Arizona republican., 1903-10-01
Governor cummins Sees a Light.

Governor Cummins Sees a Light.
 The Iowa republican campaign open cd at Des Mcines d few days ago. and the speech made by Governor Cummins bears evidence that the Hawkcye ex- ecutive has seen a great light on the tariff question. Governor Cummins is the author of the Iowa idea'-an idea which thus far has failed to fire the national republican party to q great heat. The Iowa idea" is-or rather if not abandoned-that the trusts are made possible by the protective tariff system and are fostered by the exist ing schedules: therefore. there should be a general revision and lowering of the tariff. Incidentally, the Iowa idea was that the tariff should be lowered right away. Governor Cum mins is no longer a bold champion Of the idea. He is even more conserva tive than the Iowa platform of this year, which was framed by Senator Allison and other gentlemen who had opposed the Cummins propaganda. In the course of his speech at Des Moines, Governor Cummins said.
 If the democrats, as represented by their leader. are opposed to duties levied for protection, and if their plat form expresses accurately their views, it follows inevitably that they favor duties levied upon the free trade plan.
 ;j |, republicans, that protection is practic- ally sound, but theoretically unsound. I make no such concession. I deny and rcpudiate the sentiment whether it comes from friend or foe. Protection is as sound theoretically as it is ef- ficient practically. Tariff laws, founded upon the policy of protecting home markets. are not only of the highest efficiency. but of the strictest national morality. and I have little patience with the thearist who bases his ob- jcction to such laws upon the proposi- ton that tkey cont avene natural right.
 Personally I have no hesitation in avowing that there are duties which should be lowered to bring them to the point of protection, and the little that I can do to influence legislation in that direction will be done. There are others, undoubtedly, who believe that the duties as a whole are as fairly adjusted as they can be. and I assume that they will act on that belief. 1t is not to be expected that direct modi- fication wil be made during the next session of congress. A work that re- quired the utmost forbearance. the most unprejudiced consideration and the most temperate discussion. will not be done in the fierce partisarship which attends a. presidential contest.
 We may differ. we do differ. respect ing the details of application. but when the policy itself is threatened. it be- comes every man who approves it. to lift his voice in it's defense and cast his vote for it's safety.
 Upon the subject of reciprocity, tho democratic patform is silent, and necessarily SO. There is no place in the political economy of the democrat ic party for reciprocity. Insisting, as 1t does. upon free trade, the basis for reciprocal trade arrangements is at once destroyed. for there can be no such thing unless we have tariff duties which we can yield in trade.
 We ought speedily to establish re- ciprocity with Canada. a country just fairly started in it's development. and whose markets in all manufactured ar ticles We ought to supply by reason Of the ease of our access to them. The United States is already the largest importer of commodities into Canada. and that notwithstanding the fact that her preferential duties admit England, our sharpest competitor, upon terms B 1-2 per cent. better than they admit the United States. We ought to obtain better terms there than England, but if we coud enter upon the same terms the volume of our exports to that Coun- try would be nightly increased.
 Admitting freely that the most strenuous attempts have been made to esta blish monopolies, it is yet true that they have been generally thwarted by natural causes. Trusts are very many. monopClies are very rare. and he who does not distinguish between them is rocr guide in the labyrinth of modern affairs
 Governor Cummins is now an ex- pourder of sound republican doctrine
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