The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-10-01

we undertake the task OF applying
this policy to the commerce of the ma
ton, differences of opinion at once APP
pear There always have been these
differences, and there always will be.
Under the law OF 1897, which bears the
name of pure patriot andgreat states
man, substantially one-half of the inn
ports into the United States are adj
mitted free. Some of thee imports
are things we do not and cannot pro-
duce. Others are in the nature OF
raw material, the admission of which,
free of duty, is intended to enable the
resulting commodities TO be profitably
produced in this country In its lit
eral sense, no such thing as raw ma
terial ever came into port of the
United States. nor was pure raw ma
terial ever offered for sale in any mar
ket, for the manifest reason that be-
fore anything can become of any value,
either labor or capital must have been
employed in its creation. In com
mercial sense, however raw material
represents a minimum of labor. 1t
follows that whenever any particular
article is proposed as raw material,
men differ respecting II and respecting
the propriety of admitting 1t free OF
duty. Recurring to something already
said, ! reiterate that when il Is pro-
posed to levy a protective duty upon
anything that may be imported, the
question at once arises What DUTY
shall be laid upon it? Abstractly. all
protectionists agree upon the critic
rion. 1t should be such duty as viii.
enable the home producers Of the arti-
Gle to make and sell it in the domestic
y,f, ,,f a fof- TJe,sA a
men of the most mature intelligence
and Of the sincerest convictions dl
vide. and the differences must be cons
posed as all other differences are. It
is impossible to write tariff schedules
into platform, and therefore all that
the party can do in it's conventions Is
to declare a general principle TO which
1t pledges itself in the enactment OF
laws. Every sane man must recog-
nize the truth that the cost Of prodnc-
ton is not constant, has not been in
the past, md will not be inthefuture.
Every sane man knows, and every can
did man will admit, that the develop
ments of the last few years have been
so mighty, and conditions have been
so revolutionized that IL is worth our
while to examine and determine In the
light Of existing conditions, whether
the tariff duties of 1897 answer the test
which we agree must be applied TO
protective duties. Recognizing these
things the republican party OF Iowa.
without a dissenting voice, in its con-
vention declared as / have already
read, but which for emphasis ! read
again
Tariff rates enacted to carry this
''polcy into effect should be just, fair.
"and impartial equally opposed to for
"eign control and domestic monopoly,
sectional discrimination and individ-
"ual favoritism, and must from time
ito time be changed to meet the vary
''ing conditions incident to the prog
"ress of our industries and their
changing relations to our foreign and
domestic commerce, Duties that are
"too low should be increased and du-
tiles that are too high should be re-
"duced."
Personally, have no hesitation in
| avowing that there are duties which
should be lowered to bring them to the
point Of protection, and the little that
| can do to influence legislation in that
| direction, will be done, There are
others. undoubtedly. who believe that
! the duties as whole are as fairly adj
| justed as they can be, and | assume
4 that they will act on that belief. II is
| not to be expected that direct modis.
! cation will be made during the next
! session of congress- A work that re-
quires the utmost forbearance the
! most unprejudiced consideration, and
| the most temperate discussion, wilp
not be we'll done in the fierce partisan.
| ship which attends presidential con-
test.
We may differ. we do differ, respect
! ing the details of application. but
/ when the policy itself is threatened, it
becomes every man who approves 1t.
whether he be republican or demo-
crat, whether he is for revision or
against revision. to lift his voice in its.
defense and cast his vote for its
safety.
Workingmen and Farmers.
must refer with more particularly
! to two phases ofthe opening speech OF
the democratic candidate for governor,
upon which he expended intense EN-
ergy. He seems to concede that
all classes of American business
life, save two, are benefited by,
the protective system. These are the
laboring men and the farmers; and he
appeals to them in the most impas-
stoned terms to overthrow system
| which has reduced them to poverty
and slavery. They are the men upon
whom protection has committed its
crimes and who have been the victims
of grand larceny at the hands of all
others for more than an hundred
years. This is so remarkable re-
yival Of an ancient delusion that must
give it more than q passing notice IL
may be assumed that when the cham
pion of free trade speHi's of working
r1en he p,o"ns the wtgeworkprs OF
the United Statos First, II Is one OF
tie acepteI facts in the statistics of
the world that the wageworkers of the
United States receive for their labor
q least fifty per cent more than their
fellows In England. week ago
happened to read in one of the well
known newspapers of Chicago SYM
opsis of the report and examination
made by the government Of Great
Britain, looking TO some changes in its
tariff policy. | quote from it in order
that | may be relieved of any charge
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