Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-18

I,incolns theory that the United
States with it's institutions. its priv
ileges and it's markets belong to the
people who inhabit it.
Il believe in giving labor all it
earns and to capital all it honestly
earns.
Booth Harrington somewhere says
that he who looks upon politics WheE
it is red. must steel his eyes to see
many a man with the heartache, but
I'VE walk by faith and when we flnd
that we are i'm the wrong that we
have been beguiled by Delilah and
that we are being led astray by the
glittering but academic doctrine OF
the free traders, letus hasten BACK 10
the old republican ark of safety. Let
us protect our labor against the labor
of the world and our producers against
the producers of the world. Let us
not tinker with a tariff which has
worked so splendidly and has brought
about such self evident results. Let
us make no league with death; no
covenant with hell
Let us adhere TO the cardinal prln-
ciples of protection and If we are TO
have an Iowa idea in the future let
us try to make 1t like the note OF an
Iowa National Bank-good from Maine
to Texas and from Oregon to FLORIDA.
re Canada wants reciprocity let II
come into the union, and add more
stars to the blue ield of the flag, Tor
reciprocity otherwise in competitive
products is free trade and it is nothing
less.
Judge Logan, 81 gentleman of nigh
standing in the city where l live, was
spending some time in Canada some
wears ago when the Wilson bill was
pending in congress. and became ac-
uuainted with Canadian engaged IN
trade, who was buying and storing
large quantities of eggs. The Canadian
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, IL the bill should pass, would
be the effect on the American hen. Has
reply was quick and hard, Damn the
American chicken-I'm looking out Dor
the Canadian hen.
THE Dingley tariff law has maze
Hoods Song Of the Shirt" an impos-
sibility in the United States. 1t has
made cheap men impossible in the
United States unless men deliberately
choose to be cheap. When products ara
cheap and labor is cheap. then flesh ana
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 TAR
if question beyond announcing our all
legiance to the principle of a tarin FOR
protection. Let us raise no ghosts
from past conventions and platforms OF
the party-but let US quietly and de-
Gently ask that In the mellow richness
Of the present the dead past shall bury
its dead. Let us leave the tariff plank
to the wise men OF the republican par
ty when it meets in national conVen-
ton. where all needs will be considered
and all interests Will be heard. and
then q platform will he made upon
which we can all stand and over which
we can all rejoice.
The republican man today is well.
He is exceedingly and exasperatingly
we'll Why, then the need to give him
pills?
IF this great and splendid fabric of
prosperity which has been built with
SO much labor and care, and which has
brought content and happiness to every
family in the lani, is to be purged and
cut, let republicans stay their hands
and let democratic doctors write the
prescription and apply the knife.
IF this great system under which
III, l,,v
as no nation in the world ever pros
pered before, is TO be crushed; If reci-
procity is to be used in a sense that
Blaine never meant and Mckinley
never dreamed OF; If the tariff which
as whole has stood firm and solid
against all and every frontal attack is
now to be torn down In detail; IL the
foundation is to be Slapped by remov-
ing a stone here and stone there: II
the free traders. under the guise of rec
iprocity, fear to attack the tariff as 1t
stands now In it's robust strength OF
the altogether but, as pretended pro-
tectionists, stab 1t here and stab 1t
there then In the name Of all that is
great and noble in republican history
and memory, let no Brutus dagger be
found reeking with blood in A republic
can hand: let no echo Of a Judas kiss
be sounded from republican lips!
''The republican party made the tar
if when the country was In sore need,
and the republican party will revise
and amend the tariff in part or in whole
when convinced that there is need for
and that the time for revision
has come"