Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-01

the national platform of 1900, this
statement:
I'VE renew our faith in the policy of
protection to American labor In that
policy our industries have been estab-
lished, diversified and maintained.
BY protecting the home market. com
petition has been stimulated and pro
ductitn cheapened. Opportunity to
the inventive genius of our people has
been secured and wages in every de-
partment of labor maintained at high
rates, higher now than ever before,
always distinguishing our working
people in their better conditions OF
life from these of any competing coun-
try
The policy is one thing; the appli-
cation OF the policy to changing con-
ditions is another thing. While we
insist on stability of economic policy
as prime economic need OF our coun-
try, take it the Republicans Of Iowa
agree to the declaration of the presi-
dent of the United States in his last
annual message that this stability
should not be fossilization." 1t would
be extremely unfortunate, as the les
sons Of experience give us warrant
for believing, If sweeping and violent
changes in our tariff system should be
undertaken, and especially so, as the
president pointed out in his recent
Minneapolis address, eff approached
on the theory that the prs eiple of the
protective tariff was to be abandoned.
The fact. however, is not for moment
to be lost sight of that change is In
evitable Fossilization will not be toll
Grated. Dictation apart from consid-
Grafton of the broad interests of ma
tional welfare will not be endured.
"Where the industrial conditions so
frequently change, as with us must
of necessity be the case" said the
president in his late tariff speech, "it
we should be able from time to time
to adapt our economic policy to
changed conditions That is what our
platform OF 1902 reaffirmed.
The expressions l have quoted give
clear definition of the policy of pro-
lection. The Republican party from
the beginning Of its history has given
the policy uniform Interpretation.
The object is, in association with rails
ing revenue. to safeguard the indus
trial interests of our own people-to
protect the labor of our country
against unequal competition. 1t fol-
lows, of course, that, as conditions
change, some Of our tariffs may be too
low, and such tariffs should be raised;
it is even more likely that some of
our tariffs are too high, and such tar
ifs should be reduced. The labor of
the country, under the best and wisest
application Of the protective policy,
is not only to be protected In what 1t
has to sell. but it is also to be pro-
tected in what it has to buy.
Tariff changes should be we'll con-
sidered. They should not be dictated
by mere politics. Every change
should be made in strict conformity
to the general policy, which we call
"the historic policy" The Republican
party has had but one definition of
that policy. 1t Us fundamentally
based" said the president so recently
as the Sd of April, upon ample recos-
milton of the difference between the
cost of production-that is, the cost OF
labor-here end abroad, and Of the
need to see to 1t that our laws shall
in no event afford advantage in our
American industries, to foreign cap
ital over American capital, to foreign
labor over our own labor
1t is vitality important to the preser-
walton of the policy OF protection to
keep the definition in mind. to keep
the essential qualities in mind, and
to falter not in loyal, intelligent and
courageous service.
We have not passed the time in this
country or anywhere in this world
when contest is not imperative against
the immediate and changing aims and
organization of selfish interest. What
we need to do is to meet narrow inter-
est with broad interest, giving adj
herence to enduring principle. deter
mined to subordinate the few to the
will and welfare of the many. This
we may insist upon in the name OF
protection.
The Republican party is not free of
chase for what appears for the mo-
ment to be partisan success. Our
friends of the opposition will be quick
to indorse this criticism. but | do not
withhold it on that account. 1t is too
much the business OF one political
party to make struggle to put the 9TH
er party "in a hole The waste OF
energy involved is enormous, and the
spectacles frequently presented are
we'll nigh disheartening. Yet 1t is not
to be denied that neither one party
nor the other can get far away from
practical politics; and this is no more
than saying that neither one party
nor the other can far remove itself
from the prejudices, passions and per-
sonal concerns of the men who COM
pose political parties and speak softly
or loudly and carry some kind OF
stick.
am free to say, therefore, speaking
for myself, that l do not think there
should be Republican insistence that
the work OF tariff revision should be
entered in the heat and hostile oppor.
tunity of presidential campaign.
Fortunately the Republican party is
not compelled to go to the country re-
lying most of all upon its promises. 1t
will take it's record with 1t into the
campaign OF this year and it will carry
it as an open book in the campaign OF
next year.
We are here today, my friends, to
honor Albert B. Cummins. We are
here to indorse his administration
and to give him entrance upon another
term.
1t is to the credit of the administra-
ton that is and is to be that our state
is free of unsayory state questions.
It must be they are not here or the |
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