Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29
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No Revision of the Tariff.
The fractional fight that has for some
time been raging in the Republican
ranks for revision of the tariff on those
schedules that foster the trusts has its
storm center in Iowa, and the two fac
lions are becoming wider and wider
apart OH this important ISSUE The
Iowa Idea" leaders, of whom Cover
nor Cummins is the chief, have led the
Republican voters of Iowa to believe
be cured by the Republican party and
appealed to them last fall to stand
firm, once more, for the G. o. p. So
intense did the feeling become. and so
strong was the following of Governor
Cummins, that it forced Speaker Hen
ders6n to decline to run again as n cam
didate. The Congressional delegation
| from Iowa We're also divided OIL this
issue, some for revision of the tariff
and some for continuing protection to
the trusts. The fight between these
Republican factions of Iowa would
not be Of much Importance If President
Roosevelt had not entered into the
fight. Originally he was nm ardent
free trader and member of the Free
Trade Club of New York and was
elected to the Legislature by COM
bination of Democrats and reform Re-
publicans, but finding this road to po-
litical preferment thorny one, on
| Aug. 20, 1885, he wrote letter to
Poultney Bigelow fesigning from tile
Free Trade Club. This letter would be
an extraordinary one II written by
another than Mr.. Roosevelt, for its
whole tone indicates that the ambi-
tious young man i'll politics must stifle
his principles to achieve success. The
letter concludes with this Rooseveltian
sentiment: II ain Republican first; a
free trader afterward." This is not the
only time that President Roosevelt has
disappointed his friends by reversing
himself for the sake Of political en-
| pediency. His Logansport speech last
fall was distinct recognition of the
desiraDility and necessity of the read
justment of the present tariff. His
words We're:
Continual sweeping changes in such
tariff touching so intimately the
commercial interests of the nation
which stands as one of the two or three
greatest in the whole Industrial world,
cannot but be disastrous. Yet, on the
other hand. where the industrial needs
Of the nation shift as rapidly rs they
do with us, II is a matter of prime I'M
portance TINT we should be able to re-
| adjust our economic policy rs rapidly
as possible, and with as little friction
as possible to these needs"
Having thus led Governor Cummins
and the other Republican rcformers to
believe that he would stand with them
to revise the tariff so that II would not
foster trusts, lie now leaves them III
the lurch by declaring that there is
no connection between the cXactions
of the trusts and the protection the
tariff gives them in charging higher
price to the people OF the United States
for their products than they do the
foreigners.
What led to this change of heart on
is given in the Washington Star of
April 8 as can interesting bit of Cos
SIP" The Star is known as tile admin
istration organ at the capital of the ma
ton, so that what 1t says about Presi-
dent Roosevelt doubtless tells the true
that while the President was prepar-
Ing for his Western trip he was Wis.
tied by number of Republican poll.
ticians and continues thus:
"Prominent in the coterie were mem.
bers of the American Protective Tariff
a business of promoting high tariff
sentiment. These men, 1t is said, told
the President frankly that if he OH his
Western trip doomed tariff revision
the high tariff Republicans would Sc,
to work to defeat his denomination"
President Roosevelts ambition tc
succeed himself is therefore RESPONSE
bic for throwing overheard the Iowa
Idea and allowing the American Pro
tectfve Tariff League to dictate his pol
Icy. The voters, who will next yeal
decide upon protection or tariff reform
and who are now bearing the full
weight of the high prices the trusts are
demanding. seem to be of but little con
sequence in the decision of Presidep,
Roosevelt, 10 throw the great influence
of his office in favor of their despoilers
Yet this is characteristic of the Ham
iltonian tendencies of the Presidents
utterances in the books lie has written
His sympathy has never been with The
farmer. the mechanic and the working
man, those tollers who make tbs
wealth of the nation. for in his .Rancl
Life and Hunting Trail" on page 10
comparing the cowboy with the classe.
above mentioned, he says: "They 9TH,
cowboys are much better fellows ant
pleasanter companions than small
farmers or agricultural laborers; nol
are the mechanics and workmen of T,
great city to be mentioned in the sam,
BREATH
This must be taken as Mr.. Roose
velt's deliberate opinion OF the "me
chanics and workmen of great city,
and small farmers or agricultural Ia
borers." 1t is the same opinion enter
tanned of the same classes by the warn
FedpTnIiSts WIN nnnd tha Euylish aric
tocracy in the early days of the re
public. 1t was then called buddhism
and elected IL pamphlet written b,
Duane In 1907, in which those who
like Aaron Burr and his cn.cnnsnira