Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-23
AND IT WAS NOT sTAnDpAT.

The platform has been adopted and 1t
is not standpat. So much, so good.
The rational element among Iowa re-
publicans and republicans of the north
west can go into the campaign In sup
port of party platform with enthu-
siasm and sympathy. The fact that the
leaders OF the stanlpat school were In
authority on the committee that draft
ed the platform is sufficient to console
the element that reads the American
Economist. They can point to the fact
that they did it, AMI hence have right
10 be pleased with what was done. On
the other hand, it is very evident that
the position of the progressive men was
SO we'll founded on reason, common
sense and republican precept that the
making Of the issue prominent by a
little noise at the convention forced
very fair and reasonable sort of a
declaration. To have done otherwise
after the fuss that was made would
have been an invitation to disaster IN
close states. Such 81 declaration as
came from Des M,,ines In May or ap-
pearea in the national platform of 1900
could occur only in sure thing state
or creep into platform unnoticed.
In the two essentials that made the
LATE Young platform SO un-republican
the Chicago platform is an opposite.
The latter recognizes that rates of duty
should be readjusted when conditions
have 50 changed that the public inter-
the Des Moines platform was alto
gether silent, thus giving endorsement
to the extreme contention of tho high
protectioBist to ''let well enough alone"
And then the Chicago platform declares
for commercial reciprocity wherever
arrangements can be made without in
jury TO American agriculture, labor or
Industry. This leaves the door open to
what kasson and Mckinley knew to be
the only practicable treaties and what
has been called in Iowa give and take"
reciprocity. The attempt to annul all
efforts toward reciprocity by limiting
it to NON competitive" products or
products (which we do not produce"
does not appear ia the language of the
Chicago platform.
There are man. republicans who be-
lieve that the conditions have already
changed and thai the public interests
demand an alteration OF schedules at
the next session Of congress, but there
are many other republicans who are
opposed to any tariff tinkering at all,
and hence the platform is about as near
a compromise as could be framed. No
one, not even a so-called tariff ripper
in Iowa, or what LATE Young calls o
Canadian free trade republican, has
ever contemplated reciprocity that was
not good bargain for us. hence the
reciprocity Of the Chicago platform
that will not injure American industry
Is satisfactory. 1t would have pleased
many republicans In the northwest II
the platform had declared for the ex-
tension OF markets abroad by employ
ing some OF our tariffs no longer need
ed to protect our industries at home"
but here again there We're many differ
ent minds to please, and the platform
does the best 1t can. In Iowa the fol-
lowers of Governor Cummins are
pleased and the governor, in an
authorized Interview, says he is more
than pleased. The elimination OF nom
competitive reciprocity and the recog-
milton OF tariff changes at some time
will be taken as reputation of the
Blythe Young Platform and partial
vindication of the progressive position
taken by the Cummins faction