Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-11-14
MASSACHUSETTS, VIEWING TAR.
IFF QUESTION sELFIsHLY,
THREATENS TO "sWlTcH"
DEMANDS FREE HIDES
The cIamor for Partial Revision Of
the Tariff Law on the Basis Of the
Greatest GOOD for Massachusetts,
Regardless of Other Consequences,
Presages Change to Democracy.


Presages Change to Democracy.
Especial Correspondence
Washington Bureau Of the Courier,
Washington D. c., November 13.
The past week has been consumed
by the politicians and Office holders in
Washington in the making of analyses
of the result Of the elections last
4 week. The various politicians and
statesmen have reached various con-
clusions, according to their light and
points Of reasoning and partisan afilia-
tions.
In Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and
New York the result was brought about
IN every instance by conditions purely
local and without particular bearing
upon national issues. In these states
there appears to be nothing calculated
to indicate a change in the political
com plexion when national questions
present themselves to the voters next
year and three years hence The sit
uation in Massachusetts, however, is
held to be somewhat different.
* The contest in Massachusetts last
week was on national issues to a very
large extent and the conditions there
are OF such nature as to possess
more or less interest to the people of
Iowa. Massachusetts, republicans in
high position in Washington make no
ment over the political outlook at
home. 1t is not SO much the dwindling
republican pluralities which resemble
in fha ort (P ha
eighties, when their gradual shrinking
finally eliminated in the election of
Governor Russell three times, signif1-
mind now notiesabfeSen M D ga IT the m part @ Of the he
voters in Massachusetts,. The masses.
OF the people have developed a condi-
ton of sourness or soreness. They
have developed an inordinate greed
without regard to how the granting of
what they want would affect other sec
t1ons of the country. In other words
the people of Massachusetts are de-
mand1ng tariff changes which they are
not likely to get and which would work
the disadvantage of other portions of
the country
Demands Are Unreasonable.
Massachusetts leaders here in Wash
lngton say that their state would be in
better shape, so far as the republican
party is concerned if congress makes
no revision of the tariff that is, the
kind of tariff revision that Massachu-
sets voters want. AS matter of fact
It is perfectly patent that no Massa-
chusetts revision of the tariff can be
secured, nor any other scheme of reci-
procity with Canada or any ether
country. The politicians admit that the
seat of political power has moved west
and the Mississippi valley and the re-
gion west of that dividing line will
write the tariff act when the time
comes to write it.
Massachusetts will be compelled to
make the best of the situation Wry
faces and dwinoling pluralities will
not, in the opinion of her ablest states
men, exercise any appreciable in
huence on the action of congress. In
other words, the tariff will always be
written with view to the good of the
people of the country rather than in
. the interest of the shoe manufacturers
of Massachusetts.
The Tariff on Hides.
In many quarters the Massachusetts
demand for free hides is ridiculed by
SD6Cldl
industries affected unfavorably by it.
In Chicago, Milwaukee, ST. Louis and
elsewhere. Senator Lodge recently
undertook to make it appear that as a
matter of fact the revenue produced
H by the duty on hides is comparatively
small, and really hardly worth while.
The Washington Post, which is tariff
revision paper, took up the statement
end showed that dozen articles on
the protected list which Senator Lodge
would doubtless consider important,
yield less revenue, in fact SO that from
that point of view there is nothing that
can logically be said
Senator Warren of Wyoming re.
marked last winter that the discussion
Of free hides made him too weary for
utterance; that if Massachusetts, with
her numberless schedules of manufac-
tured articles was willing to deprive
Wyoming of her little advantage in
wool and hides, he would be in favor
Of throwing. overheard the whole pro-
tective system. 1t is not understood
that those in Iowa who are in favor of
a revision of the tariff would urge that
the duty on hides be cut
Leading Massachusetts republicans
come to Washington during the ses-
sions of congress and declare that the
tariff ON hides is really not protection
and not consistent with the true protec-
tive doctrine. There may be some
thing in this, but it is quite certain
that there are in the congress of the
United States senators and representa-
tives who believe there is in this tariff
son hides an advantage to their states
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