Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-18
THE FORWARD MOVEMENT
IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
CONTINUED from Fourth paee.)

| pate in the debate would have been
absolutely helpless if they had nislaid
the memoranda prepared for their use
by persons who have not yet been
elected to the senate; altho 1t is under
stood some OF them are now candidates.
| No man can carefully read the hear
| ings before the house committee on
ways and means during the last TWEEN
ty-five years without seeing that the
very language of our tariff laws. in all
the more important schedules. includ-
ing the punctuation. has been handed
in to the committees OF congress by
interested parties on the outside. 1t
is in vain for men like Senator AID
rich to justify what has been done by
publishing certificates signed by So
called experts in the New York cuhtoln
house. A resort to such witnesses
only confirms the public in its sus-
picion that he has done. during the
last twenty years, a very much larger
tariff business than has been war
ranted by his capital stock Of knowl
edge and direct familiarity with our
industrial affairs. 1t has been a shock
to the moral sense OF republican vot-
ers Of all kinds to find out from the
lips Of Senator Aldrich himself that the
sum total of the senate's contribution
to the new law is represented by the
cheerful suggestions Of two employees
of the New ork CUSTOM house, both
democrats one of them henchrnan of
the late Senator German. and the 9TH
err a played -out politician from Cali
fornia. 1t might have been possible
for some Of us to have overlooked the
source Of the wisdom which found its
way into our tariff revision If 1t had
not been for well-grounded suspicion
that back of these over advertised
customs experts stood the lobbyists of
the textile associations, with a more
distinct influence over the opinions of
the experts than they had themselves.
The group of men who refused. even
under the lash Of party discipline. to
swallow down the dose which was thus
prepared for them, have no intention OF
leaving the republican party They in
tend to stay in the party: to contend
against the evil influences which ara
seeking to use it for money-making
purposes: and SO far as the tariff is
concerned they present an affirmative
program which will make future re-
visions Of the law, II not easy. at least
free from the scandal which arises
from the Interchange among our en-
terprising captains Of industry, duly
represented lA bOl1l lOuScS OL SO4l6EcSNs
of reciprocal benefits. in the distribu-
ton Of which the rights of the public
are altogether forgotten.
Insurgency Now Popularizes the Party.
The contest against the use of the
legislative power Of the government TO
promote private interests has already
made such progress in both houses OF
congress that in the recent session 1t
was said with bitterness by the old
leaders that there was republican
majority in neither house nor senate.
If that be true. how does 1t come that
the work of that session is now every
where exhibited as conclusive evil
dence of the wisdom and efficiency OF
the republican administration The
conspicuous distinction OF the recent
session lies in the fact that 1t had the
moral vigor to maintain the independ
ence OF congress and to take the bills,
prepared for it in advance. and rewrite
them in plain English for the beneft Of
the public, which has the right to look
to congress for the protection of its
interests. Thus 1t has happened that
the forward movement within the re-
publican party has not only more than
held It's own in congress, bringing to
the side OF the somewhat lonesome
pioneer from Wisconsin men like
| Moses E. Clapp, whose Judgment OF
things as they ought to be Is almost
intuitive in It's precision; Albert j.
Beveridge, OF Indiana versatile in re-
sources, powerful in debate, with
moral courage so invincible that when
he went home last spring to give an
account of his stewardship. the young
men Of Indiana put on badge with
these words, He fights for tho right
and votes as he fights" A. B. Cum
minis, who in the railway debate ex-
hibited a knowledge Of the law SO pro-
found, an acquaintance with the prac-
teal problems of railway economics so
intimate, and Storehouse Of energy
and enthusiasm so ineXhaustfble, that
he was able, without seeming to In
trude too much into the discussion. to
dominate for months the proceedings
of the senate: and Joseph L. Bristow,
the new senator from Kansas. q verit-
able crusader for righteousness. armed
with modern weapons. of whom it has
been said by one who listened to him
when he pointed out, standing before
a map on the walls Of the chamber.
the injustice of the railways in their
dealings with the intermountain towns
of the west. This man Is an enigma;
he seems to be a composite OF John
Brown of Osawatomie and the French
detective Vidocq."
One after another the young men in
congress are enlisting under the BAN
ner of republican progress; but. rapid
as are the changes taking place In con-
gress, they are slow and hesitating
mpared to the swift movement Of
events turnout the United States from
one oceon to the other. These changes
so startling that we have to rub our
eyes before we can believe. involve no
portent Of evil either to the republican
party or to popular institutions In
America. They are preparing the way
for larger usefulness for public men
and for political parties. Condensed
into a single sentence. they mean the
freedom and independence OF the mar
ket-place for American business and
the freedom and independence OF the
government for the service Of the
whole people.
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