The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-23
MONDAY, MAY 2s, 1904.
REVISION BY FRIENDS.

The acton or the Iowa Repu0llcan state Convention in declaring fat-footedly for the protective tariff system settles fin- ally, if there was any real question about it. what the policy of the Republican Party it to be on problems of taxation. The plunderers have decided to stand to- gether or fall together Threatened with a mutiny in New England under the lead of Massachusetts, Senator Lodge made a heroic fight and saved the day there as against the ignoramuses who favored swapping a few more articles with the Canadians. What. the resolute patriot demanded. would you be mean enough. low enough, to give some Canadians some shoes in exchange for some blankets? Would you give them cotton cloth in ex- change for lumber out of which to erect your homes? No, never. The Senator prevailed, not through the force of any argument, of course. but through the an- cient and powerful consideration that moves men engaged in and profiting by a system of governmental plunder; and that is not to cry out against one an- other for fear the whole protection fab rfc may be brought down about their heads.
 This reasoning was eficacious in Iowa. though in that State the appeal had to be made in behalf of brethren in other sections. No State in the Union is more purely agricultural in its interests than Iowa. The farmer there, as elsewhere, has the price of his products fixed abroad and the proceeds he must use in buying articles at home, the price of which is arbitrarily fixed by the protective tariff It is pure and unadulterated truth to say the farmer is robbed by the tariff. In Iowa they have been restless for years under a plan by which they are required to go down in their pockets for money to maintain other fellows in business when by confession the business will not pay. Notwithstanding this discontent and ieud murmurings. Roosevelt's man Shaw has persuaded his Iowa neighbors they must keep quiet, nay, must devour for ner declarations of policy. and proclaim as a golden truth that old lie about the supreme importance of holding on to the home market as if forsooth the farmers home market could be taken from him by any power under Heaven. The up- shot of 1t all is that the Republicans will once again appeal to the country to stand pat by protection and commission that party to give any needed revision. In the meantime while they are going forth under the curious leadership of a man who is member of the Golden Club of England. it is we'll enough to recall the sage words of Mckinley uttered at Buff falo. while death hovered above him, words that will appear many millions Df times during the coming campaign:
 What we produce beyond our domestic consumption must find vent abroad. The excess must be relieved through a foreign outlet, and we should sell every where we can and buy wherever the buy lng will enlarge our sales and produc- Hons. and thereby make greater demand Tor home labor. The period of exclusive ness is past. The expansion of our trade and commerce Is the pressing problem Commercial wars are unprofitable A policy of goodwill and friendly trade re- lations will prevent reprsals. Reciproc- lty treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times measures of retlia- aon are not If perchance some of our sariffs are no longer needed for revenue pr to encourage and protect our industries At home, why should they not be em- % ployed to expand and promote our mar Sets abroad?