Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-14

the party, we are all loyal republicans
and we all know a government admin
istered by the republican party is bet
ter than any government that could
possibly be administered by any other
political organization known to the
American people. With these prelim-
mary suggestions, let me recur again to
the tariff.
I'VE are all profound believers in the
policy of protection. Notwithstanding
the statement of an eminent republican
recently made, / venture to say, tha,
protection is not only practically sound
but theoretically sound. 1t is not only
vindicated by the experience of our peo-
pie, but can be defended by the highest
and most exact processes of abstract
reason. This policy has written the
brightest and most glowing pages in the
history of the republic. 1t has contri-
buted more to the honor and renown oi
the American Nation than any other
policy known to our institutions. Goo
made US foremost in natural resources;
protection has made us foremost in
actual resources. 1t has enabled us tc
pay American wages. award capital
with an American profit, and still oc-
cupy our own markets. The man who
says the followers of the Iowa platform
have abatted one jot or title of their
belief in the policy of protection is the
only enemy that protection has in the
ranks OF the republican party. The
schedules which now carry this policy
into effect We're adopted in 1897. have
no criticism for them. They We're
adopted when the country was in the
depths of commercial distress. created
andsperpetuated by the weakness and
fal& &fcies of a democratic administration
am democratic doctrines. l doubt not
that some of these schedules were pre-
pkred under the expectation, declared
In the act itself. that they would be
lowered thru the operation of recipro-
cal treaties. l believe that these sche-
dulles We're the potent factors IN the
commercial and industrial rescue OF
the Mckinley administration and the
prosperity which has ensued is the re-
suit of the confidence which the people
have always felt in government thru
the agency of the republican party
Six years have passed-the most Won
derful, not only in the United States
but thruout the whole world They
have seen an awakening and a read
justment among the nations of the
earth, industrially and commercially
without parallel in recorded time. In
our own country changes in the meth
DDS and process of industry have oc-
Cured which could only be described
in volumes devoted to that purpose
and of which the intelligent people OF
this country are instinctively conscious
Under these circumstances. the ques-
ton propounded by the Iowa platform
is whether the time has come to make
corresponding changes in our import
duties. If / understand the real pur-
port of what we said last year, it Is
that the republicans of Iowa and
in this respect they are joined by the
republicans in nearly every state in the
union. believe that the time has come
In which the subject should be again
examined, Not necessarily in the way
of a general revision. of all the sche-
dulles. but that some of them, and no-
tably the iron and steel schedules.
should be taken up for the purpose OF
determining whether the duties were
so high that they We're being used, not
for the purpose OF protection alone
but for the purpose of unduly en-
hancing the prices of the various COM
modities manufactured from iron ore
There are some other things which
have also attracted public attention
but which / cannot at this time mem
ton. / for one, and I believe that In
this respect | speak the sentiment OF
the great majority of the republicans
of this state, believe that some of these
duties are too high, and that they are
capable of being used for an unlawful
object. All that we insist upon is thai
protection shall not be made the instru-
ment of unlawful gain: that 1t shall
not be taken from it's high place and
lowered to the selfish plane of illegiti-
mate profit We understand perfectly
that when the subject is taken up by
congress there will arise differences OF
opinion; but we assume that these diff
femnces will he composed thru patriotic
effort precisely as they have been ad-
justed In the past. There are gooo
men-good republicans, too-who be-
lieve that some things which are now
on the dutiable list should be upon the
free list When the Dingley law was
adopted, articles which comprise more
than one half in value of all the articles
imported into the United States Were
placed upon the free list There Were
differences then upon the subject
among the republicans, and there viii
be differences still, but it may be that
the changes of the last six or sever
years. the combinations which have in
some instances substantially monopol-
lied raw material, will indicate that
under the principle of protection as IL
has always been understood, some
things that were then made dutiable
should now be made free, not for the
purpose of taking away work that Is
now done within the limits of the re-
public, but for the purpose of adding
to the labor which may be here
expended. The conclusion is that the
platform of 1902, so far as direc,
changes in tariff are concerned, does
this and nothing more it declares 10 the
Republicans thruout the United States
that the republicans of Iowa believe
that there are some of the schedules
that should be changed to meet the
new conditions and that congress
should undertake the investigation OF