Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-11-01
Mr.. Han.y of indiana charged me With

may not be able to prove my inno-
cence aa;. assuming that they may be
able to establish case against me
and convict me Of being dreamer.
have hael looking UP the subject of
clsalis. find that one poet, james
Nhitoomb Riley, aays that The
deamer lives forever while the toiler
dies in a day" This would lend
little encouragement to dreaming. but
&s : SsNs safe to base an argu-
o. a noan, for poets scnle
-. License, but surely am
sssle in hasin:s my argument on holy
writ, for tae R.hle tells US OF dream.
ors. fhe most noted one was Joseph
His brothers called him dreamer
and t..ey plotted to kill him because
is ;irs as. They did 80 so far as
4 him into Egypt, but they after
war's weat down into Egypt and
bought com OF him.
"As | have been looking over the
past year Lave come to the conclu-
sion that our party ought to he given
credit for Il triumph quite like the
triumph of Joseph. l will not take to
myself the credit OF doing all the
dreaming, fas have invented nothing
in the way OF political principles. !
have simply advocated those princi.
pies which believed to be right. but
our party fer years has had vision
OF reform. 1t has dreamed OF better
methods of government, better poli-
cies and better conditions. and now
its dreams are beginning to be real
izcd. Fourteen wears ago. and more,
tho party Dreamed of an improvement
for the election of senators and it
embodied tina; dream in resolution
submitting TO the people an amend
ment providing for the election of
Unitel States senators by direct vote.
This dream was endorsed by Dem
ocratic congress-. and the next con-
"ress also Democratic. endorsed it,
Then we had two Republican congress.
es that did not dream, and they adj
jonrned without adopting the resolu-
ton. Then we had third Republic.
an congress and it was so calloused
by public opinion that it had to admit
tho truth OF the dreamer's dream and
following the Democratic example
long way off it finally endorsed the
election OF senators by the people.
Now, some two-thirds of the
states of the Union declare that
the Democratic dreams ought to be
realized. and Governor Cummins is
Ny,n nf I,n ;,,
dream that the Democrats had so
many years ago. But should the gov
ernor he given more credit for seeing
the dream now than the Democrats
deserve. who saw it earlier?
Tariff Reform.
years ago the Democrats dreamed
of tariff reform. They saw the class
es taxed for the benefit of the few,
and in their vision they pictured a
peoples living according to Gods law,
which adjusts the reward to the intel
liecnt laLorcr. They prcpcHed to
change the system which the Repub
lican party had inaugurated, and I'M
der which the people have been so
heavily taxed, that those have grown
richest who labored least and those
have accumulated least who labored
most. Can anyone wonder why the
Democrats have held tenacously to
this vision through victory and
through defeat? From time to time,
Republicans have gotten glimpse OF
this vision and tariff reforms have
~ IN
Cuni4lins is among the recruits who
have come with battling step and at a
limping pace to admit the necessity
for reform in the tariff. If advocat
ing thorough going reform. he conld
not claim superiority to our candidate,
advocated tariff reform, but the gov
ernor is not only slow in advocating
the tcritf reform, but he even now al
vocates it under conditions which
make reform impossible. Even when
he had control of the state convention,
and could have secured any platform
that he wanted. he consented to
platform which began by declaring
uncompromisinglv for protection and
against a revenue tariff. There is not
word in his platform that would
offend the men who have grown rich
levying taxes upon the classes. For
the STRENGTHENING OF Governor Cum
Minis platform he saws the tariff
should be revised by its friends but
that is o fraudulent prctense that has
been used for half a century to de-
ceive people. Mr. Cummins is too in
telligent man to believe that the
benchciarcs Of hirh tariff will ever
reform It, Hc stands almost alone
among Repuhlican leaders as advo-
eating it. and his advocacy of it Is
coupled with conditions that deny to
the public the realization of the
action which his words are intended
to inspire Among the rank and file
Of Republicans there arc MANY tariff
reformers. but they will find that the
Democratic dreamers are the only
ones who proposed feasible reform.
and that is reform by those who suf-
fer rather than by those who profit by
1t.
The Trust Question.
1.-THE Democrats have also dreamed
on the trust question. and in their
vision they saw eighty millions of
people burdened by conscience
less band of monopolists. They trans
lated their dream into platform
which demands the humiliation of
the prevailing monopolies. root and
branch. But the Republicans have
not yet reached point where they