The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-08-25
WILL COMBAT D|NGLEY|SM
The Reciprocity Convention at
Chicago Last Week Starts
Battle Against Stand.
patism.
SENATOR CULL0M SHOWS HIS HAND
Says West is Almost Unanimously for
Reciprocity -Fsyors Tariff Re.
vision If Necessary
CULLoM SHOWS HIS HAND

vision If Necessary
The National Reciprocity con
vcntiun or conference came off on
schedule time i'll Chicago last
week. The personnel Of the con
ference aud the principal speak
crs rriutc the charge started by
the stand pat prohibitiye tariilites
that II was u Democratic move
mcnt, aS the principal speakers
were Republicans, and among
the list senator Shelby NJ. Cul-
IOm of Illinois. who has hereto.
fore been rlassrd us IN uncompo-
missing sland-patter, which fact
shows that the Republicans have
trouble before them. senator
CuIIom in his address before the
conicrcnr" declared himself in fa-
yor of reciprocity as means of
holding and extending our foreign
trade, and if reciprocity treaties
cannot hr ratified. he would revise
the tarill where necessary Suggcs
ting a maximum and minimum
tariff,
Governor Cummins of Iowa was
the principal speaker, aud in a
speech of fire aud elOquencc he
hurled defiance at the enemies of
reciprocity. He brought the au-
diencr under his spell, and when
interrupted with uproarious APP
pausc, he held full sway for three
quarters of of IN hour.
Other speakers were: Edward
R0sewatcr of Omaha, former May
or W. e. Mnybury Of Detroit, A .
b. Farquhar of Pennsylvania, $.
+. Hover of Wisconsin, T.. s..
Lockrldge of Indiana aud Il dozen
delegates who made volunteer ad.
dresses
GOV. CUMMINS SPEECH.
Governor Cummins of Iowa
said i'll part: Il do not pretend to
he master OF the subject that you
have under consideration, but do
know something of the conse-
quence of standing for that policy
Reciprocity has been damned with
faint praise and with false friends
long enough. The time has come
to unmask, so that the people may
know who stand for and who stand
against this doctrine.
Il, for one, have n deep and
abiding and persisting confidence
in the judgmenti of the plain,
common people of the land, and |
want to settle this question IN the
good old fashioned way appointed
10y the institutions for the deter
mining of pupbllc policies. Let
us fight it out before the people. If
we lose, let lis abandon the at
tempt, aud if we win, let those
who are skulking in the shadows
of cOncealment retire 10 their pla-
ces that are appropriate for cow
ards aud traitors to the policies Of
our Government.
i believe, upon all hands, that
we must meet il in one of two
ways-retalitatl0n or reciprocity.
The standpatters' have raised the
banner of the former. and we
march to the music of the latter.
Many people think this ques-
ton is confined to treaties with
particular Powers, but it is not so,
for it can he accomplished through
general tariffs as well as through
special arrangements.
Indeed, it can truthfully be said
that with us, if attained in the
near future. it must he attained
by revision of our tariff, for it has
been made clear to the dullest
mind that no trade treaty, how
yer adyanta geous to the people OF
this country, can command two
thirds of the United States.
CHANGE IT'S DUTIES.
1t involves, always, invariably,
whether attained in one or the
other, change in our import duties,
and our trouble begins. 1t is use
less to attempt to close our eyes to
the obvious fact that the efforts to
introduce reciprocity as an effec-
tive policy of the Government
have failed because many well-in-
tentioned intelligent people who
believed and still believe that it
means the destruction of the sys.
TEN of protection to which the
great majority of the voters are
firmly, and | hope, enduringly at.
tached, have opposed it. The pro.
tective tariff was not originally in
tended to exclude competition, but,
rather, to create competition. With
schedules arranged with any fair
regard for the definition for pro-
lection, reciprocity would be al
ready secured, and retaliation
would be the weapon with which
to punish any country that refused
to deal fairly with rs. Our presi,
dent schedules. however are il