The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-04-01
IOWA IDEA UNDER
FIRE IN CONGRESS
----
Champ Clark Says the People
Who Believe 1t Are Not
Republicans.
GOES AFTER MR.. HEPBURN
Takes the Iowa Nan to Task for Some
Recent Uttcranccs-Specch Re-
sarded as a Democratic
Campaign Document.
GOES AFTER MR.. HEPBURN

Washington, March 29.-Iecpresenta-
tive Champ Clark OF Missouri today
added a comprehensive chapter to the
campaign material of the democratic
party for the coming presidential cleo
ton in the delivery OF q carefully pre-
pared speech on the tariff question in
the house. Mr.. Clark said in opening:
We go forth TO battle with tariff
reduction and genuine reciprocity in
scribed on u banner"
He then drew u line Of demarkation
between the tariff ideas OF the two
parties INC dwelt at some length on
the standpat declaration Of the repub-
licans. lie called attention to the dis
sentiag element of that party. who, he
said, marched under the banner of the
Iowa idea, and inferentially he classed
this element as democrats. He pre-
dicted the denomination OF President
Roosevelt and conceded that the re-
publicGns may be able, by hook and
by crook to get together Cor this cleo
ton" but said that there would be a
"%sloughing off of the party which would
amount to a split in the near future"
Mr.. Clark referred to Representatives
Hepburn and G~rosvenor as "Luminar-
les of the first magnitude in the con-
gressional galaxy. and high priests in
the temple of protection He pictured
these two republican warhorses' in
their seats side by side in the house and
remarked: Occasionally these two
statesmen fall afoul of each other, but
their spats are lovers quar-els. They
soon kiss and make up again, and
usually fight in pairs"
Goes After Hepburn.
Mr.. Clark took. Mr.. Hepburn to tash
for saying in a recent speech that the
production of pig iron in this country
had increased from II, 000,0 900 tons ten
years ago to "A, 600, 600 tons in 1902. Mr..
Clark declared that in 1902 the produce
ton in the United States was l7.S2l.3 07
tons. Hereafter. he said. the rapid
growth of Jonah's g0i!rd Vine would
BE dropped and the comparison made
With Colonel Hepburn's pig iron in
crease. He then quoted Colonel Hep
burns statement, in this same speech:
Il live in q county of 1900 people, a
farming community. There is not q
protected industry in that county, and
commented on it as follows:
by that one declaration. unwittingly
uttered no doubt. the gentleman from
Iowa answers completely all the repub-
lican speeches, editorials and essays as
to how the high tariff helps the farm
erS.
Mr.. Clark gave statistics showing the
enormous corn crops annually~Troduced
in the United States, the large eXporta-
tons of this cereal and the insifinifi-
cant Importation of the same, "and
yet" remarked farmers are expected
to whoop it up for the republican cand-
idates because they are protected by
the tariff from foreign corn raisers."
Mr.. Hepburn's statement that the
bank deposits in his home count
amounted to more han a hundred
dollars for every man, woman and child
in the county, was touched on and the
speaker sarcastically that ell of
this he Nepburn) attributed to The
tariff, utterly ignoring the sunshine, the
rich soil, the rain, the delightful climate
the favorable geographical location and
the labor of democrats and republicans
alike in that great country"
AS to Steel Rails.
Mr.. Hepburn's claim that the price c.
steel rails has been reduced in the
United States from $165 a ton under the
Walker tariff to s24 a ton now, through
an industry built up by a republican
tariff and American ingenuity, was an
assertion, said MI. Clark, which might
satisfy republican members of congress
but would not deceive any intelligent
man elsewhere, as the cause OF this re-
duction in the price of steel IA the
discovery of the Bessemer process OF
manufacture.
The Iowa idea was the next subject
to which Mr.. Clark turned his attention
AS expounded by Governor Culniains, i,
was. said Mr.. Clark, in substance as fox
lows:
THAT wherever tariff rates are so high
that they nave become shelters for mon.
opolies and trusts they should be cut
down, and that wherever protected ar
ticles manufactured in this country are
sold at lower prices abroad, than al
home, then the tariff iItes should be
scaled down"
n.y. A,,t;r,,i,p nv (lD rk Spii. ''Thtc &c
the head and front of his offending. In
his second inaugural. delivered in Janu,
airy, he added a postscript 10 his idea by
declaring in favor of reciprocity with
Canada. BY advocating the Iowa idea
Governor Cu1nmin has become the bete
noir of the standpatters and they would
e~xcomnunicate him from the republican
church. without delay, and without cere.
mony were they not afraid that like Sam.
son he would pull down the temple upor
their heads as well as upon his own
The Tariff on Paper.
The recent efforts Of the American Pub
fishers association, convened in New
IlYork, to enforce the antitrust law agains'
the paper trust and declaring itself IL
favor of removing tariff duties on pull
and white paper, was discussed by Mr.
Clark. This association said 1t was large
ly republican in membership, but addee
MIR. Clark, very much depends on whose
| OK is ROreO anu tIe paper diu NOou Pull
trust cores the OK of the publishers as
sociation; hence this high kick. OF course
the paper and wood pulp trust is no worse
thar the salt trust, the nail trust. tn.
| coal trust, the lumber trust, the bee
trust and the whole brood of trusts. Wher
consumers Of the articles controlled b,
trusts in general have raised a howl
these same republican editors who nov
split the welkin with their protests agains
the eXtortions Of the paper trust. nav
looked on with a sardonic grin on thei
faces and have about as much sympath.
: for them as the old woman had for tn
GELS squirming in her hot skillet. In three
, congresses l have introduced bills to plac
= wood pulp, white paper and all the in
l gradients into the composition on the FREE
I list, one Of the propositions now urged b!
the publishers association as q remed.
I for trusts. Did the republican member
thereof aid me any? Not that anybod.
e heard Of. Now the iron enters their sou!
8 and l am glad Of it. In the Fifty-fiftl
congress they would have to line up onl!
eight republican members to have passe'
my bill. for every democratic membe
would have supported it most heartily
and no one in his senses doubts for on