Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1910-05-13

United States Senator from Iowa.
good will in the fight have been try
| Ing to make and the sacrifices l have
made for progressive good government
And so stand for all these Iowa
| republicans who have been preparing tho
way for a larger outlook and better gov.
II didn't come here to say anything
against the president. He has great du
ties and responsibilities defined by law
of OFF the he Hn ns s STATES with the dsnte d."
ties to perform And ! mean no retlec-
tion on him when l. as the representative
of the people. who his solmen obligations
and responsibilities, find it sometimes
necessary to disagree with him and the
leadership which surrounds him. Yet |
speak no unkind word
Speaks Of President.
Il was present when the late President
Mckinley induced Judge Taft to accept
the great the and burden of
that time until he became president of
the United States was attached to him
as l was attached to few other, men;
in the public It street ' before the old brick
house In Washington where James Blaine
lay in the shadow of death, ! have no
experience more bitter than the experience
of finding political associates, friends and
neghbors waging an unrepublican con-
test
The president Of the United states
has described himself as the titnlar Leader
leader? ttular leader, is a man entirely
to know exactly what they want.
1t is that into his council have crowded
men who do not have the interest or
welfare of the party Or country at heart.
Declined Both invitations.
in speaking here tonight i will be
old r ep SHen s But tt have had a
good deal of experience and believe
party well, ] have defended them be-
twenty five years and do not intend to
retire from that goodly fellowship, M
though ] have been invited to do SO SO, from from
urged from another direction. have de-
clined both invitations.
II do not respect the authority Of the
attorney general to read me out OF the
party: decline the invitation to depart
Il was born, in the republican party;
know its future lies in the, success OF
the movement. now nation wide, to de-
pose and set aside leadership which has
betrayed the people. And I have been
accused at the bar of republicanism In
to become party to 1t.
Promise Of Republican Party.
Il have already said that the promise of
the republican party to the American peo-
formed by a few alterations In the old
schedules, even If these could have been
adroily advertised as downward revlsions.
If no other question was involved, reDub-
lican members Of congress ontvoted in their
efforts to secure reductions in the rates,
would have probably expressed their dis
appointment without Wit s recording ts t hHn,
d larger and more substantial thing,
"IIaving in mind the history of tariff
king in congress. the party agreed that
the revision should be made with refer;
encc to standard of justice. standard
which measured the protection to be nc
corded to American industries by the diff |
and abroad and the fundamental protest
which was filed against the measure was
based upon the, fact that no attempt was
made in any schedule to apply that stand
'Not only so. but the effort which was
made to abolish obsolete methods of tar
if tinkering by the creation of a perma-
nent board Of experts. SO that tn the acGnt
be eliminated from the work Of congress
in the future were ridiculed and rejected,
and the platform Of the party itself de-
sion. The circumstance was ignored
that for over twenty years we have had
self constituted tariff commissions at work.
without public responsibility. or. authority
IF protection demanded, but the. very
anguage often devious and unintelligible.
IN which the purpose Of the law should
)e expressed. YS
Abuse is Old One.
'This abuse is very old one. Forty.
.wo years ago stupid and fraudulent
schedule Of wool ana wooiens was pre-
congress-, and enacted into law, without
.hanging even the punctuation. 1t was
It q time of general indifference OF the
What seemed perfectly natural then is
morally incredible today.
"If Senator Sherman could stand up
oday on this floor, and defend a tariff
Interested had written It themselves, and
xhort his colleagues not to dot an "i'
n cross 1t" in their manuscript, SO
hat in the future they would be estopped
.ood many voices would be heard in OBJ
lection, and somebody would be liable
o say that proposition involving the
onsidered for a few minutes at least from
public standpoint so that that portion
# the community which wears wooen
lothes should have their complaint heard
o us, after that exact argument by Sen
tor sherman, and by that exact argu-
nent it has been continued from gen
ra tion to generation, bringing into re.
roach every general revision of the tariff
rom that day to this Even at the be.
inning, there were some voices against
uch 4 method of transacting the public
nd Henry Wilson were recorded against
he measure on its final passage. But
here is no evidence that the general
pinion of the country took any offense on
80 tbo IF nrtm
i've method Of tariff making by com
,ission selected by its benefciares,. 50
lat for nearly half century that SEIZED.
10. unchanged and immutabe. has defed
very effort Of the law-making power to
litigate its excuses. or even to modernize
IS phraseology II
Affects Other Schedules.
E"But Schedule X is not the only one
I our tariff schedules which congress
as hnbltua!ly left to commission Of
overnment, and responsible only to the I
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