The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-03-29

Guilty in it's practical operation lies
in the fact that Iowa has no product
which she is willing to sacrifice for
the common good, and each and every
other state is equally selfish. Iowa is
perfectly willing to admit such man
ufactured products as she does not
produce at low rate of duty on con-
dition that foreign markets for Iowa's
surplus agricultural products shall be
made less onerous. Theoretically,
Iowa ought to make sacrifices for the
generally good, but in practice she re-
fuses so to do. and if Republican
Congress should enact law lower
ing the rate of duty on agricultural
products in consideration a of better
foreign market for products which Iowa
does not produce, am of the opinion
our delegation would be retired. In
this, as in many other respects, the
people of Iowa are just like the peo-
Pile of every other state. They have
nothing they are willing to yield, and
would bitterly resent any enforced
concessions at their expense.
During the last two administrations
several reciprocity treaties have been
negotiated. but, barring the one with
Cuba, our political offspring, none
has been approved. What policy our
party will hereafter pursue am not
prepared to say, but l shall not be
surprised if it declares in favor of
maximum and minimum tariffs, the
minimum tariff to be like the German
so-called Conventional or minimum
tariff, sufficiently high on competitive
articles to insure the employment of
labor in every branch of industry, and
the maximum tariff to apply only to
such countries as impose unusual and
extraordinary burdens upon us. We
have never demanded, and in my judg-
ment never should ask, better treat
ment abroad than is accorded to
others; but l shall not be surprised
if we ultimately insist upon as good
as any receive.
Prior to the satisfactory adjust
ment of the matter with Germany a
bill was introduced imposing twenty
five per cent additional duty against
the products of all countries that dis
criminate against the products of the
United States. If it be said that this
is retaliation, it must be noticed that
it is retaliation only against those
who initiate discriminate against
US, and is not intended to affect, in
the slightest degree any people who
are willing to treat us as we'll as they
treat others.
There is no place in the world ex-
cept the United States where child
can buy at exactly the same price as
an adult. Everywhere else bantering
and haggling over the price of mer-
chandise of every description, includ-
ing the necessaries of life, is atleast a
common practice. Representative
merchants in the United States are
one price sellers, and l shall not be
surprised if our people maintain theil
present position as one-price buyers
except from those who discriminate
against our products. | shall not be
surprised, repeat, if the American
people insist that the products OF
American labor shall be admitted tt
the markets Of all foreign countries or
as favorable terms and subject to ex
actly the same rates of duty as ar,
imposed upon similar products pro
duced elsewhere
| 1t is charged that the Republican
party is in league with corrupt inter
ests, and that it no longer concern
itself in the people generally. | AL
not very old, but am old enough t
remember something more than thirt
years of this same kind of talk b.
members of the opposite party, an
old enough to have witnessed severa
waves of reform. cast my first vot
for President when the so-called LIB
eral Republican party was denouncein
our alleged corruption and monopo
, listic tendencies.
The Republican party received it
: first flush of victory in advocating tn
elementary rights of man, and fror
the days of Abraham Lincoln to tn