Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-05
ROOSEVELT BRINGS
MESSAGE 70 IOWA
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and for some months preaching Iowa
| doctrines to the extreme fright Of q
portion OF the community which is rich
enough to know better.
Take such a question as the tariff
All republicans are now coming rapidly
to an agreement. We are all unit in
/ favor of protective tariff of which the
M easure of protection shall be the diff
! ference in cost of production at home
and abroad: that is. tariff high
enough to cover the difference in labor
costs due to the difference in the stand
| ard of living of our wage workers and
| those of foreign countries. plus rea-
| sonable and not an unreasona BILE profit.
That Is the principle we are all agreed
on.
Tariff Making Methods Inadequate.
! Now as TO the method most OF us are
already agreed. and the remainder soon
will be agreed. on the point that the
methods hitherto obtaining in our tar
if making are totally inadequate to
bring Justice under present conditions.
They did very well in the days OF Clay
and Webster when there were not
great special interests with which We
have to deal today. They are outworn.
they are as much outworn as the flint
lock is in war And the time has come
for US TO adopt new methods. and, OBJ
viously Of all methods proposed. the
best Is that for permanent nonpartisan
tariff commission of experts. which Will
no, accep, the say-so OF any man on
any schedule. but Will look into the
matter for itself and then report on
each schedule or Its merits. and there
by not only free us from the log roll
ing inevitable under the present system
! OF tariff making. but prevent the ousi-
ness depression which has always at
tended any general revision Of all the
| schedules a. once.
Doss Labor Get Benefit?
| II have one personal suggestion in
addition tina, I would like 20 make TO
that plan. which is that II should be
| the duty OF some governmental body to
look into the conditions OF labor in the
protected industries as to see that
the wage workers do actually get the
benefit Of what ie supposed 70 be done
80 largely In their interest.
Now friends. I WIFI call your at
tention 70 the fact that the principle
| OF protection Is RICH; and We stand for
IL. but tina, the methods by which
that principle has sought 10 be achieved
have proved TO be totally inadequate
and that We intend to change them.
| That Is the repu bl!can position-stand
by the principle which is right, but We
are going 70 change the methods which
are wrong.
And the democratic position Is to
take 1t. and that lie characteristic OF the
dem ocratic attitude for the last half
century past. that inasmuch 40 the
principle is right they viii abandon
that, but as the methods are wrong,
| they will cling to them. So that we
stand for the principle that is right and
| against the methods that are wrong,
and they stand against the methods
that are wrong. and they stand against
the principle that is right and for the
methods that are wrong.
! Now that is a perfectly fair state
ment OF the position OF the parties I
! the present time. I have no question
there are any number OF the rank ana
file OF democracy that are honestly pro-
gressive, just as much so as we are,
but their leadership is either utterly
bourbon or reactionary. or else. insofar
as you can call ii leadership at all, 1t
consists in the violent. abrupt oscilla-
ton Of ultra radicaiism Of the most
4 EduIS6i hlIlu anu S:ti Sch-Sas e~tA"-A' "
the same level of intelligence.
In my own state the democratic
candidate for governor and the chair
man Of the democratic committee. are
I in the wall paper business. They say
dutiees are TOO high. but. when the
tariff was being made they wrote and
urged that on their product the duties
| be made % per cent higher. Now
either position could be taken in the
private capacity and could be honestly
taken but both positions can not be
honest
"A man who is sincere republican
J and who believes that il is necessary
| that the republican party should short
! ly be brought to practice loyalty to the
! principles of Abraham Lincoln, should
| show it, not by saying that he did
right about the problems he had 10
face. but by facing our problems Of to-
day in the spirit with which he faced
| his. Every sincere republican OF that
kind can preach always the same doc
| trine Of principles. Every speech l
made in New York has been precisely
| like the speech in Iowa and made IN
Kansas and like the speech I shall
make tomorrow in Ohio.
! II stand for what has been called the
new nationalism which merely means
| the efficient APPLICATION OF old moral
tiles to new needs: stand FOR the prln-
ciple OF elimination Of ever species OF
special interests: I stand for doing
complete justice to corporations. ana
! for demanding efficient and complete
| justice from corporations. You cant
have a straight man that is crooked on
one side, and a public servant who is
worth his salt can serve you only II he
does as scrupulous justice to the cor
poration as he in return exacts from
the corporation to the public.
| Tammany seeks Money.
! Il have told you Of the democratic
party. I wish to take the liberty here
to read very interesting circular sent
out by Tammany Hall to Wall street
| to collect funds. It was sent me by
Wall street man who said II was
circulated broadcast and Is signed by
the campaign committee Of Tammany
Hall, including Mr.. Charles F. Murphy,
the boss.
| Tt is dater, "Tammany Hall, Oct. Z,
1870 and runs in part:
| Dear Sir: The campaign II inn
portant'-in which agree-'The DEM