Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-16

had been heard, thru various state
conventions, Cuba got square deal
So great was the effect of public
opinion at that time that Congressman
Dalzell was heard to declare regarding
the Cuban bill that the beet sugar m
terests would not be injured by a ~
per cent reduction in the Dingley rates
for the reason that the price OF raw
sugars was fixed by the Hamburg
market and hence favors to Cuba
would not affect the price in this coun-
try. He then shouted in an heroic voice:
eff the American beet sugar producer
can sell his sugar for the same price
after this bill is passed that he sells
1T before the bill was passed how is he
hurt?" And. growing sarcastic, our
Pennsylvania statesman remarked:
ooh, they say it will arrest the spread
of that Industry. Well if the industry
is making money now, and sugar will
sell for the price after the passage OF
this bill as before how will 1t arrest
the spread If the Industry" No one
could answer Mr.. Dalzell then.
Now, Mr.. Dalzell talked like this
when it fell to his part TO defend the
Cuban treaty. The chairman Of the
ways and means committee, too, agreed
with Mr.. Dalzell that the price of raw
sugar was fixed in Hamburg and that
the cut of 20 per cent could do no
harm, but in two years more the spe-
cial interests had become insistent and
the people had remained silent and we
find this same Mr.. Dalzell arguing in
a speech on February 30, 1904, that
"the republican party had been consis-
tent from the beginning. 1t never
agreed to any reciprocity treaty that
involved anything except non-compet
ing articles" He did not sary that the
beet sugar industry had been swept off
the face Of the map and hence become
mon competing" but we were left
wondering what had happened to it
since Mr.. Dalzell had helped
to force the Cuban treaty thru
against the opposition of the beet sug-
ar lobby. He further announced in
this latter speech, And it is because
1t has been consistent in it's principles
that these treaties have never been
ratified, and in my Judgment they new
er will be ratified by the republican
POI " was @dOOuI W Sdy llldl
it has been claimed that the Cuban
reciprocity agreement was a reversal
OF republican policy. On the other
hand It was an exception. 1t was jus
tif1able only on the ground of the ex-
ceptfonal circumstances under which 1t
was made. 1t is not definitive of re-
publican policy. 1t is not precedent
for anything and no one has right to
so consider It," Wonderful argument
this when. one of these treaties which
Mr. Dalzell thus kicked over was me-
gotiated with Argentina, securing for
us increased opportunities in her mar
kets by conceding 20 per cent in the
Dingley schedules on raw sugar! In
the case of Argentina sugar must have
become competitive product again,
yet time has demonstrated that in the
case Of the Cuban treaty Mr.. Dalzell
was right. The price of raw sugar
still remains fixed in the Hamburg
market, as he said it would and OUR
own beet sugar industry has not been
injured. What we people, who believe
in extending our markets abroad, need
is the revival of public opinion for the
sake of the assistance 1t will be to our
great statesmen like Mr.. Dalzell.
Iowa is one Of the great hog and cat
tie states Of this country. Still the
United States exports every year as
many hogs and cattle as Iowa can pro-
duce, and yet the production of hogs
and cattle is not as profitable as it
ought to be. Often 1t Is exceedingly
Of the west could double their produc-
L: I. = 10 Gry1
the market price would stimulate the
industry. Think of the business for
the eastern manufacturer, the rail-
roads, wholesalers, merchants and
bankers OF this country If the west
was doubling It's production of hogs
and cattel at profit! To do this the
demand for our surplus must be en-
larged. When the pond is full to over
flowing there must be on outlet or a
glut will follow. Ten years ago we
could sell Germany half a million dol
lars worth Of live cattle annually.
Then the Agrarians shut us out be-
cause Of few sporadic cases Of Texas
fever among American cattle and we
have not sent a dollars worth of live
cattle to Germany since then, yet Ger
many takes fourteen millions Of dol
lars worth of live cattle annually from
other countries.
The farmers of this country have no
sympathy for the tariff war as the
means of forcing concessions in for
eign markets. Heretofore when tariff
laws have been made, the harvester
trust, the steel trust, the white lead
trust, the linsed oil trust, the tobac-
co trust, the cotton goods, the wooden
goods and carpet manufacturers have
all been alert enough to send their
Hobbies to Washington to assist in the
writing Of the schedules that interest
them most. The farmer unorganized
has not been represented, so now when
he finds the outlet for his surplus in
danger, he demands that some of those
high margins put into the Dingley
schedules for trading purposes be used
for the purpose, intended. He is not
going to- tolerate the suggestion Of any
more tariff war than we have already
had. This business of heroism in sac
rificing ones wife's relations does not
please him highly when he considers
himself the relation.
But howtt to prevail upon congress to
act is a difficult problem. A senate
secure in it's tenure for six years at a
time feels able to weather every storm
of public opinion. AS constituted to-
day. The United States senate will
make it impossible for any treaty to be
passed by the necessary two-thirds
majority. 1t seems expedient then, and
I believe is so considered by our great
est leaders, that congress pass new