Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-27
HIS LAFE BOLIED!
Lafe Young Denounces Any
Thought of Revising the
Tariff
REPUBLICAN CLUB NOT PLEASED
Hon. Thomas Cheshire Invited to Make
Speech UphoIdirs the State Plat
form-Lafe's Thrusts at the Governor
Were Not Applauded-Lafe Wants
No Revision at Any Time.

Special to Times Republican
Des Moines, Oct. 27.-Des Moines has
political club which maintains a for
lifn for the free discussion of all po-
litical topics and men of all shades oe
political belief are welcome there. This
| Is the Polk County Republican Club.
which maintains hall on the east
side. The members are all republicans
but within the party there is the great
est tolerance of opinion. Meetings have
been held frequently and local speakers
have occupied the platform. week
ago 1t was on the boards for Hon. Lafe
Young to speak, and much to the sur
prise of the hundred persons present
or majority Of them, the speaker took
ground far in advance of the most
rampant standpatter, and virtually de-
c1ared that the true republican position
| is to hold the present tariff schedules
sacred and never to be changed He
denounced all who talked of revision or
changes as tariff rtppers" and stated
that revision by republicans would be
just as bad as revision by democrats.
II there was to be any attempt at re-
vision either before the election or af-
terwards his newspaper and property
We're for sale a once. a good republi-
can who heard the speech, q conserva-
time man. stated that the speech was
plainly directed against the republican
platform and ticket and that II it had
any effect at all 1t would be to prevent
republicans from voting for Governor
Cummins. According to this authority,
not over dozen of the republicans
present applauded Mr. Young's sharp
thrusts at the governor and the re-
mainder We're simply speechless. There
WAS an immediate demand for a speech
that would uphold the platform and
.sef.y and Sc ,ha officers invited ex-
Senator Thomas A. Cheshire, of this
city. to speak. and he will speak this
evening. on the same subject. MIR.
Cheshire upholds the position of the
party platform and Insists that tho
republican party is not bourbonized but
| is as ever a progressive and constantly
advancing party.
IL Colonel Young s right" says Mr..
Cheshire, Sin the position he has taken
on this question, then all the rest of
us are wrong. He glands alone, so far
as / know, in his position that the tar
| if shall never be revised and that re-
vision by republicans. would be just as
bad as revision by democrats. The
trouble with Colonel Young is that he
is not supporting the platform and the
ticket He is out of line with the re-
publican party. He is bitterly disap-
pointed because the party has repud-
lated him as a platform writer and will
have none of him.
Senator Cheshire will briefly review
the history OF the republican party
on the tariff question. showing how the
party has repea tealy changed the
schedules of its own making. how the
tariff law OF 1883 was revised In 1897
by the Mckinley bill and how again
when the Mckinley bill was framed the
old Mckinley schedules We're complete
|ly revised and changed, and summing
up as follows:
1T Is now more than six years since
the passage of the present tariff law.
or nearly as much tine as interviewed
between the Wssage of the act of 1873
and the Me1<iAley bill and between the
passage of tfA Mckinley bill and the
Dingley bill. yhe republicans found it
necessary 10 thange the schedules In
the act of 1913 and In the Mckinley
bill seven years after their adoption be-
cause of the changing conditions. No
one will dispute that there has been a
mighty change since the passage of the
Dingley bill The revival of trade un-
der it's influence and also because or the
vast increase of money. all as good as
gold have produced the magnificent
prosperity that now abounds. There
has been a tremendous change in our
territory, commerce upon the sea, IN
ternal commerce, and industrial life
The United States, then isolated in and
restricted in her territorial limits. has
greatly expanded her territory and
opened new avenues of commerce. She
has stretched forth her mighty arm in
TO the broad Atlantic and brought Por-
to Rico within her dominions. The
United States has reached out into the
placid Pacific and brought under her
control, since the passage of the Ding
ley bill, the Hawaiian Islands She has
extended her mighty hand still further
toward the Orient and has added the
Philippine islands to her territory. All
of these things have material relation
to the schedules of Ct tariff bill.
Then there has been mighty
change in internal commerce and man
ufactures Gigantic corporations have
been formed out of other great corpo-
rations covering almost the entire
range of production of our industries.
A mighty revolution has taken place in
he business world which affects all
ands whether under free trade or pro-
ection The result Is the formation Of
hose mamoth trade and manufacturing
orporations commonly called trusts.
say these trusts are the result OF
volution In the business and CONNER
ial world 1t IS not to be denied how
YER that all these conditions now are
ar different than when the present
NV was passed and In a proper re-
ision would be given considerations.
gain, the United States has changed
wonderfully with regard to her co,-
lerce because Of her new possessions.