Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-18


country it's trade, it's manufacturing
interests, the economic welfare of its
great working mass OF people, wheth-
or that work is done as laborer, as
a mechanic in all the trades, as a
farmer, as n railroad man, or a bust
ness man, who is buying from one to
sell to another.
"A tariff itself in its makeup is a
matter of detail and requires vast
knowledge. The details of tariff,
the figures that govern the duties, the
per cent. demand minute and scien-
tific treatment and this knowledge
and this science can only be applied
by experts, but for these figures, rates
and per cents, we always have and all
ways will hold congress responsible.
But with the principle of a tariff
we have something to do.
There are three things says Ba-
con, which make a nation great and
prosperous: a FERTILE soil, busy work
shops and easy conveyance of man
and goods from place to place The
fertile soil we have: the easy convey
ance OF man and goods from place to
the country from side to side and
from end to end. and our steamers ply
upon aid our navigable waters, making
Bacons first and third requirements
a living reality. But Bacon's second
requirement is busy workshops Busy
workshops we did not have In Cleve-
lands second term under the Wilson
bill. The grass grew green on the
paths that had been trodden by thou
sands of busy and glittering feet, GO
ing to and coming from the mill and
from the factory. The agile spider
spun his web in thousands of our great
factories undisturbed and the obscene
bat and the unclean owl whiTed and
hooted in the emptiness where a few
years before millions of people had
earned their bread.
"A wise man has told us that man
has assembled from the ape. This may
be true, but If the American people
ever go back to free trade or to the
shadow OF free trade, then 1t will I'M
doubtedly be true that the majority of
us when we started on our upward
journey from our ancestral and simian
home brought round trip tickets.
For nearly seven years. we have
lived and thrived under the Dingley
tariff. Money has been plenty. rates
of interest have been low. work has
sought the man and not the man the
work. In our manufacturing towps
there has been peace and plenty and
prosperity. The children have had
food, the women have had clothes,
the spindles have been moving, the
web has been weaving. the dron has
been heating, and the hammer and the
saw and adze and the plane have
been at work all over the land. The
wheels have everywhere been turn
ing, the whirr of great machinery has
been the sweetest music; the furnaces
have been roaring with the rythm OF
the flames and the chimneys have
sent forth to the blue and bending
heavens that sweetest incense. for 1t
was the signal and the symbol OF
work for the men, food for the children
and rest and peace and plenty and
happy homes for the wives and moth
ers and for US all.
What has the tariff done for us?
"Said Sir Robert Walpole, that
great and peace loving prime mil-
lister of England, TO Queen Caroline:
Madam, there are fifty thousand men
slain in Europe this year, and not an
Englishman among then The de-
tenders of the Dingley tariff can say
to the world that during the last seven
years there have been poverty and
privation and suffering in the world,
but In the United States there has
been work and good wages and food
and drink and clothes and shelter from
the heat Of summer and the cold of
winter for every man in the United
States who wanted to work and wages
and food and drink and clothes and q
roof over his head-no man has suf-
fcred who wanted to work, and the
tariff If 1t could speak could make as
proud boast as that of Walpole. Our
trade has been great and profitable.
Our workers have had wages before
which the pittance of Europe is but
doled-out and shabby charity. Our
farmers have been the true captains
of industry. living in peace and in
plenty. The democratic party says
that the republicans do not make
good crops. For once we admit they
tell the truth. but they forget the fact
that while God makes the crops the
Dingley tariff makes the market and
every farmer in this broad land who
sits on his porch and looks out over
the valleys and hills of his farm
over his orchards and his woodland,
over his cattle and his horses and his
sheep and hogs, over his swelling
acres. over his green and grassy
meadows, over his fields of golden
oats and waving wheat and tasseled
corn, should call his wife and children
around him and bless the great God
of us all that he lives in this age when
the law of the land gives him the
splendid benefit OF wise and en-
lightened tariff law.
II believe fully. heartily earnestly
in the doctrine and principle of pro-
lection. / do not believe in parting
with one atom of our tariff flag.
believe in Bentham's greatest good to