Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-10
IOWA NEWSPAPERS.
VALUED POLICY LAWS.
TDubuaue Times.l


South Dakota's legislature has decid-
ed on the adoption of a valued policy
bill Either this will result in advanced
rates or Missouri's experience Is OF no
value as basis OF prophecy. Our own
legislature adopted valued policy Dill
in 1900 but Governor Shaw's veto mes
sage contained such yoluminous and
detailed evidence concerning the erect
of such laws In other states that the
succeeding general assembly could not
be induced to take up the subject. In
Missouri, and possibly in other states in
which valued policy laws have Deen
enacted. farmers mutuals have been
exempted from their operation. This is
q, confession that the law represents
merely prejudice against the stock COM
panies. For If the principle is sound
why should it not be given universal
application? The fact that many states
have had such laws for years is no
proof that they have worked equitably
and TO the advantage OF the insured as
a whole. In Wisconsin at least the
courts have emasculated the law by IN
depreciation. In Vermont the failure of
prohibition to accomplish the results
intended was generally recognized
many years ago, but it was only with
the greatest difficulty that the repeal
of the law was finally secured. Ohioss
insurance commissioner has shown
that growth OF incendiarism has fol-
lowed the enactment of the valued poll
Icy law in that state and that the hon
est insured have paid the freight, but
the showing has not awaited to secure
the repeal of law that expresses pre-
JUDGE against corporations.
MODERATE UNDER PROvOCATION
[Council Bluffs Nonpareil.1
The Burlington Hawk-Eye expresses
the opinion that The Nonpareil is
Creeping away from the Iowa idea -
which 1t interprets to mean cutting
the tariff to kill the trust'-thereby
implying that The Nonpareil at some
time or other gave it's active support
to such doctrine. In fact, the Hawk
Eye not merely implies this but it
states 1t as a fact when 1t declares:
The Nonpareil is one of those few
stalwart republican papers of the state
which have seemed to see good in the
governors radical ideas Of tariff revi-
sion-which have half-heartedly sup
ported what is known as the Iowa idea
OF cutting the tariff to kill the trusts
and like all others of that class of
papers, has been rather glad of late to
gradually edge about from that radical
position to one of more harmony with
that OF the much abused stand pat
papers"
In this utterance, and again when it
declares that The Nonpareil has Shown
remarkable editorial tendency to a
change of heart, or probably more cor
rectly speaking. resumption OF its
normal attitude on republican protec-
tive principles" the Hawk-Eye takes
rather undue liberty with the real facts
in the case. The Nonpareil protests
that it has never given support to what
the Hawk-Eye defines as the iowa
idea" the Cutting of tariff to kill the
trusts" On the contrary it has upon
various occasions declared the folly OF
attempting to cure trust evils by tariff
revision. Neither has 1t had any SYM
pathy' with indiscriminate tariff slash
ing, but 1t has stood for progress in
matters pertaining to the tariff as we'll
as those pertaining to other public
questions, and it believes that a revis-
ion of tariff schedules is necessary from
time to time to meet ever changing con-
ditions of industry and commerce. 1t
believes first, last and all the time in
the principle Of protection, and it yields
to none in it's order in defense of this
fundamental republican doctrine-not
even to the Hawkeye. that stalwart de-
fender Of republicanism.
When the Hawkeye says In conclu-
sion that the evident willingness to
creep away from the Iowa idea is
commemorate on the part of these pa
pers," 1t presumes much as to their
attitude. And that has been one trou-
BILE with the Hawkeye In all this
friendly debate upon the tariff within
the party. 1t has misinterpreted and
misunderstood the attitude of those
who suggested that possibly the time
had come when a revision of certain
tariff schedules might be wise and ben
eficial to the best interests of the coun-
try, and urged that there should be no
longer delay in the fulfillment Of the
republican party's pledges in favor of
reciprocity. The Nonpareil assures the
Hawkeye that it is now and always has
been as soundly republican as the
Hawkeye itself.
One Of Dawes Achievements.
[Omaha Bee.l
The late Senator Dawes OF Massa-
chusetts counted as one of his greatest
achievements having moved in congress