Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-12-15


for John Sharp Williams, Democratic
leader. Bon voyage to both and to the
whole house! In the words Of Tiny
Fin, "God bless us every onev
"Immediate Tariff Revision"
Since the election the lecture business
has taken me into and through twenty
states from the gulf to the Canadian
line. have talked with all conditions
of men of all shades of political opin-
ions. l have listened much more than
have talked. From all have read
and heard l am convinced that the
stand patters will have the time of
their lives to keep the tariff revision is
sue down at this session Of congress.
The demand for it is so strong, wide
spread and insistent that it will even
penetrate the thick walls of the capitol,
and in the south end Of that building
this winter there will be many Repub-
lican statesmen who representing
Democratic or close districts, will have
very sensitive tympanums. Mr.. Speak
er Cannon may talk as much as he
pleases about his Discrimination to see
"the country held up by the TAIL" but
the aforesaid representatives, holding
their places by feeble and uncertain
tenure, will be constantly propounding
to themselves this leading question:
"What will it profit us to vote SO as
to enable the stand patters to gain an
other big slice Of the world If we are
to lose our own seats in the house Of
representatives. Self preservation is
the first law of nature, and it will
operate upon the minds and actions Of
these Republican statesmen who find
themselves in precarious and delicate
situation. That illustrious Missourian,
Mark Twain, has sagely remarked,
"Human nature is strong, and we all
have heap of it in u.s." Republican
representatives constitute no exception
to Marks rule
The Republicans have LA majority
in the house. If fifty-eight of them
should conclude that tariff revision is
a good thing there will be tariff re-
vision in the house, for every Demo
crat would vote for it.
The demand is not local. 1t extends
from Cape Cod to Omaha. Governor
Albert B. Cummins, an ambitious
statesman out in Iowa, is fighting for
1t tooth and nail Since this falls cleo
tions he has been joined by Governor
Elect Curtis Guild of Massachusetts.
AS matter of fact so far as / have
been able to discover after diligent in
quiry, the movement for tariff revision
and genuine reciprocity is stronger in
Massachusetts than in any other Re
publican state. 1t would seem strange
to see the old Bay State lead the cru
SADIE for tariff revision and for reci-
procity, but in the present posture of
affairs 1t is possible, perhaps probable.
a philosopher once said, "The most
sensitive nerve in the human anatomy
lis the nerve leading to the pocketbook, y
and nowhere is that nerve more sensi-
tive than among the thrifty people Of
Massachusetts. Under the sacred Ding
ley bill, which stand patters tell us is
the fount of every blessing, Massachu-
sets sees her cotton industries going
to the south and her boot and shoe in
dustries going to st. Louis, and she in
alarm for her future sends up Mace
DOMAIN! cry for free raw materials.
Finding that she was not likeG to get
free raw materials without relinquish-
ing part Of the tariff on boots, shoes,
harness and leather, she has advanced
far enough to be willing to do that.
1t will be remembered that Governor
douglas, Democrat, was elected last
year largely by reason of his advocacy
of tariff revision.
Governor Elect Guild, Republican is
now singing the same song as Douglas
Governor Guilds letter to President
Roosevelt is liable to be regarded as
an epoch maker in Massachusetts, pol
atics.
This sentence develops the cause OF
the demand by Massachusetts, Repub
licans for tariff revision: "The Repub
I lican ticket in my Judgment, would
have been overwhelmingly defeated ii
our platform, on which both Mr.. ORA.
per and / stood, had not contained a
plank indorsing the position taken last
spring by our delegation In congress
favoring Immediate tariff revision"
That is the moving why" Governor
Guild ct i'd genus omne are in hurry
to induce President Roosevelt to help
them down the arrogant stand patters
The governor goes so far as to de-
Flare without qualification, Both par
lies in this state desire it''-that is, 'im-
mediate tariff revision" After all the
world moves.
Perhaps the most hopeful sign Of the
times lis the fact that Senator Henry
Cabot Lodges hide has been SO far
Ioosened up by recent events that he is
now In favor of free hides. After all
the world moves.
But SO far as the public has been in
formed the senator has not advanced
with Governor Guild to the point Of be-
ing willing to yield any portion Of the
tsri6 on leather and leather products