Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-24
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monwealth but turnout the union, ant
without respect to party, the peopi'
are praying for his peedy restoration
to perfect health, and for his long con
tinuance in the public service.
confess that l have looked upoi
him as a guide who / could safely FOL
low, and when he declared, with 50
much elaboration, with knowledge 81
comprehensive, and with emphasis s.
marked, that there Were changes tina
should be made in the Dingley SEIZED
ules it is not strange that my conciu'
sion was that might also so belleV'
and so announce, and still be true Il
the vital tenet of the republican
creed.
Taft Talks Tariff.
Just the other day William III. TAFT
secretary of war, and a trusted fflehe
and adviser of Theodore Roosevelt
made a speech in a campaign then II
progress in the state of Maine, ane
among other things he said:
speaking of my individual opinion
and for no one else, l believe that since
the passage of the Dsngley bill there
has been a change in the business con-
ditions Of the country making 1T WlsS
and lust to revise the schedules of the
existing tariff. The sentiment in ia
vor Of a revision of the tariff is grow
ing in the republican party, and in the
near future the members OF the par
ty will doubtless be able to agree on
a reasonable plan. But the work OF
the present session, which was press
ing In its urgency, could never nave
been accomplished if there had beer
into congress and the colln-
ellis of the party the heated discussions
certain to arise over the questions OF
the revision of the tariff"
The governor then quoted ex-Gover-
nor Myron Herrick, of Ohio, who,
speaking before republican conven-
ton in Ohio, asserted at length that
the tariff ought to be revised, stating:
"The responsibility is ours to assume
Let us meet it squarely and honestly,
as we have always met such questions
in the past, and promptly make such
changes as are essential"
L mention these things, the governor
continued, not for the purpose of ar
guing here for a change in the tariff
schedules, because do not believe that
question to be pertinent in a contes.
between republicans and democrats.
have mentioned them only to show
that one may believe in and stand for
notifications OF the schedules, and still
be a good republican.
The Governors Position.
Let the people of the state remember
1.o JvryoS
that the revision of the schedules must
be in harmony with and based upon
the protective policy; that the duties
that are too high should be lowered,
but not so as to impair their efficiency
as protective duties. Duties should al
ways be high enough to give the do
mestic producer his home market
with a reasonable profit, but they
should never be high enough to enable
the domestic producer to exact an I'M
fair profit from the domestic consumer
The modification / have worked for
and shall continue to work for is
therefore a republican modification, for
while it is true, according to my way
of thinking, that certain excessive du-
ties have compelled American buyers
to pay unjust prices, they have not
wrought a 1.-THE of the injury that
would be inflicted by a revision or re-
duction at the hands of the democratic
party upon platform Of tariff for rev.
enue only.
1t matters not whether the change
from duties for protection to duties for
revenue alone is made gradually or alb
Euptly, the result would be overwhelm-
ingly disastrous. can imagine no de-
struction so complete and fatal to our
business and commerce as would fol-
low the mere announcement that the
country had abandoned the protective
policy and adopted the revenue policy,
and this without regard to the way in
which the transformation might be eff
fected. Holding these views have adj
ihered steadfastly to the task of con-
vincing my fellow republicans that the
time had come to readjust the sched-
ules of the tariff so that they would
more perfectly en1body the protective
doctrine. Some progress has been
made. But if any man, be he republi-
can or democrat has conceived the
idea that because the republicans are
not yet ready to make these changes,
that to be consistent l must forsake my
party and join the ranks of those whose
purpose is not to revise a protective
tariff, but to substitute a revenue tariff,
he Isl harboring a .delusion. He will
speedily learn that I am trying to make
the republican party strong and en-
during and not to deliver it to it's ene-
mics.
THE Vaer'e pI.&forx,
Referring to tie republican platform
adopted at Des Moines August 1, he
said:
1t neither declares for change in
the schedules or against a change, nor
should a platform declare for or
against modification Of the schedules
The platform of political party is for
the Rtterance OF those principles and
policies upon which all, or substan-
TALLY all, the members Of the party
agree, and until such agreement can
be reached, matters of difference
should remain for discussion in the
party, but should not be made party
tests. The republicans believe in a
tariff for the protection of our home
markets against unfair competition
lfoH dpioau, anu, lHeielole, IL lS MOI
only appropriate but imperative that
our convention should declare in the
most emphatic terms for the contin-
uance of that policy. AS has already
been remarked, the policy was en-
bodied in a law in 1897, prescribing
import duties upon great variety of
commodities. There have been Won
derful developments and changes in
the nine years that have elapsed since
the Dingley law was enacted. and the
of changing some of the du-