Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-28
TAFT and The TARIFF
Candidate at Des Moines Ex-
presses Same Views Held
by Cummins
REVISION WILL BE DOWNWARD
Taft Pulls Some of tho Fanss From
standpat Opponents Candidate
Carroll Declares for Progressive
Principles and Promises Continuance
of Policies in Office.
al to Times-Renuhlican.


Des Moines, Sept. 2S.--When Secre-
| tary Taft declared that the revision OF
the tariff by the next session of con-
| gress must be a revision downward and
THAT the interests of the consumer
must be looked after as well as those
| of the producer and laborer he pulled
the fangs of all those who for years
have been attacking Governor Cummins
and claiming that he was out of har-
| tariff. Mr.. Taft used almost the exact
words that Cummins has used many
times in speaking for revision of
the tariff.
Preceding the address by Secretary
Taft. Hon. George l.. Dobsoil. ex-sec-
rotary of state of Iowa. spoke. He told
of the great benefits of the tariff and
stated several times that he would have
more barbed wires added to the top Of
Il the protective tariff fence. EX-Con-
gresham John T. Lacey, the standpat
nominee for the senate, followed and
said If he went ito congress there would
be no Democratic revision" and many
in the audience could not help but
feel that the man who calls himself a
"standpatter from Standpatville." really
had in mind that the revision must be
up instead of down and in his own
mind has all who favor a downward
revision cassed as democratic revis-
Sionfsts."
Secretary Taft followed and said:
1T is my Judgment that the revis-
ion of the tariff in accordance with the
pledge of the republican party will be
ON the whole substantial revision
downward. tho there probably will be
few exceptions in this regard" and
also: There is also a large element in
the republican party representing the
consumer, thru whom the demand for
revision of the tariff on conservative
protective lines to reduce excessive
rates has crystallized into the definite
pledge to revise the tariff"
None of the local newspapers pub
Hshed all that Secretary Taft said here
on, the tariff, and this is to be greatly
regretted. His speech on the tariff was
almost exactly a repetition Of what he
said at Milwaukee Thursday on the
same subject. Twice he said that the
revision of the tariff must be downward
and twice he referred to the interests
of the consumer, tho saying at all
times that the manufacturer and labor
had JOINT interests with the consumer
and that there were articles now man
ufactured and needing protective tar
iff that We're not manufactured when
the tariff bill was passed and other ar
ticles, a few, on which the tariff might
be raised. For saying those things some
have thought to brand Cummins as a
democrat.
Two years ago when as the republic
an nominee for governor he opened
the republican campaign at Churdan,
Ia, Governor Cummins said on the tar
Tiff:
my views are unchanged, and with
in the ranks of the party, ] will labor
as earnestly as I can, not for a gem
eral revision of the schedules, for that
1 have never favored, but for reducing
certain duties, which our experience
during the past nine years has shown
to he excessive" Further IN in the
discussion in the same speech he said:
Duties should always be high
enough to give the domestic producer
his home market, with reasonable
profit but they should never be high
to enable the domestic producer
to exact an unfair profit from the do
lnestic consumer"
Time and again Governor Cummins
has described the protective tariff as
the difference in the cost of production
at home and abroad with a reasonable |
profit for the home producer, and time
and again he has referred to the inter-
ests Of the consumer in the fixing OF
tariff schedules.
The address of Secretary Taft here
and on his tour thru Iowa together
with the address of Auditor Carroll,
The republican nominee for governor at
Saturday afternoon, and
the addresses that will be made by
others thru Iowa this campaign. prob
ebly set at rest for all time also that
.owa is progressive and will never be