Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-28


the farmers"
enormous corn crops annually produced
in the United States the large eXporta-
ton of this cereal and the insignif'icam
of the same. And yet
he remarks, farmers are expected TO
whoop it UP for the republican cand1-
dates because they are protected py the
tariff from foreign corn raisers. Mr..
Hepburn's statement that the bank de-
posits in his home county amounted 20
more than a hundred dollars tor every
man, woman and child in the county.
was touched on. and the speaker sald
sarcastically that "ali Of this he cHep-
burn) attributed to the tariff, utterly
ignoring the sunshine. the rich soil, the
rain, the delightful climate the favor
able geographical location and the la
Dor of democrats and repuohca1ls slihe
in that great county"
Mr.. Hepburn's claim that the price
of steel rails had been reduced In the
United States from $165 ton under
the Walker tariff. to $24 a ton now'
thru an industry buflt UP by a repubh-
can tariff and American ingenuity was
an assertion, said Mr. Clark, which
might satisfy republican members OF
congress but would not deceive any in
teDligent man elsewhere as the cause oi
this reduction in the price OF steel ralis
was the discovery of the Besserner pro-
cess of manufacture. He added: Even
Col. Hepburn. with his disposition 10
claim everything for the protective TAR
iff. will not claim that it was respon-
sible for Sir Henry Bessemer or tor MS
process of making cheap stea.'
The reciprocity speech of Represen-
tative Dalzell, delivered in the mouse
RECENTLY was given considerable at
tention by Mr.. Clark. The keynote
of that speech he declared to De TN 5
sentence: Republican reciprocity is
reciprocity in noncoanpeting arlcies
and in nothing else. This ooctrihe,
he said. differed very widely from NC
Kinley reciprocity, the foundatlon
principle of which was expressed oy
President Mckinley at Buffalo In tness
words: I'VE must not repose in ran
cied security that we can forever se.l
everything and buy little or nothing.
President Roosevelt had indorsed TINS
Mckinley idea Of reciprocity, by sena
ing TO the senate an extension OF tline
for the ratification Of the reciprocity
treaty with France under the directlon
NJ President Mckinley. This treaty
contained scores .and scores OF articles
nroduced in France and Algeria ana
also in the United States on which q
reduction of the tariff was provided
for.
.If republican reciprocity on Feoru- :
ary 30. 1904" said Mr.. Clark, the oay
in which the gentleman from Pennss Z.
vania made his speech was what ne ds-
clared 1t to be. then vast change hau
come ever the republican dream since
those two republican presidents sent
those treaties to the senate"
The "standpat' policy Mr.. Clark at
tributed to General Grosvenor. VINO, ne
said was interviewed shortly after tn :
election in Ohio in November 1901 anu
in exuberance of spirit said regardlnS
the election: 1T means that there is
more prospect of the Dingley tariH
rates being tinkered with than there IS
of amending the Ten Commandments
"The Iowa idea" was the next SUB
ieet to which Mr. Clark turned his at
tention. AS expounded by Gov. Cum
minis. it was, said Mr.. Clark, in sub
stance as follows: ''That wherever tar
iff rates are so high That they have
become shelters for nlonopolies ana
trusts they should be cut down, and
that wherever protected articles manu-
factured in this country are sold at
lower prices abroad than at home, then
the tariff rates should be scaled down. :"