Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-02
srANppAr DOCTORS DISAGREE.


comment on the work Of the standpat-
tiers at Des Moines causes the Cedar
Rapids Republican to retort that these
newspapers are lying" about the plat
form. Under the circumstances bit
OF ill-temper should be excused in the
Cedar Rapids paper, for the situation
Is admittedly a trying one.
However. let's look at the Republic
cans proof of its charge. 1t says:
s.Why did the 1900 platform limit rec
iprocity to non-competitive products?
For the simple reason that 1t had been
demonstrated by actual trial and ex-
sperienca that reciprocity in competi-
tive products was not only impractical
BILE. but also Incompatible with the pro-
tective theory, and impossible of full
fiilment. There were numerous reci-
procity treaties tthe Kasson treaties)
negotiated under the first Mckinley adj
ADMINISTRATION. that dealt in competitive
products, but none Of them were ever
ratified by the senate. The republican
leaders, when they saw these treaties.
recognized at once that if they were
ratified they would deprive certain in
dustries that were entitled to protec-
ton of their just measure of protee-
ton in the general scheme, and that 1t
would be impossible to muster, in the
senate. a sufficient number of votes to
ratify them. Therefore, since 1t is not
the republican habit to make promises
that cannot be kept, the reciprocity
provision Of the 1896 platform was not
repeated in the platform Of 1900, but
there was substituted in lieu thereof a
declaration favoring kind of reciproc-
ity that Is practicable, and that is not
destructive Of the protective princi-
pie"
Without calling the Republican
liar. for we are not sufficiently irri-
tated to feel that way, few incon-
sistencies might be pointed to with
profit. For instance. reciprocity on
competitive products, such as President
Mckinley contemplated In the Kasson
treaties. which he sent to the senate
with his approval. is declared "imprac-
ticable," but the standpatters' reci-
procity on mon competitive products
only" is described as the kind of reci-
procity that is practicable" Now the
Burlington Hawkeye on May 81 ex-
planned that since our country now
produces nearly everything it's people
need There is little left that is subject
IN 4 int
reciprocity. Of course, to non-competi-
tive products. This fact caused the
Hawkeye to conclude that Reciprocity
is nearing an end" that There is a
growing belief that. reciprocity is no
longer feasible" yet the Republican de-
clares that this standpat reciprocity ia
OF q" kind that is practicable" Is not
the Hawkeye published at Burlington,
and ought 1t not therefore to know?
Then. again, the Republican explains
that the national platform OF 1900 re-
versed the platform OF 1895 because the
minute the Kasson treaties were nego-
tiatsd republican leaders In the sem
ate Recognised at once" that they
would deprive certain industries of
their Just measure of protection
Strange we did not think of this. But
how about the republican leader in the
white House. whom his mother called
William Mckinley? He sent those
treaties to the senate with his o. K.
attached. How about our own SEN
at ought to bring those treaties from