Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-19
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The American Economist has OBJ
served with surprise and regret" Ger
tain observations by this newspaper
relating to the American Economist and
The Sheltered Trust of which ii is
the organ.
The American Economist is class
publication. 1t is the representative
Of monopoly--or. to be more accurate,
of combination greedy for monopoly.
The trust is the marrow of its bones
and the blood of its veins. 1t follows
the crook of a finger and bends the
hinges of its limbs without the sugges-
ton of an Interrogation point.
The master of the American Econon-
list has high sounding name-the
American Protective Tariff league.
With the avowed objects of the league
as declared In its constitution, the
journal has no quarrel. To protect
American labor by tariff on imports
which shall adequately secure Ameri-
can industrial products against the
competition of foreign labor which
is the second article of the leagues
represents republican doc
trine. The journal stands for that.
The republicans of Iowa stand for that.
The American Economist plays the
demaga que when it flies for protec-
ton from its coarse work to this arr
ticle-work for which the combination
it represents is responsible.
The doctrine has been reiterated In
republican platforms. At Minneapolis
in 1882 when a tariff war Was on.
the republicans declared that ION all
imports coming into competition with
The products of American labor there
should be levied duties equal to the
difference between wages abroad and at
home" In 1896 at St. Louis during the
second administration of Grover Cleve-
land, the republicans said of this poll
icy that in it's reasonable application
1t is just, fair and impartial. equally
to foreign control, and domes-
tic monopoly, to sectional discrimina-
ton and individual favoritisin.' The
republicans of Iowa stand upon these
declarations. as the American Econo-
mist has sufficient intelligence to know.
But for year it has employed the
language of vituperation in misrepre
senting the attitude of Iowa republi-
cans. 1t does not now employ its
I'm outstanding in stating the position of
The Journal.
1--WE stand by the historic policy OF
the republican party in giving pcotec-
ton to home industries" is the lam
guage employed by the republicans OF
this state in two successive platforms,
and point for its ample vindication
to the extraordinary rapidity with
which our national resources have been
developed and our industrial and imam
cial independence secured" The re-
pubicans of Iowa, however, have also
declared in favor of such changes in
the tariff from time to time as be-
come advisable through the progress
of our industries and their changing re-
latons to the commerce of the world"
1t is this presumption on the part of
the republicans of this state that has
kept open the walls of wrath in the
office in New York of the American
The American Economist has de-
parted from the historic policy of pro-
lection and in it's own passionate out
breaks represents changing relations
to which the tariff laws of the country
should not be made subservient. The
American Economist is not now salts
fled With duties equal to the difference
between wages abroad and at home"
1t has passed beyond the point of de-
ending labor; its concern now is for
the protection of favoritism and for the
promotion of exclusiveness.
Touching the revenue policies Of the
of the United States the
American Economist assumes to be
OF all wisdom and the GUS
todian of all loyal aspirations. 1t has
not exercised patience with the repub-
licans of Iowa and contented itself with
u discussion of principles and policies
1t has represented itself from week to
week with shillalah, and 1t has not
been at all particular as to whose head
it lunged at, if the same presented is
self over point of difference. 1t has
showered its epithets upon representa-
tive men of this state, entitled, certain
ly. under our free Institutions to the
expression of their opinions. 1t has
not been content with that. 1t has
lannbasted without mercy and poor dis
erection the declared republican sent-
ment of this state, which 1t has put
down to hybridism and weakness.
The journal has sought to make 1t
plain to the American Economist that
it is in the open for the defense of
Iowa. There is no state more loyal to
the republican party. There is no state
that has served the party with greater
constancy or with better intelligence
in foul weather as we'll as fair since
the party sprang a giant from the loins
of the American people. The Journal
very much mistakes if 1t is to be the
interest Of national republicanism. OF