The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-04-14
CHAMP CLARK BEATEN
Great Missouri Democrat Confused
4 by Major Lacey.

the house to make q point Tor has par
ty and its principles, almost com
pletely discounted Champ Clark, the
Missouri orator, when he was in the
midst Of his tariff speech. delivered
last week. This speech was long
and very carefully prepared one in
which Mr.. Clark declared that the
democratic party would go into the
campaign this year with"reducsd tar
ifr schedules and genuine reciprocity"
as their campaign slogan and party
cry He brought Iowa into the
speech many times and made numer-
ous references to Governor Cummins
and made the rather astonishing as
saftion that he, the governor. even
though standing for these good demo-
cratic doctrines OF "tariff reduction
and genuine reciprocity" would go to
the Chicago convention this summer
ats.the head OF his state republican
delegation.
Major Lacey watched his opportuna
ity and just when Mr.. Clark had con-
cluded an attack on the Dingley tar
itf law arose and put to him this ques-
tiqn:
.s'The gentleman has announced his
objection to the Dingley tariff law.
Weuld he repeal that act. and IL he
wadld, does he wish to return to the
democratic Wilson bill?"
Mr.. Clai was for a moment at al
loss for an nswer but quickly recov-
erred himself and returned the follow
ing weak reply:
You can not inveigle me into any
discussion about the Wilson bin now.
1 have not time for that at present.
! will tell you in a few minutes what
our position is ont he tariff question;
viii come to that"
Mr. Clark then continued and when
he had concluded Major Lacey arose
and made the following little speech
which was received with loud and pro-
IoHged applause from the republican
eisaa Of the house:
glsh te take advat$age Of this
5es51sfSs s51sfSs sssassA ID to go back
sSNzN I'D Wien my friend from
Vention at has making his very brill
anne day. sable speech on the tariff
little while ago, asked him how he
stood upon the Wilson Act; if ne
would repeal the present tariff and
n Yive The last democratic measure.
! want to read an extract from a
speech made by another great Mis-
sourian on the Both day of January,
1894, upon the Wilson bill. All will
remember that as period when this
eeuntry was enduring, the hardest
times that we hfe ever known and
those hard timaA continued down to
the campaign ~ 1896 and yielded on
ly,sto the aDfngley law The Wilson
btll was being considered in the
house, and over its head was demo-
sogatic halo of hope. Here is what an
10 ment Eissourian said on that oc.
easion. read from the Record of
the second session of the Fifty-third
congress, page 405:
The passage of the boil Twill
son bill) will mark the dawn of a
brighter day, with more of sun
shine, more of the songs of birds,
more Of that sweetest music, the
laughter of children, well-fed, we'll
clothed, well-housed.
"'Can we doubt that in the
brighter, happier days to come
good, eyenihanded, fnolesome de-
nocracy shall be triumphant? God
hasten the era OF equality in taxa
tion and in opportunity. And God
prosper the Wilson bill, the first
leaf in the glorious book of reform
in taxation, the promise of bright
ening future for those whose genius
and labor create the wealth Of the
land. and whose courage and patriot
ism are the only sure bulwarks and
defense Of the republic. Cap
plause.)
AS we scan it (the bill) we see
the light breaking, and what bow
OF promise we behold reflected ON
its pages. 1t is but the beginning,
first step on rough ground; but it
starts us in the right direction and
by the right road. Soon we shall
travel fast and journey far
~Such was the brilliant peroratior
Of Hon. David DeArmond, OF Nilsson
RI, when the Wilson bin was passed
in 1894. We know how wellfed, well
clothed and well-housed the peopl,
were under that law. We know fiov
il stimulated the laughter OF chill
dren,' We know what the people dit
to that glorious book OF reform,
when they got chance in 1896. TIL,
voters thought the democracy shat
travelled fast and journeyed far
enough. We know and rejoice tina
the Dingley bill took its place In 1897
And now my friend from Missouri
calls attention to the fact that th
railroad companies can pay bette
wages and pay a higher price TO
steel rails and still make money a
the old rates, because, he admits, tnl
business Of the country has been 1,
Immensely developed under the DING
lev law"