Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-01-21
Gov. CUMM|hs
IS EMPHATIC
He Relterates His Old Tariff
Views and Even Goes
Further.
THREW DOWN THE GAUNTLET
His inaugural Address Is Generally
Received Much as a Challenge
No Such Thing as "Stand Pat I" In
the Order Of the Living World.

Des Moines, Jan. 15.--The secon1
inauguration OF Gov. A. B. Cummins
md Lieut.. Gov. John Herriott occur
red yesterday. The oath Of office was
given the reelected state officials by
Chief Justice Deemer in Fosters
opera house. The joint convention OF
he general assembly was present, the
members coming from the capitol In
carriages. The parade was betting.
A platoon of police led the way with
music by the Iowa State Military band.
Then followed two companies OF U. 3.
infantry and two companies of tbs
Iowa National Guard, with the First
Signal Corps. Then the carriages.
Gov A. Il. Cummins was acoompan-
led by Chief Justice Horace K.
Dsemer, Adjutant General NJ. II. Byers
and Rev. DR.. A. l.. Frisbie.
Lieut.. Gov John Herriott was accom-.
panied by Speaker @. w. Clarke, Chief
Clerk c. r. Benedict and Secretary
George A. Newman.
Members of the general assembly.
members Of the governors STAFF, ex
governors and present state officers
and members of the press were in car
riages.
At the opera house the lieutenant
governor called the Joint convention
to order and after invocation by DIR
Frisbie, music and administering the
oath of office Gov. Cummins deliver.
ed the inaugural address.
Gov. Cummins paid eloquent tribute
to Iowa's agricultural industries, re-
peated his declarations In favor Of
progress in national affairs, declared
for a stricter observance of law and
for education in the moral rather than
intellectual sense. He spoke for ad
vancement in all national affairs. -
have never been a disciple of the doc
trine, let well enough alone," he do
clared. "Abstractly viewed the maxim
is beyond criticism, but Its fatal weak
ness lies in the fact that there never
was and never will be day in which
it was or will be well enough with
any community, with any state, viii
any nation. When any society ceases
to grow better, II has begun to grow
worse. l belong to class humble bu
numerous, earnest and faithful, wht
believe that what we have today II
good, but what will we have tomorrow
is to be better; and we propose az
honest, persistent effort for the real
.zation of our hopes" Based ON this
introduction the governor expanded
his we'll known views In favor of rec
iprCI3ity.
He declared II to be purely bust.
ness question which ought to meet
II - NnrNxy ANlH n ~
without a breath OF party spirit. He
declared 1t to be merely an extension
Of the policy Of protection and con
sistent with the ends always sought
to be accomplished. The opinion Of
reciprocity which has been held BY
and advocated by every statesman
who really wanted to accomplish
something in that direction Is that u
we can make an international bargain
that will, upon the whole, increase the
volTRe Of our production and there
fore put more men at work without
our standard of compensation, We
ought to do it, even though some par
6cular manufacturer might suffer In
the transaction.
lowe has been faithful to the pol
icy Of protection" he continued, land
she Is still as true as the needle to
the pole. The benefits she has de
rived have been very great bur large
ly incidental. The time has come for
her to raise high into the political
heavens the twin fag-reciproeity.
Let us, for q season, take the direct
advantages and allow the incidental
blessings to fall upon others. Let us
have the reciprocity demanded by tn
republican platform Of 1903"
Other declarations made by the
governor are as follows:
There Is no such thing as rest In
the economy Of the universe, and nc
such as Stand pat In the order Of the
living world. The dead may heed the
Injunction, no others can"
1T has been possible to make. and
in my judgment 1t Is still possible to
make q treaty with Canada. which
would, for years to come, make us
practically masters of the imports into
that dominion. In the last ten years
American manufacturers have ex.
pended one hundred million dollars In
the establishment of plants in Canada,
which would have been kept at home
with all the labor which that implies.
II there had been fair and perma
nent relation existing between the two
countries" .a .....
"we can maize treaties with Contra
and South America, with France, Ger
many. Spain and Italy, that win i'm
mensely Increase our exports Of man
ufactures to those countries, SO thai
for every man deprived Of employment
here we can put to work ten. for
ought to have chance to feed these
added nine men, and why Is II MOI
given you2 Simply because OF the
inertia which seems to prohibit the
profane foot from planting itself with
in the sacred precincts OF the tarie
schedules"
Gov. Cummins pleaded for obedience
to law, not only by every person but
by every corporation or association
great or small, mot part OF the law
and rart of the time, but all Of the
law all the time, not merely that mea-
ger portion for the violation of which
a renalty Is prescribed. but every man
date of organized society from. these
OF congress 10 those of township trus
tees"
He applied this to violations Of Law
| In the sale of worthless stocks by pro
moters and the Vaccination of cor
rorations and declared that the unlaw
tulness OF those in high position be
gets criminaiity In the rabble. Re
ferring to the promoters and mana
| gers he declared they are the men
however, who, when labor unions at
tempt, wrongfully. II you please, h
strike down the vital force Of compe
tItion through strikes. boycotts and