Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-28
WORST PHASE OF TARIFF SIT
Esprit Lake Beacon.

Esprit Lake Beacon.1
In one of his senate speeches Sem
ator Cummins says:
IF this bill, or anything substantially
like it. becomes law. predict that
campaign for lower duties will begin
the moment the extraordinary session
of congress adjourns, and will continue
with increasing zeal until the judg-
ment entered in the court of the public
conscience is also entered in the jour-
mails of congress"
The Des Moines Capital of last Sat-
urday expresses this opinion: I'VE are
in favor Of revision downward. We
want the tariff settled for another ten
year period. And it can not be settled
except by revision downward"
These statements. based upon the
same situation and reaching to a like
conclusion, come from men who have
differed widely in many matters politi-
cal. and particularly as to republican
treatment Of the tariff. They relate to
the most vital feature of the tariff
question in its relations to affairs Of
this generation. In the development
of our unparalleled national resources
and the highest possible equipment Of
our national industries Amos. any kind
of protection is to be economically pre-
ferred to free trade or a revenue tar
IF. 1t it were not for the submersion of
manhood, the measure of party perfdy
and personal dishonor involved; il 1t
We're not for its influence upon the vital
spirit Of virile free government, 1t were
better perhaps, to swallow almost any
kind of tariff dose prescribed by the
Cannon-Aldrich program rather than to
disturb the currents of trade by at
tacks upon the schedules which have
to do with the staility of markets But
If all leaders of politics and of COM
merce agreed to pass the tariff meas
ures in anything like their present
form and to favor a policy of peace. ag-
itation would begin on the day the law
was passed and swell in volume and
influence until majority of congress
sent up from the people We're disposed
to make more consistent revision of tho
tariff
1t is strange, indeed, that republicans
and democrats who are insulting pub
lie intelligence and stulifying party
character so utterly fail to comprehend
the effect of their program upon the
popular mind and its ultimate reaction
upon the interests 1t Is proposed to
serve. In any event the country will
have some measure Of prosperity, be-
cause of the great pressure of expan-
sion and development In spite of the
uncertainty Of schedules and their eff
| feet upon industrial products the pass
| ing weeks witness rising tide OF bust
ness. The political gang, mad with ex-
cess of power and intoxication Of vast
wealth and rapid accumulation, can
not prevent the country from forging
ahead commercially, but it will be in
spite of their greed and infldelity to
public trust. Meanwhile the clamor
they might have stilled will increase
and movements for a new tariff deal
will to the great annoyance of trade
proceed until practical results are writ
ten in law, And unfortunately it may
come to pass that revision will be fin
ally accomplished by influence un-
friendly to protection. It is impossible
to even predict the train Of troubles t.
follow the Cannon-Aldrich program
When both these INV oTttihy leaders
shall be remembered only with politica
aversion their treachery and blindness
in this emergency may continue te
plague US.