Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-10-01
Governor CunlminS
Opens the Campaign
Sounds Keynote of Iowa RepubIcanisn
Before an Immense Gathering
at Des Moines.

HONSEuUE SuululuS OpOuCu bhC IL
publican campaign in Iowa on Satur-
day evening. September 26th, at Des
Mones. His speech, which sounds
the keynote Of the campaign, follows:
Mr.. Chairman. Ladies and Gentle
men. appreciate beyond expression
the generous welcome of this meeting.
Under the influence of its unbounded
enthusiasm | enter the campaign be-
tore me with new inspiration for the
work | am to do and a prOfOunder
faith in the principles | am to main
tain. | defer until another occasion
the consideration of matters pertain
ing to state affairs and pass directly
to the issues Of national concern.
The Tariff.
1t was obvious for months before the
democratic convention convened that,
In their anxiety to find some plank up
on which they could stand together,
with measure of harmony, as they
float upon the rather turbulent sea
over which they are sailing, they
would repeat the assault so often
made upon the protective system of
import duties established and main
t4ned by the republican party. When
the convention came together i'm
pelled, assume, by the newborn zeal
for unity, it declared for free trade as
clearly and as unreservedly as 1t had
formerly declared for free silver. In
order that we may have before us the
precise phraseOlOgy employed, l beg
to read the announcement of the con-
SentiOn upon this subject:
AS the most alarming features of
our present conditions are the evils
which come from trusts. and as these
evils are made possible by legislation
favC"ing one class and against another
"by transportation privileges and by
monopoly of original sources OF sup
ply of natural products, therefore, to
the end that the evils connected with
the growth Of trusts may be elimi-
mated, we call for the removal of the
tariff from all trust-made goods, and
I'VE demand that all tariff schedules be
adjusted with a view to a tariff for
revenue only"
With this challenge before it, the re-
publican convention met, and 1t gives
me unqualified pleasure to read the
candid statement and glowing eulogy
upon the fundamental economic policy
of the republican party, announced In
our most recent platform:
"We reiterate our faith In the his
"toric policy OF protection. Under it's
Influence our country, foremost In the
"bountieS of nature, has become fore
most in production. 1t has enabled
labor to secure good wages, and has
induced capital to engage in produc-
''tion with reasonable hope of fair re-
ward. It's vindication Is found in the
history Of it's successes and the rapid
'lty with which our national resources
have been developed, and we heartily
renew our pledge to maintain II"
There is not republican in the
State OF Iowa whose eye does not
CLEAN with pride and whose heart does
not warm with enthusiasm as he takes
this bold and uncOmpromising oath of
allegiance to the party of protection;
and the knights of ancient times never
rushed into the lists with higher cour
age than the republicans Of 1903 ad-
vance to meet the enemy who deny
this triumphant doctrine.
/ have used the words free trade"
advisedly, because in the Technology
Of economics "a tariff for revenue
only" and free trade" are synonym
Gus terms. Although the subject with
which | am dealing Is one which has
engaged the attention Of the American
people more than any other during the
last century, and although | despair of
adding anything valuable to the litera-
ture Of the discussion, beg your indul-
gence while put the opposing policies
In the plainest possible speech. I'm
o port duties, adjusted upon the protec-
tive plan, are laid upon those things
which We do or can produce, and they
are so laid to stimulate and foster
their production in our own country.
IL, I-.sl
sign of preventing the free and unlim-
tied competition of the producers of
the world in our markets. They are
30 laid. believing that the competition
among our own producers will hold
our production to a fair American
price and that we can better afford to
pay the fair American price than we
can afford to have our markets monOp
oliZed by foreign productions. The
end sought by the protective system OF
duties is to supply, so far as possible
every need Of our own people with
their own work. Upon the other hand
tariff for revenue is a system O
duties so adjusted as to occasion the
least possible interference with fire,
cOn'erce and restrict as little as pos
sibie the free competition of the worl(
In OCr markets. 1t is system
which primarily. lays its duties upoI
those things which we DO not and can
not nrOdCCe. and If such duties be in
sufficient. secOndarily, upon thos
thir"s which we do not and canno
produce in the quantities we need
This IS a tariff for revenue only. ant
this is free trade. In the presence O
en- AID ence so intelligent and so famil
ir with the writings of political econ
om's's. feel that it would be an in
position to sustain my definition of
tariff for revenue and it's identity wit
free trade by reference to the acknow
edged authorities upon such subjects
II. however. this identity is doubted b
any inquiring democrat, l am quit
ready to show him the avenues leadin
70 further information. | am incline
70 think. however. that when my demo
cr"riC friends ponder upon the utter
anceS Of my distinguished opponer
they viii not doubt what I say. In
sroech delivered by Mr.. Sullivan /
Chicago. shortly after his nominatio
he sold:
The protective policy Of the repul
"lic0n prTty is doomed. Yet it wi
"ro"n before its last vestige
"sTr.ct en- from the statute books {