The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-10-20
THE TARIFF PHASE OF THE
SQUARE DEAL.
'rom Topeka Capital

FROM topeka capital
The report that President Roosevelt
has decided not to press tariff revis-
ion just yet for fear II may cOmpli-
cate his railroad campaign, has evid-
emily not disheartened Iowa republic
can revisiOnists- Governor Cummins
on Thursday night threw down the
gauntlet to Secretary Shaw, the stand
pat candidate for president The
day has passed. Governor Cummtns
told his audience, amid cheers when
any state should give its presidential
vote as a compliment; good govern
ment IS too precious 10 warrant any
man in expecting a purely cOmpi-
mentary support" As for himself,
the Iowa governor said that he pro-
poses to keep up the fight until the
people render their verdict upon it.
If against him. he would still be a re-
publican and a prOtectionist, and he
expected as much from the stand-pat-
tiers
That is the kind Of courage that is
needed in republican leadership; there
is not any too much OF IL in any state.
Governor Cummins has a powerful
following in Iowa, chief among il the
staIwart Des MOines Register and
Leader, which is getting to be one Of
the great republican newspapers Of
the west The Register and Leader
says Of the need of revision:
The people are aroused by the dis
closures Of graft in connection with
the business Of insurance The graft
ing Of the insurance officials Of New
York and the conspiracy Of the beef
trust combined are as insignificant as
stealing pennies from a baby's tin
bank compared TO the graft the tariff
has permitted the steel trust TO enjoy
for the past eight years, and there is
not d congressman from Iowa who
does not know it. What are the sal
aries OF the McCalls and the Nc
Curdys and the Hydes compared to
the organization OF the steel trust with
one billion dollars of stock that rep
resents nothing in the world but cap
itaIized tariff as Congressman Nc
Call of Massachusetts properly named
it?
THE sugar tariff vas forced into
the Dingley bill by the men who did
Mr.. Havemeyer's bidding over the
protest of every honest republican in
congress. Congressman Hepburn
knows this TO be true, so does Major
Lacey, SO does Captain Hull, so do
Senators Allison and DOIliyer. The
honest republicans in congress sub
mitted to the outrage because they
believed the sugar schedules would be
traded of in the reciprocity treaties.
But they have not been traded Off
On the contrary, they stand as Mr..
Havemeyer intended them to stand to
enable the sugar trust to fleece the
American sugar consumer And to
add to their potency, Cuban raw sugar
has been admitted at reduced cost
without the least reduction to the
consumer Of refined sugar, and the
Philippines have been almost ruined
because the admission of their sugar
product could not be arranged on
terms satisfactory to the trust.
Now is the time for republicans to
be speaking out in meeting The
president COnfesses that he is baf-
fled. But there Will be a congress
some day that a new Theodore ROOse-
welt will not be compelled to apologize
to when he determines to stand by
the rights Of the people
Massachusetts republicans the other
day astOnished the party bosses BY
declaring for revision Of the tariff
and revision "at the present time,
not in some misty day in the future
What the Des MOineS paper says
about some Of the trust schedules in
the tariff is not exaggerated and can
not be gainsaid- 1t is safe to say that
il Mr.. Hughes in his investigation
could trace back every campaign con
tributfOn, the demand for tariff re-
vision would be SO overwhelming thai
even Secretary Shaw would relent and
admit the justice Of the plea for the
square DEAF in tariff schedules