Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-19
LEAGUE IS
ORGANIZED
TARIFF DELEGATES FORM Asso.
CITATION AND ADOPT A
PLATFORM.
CUMMINs MAKES SPEECH

CUMMlNS MAKES SPEECHI
Governor of Iowa Addresses Reeiproc.
lty Convention in chicago-commit
tee Is Authorized to Carry Out
Plans for Organization and to Pre-
pare for Campaign.
Chicago, Aug. 18. - After launching
a permanent organization to be known
as the American Reciprocal Tariff
league and adopting a platform which
declares that dual tariff Is the only
and most practical way to secure re.
ciprocal trade relations with other
countries, the reciprocity convention
adjourned last evening after Its two
days session at the Illinois theatre.
A resolution calling for the appoint
ment of a committee of fifteen by the
chair, to have full power to organize
and further prosecute the work for
which the convention assembled, was
adopted. Both this resolution and one
to adopt platform were fought vigor-
ously by delegates from several of the
western states, who claimed that they
were being Disseminated against.
The final adoption of the platform and
the resolution for the appointment of
the committee came only after an en-
tire afternoon of wrangling and caus-
to l0l> o{1 hot GO, Nf 40
egates. The consideration of the res
olutions in which the platform was
embodied came in the afternoon fol-
lowing the speech made by Governor
Cummins of Iowa in which he hayed
the opponents Of reciprocity.
Kennedy Heads Fight.
Congressman Kennedy of Nebraska
led the fight against the adoption of
the resolution empowering the chair
to appoint a committee of fifteen and
introduced substitute resolution,
calling for a committee, composed Of
members from every state represented
at the convention In this he was
backed by his own delegation, the
Texas delegates, and several other
western states while Illinois,, Missouri
and other of the more central states,
had divided delegations. The eastern
states were solidly for. the original
resolution.
Although no direct charges we're
made on the floor it was tacitly
charged by some Of the speakers that
the opponents to the resolution were
subsidized and their motives were
questioned. So direct did one of
these charges become that Congress
man Kennedy rose from his place to a
point Of personal privilege and de.
manded an explanation He was de.
clared out of order, however, by form.
er Senator Harris, temporarily in the
chair, who declared that he under
stood the gentlemen to mention no
names.
Governor cumn1Ins Makes Speech.
Governor A. B. Cummins made a
speech in which he urged a flight be
fore the people" in behalf of reciproc
| ity, but advocated the principles OF
| protection.
Reciprocity has been damned by
false friends long enough he de
clared. "It has. been coddled in con
ventions and crfcified in congress. II
is time to unmask and to fight to win
or lose If we lose we shall at least
drive out of the shadows of conceal
ment the towards and traitors who
have been skulking there"
Governor Cummins' speech was the
feature, of the day. The exponent O
the Iowa idea," took a sarcastic slaI
at Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
calling him "the most rigid Of the in
flexible foes against revision or reci
procity."
Resolutions Are Proposed.
Chairman Foss read the report o
the resolutions committee which, al
finally passed, are as follows:
The national reciprocity convention
/ representing more than 200 agricul.
tural, commercial and industrial as.
sociations Of the United States, b.
delegates assembled at Chicago, Aug
16 and II, 1905, hereby makes the fol
lowing declaration of principles:
i Whereas, The agriculture, manufac
turers and other industries of this
country have expanded to such al
i extent that they can no longer depend
upon the home market for the con.
sumption of their entire product; and
whereas, The export trade has be
come vital support to many of ou
Industries. and,
i Whereas, The present commercial
attitude of the United States, largel.
owing to our failure to carry into eff
feet the reciprocal trade provisions o
section of the Dingley law, is antag
onizing foreign nations, whose goot
will we desire and on whom we hav
hitherto depended as purchasers of ou
surplus products; therefore be it
4 Resolved, l., That this convention
recognizing the principle of protection
as the established policy Of our coun
try, advocates reciprocal concession
by means of dual or maximum an,
minimum tariff AS the most adequat
and practical method of relieving tn
strained situation with which we ar
now confronted.
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