Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-08-27

Des Moinsr Iowa, Aug, 2l.--Th1s is
the biggest day the annual State Fair
OF Iowa has ever known, and the un-
toward thousands w he throngit today,
drawn here by the presence Of Will
liam Jennings Bryan. lis eheoring
evidense that the masses in Iowa-as |
in other States-as i'm the nation-are |
turning 10 him as nevel before.
After being pressntedrto his great
audiencs Mr. Bryan said:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
In nay notification speech I stated
that, as the campaign progressed,
would discuss the question. Snail
the People Rule" .asit applies to the
various issues iGwolved in this Gam
paiga. I begin with the tariff qees-
ton, because it is the most lasting of
our economic questions and the one
upon which the leading parties nave
most frequently opposed each osher.
Other questions may come and CO. but
questions which ATTEST taxation like
Tennyson's "Breok' on forever -
As the Government is not Lady
Bountiful, with unlimited means, but
merely an Organization which must
collect on the one hand what ID pays
out on the other, the subject oftsNet1on
lis an ever presentf0ne. We may dis
euss how mach aEve should collect,
what methods we should snapley in
collecting, and how tbest to distribute,
through appropriations, the money
collected, but we area never tag remSv-
ed from the suhjOot of taxation icNa
has been selected. tor thea apressnta ton
of what [ desire tc say upon t&2ts CUB
isct, because the Iowa Republicans
were pioneers in the effsrt to secure
tariff revision at the hands of the Re-
publican party Z come among them
TO define and defend the Democratic
position on the tariff question, because
/ believe it will commend itself to
them. That the issusEmay be clearly
stated, I shall readyou the Democratic
plank on this subject, and then the
Republican plank.
The Democratic platform says:
1--WE welcome the belated promise OF
tariff reform now rSfered by the BE
publican party as a tardy recognition
of the righteousness OF the Democratic
position on this question; but the peo
pie cannot safely enfrust the execution
Of this Important work to q party
which is SO deeply obligated to the
highly protected interest as is the Re
+o
the signifie ant fact that the promised
relief was postponed until after the
coming election-an election to sue
esed in which, the Republican party
must have the same Isupport from the
benefciaries of the ,faigh sprotective
tariff as it has always lheretofore re-
eeived from them Eand to the further
fact that during years Of uninterrupted
power, no action swhatsver has been
taken by the Republican !congress to
correct the admittedly existing tariff
iniquities.''
The Republican party says;
''The Republican partysdeclares un-
euuivocally for a revision OF the tariff
by special session of keongress i'm
mediately following the Inauguration
of the next president, sand commends
the steps already taken to this end in
the work assigned tosths appropriate
committees of congress, which are now
investigating the operation and effect
of existing schedules. In all tariff
legislation the true Eprinciple of pro-
lection is best maintained sby the i'm
position of such duties as will equal
the difference betw the cost of pro-
duetion at home and 2abroad, together
with reasonable profit to American
industries.
It will be noticed that the Republi-
can party has abandoned the earlier
arguments advaneedIlin support of a
high tariff. We hearsno more of the
sInfant Industries THAT must be
tenderly cared for until they can
stand upon their feet; 'lthere is no sug-
gsstion that the foreigner pay tbs