Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-28
GEORGE D. PERKINS
AND GOV[RNORSH|P
His CandidacyArous using Interest
In His Position on Tariff
and Rate Questions
SOME OF urTERANcEs GIVEN
Tariff and Reciprocity Have Been
Quite Freely Discussed in His Sioux
City JournaI-Eastman's Quotation
a Favorite With Iowa Psople-other
News.
secial to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June 2S.-Now that the
candidacy Of ex-Congressman George
d. Perkins for governor has been
brought into some prominence by the
editorial in the Spirit Lake Beacon,
and the comments on the editorial in
the other papers of the state there
seems to be 8. curiosity to know Mr..
Perkins sentiments on the tariff and
rate questions. One paper has declaJ-
ed that before the candidacy goes far
the people will demand in black and
white what Mr.. Perkins thinks and
another has declared that all factions
can claim him and that all factions can
prove their claims by the editorials in
the Sioux City journal.
A search thru the files Of the Journal
kept in the historical building disclos-
es that the tariff question has been
quite freely discussed in the editorial
columns OF the Journal. In answer to
an editorial in the Capital of this city
the Journal editor In the issue of June
IA explains his position on the tariff
question by quoting the speeches of
Roosevelt and Mckinley and others
and declaring that he believes with
them. From the Minneapolis speech
of President Roosevelt he quotes and
comments as follows: "The general
tariff policy, to which without regard
to changes in detail, believe the
country is irrevocably committed, Is
fundamentally based upon ample re-
cognition of the difference between tha
labor-here and abroad, and of the
need to see to. itsthat orr laws In no
event afford advantage in our mar
ket to foreign industries over Ameri-
can industries, to foreign labor over
American labor" "The Journal stands
on that definition Of protection.'''
AS to the matter Of changing sched-
ules, it quotes from Roosevelt at Min
neapolis as follows: Where the in
dustrial conditions so frequently
change as with US must OF necessity
be the case. it is matter of prime
Importance that we adapt our economic
policy to the changed conditions"
THAT seems to the Journal quite rea-
sonable and quite essential" The
Journal then quotes further that we are
seeking the range Of the world" and
must not rest in fancied security"
There are other editorials in the Jour-
nal in which it defends attacks of 9TH
er papers claiming it is in favor Of
revision.
On the matter Of rate legislation the
columns of the Journal are not quite so
full, 50 far as late issues are concern
ed. Beginning with the time when
the governor appeared before the SEN
ate committee May IL the Journal has
touched on the rate question, but about
three times. On May 13 it defends
Sioux City against a statement it
claims Governor Cummins made before
the senate committee to the effect that
he did not consider the Sioux City
packing plant an Iowa institution. He
argues I'M column and a half that
Sioux City is in Iowa. Some time
later in answer to the statement OF
the governor before the committee that
the Fort Dodge shoe factories were
Disseminated against Mr.. Perkins
made the claim editorially that they
had paid dividend of IL per cent,
which he held was good enough. On
June 1 in answer to an editorial in the
Dubuque Times to the effect that there
was some responsibility resting with
the railroads, the Journal said: "The
railroads have their share of respon-
sibility. There are evils connected
with the transportation business Of the
country. TO the extent possible these
evils should be minimized and elirnin-
ated But to claim that the railroads
only need to be dealt with to clear up
all the difficulties of communities is
weakness calculated to retard the
,equalizing and betternlent Of condi-
tons"
The railroads in their campaign Of
education to drill into the minds of
the public that the conditions of the
transportation question are alright,
and that the interstate commerce
commission should not be given au-
thority to regulate freight rates, are
UOl lIlGll dltSllLloil LII S4AS
enormous newspaper lobby to the
newspapers of the country. A few
days ago in envelopes bearing the re-
turn card of the c., B. & @. railroad,
above which, in rubber stamp in red
ink was the name of j. w. Blythe,
very neat pamphlet was sent out to a
large number. Just how many peo-
pie over the state got them is not
known here, but number got them
in this city. One is in the possession
of the correspondent of the T.-R. The
pamphlet is a reprint of an article
which appeared in the Chicago Inter
Ocean April "a. 1905. The clipping IS
under Washington date line, spec
ial to the Inter-Ocean, and tells of the
appearance before the senate commit
tee of Slason Thompson. secretary OF
the General Manag gers Association OF
the twenty four roads with termini at
Chicago. The little leafet is gotten
up very neatly. A short time ago the