Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-17
ship already happily existing between
the two countries and enlarge and
strengthen their commercial inter-
course"
BABcock FOR REVISION.
Failure of Congress to Act May be Bad
for the Party.

Failure of Congress to Act May be Bad
FOR the Party.
| Washington, Jan. 17.-[Raymond's
special to the Chicago Tribune. l--Con-
siderable anxiety has been manifested
by the republican leaders in congress
regarding the general question as to
whether there will be any disastrous
results if there is a failure at this SEES
sion to revise the tariff and also to en-
act antitrust legislation.
There is a strong political pressure
being brought to bear to get the anti
trust bill reported to the house as soon
as possible and passed by the senate
before congress adjourns, because it is
believed that a failure to do this will
have a disastrous effect upon the next
elections.
To get at the political side OF the
problem which now confronts congress
l asked Representative Joseph w. Bah
cock. of Wisconsin, chairman of the re-
publican congressional committee, to
give ME his opinion as to the political
situation in view of the results CT the
last congressional elections.
Immediately after the elections before
closing UP the headquarters in New
York. Mr.. Babcock presented an analy-
sis of the result which attracted gen.
eral attention. Since then he has gone
over the official returns and has studied
them in the light of what the present
congress has and has not done. He
sees no defeat for the republican party
in 1904, provided the party pledges are
redeemed and the recommendations
of the president followed.
Applying his analysis of the last vote
however chairman Babcock declares
that the republican party is in a posi-
ton which is by no means impregna-
BILE. and that its success. coupled with
the election Of President Roosevelt,
depends largely if not entirely upon
convicing the people that the party is
in earnest in endeavoring to break
down monopoly, whether created by a
trust or by a tariff.
There are two significant features"
said Mr.. Babcock, as he leaned back in
his chair at the corner desk in the big
room occupied by the District of Coll
ombia committee, land those two fea-
lures of the last election should never
be lost sight of. They are first, the
loss of the republicans in the cities and
the remarkable strength of the republic
cans In the agricultural sections.
II found this the situation on my
first analysis of the book, and time has
served to confirm it.
This has been a period of great pros
.perity We have done more business
and sold more goods, both at home and
abroad, than ever before. Prices or lg-
rlcultural products ana manufactured
articles have gone upward. The far
mer has received more money for his
crops than ever before, and yet the
crops, as whole, have been abundant.
Manufacturing concerns have extended
their operations enormously and BUSH
ness men have sold more goods and at
better prices than they anticipated.
THE farmer, the business man, and
the manufacturer have been the prin-
c:pal beneficiaries of our extraordinary
prosperity. The laboring man has not
had his wages increased on the whole
in the same PERCENTAGE that prices have
increased. The man on a salary has
not had his salary Increased to any per-
oeptible degree as result of all this
prosperity.
1T follows, therefore, that while the
farmer. the merchant. and and the
manufacturer have made so much
money that they can afford to pay more
for the things they eat and drink and
wear, prosperity has been an actual loss
to the salaried man. and a partial loss,
at least, to the laborer.
1.-THE high price OF beef and fuel, COM
bined with the increased rates OF rent
os clothing, and of everything else that
the poor man consumes, has naturally
produced spirit OF unrest among the
laboring men and the men with small
salaries. They feel bitterly against
the great corporations like the beer
trust and the coal trust, and their re-
sentiment extends to The railroads ana
other great combinations of capital
This situation explains the recent
elections The farmers, the merchants,
and the manufacturers stood by the re-
publican party. The laboring men, the
clerks, and the men with moderate
salaries generally, who have been con-
fronted with the largely increased cost
of living without corresponding in-
crease in income, drifted away from the
republican party In vague spirit OF
discomfort with existing industriai ana
commercial conditions.
How does this analysis OF the sta
ton" I asked, "affeci the pending pro-
gram in congress"
IF the republican party fails to re-
deem its pledges to do something 10
regulate the trusts ard revise such por-
t,ons of the tariff as have become bur-
densome, the constituencies Will become
distrustful of us. ana the tendency tori
break away from. the party, which mas
begun to be apparent in the cities
will continue.
IF we redeem our pledges, pass
aasonable. conservative anti trust law,
and weed out of the tariff everything
which tends to create monopoly, the
republican party will be returned 10
power by the people beyond shadow
Of doubt. Otherwise not.
"Of course 1t was impossible to touch
the tariff at the present short session.
Every one knew that, and no reasonable
man expected us to 10 anything ieel
certain we will pass an anti-trust law
thru the house and / believe 1t VIII bet
thru, the senate, altho that is by mol
means certain.
Finds Way to Live Long.
The startling announcement Of dis
coyery that will surely lengthen life is
made by Editor o. II. Downey, of Chu-
r,,huseo Ind. 81 wish to state" he
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