Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-22
STALWART DOCTRINE
SPEECH OF CONGRESSMAN COUSINS
AT IOWA CONVENTION.

Effective Appeal In Behalf of
Straight Out Republication and
| Adherence to the Policies of Blaine,
/ Mckinley, Dingley and Reed.
During the love feast that was held
while waiting for routine work at the re-
cent Iowa Republican state convention
there was a call for Congressman Cous
Inns. and he responded with a brilliant
speech. It was straight out Republic
an speech, the kind that Cousins al
ways breaches, no matter what waves
Of reform and revision" may seek
to blow the Republican ship out of the
course she has followed since the days
of Lincoln, and it met with the tumul-
tuous approval of the convention. Cous-
ms was cheered again and again and
his speech was one of the great features
of the convention. In part he said:
ut was an observation of the late
Mr.. Lowell that the only faith that
wears we'll and holds it's color in all
weathers is that which is woven of
conviction and set with the sharp NOR
| dant OF experience.
."Those of us who have lived in this
great state of Iowa and in the Repub-
lican party all our lives, as have our
fathers and grandfathers during their
latter days, having had opportunity to
witness and compare the operation and
results of various political policies and
experiments that have been prOmul-
gated and tested from time to time,
have reason now to eXult in the high
and fortunate estate to which all our
people have come through the uncom-
promised principles and practical work
ings Of original and genuine Repub-
| licanism.
Asserting a fact that is within the
knowledge and experience of every clt1-
zen Of Iowa and of the whole country,
| it may be said without fear of RESPONSE
BILE dispute that during the last six
years the people of this country, of all
classes and of all vocations, have en-
ioyed the greatest and most uniform
prosperity they have ever known. Not
within the memory or experience Of
any living man has the general welfare
of our people equaled or surpassed the
conditions that have existed since July
"a 1897-the day when the mounted
carrier of the American congress car
ried to the White House the Dingley bill
and returned within thirty minutes
bearing the eager and illustrious sigma
ture of William Mckinley.
''That Dingley bill was the result Of
! long investiga lions, much discussion,
many conferences and of the wisdom
and united efforts of such statesmen as
Senator Allison and Nelson Dingley and
their colleagues It is the law of the
land today and has been for six years,
and is likely to be substantially for
some time to come. Hence the great
and assuring confidence that exists
throughout the country today. It is
what the old settlers and Republicans
call a protective tariff law. 1t is the
wall of American protection upon which
the feet of industry and labor leaped
out of the mire Of idleness and panic
and disaster of 1896, waving the flag
of employment and prosperity and in
dependence in the face of all the world.
1t is not quite so high as the former
Mckinley wall, on the average, and not
so low as Great Britain, France, Ger
many and the free trade contingent of
America would have it; but it stands on
| the rock of reason and experience, with
| the vines of thrift and plenty stream
ing over it in the sunshine of gladness
and in the golden glitter of a full
treasury. The commercial moles of
Europe have tried to burrow under it,
the rodents of reform to gnaw through
it and the Democracy to tumble Mt
down, but it rests secure in the judg-
ment of people who know by sore ex-
perience the difference between buying
abroad and buying at home-sending
their money away and keeping it here
as we'll as they know the difference
between winter and summer.
at is said of William of Orange
| that when he saw the troops of Louis
| XIV. covering Holland he said, Break
| down the bikes and give Holland back
| to the ocean, Not until the commercial
| forces of Europe with their hordes of
(, cheap labor, assisted by the free trade
| contingent III our oWu uluSL Shall
| overrun the fair and prosperous land
of America will such a desperate COM
mand be given for the destiny of the
| United States. A dozen words, sin
40 sentence from the lips Of Abraham
| lincoln, This country with its in
situations belongs to the people who
| inhabit it. is worth more for the guild
ance of America than all the precepts
| from the school Of Manchester and all
the miserable mutterings of modern
political adventures running between
party lines, whose theories when put