Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-06-16


Naked the soul goes up to God
brother. my BROTHER
from Iowa are leading the attack nm
New England tariff. Mr.. Cummins
IS new man In the senate, but he
mas been tariff revisionist for
years and he made good almost i'm
mediately after his arrival here.
DoIliver an Old Hand.
senator Dolliver is an old hand at
the business. He served in the wova
and means committee, in the making
of the Dingley tariff and in making
and unmaking of the war revenue act
can testify from personal expert
ence that he was one of the best
equipped men on that committee dur
ing all of his service. He was infin-
ltely better posted than Mr.. Payne
and he ought to have been on the
finance committeein the senate. and
would have been if the powers that
be over there were not personally
afraid his great ability would force a
reduction tariff.
Both of these Iowa senators are
protectionists from the word go, and
yet both of them are in favor of
and reasonable reduction
in the tariff. That they faithfully
represent the views of their people
no man can doubt.
This points the moral that I have
been SO long getting at. In the early
fall of 1898 hostilities with Spain
had been suspended. A protocol for
treaty had been agreed upon in Au-
gust.and the treaty itself was signed
in Paris some months later. With
the armistice President Mckinley
found it possible to leave Washing
ton. He went out to the Omaha
exposition and from there he took a
trip across Iowa, down into Missouri,
eastwardsinto Indiana, and back to
Chicago, where great peace carni-
val was in progress, of which he
was ct ntIal figure. i was with
him on the Whole trip and remember
some things which for obvious rea-
sons could not be printed in full at
that time, although they were limited
at in my dispatches.
What They Wanted to Hear.
When we first steamed out OF
Omaha early in the morning the
crowd to greet the train at Council
Bluffs was small. The president
made one of his usual speeches, re,
ferring to the great prosperity of
the country which had followed the
enactment of the Dingley law. The
crowd was respectful but not entus.
iastic A little farther on variation
of the same speech was tried at some
cross road stopping place. 1t had
the same, reception. For the third
time the experiment was made on a
larger crowd and again the lack of
any wild enthusiasm was apparent.
and this, too, in state where Nc
kinley was known and loved by ev.
cry one.
After this third experiment the
president came back in to the car
and sat down on a couch at the end
of the room. I could see he was
and apparently a little
anxious. After thinking over the
matter little while he Frightened
up.
These people are SO prosperous, .
he said, "and they know it so much
better than we do, that they don't
care to be told about it.
He had struck the nail on the
head with his unerring political saga
city, and he proceeded at once to
apply the remedy.
AT the next station there was even
larger crowd, as l remember, and
the president cut out great deal of
his prosperity talk, but referred to
the necessity of finding new markets
abroad for the products of the far1hs.
Instantly there was a whoop from
the crowd and the presidents face
frightened. He had discovered what
the people were thinking about and
he was exceedingly quick to give
them what they wanted.
When the train slowed UP again
Mr.. Mckinley, who was wonderful
campaign orator, extended his re-
marks to the desirability of finding
an American market across the sea.
The crowd went wild. They made
application to the Philippines at
once and it was easy to see that they
We're practically unanimous in decid
ing that the vast territory conquered
by Dewey would remain under our
flag. Again the president caught the
inspiration of the moment and later
on some of us were surprised to find
him saying that our flag was flying
on far away islands across the sea
and that the flag was not to come
down.
Forming of Expansion Policy.
And SO it went. The expansion
policy was formulated in the presi
dents mind there and then. H,
went on from one statement to an
other until by the time we had reach
ed Burlington. where he was received
with great torchlight demonstration
the president of the United State.
lin repeated speeches had PRACTICAL.