The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-24
what, Again?

The happiest a. we'll az the bandsom-
est man in the country lis the Hon. AL
BERT BAIRD CUMMINs, Governor Of Iowa.
Like a voice crying in the wilderness was
his call for tariff revision during many
weary, thankless years, and now the
Republican party is taking il up with
the zeal OF d new convert. Senator
ALBERT J. HOPKINS has brought the good
news from Oyster Bay that the Iowa
idea, the idea which lifted Handsome
ALBERT into the Governorship, not nee
but several times, has taken tenacious
hold upon Mr.. R%oosEvELr's mind. and
he, the President, authorizes the state
ment that the Republican party will deal
satisfactorily with revision, not at the
next session Of Congress, but, better still,
in it's national platform next year. Trans
ported to the seventh heaven of delight.
the interchangeable CUMMINs hastens to
assure the country that the President
shall not DO betrayed in the house Of his
friends. The tariff shall be revised; al
least the Republican party in convention
assembled shall say the tariff will be
revised; the Governor 10 to attend to the
matter himself. Hear him:
Tho noxt Republican national platform will
declare unequivocaly and distinctly for tsrin
revision. l shall bring up the question OF a re
vision OF the tsrn. and l believe the convention
viii act fairly on IT,"
Surely it will II Handsome ALBERT in
sists; but, soft! has he not insisted before?
Ls there not a familiar ring about this
promise to use his magnetic influence
with the Republican party 20 induce it
TO embody a tariff revision plank in the
Republican national. platform? Speak
ing at Des Moines more than four years
ago, on March IA, 1908. the sanguine and
redoubtable Governor said:
I intend to do whatever lies in my power to
introduce into the national platform the thought 20
which the Repubiicansof Iowa have already given
utterance.-
Let us see what that thought was:
" We favor such changes In the tari1 from time
to time as may become advisable through the
progress of our industries and their changing re-
istlons 70 the commerce of the world"
Now let us have the construction which
Governor CUMMINs put upon tho thought
in the Iowa platform:
IF I understand the real purport Of what we
said last year ueoz II Ia thAt tho Republicans OF
owa-and In this respect they are Joined by the
Republicans OF nearly every state In the Union
believed that the time had come In which the sub
Ject should be again examined"
And the Governor went on to say that
some duties were too high and were capa-
bic Of being used for an unlawful purpose.
Alas, for the personal influence Of the Hon.
ALBERT B. CUMMINs with the Republican
party, it did not in the national con-
vention of 1904 agree with him that any
duties were too high, but put the question
OF revision by with the elf-complaoent
observation that this work cannots safely
be committed to any other hands than
those Of the Republican party" Those
hands have done nothing during the in
~tervening four years. Again we have the
conservation Of Handsome ALBERT to the
pleasing duty Of persuading the Republi-
can party in national convention assem-
bled to declare that some duties are too
high and must and shall be re~duced-by
the Republican party.
But il Mr.. CUMMINs has no more in
fuepce with the delegates in 1908 than he
had in 1904. what are we to expect but dis
appointment and anguish for that noble
exponent of the Iowa idea?