Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-16
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TESTING SEED CORN.
ISac Srn.l
Professor p. G.. Holden. who was
present at the farmers institute last
week and gave excellent talks on the
seed corn question, has a novel method
of testing seed corn. He wraps a
quantity of it, perhaps twenty five
grains. in a piece of damp paper or a
| cloth. lays the package in water over
night. gathers the packages into a
small box which he wraps in a damp
cloth and puts in Il warm place for
three or four days. BY this method he
Is able to open the package and investi-
gate more easily. Moreover. the corn is
not discolored and be is able to study
1t better He gave the writer a box of
| the corn he had begun to test in Ida
county and it was found that only 80
per cent of it would grow with any cer-
tainty. thus proving the corn he tested
unsafe to plant. Professor Holden de-
MES. however, that he has said any
where that Iowa corn will not grow
and that farmers must send away for
advises the greatest caution, he tells
the farmers to plant for the bulk of
their crop the best seed obtainable in
their own localities. He thinks it wise
to try in small quantities seed that
may have proved exceptionally desira-
hle elsewhere, but TO experiment with
this new corn until i. shows itself thor
oughly acclimated before relying upon
i. for the bulk of the crop.
IN DEFENSE OF }LXCLUSIVENESS
Esprit Lake Beaconl
Major John +. Lacey, congressman
from the Sixth Iowa district, delivered
this past week in Philadelphia an inter-
estng speech. 1t is given the top of a
column, with carmi;ie featuring. in the
Des Moines Capital on the ground that
it scores the Iowa lea" another name
for the republican state platform
adopted deliberativrly and by two
great republican conventions.
In this speech is found the philosophy
usually employed in defense of the poll
icy of exclusion. Assuming entirely
without warrant that republicans
somewhere are undermining the citadel
of protection, arguments nowhere de-
MED by republicans, !. re explosively de-
livered to prove that which goes with
out saying, namely That the system
has done splendid service to the coun-
try and that its destruction would b.
attended by unspeakable calamity. 1t
is difficult to understand how the unc-
tious reiteration of points nowhere in
dispute can be Of service to any phase
of any issue.
Proceeding the major takes issue
directly with those inclined to doubt
the inspiration of a tariff schedule. He
declares we must be content with
nothing less than the protection OF all
the industries of the county. He has
no use for the philosophy that recog-
nizes a partial readJus tment to chang
ing conditions. He is for the whole
cheese as it was from the beginning,
is now and evermore shall be world
without end. until there is no escape
from the calamities of democratic re-
vision.
Among the striking passages fea-
tured are these:
"The republican party is the one
party which looks after the prosperity
of the whole country. north, south, east
and west.
THE republican party should not be
msled by local prejudices.
1.-The policy of protection should be
broadly and consistently national"
Who among the republican hosts will
take issue with Thu; expression? It is
wholly consistent with the Iowa posi-
ton which is opposed to having the
beneficent system of protection prosti-
tuted to selfish ends; which would not
have the republican party misled by
local prejudices or competition stified
by special interests which considers ii
Of the first Importance to keep the sys-
tenn of protection broadly and consist
entity national, shaped and formed for
the greatest good to the greatest num-
Der of Americans. If this is what Is
meant by the spealser, he is speaking
for Iowa republicanism.
Major Lacey points ely says:
"The doctrine of protection can not
be overthrown by its open foes. The
chief danger will come from those who
pose as its friends"
This is the plain truth. just let 1t
thoroughly soak into the minds of the
intelligent voters of the country that 1t
is the settled policy OF national repub.
licanism to nail down the tariff sched-
ules during republican supremacy and
no greater danger can confront the
doctrine Of protection. Those who pose
as its friends while exploiting this
proposition should understand the per-
lis they so recklessly invite.