Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-05-20

and represents at the time 1t becomes a
law the rates of duty necessary TO pre-
serve to this country its trade, its man.
ufacturing interests, the economic wei
fare OF It's great working mass of peo-
pie, whether that work Is done as II la.
bOrer, as mechanic in all the trades.
rs farmer, as Il railroad man, or "A
business man who is buying from Que "
sell to another.
"A tariff itself in its makeup Is q mat.
ter of detail and requires vast knowledge.
The details of Il tarin, the figures that
govern the duties. the per Ceut, demand
minute and scientific treatment, and this
know ledge and this science car, only I'D
applied to experts, but for these figures,
rates and per cents we always have and
always will hold congress responsible,
but with the principle of tariff we
have something to do.
"'rhere are three things says Bacon,
which makes nation great and prosper
Gus fertile soil, busy workshops, and
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 siha
and from end to end. and our steamers
ply upon all our navigable waters, max
ing Bacon's first and third requirements
living realty But l,as"ns second re-,
workshops we did not have in Clevc-
lands second term unuer the Nilsson bill.
The grass grew green I'll tn" paths that
had been trodden by thousands of busy
from the mill and from the factory. The
agile spider spun his web In thousands of
our great factories undisturbed and thu
obscene hat and the unrlean owl whrred
and hooted in the emptiness where a few
years before millions of people had earn.
ed their bread.
"a wise man has told us that man has
assembled from the ape This may be true.
to free trade or to the shadow OF free
trade. then it will undoubtedly be true
that the majority of Us when we starred
on our upward journey from anres-
trail and sImian home bought round trip
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 manutac-
turing towns there has been peace and
plenty and prosperity. The children have
had food, the women have had clothes,
the Spindles have been moving, the web
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 all
over the land The wheels have every
machinery has been the sweetest Of mus.
ic; the furnaces have been rodring with
the rhythm OF the flames and CHM
neys have sent forth to the blue and bend
ing heavens that sweetest incense. for 1t
was the signal and the symbol of work
for the men. food for the children and
rest and peace and Gently and happy
homes for the wives and mothers and for
us all.
Il believe fully, heartily, earnestly in
the doctrine and priciple of protection.
l do not believe in parting with one atom
of our tariff flag. l believe in Benthams
greatest good to the greatest number and
in Abraham LincOln's theory that the
United States with its Institutions its
privileges and its markets, belong to the
people who inhabit it,
Il 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 it is
red, must steel hlse yesc to see many Il
man with the heart ache but we walk
by faith and when we find that we are
in the wrong, that we have been beguied
astray by the glittering, but academic
doctrine of free traders, let us hasten
back to the old Republican Ark of Safety,
Let us protect our labor against the labor
the producers of the world. Let us not
tinker with tariff which has worked so
splendidly and has brought about such
self evident results. Let us make no
hell
Let us adhere to the cardinal prin-
c1ples OF protection and If we are to
have an Iowa .o idea t in the the future let
Iowa National bank-good from Maine
to Texas and from Oregon to t'lerida.
If Canada wants reciprocity let it
come into the Union and add more stars
to the blue field OF the flag, for reeipro-
city in competitive products Is free trade
and it Is nothing less.
standing HnEe L0 Ga. city s wness Of hsn
spending some time in Canada some years
ago when the Wilson bill was pending in
congress and became acquainted with a
ing and storing large quantities of eggs.
The Canada told Judge Logan that he
was only waiting for the Wilson bill to
pass when he would ship his eggs over the
border, and he was so enthusiastic over
the Wilson bill that the judge asked him,
what. If the bill should pass. would be
the effect on the American hen. His re.
ply was quick an hard, Damn the Ameri-
can chicken III looking out for the Ca
madam hem
1.-The Dingley tarlT law has made Hoods
Song of the Shirt an impossibility in the
impossible in the United States unless
men deliberately choose to be cheap.
When products are cheap and labor is
cheap then flesh and blood is cheap. and
there is a worse thing than high prices,
and that worse thing is cheap prices.
Let us make no platform on the tariff
question beyond announcing our alleg-
lance to the principle of tariff for pro-
lection. Let us raise no ghosts from past
conventions and platforms Of the party;
but let us quietly and decently ask that
in the mellow richness of the present the
ueuu past oLhH UuIy ltS uedu. Leu US
leave the tariff plank to the wise men OF
the republican party when it meets In ma
tional convention where all needs Will be
considered and all interests will be heard,
and then platform will be made upon
which we all can stand and over which
We can all rejoice.
1.-The republican man today is we'll. lie
is exceedingly and exasperatingly well.
Why then the need to give him pills?
'If this great and splendid fabric OF
prosperity which has been built with so
much ,,nI l., labor and care and which has
family in the land is to be purged and
cut, let republicans stay their hands ana
let democratic doctors write the prescrip-
ton and apply the knife.
IF this great system under which and
through which we have prospered, as no
nation in the world ever prospered be-
fore, is to be crushed; If reciprocity is to
be used in sense that Blaine never
If the tariff which as a whole has stood
firm and solid against all and every
frontal attack is now to be torn down In
detail; II the foundation is to be Slapped
by removing a stone here and stone
there; If the free traders, under the guise
Of reciprocity, fear to attack the tariff as
1t stands now in its robust strength OF
tionists, stab 1t here and stab it there,
then in the name Of all that is great and
noble in republican history and memory,
let no Brutus dagger be found reekins
with blood in a republican hand: let no
echo Of Judas kiss be sounded from re-
publican lips!
''The republican party made the tarir
when the country was in sore need, and
the republican party will revise and amend
the tariff IN part or in whole when con-
WINGED that there is need for revision
and that the time for revision has come
A-Tep-Pa-Ta, fifth and last wife OF
Geronimo, is dead.