The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-08-30
iron producing districts of Michigan an

iron producing districts of Michigan an
Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Against such opposition nothing could
be done without compromise. The
Pennsylvania gentlemen would suggest
that they could not consent to reduction
in the steel schedule unless there was q
corresponding reduction in food SUITS
and there would either be general re-
vision, or no revision at all.
The greatest demand for revision, SO
the secretary seems to think, is the de.
mand for reduction on farm products.
Massachusetts, wishes revision chiefly that
1t may get free hides. All the large labor
centers think of revision as relating
wholly to food stuffs-they complain Of
the cost of living-of the cost Of the. pfo-
duce of the farm and wish the tariff re-
duced on farm products. The secretary
thinks that the reductions as wished BY
the east along these lines, would reduce
the price of cattle on the Iowa farm. not
less than ten per cent
The policy of the republican party will
be, SO we think the secretary believes,
to leave the tariff alone at tie
coming session of congress and that the
next National convention will declare for
an immediate revision of .he tariff and
that the congress following the presiden.
| tial election will be the one to do it.
Not only does the secretary think it
would be poor business policy to revise
the tariff now, but he points out that no
party has ever succeeded in an election
Immediately following tariff revision,
especially if the tariff was reduced.
We asked the secretary why the tariff
on print paper could not be reduced with
out injury to any one but the trust Mr..
Shaw said: Experience that we have had
in lumber showed that when we reduced
the tariff, the Canadian government SIM
ply put on an export duty. and that the
price remained the same-except that the
revenue went to Canada instead OF to the
United States. That when we put coffee
on the free list. Brazil put on an export
duty and that thechange had simply been
from the treasury of the United States to
the treasury of Brazil.
Just what is to be the future of the
Panama Canal question the Secretary did
not know. He does think, however, that
we have undertaken very large contract
under the most unfavoratle conditions.
and that talk of the completion of the
canal in short time is more or less in
the nature of a pipe dream.
1t is greatly to be regretted that the Sec.
retary's visit was not known in time for
the Denison papers to contain the news.
or for it to be generally known throughout
the county. Had it been, there would
have been FIVE times the great crowd that
was assembled. The Secretary arri ed on
the early morning train, found the hack
man asleep, and with great unselhshness
the Secretary mounted the, box and drove
to the Gulick residence with the driver
still asleep in the cab. Jimmie Melton.
the driver. is congratulating himself that
| sH~AS oAS HlSuty lew, WHO can OOaSt that
they have had member of the cabinet
for their driver. We do not know wheth-
er Mr.. Shaw felt obliged to pay for the
privilege or not
During the day MIR. Shaw attended the
funeral services of the pioneer German
settler, Mr.. Claus Mundt, and it was not
until noon that he was coralled by the
picnic committee and placed upon the pro-
gram. Of the Secretary's speech we speak
elsewhere in our account of the picnic.
Mr.. Shaw spent Friday in Denison
greeting old friends by the hundred, and
transacting business.
| No one can converse with Mr.. Shaw
without feeling that he is great man.
No one can listen to his argument without
feeling that it is made after searching
study Of conditions. No one can see him
as he was last week among his old friends
and neighbors without understanding
better the qualities that have made him
one of the Nations foremost men.