Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-04-09
SEC'Y ROOT ON
TARIFF SCHEDULES
Calls Attention to Directors
Who See Nothing Wrong
in Existing Conditions.
SAYS TARIFF is NOT SACRED
But He Holds 1t Better to Endure Some
Faults Than Destroy by Tinkertng-
Expression Regarded as that OF the Ad-
ministration.


speakers last night at the annual din.
ner of the Home Market club, the rep
resentatiye republican organization Of
New England. The occasion was of
signal interest because last night the
speeches of Secretary Root and Sen
ator Lodge were regarded particular
ly as the words of the administration
at Washington on the anticipated Is.
sues of the next national campaign.
Is Secretary Root spoke on the tariff
and Mr.. Lodge on the question Of
Canadian reciprocity and of the charg
es made against the American sol
diers in the Philippines.
Secretary Root said in part:
Il remember hearing Mr.. Tilden say
room and made any proposition what.
ever to them, some one of the hun.
dred would dispute it.
Reducing this saying to its lowest
degree of one in hundred we must
look for at least 100000 among the
people Of the United States in whose
Very eyes everything that is done Is
wrong, and whatever is being done
ought not to be done. or ought to be
done otherwise.
This useful but trying class of our
fellow citizens has recently turned it's
attention to the existing protective
system of the United States. If we
had been a free trade country they
would have been protectionists. AS
we have long been protectionisl
country they are free traders. TO
them are joined the members of the
democratic party, who desire change
of administration and who demand
what they call a revision of the pro-
tectiye tariff, but which they really
mean to be a destruction of the pro.
tective tariff. Along with them go, to
some extent, certain good men ana
true men who urge a real revision of
the tariff, which they believe will
make it better protective tariff than
1t is now.
In speaking of the true nature and
necessary effect of the proceedings
which these citizens wish congress 10
take, the secretary said he assumed
first that the principle of protection
should be maintained, and next, that
the people of the United States are
now enjoying a period Of eXtraordi-
nary prosperity and that they don't
want that prosperity to end.
"The question is not whether under
some other law we might or might not
have become prosperous, or whether
under some other law we may or may
not In the future attain prosperity.
1t is that the prosperity we have now
today is the prosperity Of productive
enterprise which has adjusted itself
to the conditions that this Dingley
law has created, and the stability of
those conditions in substance is essen
tial to the continuance Of this present
period of prosperity.
There is no fetish in the tariff
| schedules and no sacredness in parttc-
ular rates of duty. II through original
error of changes of conditions the pro-
visions of the Nv work i'll to the
| country, then at the proper time and
| in the proper way sensible people
| will change the law. If law is work
| ing well as whole, common sense
| requires that we should endure some
! faults, even though they are serious,
rather than destroy the general COOL
effect by constant tinkering."
| Speaking of the cry for revision u
the tariff as being the protector Of
! trusts, Secretary Root said we cannot
! get rid of trusts by revising the tariff
unless we are ready to reduce the
duties in the classes of manufacture
| in which the so-called trusts are en-
| gaged-that is to say, in all the princt-
| pal kinds of manufacture-to such an
extent as to put an end to all Ameri'
can manufacture.
"In each class" said the secretary
"the trust is the strongest and ii
duties are lowered below the point OF
rdeuuate protection, the Independent
manufacturer will go to the wall first
| It is impossible that reduction OF
duties should wipe out trusts except
as it wiped out American manufac
ture. When that happens, free
trader and protectionist alike
will have substituted the foreign
trusts for domestic trusts, and the
prosperity of foreign workmen for
the prosperity of American work
men.
The question is whether there are
really existing evils to be cured as
great as the evils to be endured from
the long and difficult process of re
vision.
In conclusion the secretary said:
I'm determining when and how thai
process shall be undertaken two car
dinal rules should be observed
First, it should be done only wher
congress is as free as possible from
Ine distractions and temptations Of al
active political campaign. When con
gress settles down to attend to bust
ness it is a very wise complete ant
effective body. When it is playint
politics it contributes more of bril-
liancy to the impending campaign
Fairfield win vote April on issu
ing $4,000 of school house building
bonds.
A new school house will be built o.
Garden Grove.
Gutenberg has voted bonds to buil'
a new school house.
Ladora will expend $4,000 GU \ new
school house.
Taylor township, Marshal county
will build a $4,000 central school.
Charles Weitz & Sons Of De
, Moines, have contract for new
buildings at the Mitchellvllle indus
trial school.
r Nashua will build high school Il
, cost $4,000.
Oelwein voted $4,000 of bonds L
build a new high school.
Tifin will build new school house
Wall Lake will put $4,000 into
5 new school house.
. The Scandinavian Lutherar3 vii
2 build a church at Armstrong. st..
' The second Presbyterian society G
, Cedar Rapids has plans for C ne,
church. ...
The German NJ. T.. society will bull
a new church in Charles City.
n The Catholics will built churc
J, in Onawa.