Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-24
AN EAR TO THE GROUND.
Victor Index.1

A prominent eastern republican re-
marked recently, in substance, why
urge upon the present congress the.
task of revising the tariff at a time
when there is no distinct tariff issue
presented by the opposition? Such a
question was not statesmanlike, for a
man with his ear to the ground could
not fail to detect the growing demand
for revision whenever such a step might
be either necessary or advisable. The
Iowa idea" goes just this far and no
farther. altho the democratic press have
tried to distort it into a confession tina
such a time has already come. If 1t
shall be found that the protective tariff
is being improperly used as a shelter to
trusts, monopoly or other wrong. then
the time has come for the republican
party to take up he work of revision,
and no schedule of rates made by any
man, under other conditions, Is too a-
cred to be revised in the interests OF the
American people. Democrats have been
criticised for quoting Washington n
the early statesmen in opposition to ex-
pansion, but now republicans are found
standing by Congressman Dingley for
no other reason than their respect for
the man and his work: refusing to see
that the Dingley bill was wise because
1t was suited to the commercial and in
dustrial conditions of his time, and that
those conditions are now changed. Sem
ator Dolliver has performed a great
service to his party in bringing 1t face
to face with the real situation. The
next campaign is likely to be fought out
along a new line, and the CONSERVATION
which has come to the anti-protection-
lists in congress, as a result of Senator
Delivers speech, shows that he has
uncovered a masked battery. Let a
vigorous effort be made to discover de-
fects in our present schedule of rates or
wrong Uses of them, and, when found.
a puly the Iowa idea. Let the tariff be
amended by it's friends. This genera
ton should be spared another Wilson
bill.
cuMMINs AND DOLLIvER AGREE.
[Carroll Herald.l
III affords Senator Delivers Iowa
friends infinite satisfaction to note his
recent speech in the senate on the tariff
question. 1t is the most significant ut
terance for months in Iowa politics and
will serve to stimulate a statement in
congress for needed modification of the
present tariff schedules.
senator Dolliver chided the senate for
refusing to enact into law a single prin-
ciple Of the great policy of reciprocity
advocated by Blaine. OF the reciprocity
treaties pending before he senate since
| the enactment of the Dingley bill not
one had been ratified. The refusal of
the senate to do something In this di-
rection brought forth most eloquent
censure from Iowa's Junior senator.
Senator D%olliver was a member of
Dingley's house committee when the bill
was framed, and his statement that GER
| tain schedules were placed high for the
purpose Of trading them down thru
reciprocity stirred up such senator's as
Aldrich and Hale. 1t was a rude shock
to those who have refused to favor any
possible change in existing tariff sched-
ules. But all efforts to discredit Senator
| Dolliyer's statement have been silly
failures. For the young senator from