The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-28
DEMOCRATS TAKE
UP RECIPROCITY
Representative Champ Clark Of
Missouri Announces Party's
e. s. Policy. ~
Tariff Revision and Trade Agree
ments Adopted as Campaign
- Issues.
Change in Attitude of Republi'
leans Discussed and Down.
fall Predicted.

Washington, March 2s.-Represen-
tative Champ Clark Of Missouri to-day
added comprehensive chapter to the
campaign material of the democratic
party for the coming presidential cleo
ton in the delivery Of carefully pre-
pared speech on the tariff question In
the house. Mr.. Clark said in opening:
eve go forth to battle with tariff
reduction and genuine reciprocity in
scribed upon our banner Mr.. Clark
quoted Colonel Hepburn's statement In
a recent speech:
II live in county Of $4,000 people,
q farming community. There Is not
protected industry in that county,"
and commented on it as follows:
BY that one declaration, unwittingy
murmured, no doubt the gentleman from
Iowa answers completely all the repub-
lican speeches, editorials and essays as to
how high the tariff helps the farmers.
Mr.. Clark gave statistics showing
the enormous corn crops annually pro-
duced in the United States, the large
expectation Of this cereal and the in
significant importation Of the same.
"And yet" he remarked, farmers are
expected to whoop 1t up for the re-
publican candidates because they are
protected by the tariff from foreign
corn raisers."
Sarcasm for Hepburn.
Mr.. Hepburn's statement that the
bank deposits in his home county
amounted to more than hundred
dollars for every man, woman and
child in the county was touched on
and the speaker said sarcastically that
all this he (Hepburn) attributed to the
tariff utterly ignoring the sunshine,
the rich soil, the rain, the delightful
climate, the favorable geographical To-
cation and the labor of democrats and
republicans alike in that great
county"
Mr.. Hepburn's assertion that the
price Of steel rails had been reduced
from $165 ton to $24 ton now, thru
an industry built up by a republican
tariff and American ingenuity, said Mr..
Clark. would not deceive any 1nteli-
gent man, as the cause of this reduc-
ton In the price Of steel was the dis
covery Of the Bessemer process of
manufacture.
Mckinley Reciprocity.
The keynote of the reciprocity
speech Of Representative Dalzell, said
Republican reciprocity is reciproc-
sty in non-competing articles and in
nothing else"
This doctrine, he said, differed very
widely from the Mckinley principle
declared at Buffalo in these words:
1--WE must not repose in fancied Sc
curity that we can forever sell every
thing and buy little or nothing"
President Roosevelt had Endorsed
this Mckinley idea of reciprocity, Mr..
Clark asserted, by sending to the SEN
ate an extension Of time for the rattfi-
cation of the reciprocity treaty negoti-
ated with France under the direction
of President Mckinley. This treaty
contained scores and scores or articles
produced in France and Algeria and
also in the United States on which re-
duction of the tariff was provided FOR.
1904" said Mr.. Clark, "the day on
which the gentleman from Pennsyl-
vania made his speech, was what he
declared 1t to be, then vast change
had come over the republican dream
since those two republican presidents
sent those treaties to the senate
Democratic Position.
The democratic position on re-
ciprocity, Mr.. Clark stated, had been
set forth by Mr.. Williams, the minor
fty leader.
statement upon which we are willing
to stand in the pending campaign anc
The democratic party believes that whel
m any articles that go to Cuba or an.
other people on the surface OF the eartl
YOU get an agreement to reduce the bur
dens to their consumers by reducing tn
duties In their markets, you have con
ferred a. benefit upon their consumers an
also on the American producer, becaus
you enable the consumer, in Cuba or else
where in any country, entering into thes
reciprocal relations, to get the produc
at cheaper price.
That enables them to buy more Of on
product That enables those who hav
been buying it to buy more, and enable
those who have hitherto not been able t
buy any to buy some, and that increase
the volume of the consumption of Amer
lean products and benefits the America
producer by enabling him to sell NOR
goods at the old profit and thus bot
parties to the trade are benefited
The "standpat" policy Mr.. CLAIR
attributed to General Grosvenor, who
he said, was interviewed shortly afte
the election in Ohio in November
1901, and in exuberance of spirit sal
regarding the election:
cit means there is no more pros
poet of the Dingley tariff rates bein
tinkered with than there is of amend
ing the Ten Commandments" /,
Discusses 'Iowa Idea"
1.-THE Iowa idea" was the next sui
feet to which Mr.. Clark turned h
attention AS expounded by Governc
Cummins, it was, said Mr.. Clark,
substance, as follows:
That wherever tariff rates are SO hig
that they have become shelters for MT
nopolies and trusts, they should be c,
down, and that wherever protected article
manufactured in this country are sold
lower prices abroad than at home, the
the tariff rates should be scaled down.
Continuing, Mr.. Clark said:
This is the head and front Of his often,
ing In his second inaugural, delivered
January, he added a postscript to his Id,
by declaring In favor of reciprocity wi
Canada
BY advocating the iowa idea,'' Go
ernor Cummins has become the bette nc
of the standpatters, and they would e.
communicate him from the republics
church without delay and without Ger
mony were they not afraid that, like San
son, he would pull down the temple upt
their heads as well as upon his own
Republican harmony, which they sp,
with a big, big H, is only on the su
face, while republican dissension pervad
the 6. o. p. thru and thru.
They may be able by hook and by crot