Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-04
observation-disclosures.

observation-disclosures.
If there is one man in Iowa who can,
more than another. read the kasson
letter with genuine pleasure this man
is Albert B. Cummins. Notwithstand-
ing the exalted position he holds as
| the governor of Iowa, twice elected by
the republican party, he has been
maligned and prosecuted and read out
of the party by considerable portion
of the republican press nominaily be-
| cause of alleged free trade" doctrine
| in his tariff and reciprocity views
| Now comes the man, who, with Horace
Greeley, wrote the first tariff plank of
| the republican party adopted in the
Chicago convention of 1860 which
nominated Abraham Lincoln for presi-
dent and who has spent forty years of
most conspicuous service as special
envoy for the United States in the con-
duct of our commercial negotiations
with foreign countries and he comes
with definitions of protection and reci-
procity in almost the identical Ian
guage used by the Iowa governor.
Cummins wrote a platform for Iowa
republicans in 1903, and sought to
have his language readopted this year.
He then spoke of protection which
builds UP domestic trade and secures
our own markets for ourselves Mr..
Kasson says he would have desired a
platform which adheres to protection
adequate to the maintenance of the
home market with fair profits to the
labor and capital employed.
| Cummins in an address before the
merchants and bankers of Boston said
almost the same thing when he de-
clared Our tariff schedules should he
SO adjusted that our producers can
pay American compensation for the
work of production reward the capital
and then the American buyer will new
er pay more than he ought to pay"
Reciprocity builds up foreign trade
and finds an outlet for our surplus"
says Cummins in his 1903 platform
AT the same time we recognize the
the necessity of securing foreign mar
kets for our rapidly increasing sur
plus" writes Kasson and by sensible
trade arrangements which will not in
terrupt our home production we shall
extend the outlets for our increasing
surplus spake Mckinley at Buffalo.
Thus spake in harmony the three great
republican leaders, Mckinley, Kasson
and Cummins.
But the important point to the whole
discussion Is that as to reciprocity IN
competitive products Cummins bold
~ declared in his platform of 1903 that
reciprocity between nations Is trade
between nations for mutual advantage
and both sides must give and take
He proposed to trade down portion
of our protective schedules in making
our commercial bargains. He knew
and Dolliver had said, that many .f
the present schedules had been placed
higher than necessary In the Dinglay
bill in order to provide a trading mar
gin, but for this business like doctrine
the standpat press in Iowa hooted him
as free trader
Now comes Kasson, who negotiated
the treaties provided for in the Ding
ley bill, and says Reciprocity does
not mean free trade. 1t means con-
Of duties not needed for the adequate
protection of our industries in ex-
change for reduction of duties on the
other side. which is OF more Importance
to our production for the export
trade" 1T was so interpreted by
Dingley himself" says kasson, "ill the
offers he made to the Canadians
Think of It! Dingley, Nelson Dingley,
making an offer of reciprocity on COM
petitiye products to Canadians! When
Cummins proposed IL he was called a
democrat and free trader ION some
things" says Kasson. still speaking of
Dingley's offer to Canada, she offered
a larger or smaller reduction of duty,
in some cases entire freedom from
duty" The saints presarve us! What
a free trader was thot mon Dingley!
And to cap the climax. because
CumWins has spoken in public places
in favor of tariff revision and written
in his platform of 1903 the phrase
Tariff rates should, from time to time,
be changed to meet the varying con-
ditions incident to the progress of
our industries" he has been called a
tariff ripper Now comes Kssson,
wishing for platform in which I'VE
also recognize the fact that a country
of rapidly changing development and
ever changing International commerce,
no tariff law can be like the law of the
Modes and Persians, which changeth
not but should be revised from time
to time to adapt it to the changed
conditions" Here are the words of
the man who has stood for forty years
before the nation as a tariff expert and
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