Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-21
Senator Allison's Latest Decla-
ration Does Not Differ From
Cummins' Views
BUSINESS REVISION is WANTED
Allison Says Presidential Campaign is
Poor Time to Secure Fair Read
justment of Schedules = Governors
Attitude Is Unchanged - Lacey
and the Radical Standpatters.
,ecial TO Times Republican.

Special TO Times Republican
Des Moines. Sept. Ex-senator Aili-
son, who is already at work organiz-
ing the state in behalf of his candl-
dacy for the senate again, has written
letter which will tend somewhat to
clear up the tariff issue as 1T relates
to the senatorial campaign. Someone
having sent out from Dubuque dis
Patch referring to what was supposed
to be Allisons attitude in regard to
early action looking toward readJust-
ment of the tariff schedules. the sena-
tor has written letter in which he
states:
II will say in reply that did not say
the other day, or any day, that 1t would
be very unwise for the republican par
ty to go to the polls in national cleo
ton without having first amended the
tariff laws have not entertained the
opinion thus ascribed to me. and do
not now entertain it. On the contrary.
believe it would be unwise to under
take the revision of the tariff In the
~>~'-'
paign That would be revision on
political party lines whilst the tarln'
when revised, should be revised as
business proposition"
1t is recalled in this connection that
prior to the last presidential campaign
Governor Cummfns, in an lnterVle"
widely quoted, declared himself IN "a
vor of strictly business read1ust-
ment of the tariff schedules and sus-
gested the appointment of commls-
sion to make inquiry as to the oper-
ations of the present schedules with
view to taking some action at tne
proper time. In his address When ne
| was inaugurated the first time he de
clarea himself as opposed to general
revision of the tariff
| 1t thus appears from what Senator
Allison has put out as his platform up
on the tariff question for the penang
[ campaign that there is to be no issue
of the tariff involved-both are for re-
vision on business basis and both are
opposed to the standpat attitude OF
sacredness of the tariff schedules 1or-
| ever and forever.
II has been claimed on behalf OF the
availability of Major Lacey as sena-
torial candidate that he would lmme-
ciately force tariff fight upon elther
of the. other candidates, since ms at
titude is not in accord with either OF
the ayoWed candidates for the senate.
A census bulletin just issued from
| Washington contains some Valuaple III :
formation regarding newspapers that
/ will he of more than passing interest TO
Iowa people. This bulletin shows that
| Iowa has very large number OF
| newspapers, in fact larger NUMBER
in proportion to population than other
4 states. and is especially strong In the
number of the weekly newspapers. Inc
bulletin also shows very plainly why
| there is some complaint on the part
of publishers of weekly newspapers OF
insufficient support, for it indicates
that Iowa has so many newspapers that
the average circulation Is very low.
4 Iowa in population is tenth among
the states, but in the number of news
papers is fifth. the order being: New
York 1897 Illinois 1,715, Pennsylvania
1852, Ohio 1929, Iowa 1,067. Iowa is
fourth in total number of weekly
newspapers issued: Illinois 1901, New
/ York 9s9, Pennsylvania S92, Iowa 1854.
Iowa has larger number of weekly
newspapers in proportion to popula-
ton than either of three states hav-
ing more weekly papers. Iowa has one
for every $3.50 of population. Illinois
| one for every 4,410, New York one for
7,24O and Pennsylvania 1890.
But the average circulation of Iowa
weekly newspapers per issue. is re-
ported by the statisticians at Washing
ton to be only 1851 The average for
the entire United States is 2,441. The
weekly papers in Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Missouri. Nebraska, Kansas and Illi-
nois all circulate larger number Of
copies on the average than in Iowa.
1 In the class of states having popula
ton not greatly different from Iowa
in amount the total number Of week
ly newspapers is: Iowa 1854, Michigan
| $40, Indiana 562, Wisconsin 53s, Mas
sachusetts 316, Kentucky 23O, Georgia
233. Tennessee 23o
Iowa publishers run to serni-weeklies
and tri-weeklies more than in other
states. Iowa has sixty such publica
tions New York has So, Illinois So,
Ohio SO, Pennsylvania SO, Wisconsin
81. Indiana 32, Michigan 80, Missouri
10, Minnesota and Massachusetts
only S.
Iowa reports to the census bureau
66 daily newspapers, of which 15 are
morning papers. AS matter of fact
the majority Of these are morning edi-
tions Of evening papers But Indiana
has 161 dailies, Massachusetts SO,
4 Michigan Sc. Wisconsin S. Kentucky
S4. Georgia 26 and Tennessee II. The
average daily circulation of the Iowa
daily newspapers is 4,96s. In Massa-
chusetts the aver ge is 1898 and in
i Tennessee ii is 1857 In Indiana
however, the average circulation IS
only 3,328
y The aggregate circulation per issue