Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-05-26

dAWHyb VIII uuhu COuBTebs FeSpOusiDle.
"But with the principle Of q tarir we
have something to do.
There are three things says Bacon.
which makes nation great and prosper,
easy conveyance of man and goods from
place to place The fertile soil we have
the easy conveyance Of man and goods
from place to place we have for our rail-
roads girdle the country from side to side
and from end to end, and our steamers
ply upon all our navigable. waters, max
living realty. But Bacon's second re-
workshops we did not have in Cieve.
lands second term unuer the Wilson bill.
had been trodden by thousands of busy
and glittering feet, going to and coming
agile spider spun his web In thousands OF
our great factories undisturbed and this
obscene bat and the unclean owl whirred
and hooted in the emptiness where few
ed their bread. GA
"A wise man has told us that man has
assembled from the ape. This may be true,
but II the American people ever go bach
trade, then II will undoubtedly be true
that the majority of as when we started
on our upward journey from our ances
trail and simian home bought round triI
tickets.
For nearly seven years We have lived
and thrived under the DINGHY tariff
Money has been plenty, rates of interest
have been low, work has sought the man
and not man the work. In our manufac'
turing towns there has been peace and
plenty and prosperity The children have
the spindles have been moving, the wei
has been weaving, the iron has been heat
Ing, and the hammer and the saw and the
adze and the plane have been at work al,
over the land. The wheels have every
where been turning, the whirr OF great
machinery has been the sweetest OF mus
ic; the furnaces have been roaring With
the rhythm Of the flames and chin.
neys have sent forth to the blue and bend
ing heavens that sweetest incense, for II
was the signal and the symbol of work
for the men. food for the children ano
rest and peace and psenty ana happy
homes for the wives and mothers and FOL
us all.
What has the tariff done for us?
said Sir Robert Walpoe, that great
and peace loving prime minister of Eng
land, to Queen Caroline: Madam, there
are $4,000 men slain in Europe this year
and not an Englishman among them
The defenders Of the Dingley tariff can say
to the world that during the last seven
years there have been poverty and priva
ton and suffering in the world, but In the
United MATES there has been work and
good wages and food and drink and
clothes and shelter from the heat Of sum
mer and the cold of winter Ior every
man in the United states who wanted
work and wages and food and drink and
clothes and roof over his head no mar
has suffered who wanted to work. ano
the tariff If it could speak could make az
trade has been great and profitable. Gu:
workers have had wages before which
the pittance of Europe is but doled-ou
and shabby charity. Our farmers hav'
been the true Captains Of Industry, liv
ing in peace and in plenty. The demo
cratic party says that the republicans Dc
NIT they tell the truth, but they forge,
the fact that while God makes the crops
the Dingley tariff makes the market, sno
every farmer in this broad land who sits
on his porch and looks out over the val
leyS and the hills of his farm-over his
nards and his woodland, over his cat
tie and his horses and his sheep and his
hogs, over his swelling acres. over his
Of golden oats and waving wheat and
tassled corn, should call his wife anG
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 enlightened
tariff law.
Il believe fully, heartily, earnestly In
the doctrine and prcipLe of protection
l do not believe in parting with one atom
of our tariff flag. l believe In Bentham'
greatest good to the greatest number ano
United States with its institutions, its
privileges and it's markets, belong to the
people who inhabit 1t.
L believe in giving labor all 1t earns
and to capital all it honestly earns.
Booth Harrington somewhere says that
he who looks upon politics when 1t ID
red. must steel hiss yesc to see many a
man with the heart ache but we walk
by faith and when we lind that we are
in the wrong, that we have been beguiled
by Delilah and that we are being led
doctrine of free traders, let US hasten
back to the old Republican Ark of Safety
Let us protect our labor against the Labor
of the werld and our producers agains,
Ia Of n I.Af M
tinker with a tariff which has worked SO
splendidly and has brought about such
self evident results Let US make nj
league with death; NO covenant with
hell
Let US adhere to the cardinal prin
ciples of protection and II we are Il
have an Iowa idea in the future. lei
us try to make it like the note Of an
Iowa National bank-good from Maine
to Texas and from Oregon to Florida.
III Canada wants reciprocity let 1t
to the blue field of the flag, for recipro
city in competitive products is free trade
and 1t 10 nothing less.
Judge Logan gentleman ndsa of, Of high hl!
standing In the city where WHERE, live wa.
ago when the Wilson bill was pending In
congress and became acquainted with 1
Canadian engaged in trade who was buy
| ing and storing large quantities of eggs
The Canada told Judge Logan that b.
was only waiting for the Wilson bill Il
| pass when he would ship his eggs over thu
! the Wilson bill that the judge asked him
| what If the bill should pass, would b,
| the effect on the American hen. His re
| ply was quick an hard, Damn the Amerf
can chicken-I'm looking out for the Ca
madam hen.
The Dingley tariff law has made Hood
| Song Of the Shirt an impossibility in tn
Impossible s in the United states unles
| men deliberately choose to be cheap
| When products are cheap and labor Ii
cheap then flesh ana n DloG 90 is snsap r, an,
and that worse thing is cheap prices.
| Let us make NO platform on the tarii
question beyond announcing our alleg
lance to the principle of tariff for pre-
lection. Let US raise no ghosts frem pas
conventions and platforms Of the party
but let us quietly and decently ask tina
dead past shall bury its dead. Let u
| leave the tarir plank to the wise men 0
| the republican party when 1t meets in ma
| tional convention where all needs will b
| and then platform will be made upol
which we all can stand and over whic
We can all rejoice.
The republican man today is well. H
Is exceedingly and exasperatingly well
why then the need to give him pills?
IF this great and splendid fabric 0
prosperity which has been built with s
much labor and care and which ha
family In the land, Is to be purged an
cut, let republicans stay their hands an
let democratic doctors write the prescriI
tion and apply the knife. ar
IF this great system under which an
through which we have prospered. as n
nation in the world ever prospered bt
fore, is to be crushed; If reciprocity is
be used in sense that Blaine neve
meant and Mckinley never dreamed of
IL the tarir which as a whole has stoo
firm and solid against all and ever
frontal attack is now to be torn down 1
detail; IL the foundation Is to be sappe
by removing a stone here and ston