The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-04-14
COL. HEPBURN ISLANDS PAT"

Speech before the Page County Re
publican Convention: In 1860 there
was sixteen billions of wealth in the
United States. We created, as said,
nearly twenty billions in the year
1902. These are facts; these stanG
out and mark comparison, and that
is why want to keep this system OF
ours. That is the reason why your
resolutions are so earnest, so emphat-
ic, so free from all possibilities of &C.
ing astray-they gave pleasure to my
heart. want to "stand pat" on that.
This term "stand pat" with some gen.
tlemen is a matter of derision. They
point to ''standpatters" with ridicule,
and one distinguished man in Janu-
ary last, addressing an Iowa assem-
bly,, said with scorn on his lips: "On-
ly dead men stand pat" l thought
then he but little understood what we
meant by the term stand pat" I'll
has been the republican theory toI
hold on to what we know is good and
adhere to the principle, changing III
need be its application from time to
time, to meet new conditions and thus
change our schedule rates. No re-
publican of sense-and there are very
few without sense-regards the tarifl
schedule as being sacred. We have
changed them over and over again.
Four times since | have been your
representative there has been an en-
tire and complete revision of the tar
iff, but always when the republicans
principle of prCtection-"stood pat
Why,if that gentleman had been what
he ought to have been, he would have
known that even the dead, so-called,
do not stand stiu. After that comes
on the work of the liberated soul,
soaring throughout all possibilities of
the great hereafter, 1t is the body,
the carcass in the man that dies and
that is fixed fast, immovable in the
grave, but even that, according to
the wise economy of nature under
goes a change, and does not stand
pat" Oh, I say it is much better for
us to adopt the idea CT st. Paul. By
the way, st. Paul was a good deal OF
politician and certainly a wise man
in my mind. Every year as I grow
older and know more and more of
what that man said, the man pro-
found for mis- knowledge and wisdom.
l have more regard for him. His adj
vice was 'tO prove all things and to
hold fast that which is good" ST.
Paul was the original 'standpatter'
to hold and keep that which is good
We have proved this matter of the
tariff. we have experimental to cur
sorrow and now the republican means
to hold fast that which is good, chang
ing it if it can be changed within the
limits Of principle-that is national
ism, that is what we want; that is all
we are clamoring for; we want sim
ply to keep that which has been tried
to keep that which is known to work
well with us, that brings nothing but
blessings to us; that gives to us great
er grandeur in the eyesight of all the
world. That has made us the great
est wealth producing nation on the
earth and while we have done that,
we have not lost sight of small
things. We care for our churches.
we care for our schools and for our
colleges; we look after our youth, we
give them growth, we encourage them
to go forward; we look to all interests
while we work to this material pros
perity, to the growth of wealth, to
the expanding nation, leading us on
in the history of a great nation. We
also look to these things many times.
thank God that it was a republican