! ada tfor which ne argued al iength ana
with unswervapie good sehse). ahe
with Mexico ana win Sen,ral A1herl'
| ca. and with South America, Whlle II Is
still called today. tomorrow II may
be too late. We need the Canadian
market IN our business. we heen 'hess
other markets. Every decane VIII Hakf
them more Valuaple, eltner 10 US OF u
our trade rivals Ihe tlme IS COMING
fast Wheh theS VIII DE enormously Nai'
uaple.
| The governors tdea-whleh Is alse
| the Blain idea, the Mckinley Idea ant
the Iowa idea'-is that 1t Is just a.
nonsensical to talk about RECIPROCITY
on non-competetive commodities ex'
clusively as to talk about the untouch'
able sancrlty on the Dlngley tariil
schedules. Some OF THESE are 700 nlgh
l