The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-15
LACEY AND CLARKE
WIN W|hTERSET
DOUBLE HEADER REPUBLICAN
RALLY A GREAT SUCCESS.
BRYAN'S POLICIES EXPOSED
Long List of Promises That Have
Never Been Redeemed-labor-
ing Men Should Not Be
Deceived This Time.

Winterset, Ia, Oct. 12.-Major j. F.
Lacey and Lieut.. Gov. George w.
Clarke were the speakers at a double
header republican rally here Saturday,
the former speaking in the afternoon,
the latter in the evening. Both ad-
dressed large audiences and were well
received. Major Lacey's address was
devoted entirely to party issues and
in no wise to his own candidacy. He
in part said:
Mr.. Roosevelt's celebrated Minneap-
oils speech of April A, 1904, in which
he said that "A nation like ours could
not long stand the ruinous policy OF
Ireadjusting it's business to radical tar
| lift changes at short intervals" was &C
Icepted by the most of the republicans,
and delay in considering tariff revision
has ensued. But next spring the pres
ent law will have stood twelve years,
and it would be strange if some of the
schedules had not become inapt as to
, the present conditions.
AS chairman of the committee on
resolutions, l reported the Iowa plank
| for revision, in the March convention,
and | had the honor to help frame the
platform of the party as a member OF
the committee on resolutions, at the
national convention in Chicago. This
was not a hurried act or a stampede
on the part of the republican party,
but was a declaration in good faith
to take up the whole tariff act and
make any needed changes in its sched-
ules.
| The democratic platform declares
for immediate revision also, and, con-
fronted with the grave question, 1t be-
comes of the utmost importance to de-
termine which party which shall be
trusted to make changes in this law
which affects the well-being of the mil
lions of farmers and workingmen in
our land by their fruits ye shall
know them" is the soundest of all
maXims.
Shall we have Bryan revision or
republican revision? Well, we had
the Wilson-Bryan act of 1894. We
know what that law did to the Amer
lean people. No one was then discuss
ling the question of guaranteeing de-
Iposits in banks. The farmer and Ia
boring man had no money to deposit.
e.! There is a slight touch of humor in
the democratic demand for an aban-
donment of the protective policy, and
also for some guaranty of the deposits
of the peoples money. When the Will
son Bill became a law, it was branded
by Mr.. Cleveland as full of ''perfidy
and dishonor." But the working-peo-
Iple who had demanded a change soon
lrepented in sack cloth and ashes.
| have just been reading the demo-
cratic campaign book for 1908 and the
burden of the song is The people say
we want a change That was the CAM
paign cry of 1892. 1t is sixteen years
since the dark days of Netherlands
second administration. A generation
of young men has grown up since
then, to whom the days | refer to are
Ionly a matter Of history.
We nave had one experience of a
tariff bill drawn by Mr.. Bryan and his
associates on the democratic ways and
Imeans committee. No one old enopgh
I to recall that experience would want
Ito try another. Mr.. Bryan shrunk
from the ordeal of defending it, and
fought the First Battle" of 1896 on
1.-THE then-new, but now wholly defunct
tissue Of Free Coinage of Silver"
When he attacked the protective tar
tiff in Congress, he compared it to the
''cannibal tree" that fed on living be-
Iings. That cannibal tree had great
run in it's day.
The came free silver and the hor-
rors of the gold standard were pa
raded before a startled people. And
this issue took wise and prudent men
off their feet. 1t was not a mere poll
tical factor, it became almost a reli,
gion. But, fortunately, the American
Ipeople commenced to study the dis.
Imal subject of finance. and when they
Igot through with Mr. Bryan in 1896,
they said to Mckinley, "All right, open
the mills instead of the minis"
If we have work, ii we have mar
kets, we will have money. No mere
looming machine ever made a people
rich. Farm lands in Iowa were then
worth S25 10 $50 per acre. They were
mortgaged, but the daily talk in Con-
Igress was about mortgaged farms and
1.-THE burning of corn for fuel in Iowa
land Kansas. Now, when the subject
of making notifications of the tariff
schedules Is a living question, what
Bryan and his fellow free-traders? Or
will you do? Will you trust this grave
lsubject to the renewed efforts of Mr.
will you grant renewed confidence tC
the party of the old standard, Of
sound money and protection. Shall
the tariff be revised along the lines
favored by Abrananm Lincoln, the
founder of protection in the republican
party? Shall the policies of Harrison
Mckinley and Roosevelt, in favor O
the American system of protection BIZ
followed? Or shall we take down the
Ibars and again go in the mad quest fol
the markets of the world, while We
trample under foot and destroy oul
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