Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-20
Says Parller's Scheme of Post
poning Revision Would Ag-
glravate a Panic
PREFERS REVISION in A DAY
At Big Fairbanks Rally In New York
With George Roberts Presiding
Secretary Shaw Discusses Judge
Parker's Scheme of Tariff Tinkerins
On Deferred Billing.

New York, Oct. 20.-The republican
mass meeting held in Brooklyn last
night at the Clermont rink, was adj
dressed by Senator Fairbanks, of In
diana, Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
and Congressman j. l.. Griffith Of In
dianapolis. The rink was crowded and
the audience most enthusiastic one
Previous to the meeting the speakers
were entertained at dinner by Former
Lieutenant Governor Timothy L.
Woodruff.
George 9. Roberts presided and in
Noduced the speakers.
Secretary Shaw, in his address, said:
1.-THE democratic platform adopted al
st. Louis declares that protection is
robbery of the many to enrich the few.
In discussing the subject in his speech
of acceptance Judge Parker commits
himself ulqualifedly to revision. He
then EXPRESSED the conviction that this
can be accomplished to use his own
language, without creating that sense
of uncertainty and instability that has
ON other occasions manifested itself.
This he says, can be achieved by
providing that such reasonable time
shall intervene between the date OF the
enactment Of the statute making the
revision and the date Of it's enforce
ment as shall be deemed sufficient for
the industry or business affected by
such revi,.ion to adjust itself to the
changes end new conditions impos-
ed
Judge loa,fer may be learned in the
law. hut the two sentences have quot
ed are quite sufficient to prove that he
conditions and the sensitiveness of
business.
IF the tariff could be revised during
the night, and new schedules put in
operation, the next morning the injury
to business would be slight compared
as to the effect Of delay. "A general re-
duction in the tariff to go into effect in
the future would result in total paraly-
sis Of business. No man would buy
anything until he knew whether the
tariff would have the effect the demo-
Gratis claim for it, and no man would en-
large his capacity to produce until he
knew what effect the tariff would have
on the people, whose wants he was
planning to supply.
Cleveland Was Understandable.
IT am convinced that the historian
who seeks the most unstatesma mike
acts in the public career of Grover
Cleveland will find them in his message
to congress while the country was in a
state of panic. 1t will be remembered
that during his last administration he
told the PEOPLE that the purchasing
clause of :he Sherman act was respon-
sible for conditions most alarming.
The language he employed was alone
enough to cause alarm. But, not con-
tent with this he took up the tariff and
said that the people were being robbed
thereby, and that measures must be
taken or utter ruin was imminent.
HAD Mr.. Cleveland called the atten-
ton of His extraordinary session of
congress to the fact that there was suf-
ficient silver on hand to supply the
minis for several years, and no need
for more, and had recommended the
suspension of further purchases, unac-
companied with cry Of alarm, and
when this desired end was accomplish
ed, If he had secured an adjournment
Of congress and had given out that he
would consent to no tariff tinkering
under conditions then existing, the
panic Of 1893, in my judgment, would
have been successfully checked. That
panic was wholly unnecessary. Mr..
Cleveland said we were confronted by
a condition, not a theory; but it was a
condition of the public mind brought
about by Mr.. Cleveland's political
theories. He wanted to play politics
and he played a memorable game. Now
Judge Parker proposes to play the
same game; but, fortunately for the
people, he gives notice that he will
play more reckless game than was
ever played before"
Senator Fairbanks address had
largely to do with the Panama canal
question.