Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-17

a committee of fifteen be appointed by the
chair TO have full power to organize and
further prosecute the work for which the
convention has assembled. Said committee
shall have power to increase Its member
ship and to fill vacancies when necessary.
Respectfully submitted: F. N. Moss Mas
.achusetts; A. n. Sanders. Illinois: Ed
ward ID. Page. New York; A. B. Farauhar,
Pennsylvania; w. a. Harris, Kansas;
Frank J. Hagenbarth. Idaho; William Lar
rabee Iowa: Murdo Mackenzie, Colorado;
Marion SAMSON. Texas; Charles p. Senter.
Missouri: Conrad Kohrs. Montana: w. II.
Hatton, Wisconsin, committee on resolu-
tons
Editor Rosewater's Remarks.
Mr.. Edward Rosewater editor Of the Oma-
ha Bee. was introduced. He said he was
secretary OF the committee on resolutions
OF the republican national monvention of
1900 and wished to contradict the statement
made In the reciprocity convention that the
republican party In Its platform of 1900 and
in 1904 had pledged itself to revision of
of the tariff, and that 1t had violated Its
pledge. The republican partys grea test
pledge" he said. was continuance OF
prosperity. and We have got It. (Applause)
Now the question Is, are we at the crossing
roads. or are we not. on the upward trend
TO tho highest degree of prosperity this
country is capable of having?
But remember that there are methods OF
reaching the republican Congress that must
be pursued by you here today. or you are
not going to accomplish very much. You
cannot accomplish II by denouncing tariff
Is a graft. There is graft in church and
there is graft in masonry and other fra
ternai organizations, but you would not de-
nounce the church or masonry. because
men have been found In their ranks who
are grafters
There is graft, of course. In connection
with the tariff. but as principal the pro-
eCtive system has built up the Industries
IF this country. and 1t is because Of the
great invasion by American industry to all
parts of the world that you have had the
-Touble here which you are called together
a consider
II for one have deep and abiding con-
ddence In the judgment of the plain. COM
mon, simple people of the land. and l want
to settle this question In the good old
fashioned way appointed by three institu-
tons for the determination of public poll
cies. Let us fight 1t out before the people.
II we lose. let US abandon the attempt; and
II win let those who are Skulklng In the
shadow OF concealment retire to the places
that are appropriate for towards and
traitors to the policies OF our government.
Cheers and continued applause)
IF the decision of the people be for
reciprocity there must then be no further
Juggling with words. and the promise that
is kept 10 the ear must not be broken to the
hope The gravity OF the situation Is mani
fest, and it Is acknowledged upon all
hands that we must meet 1t In one or two
REORGANIZATION or reciprocity
The ''standpatters."
THE 'stand-patters' have raised the ban
ner of the former. and we march to the
music of the latter (Applause,)
MANY people think that this question Is
confined TO treaties with particular powers,
but 1t is not so, for 1t can be accomplished
through general tariffs well as through
special arrangements. Indeed. it can be
truthfully said that with US. if attained in
the future. 1t must be attained
through a general law by revision of our
schedule. for it has been made clear to the
dullest mind that no trade treaty, however
advantageous to the people of this country.
can command two-thirds of the United
States Senate. (Applause)
1T involves always. invariably, whether
attained in the one way or the other, some
change in our import duties, and here the
trouble begins. 1t is useless to attempt to
close our eyes to the obvious fact that the
efforts to introduce reciprocity as an eff
fective policy of the government have fall
ed, because many well-intentioned intelli-
gent people have believed and still believe
that 1t means the destruction of the system
OF protection to which the great majority
of the voters are firmly. and l hope en-
duringly, attached
You never would have been here but for
the fact that s1.50o. 100000 of American
product have found their way into foreign
countries within the past year. believe
in carrying out the letter and spirit OF the
Constitutions: that reaches these questions
by reciprocity. l do not believe you do
it by a double standard That 1t precisely
what you propose here, the double standard
OF tariff. which means simply a minimum
tariff and nothing else"
Gov. Cummins' Address.
Governor Cummins Of Iowa was the next
speaker. He said In part:
II do not pretend to be master of the
subject that you have under consideration.
but 1 do know something of the conse-
quence of standing for that policy. have
on my political body some scars and some
wounds received in the fight l have endeav
ored 10 carry on during the last few years.
(Applause). Reciprocity has been damned
with faint praise and with false friends
long enough. (Applause). The time has
come 10 unmask that the people may
know who stand for and who stand against
this doctrine. (ApplauSe).
The friends OF reciprocity. the advocates
of reciprocity have passed through years
OF depression and encouragement simply
because il has been codded in conventions
and crucifed in Congress. tCheers)- 1t mas
been eulogiZed in the abstract and con-
dernned In the concrete. (AppIause). And
the hour has arrived in which 1t Is fair TO
ask those who are hostile to the poilcy 10
avow il; and am gratified beyond measure
that In the course of this struggle there
appears to be some sign now that those
who fight it will come out In the open.
II have been a constant advocate OF the
policy of protection. 1t Is nevertheless wen
known that | have not hesitated to criti-
else the schedules through which the policy
is at the present time carried into effect
Original Purpose Of Tariff.
The protective tariff was not originally
Intended to exclude competition. but rather
10 create competition. No foreign nation
could justly complain OF this equalization,
and so far as l know. no nation has ever
complained of such criterion for import
duties. With Scedules arranged with any
fair regard for this definition of protection.
reciprocity would be already secured. and
retaliation would be weapon with which
to punish any country that refused to deal
fairly with AT most we need treaties in
very few instances to provide for unusual
and extraordinary conditions.
our present schedules, however, are in
the main intended to be prohibitive. II
American products are sold at fair and
reasonable profit. 1t Is only when, through
combination or unusual demand, the home
manufacturer lifts the price into the region
of robbery that his foreign competitor can
enter at all.
Protection and Reciprocity.
There IS no conflict and can be none
between protection and reciprOcity IL we