Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1903-09-29
ANSWERS ]. B. So l5VANs SPEECHES
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR RE- spIoN TALKS TO mAeNlF,-
CENT AUDIENCE DIES MONIES TARIFF, TRUSTS AND
sps REcIPRocITY-THE FARMER AND LABoRlNe-
MANS VIEWPOINT.

duce, and they are so laid to stimu-
late and foster their production in our
own country. They are so laid with
the express design of preventing the
free and unlimited competition of
the producers of the world in our
markets. They are so laid, believing
that the competition among our own
producers will hold our production to
IA fair American price and that we
can better afford to pay the fair Amer
lcan price than we can afford to have
our markets monopolized by foreign
productions The end sought by the
protective system of duties is to sup
ply, so far as possible, every need
OF our own people with their own
work.
A Wise Policy.
Upon the other hand tariff for
revenue is system of duties SO ad-
justed as to occasion the least pos
sible interference with free commerce
and restrict as little as possible the
free competition of the world in our
| markets. 1t is system which pri-
marily, lays its duties upon those
things which we do not and can not
produce, and if such duties be insult
ficient, secondarily, upon those things
which we do not and cannot produce
in the quantities we need. This is a
! tariff for revenue only, and this is free
trade In the presence of an audience
so intelligent and SO familiar with the
writings Of political economists, feel
that it would be an imposition to sus-
tain my definition for tariff for rev.
enue and its identity with free trade
| by reference to the acknowledged au-
thorities upon such subjects. If, how
ever this identity is doubted by any in
quiring democrat. I am quite ready to
show him the avenues leading to fur
ther information. | am inclined to
think however. that when my demo-
cratic friends ponder upon the utter
ances of my distinguished opponent
they will not doubt what l say. In a
speech delivered by Mr.. Sullivan in
Chicago shortly after his nomination
he said
THE protective policy of the repub-
licanp arty is doomed. Yet it will
mean before it's last vestige is stricken
from the statute books of the United
\ States that the great army of thinking
men, the great body of the common
I people, the great body of the laboring
i men, must stand as one against COM
/ bination, Capitalization and the trust
i power of the present day."
/ Again he said:
"The protective policy is selfish,
and il this law is to remain upon our
i statute books you should be selfish and
vote for those men and the policy that
4 will aid you.'
il If these criticisms do not mean abso.
lutte hostility to the protective policy
/ it would be difficult to assign them any
meaning whatsoever, and if the dem
:, ocrats as represented by their leader
: are opposed to duties levied for protec-
, ton, and if their platform expresses
accurately their views it follows in.
; evitably that they favor duties levied
: upon the free trade plan.
Issues Well Defined.
have endeavored to make the issue
presented by these platforms sharp
because want every voter in the state
: of Iowa to know precisely what the
) democratic party proposes. / do not
} intend to allow my distinguished
Z friend, their candidate for governor, to
Z escape the responsibility for the posi-
l tion his party has chosen. 1t is already
apparent as | shall presently estab
lish, that he is energetically endeav-
oring to obscure the real issue fol
which he stands. 1t is altogether vain
; for him to test the capacity of his vo
cal chords in attempting to show that
J there are certain duties that are toe
high, and that there are certain so
: called raw materials which ought moi
to bear any duty at all. The inquiry is
and he must face it: Shall our import
: duties, whatever they are, be laid un
der the policy of protection or shall
: they be laid under the policy of free
trade? AS republican he might be
heard to say that the duty on stee
rails is too high. AS democrat he
must say that there shall be no duty
at all. | am perfectly willing to SET
every man III Iowa who in heart be-
lieves in free trade, vote the demo,
cratic ticket; but / am unwilling tt
Fsee any man who in his heart believe.
in the policy of protection, vote tn,
democratic ticket because he believes
that some duties are too high. Ever.
such man belongs in the republican
party, and he ought to take his plac,
, there bravely and conscientiously, ant
= lend his influence to see that tariff dr
2 ties are maintained at their prope
: point, neither too high nor too low
4 Let us do away with all cant. strip th
5 situation of all prejudice, and meet TIL
, lquestion as honest. patriotic men ough
3 to meet all the grave concerns of life
: If you are a protectionist; that is,
> you believe that fair and reasonabl
3 duties should be levied to protect thos
8 home industries which need protection
E you are a republican and you will b,
a false 10 your highest duty if you do no