The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-05-03

farm and factory, dignity and enrich
labor, and develop prosperity as
universal and boundless as the nation
to convert the arid lands of the West
ern desert into blooming and produc-
tive fields; to take up the question OF
regulating corporations and combina-
tions, with view to making them
subject to law; to enact into law a
measure directed against trusts and
illegal combines, and to invoke the
aid of the Courts to drive them out of
existence.
Its mission will not be fulfilled I'M
til rate legislation is established, and
until the railroads of the Country re-
cognize the fact that the Government
is supreme, and that they are subject
to regulation and control. Its mis-
sion will not be fulfilled until the
Panama Canal, one of the greatest
feats of engineering. ever undertaken
by any Nation, is completed, and it
will be completed without public
scandal or disgrace to those connected
with it.
The Republican party is the party
of the people on all questions. 1t is
the party that is making an effort to
control rate legislation, and before it
is through, in my judgment, we will
have rate bill that will please the
Country, and will bring the relief the
Country desires. 1t is the party that
is always ready and willing to take
up the work that means the lettering
of the conditions of the American
people. want to say to you as Re-
publicans today that we can afford to
join together, stand together, work to-
gether and pull together, with the
view of keeping this Republican party
at the front, keeping our banner aloft,
and preventing dissentions which
may weaken it, such as has been the
case with the democratic party.
1t is sometimes said that we are in
danger of losing the next Congress,
and in danger of losing the next pres
ident. If we lose the next Congress
or the next President, it will not be
4 because of the influence of the demo-
cratic party, but our own fault. All
we have to do is to stand together,
and to see that our votes are voted
right. If we do this,we will main
tain our supremacy, both in the State
and in the nation.
This same Republican party has
given us protective system, one OF
/ the best that has been conceived by
man. | believe today the Country is
indebted to our protective laws more
than to any other cause for it's grea
prosperity. believe the Dingley
t tariff bill, which was enacted into Law
was the best tariff law that was evel
2 enacted by Congress, but l do not be-
r lieve in committing myself, nor woule
ELL have any man committed, to the
doctrine that the schedules of the
i Dingley law are sacred. My judg-
, ment is that the next tariff bill to be
) enacted into law will be as good, il
r not better, than the Dingley law. The
e time is coming when it will be revis
v led. Someone says, Would you re
: wise the tariff when we have thi
r prosperity" Another says, "Woult
iyou revise it at all?' Another says
q "When will you revise it, if you re
: wise it at all?' My judgment is il
e will be revised when conditions arts,
which will demand revision; whel
e the sane, sober and intelligent judg
e ment of the Republican party says j
: should be revised. (Applause) ! ar
in favor of revising it when that tim
! comes. When not revising it will
e work more harm than revising ii
is (Applause). l cannot give you tn
d exact date Naughter). I,perhaps, wi
% be justified in saying that it woul
ID be dangerous to attempt 1T during thu
r. closing hours of this session OF con
v gress. 1t might have tendency
IS prelude e the election of Republic
III an congressman. Some one says
III cit will be dangerous to attempt
revise it just before a PRESIDENT;
1T election. There may be somethin
,u in the suggestion. If there is enoug
S. in it to postpone it until after tt
IN election, then it should be postponed
x but in my judgment, in the near flu
n ure; not this year, or the next yea
in or the year after necessarily, but
ne the not distant future. l think
rt good time to revise it is just aft
a Presidential election, rather tn;
v. just before it. thought good tin
I'D for the revision of the tariff was in
is mediately after the last President
he election. | may have been mistake
h. Some one says: Look at our gre
he prosperity; does it not argue that
of would have been a mistake to ha
e. attempted revision of the. tariff
nd He may be right. and | may ha,