The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-04-27

advising Iowa congressman to insurge
for years, and showing no one any
quarter who would not go the limit
! the Register and Leader finds that
it has instructed its pupils so well
that they can play the game on their
own responsibility and can insurge
against insurgency when the temper
of their constituency would seem to
demand something of that sort. And
the amusing part of the game is that
the Register and Leader has learned
to scold the Iowa delegation more
bitterly than the other leading state
papers who foresaw the conditions
that now confront us.
Another peculiar feature of the
situation is the wonderful admiration
for the Taft administration that the
Register and Learder has recently ac-
quired, when less than a year ago it
pounded the Iowa delegation on the
back in joyful glee and clapped its
hands with exulting enthusiasm be-
cause small majority in republi-
can state convention succeeded in
giving affront te-snFepublican presi-
dent by studiously avoiding the men
ton of Taft's name.
The most recent screed from the
Register and Leader directed at the
Iowa delegation for lodging the
Iowa Idea"-which they have loved
not wisely, but too we'll, and for
clamboring back into the standpat
band wagon on the, tariff question
is well worth the space and the time
it will take to read it. Here are the
essential paragraphs:
Just what the Iowa delegation ex
poets to accomplish by getting
squarely out of line with the admin
istration on the issue that will be
uppermOst in the national campaign,
and that the republican party will
have to stand or fall on, passes I'M
derstanding.
1T is easy to see why Speaker Can
non should be with the little minor.
ity in the house against reciprocity
he has always been there That
has been him hobby for years, and
that is the reason why insurgency
arose and why he was deposed as
speaker. Nobody dislikes Uncle joe
personally and nobody questions his
integrity or his ability. All anybody
has ever urged has been that he is
behind the times, and this interpret
ed has meant largely that he has
been a tariff mossback.
Speaker Cannon stands where
everybody expected him to stand.
There would have been universal sur
prise if he had stood anywhere else.
But what is to be said of the cham
pions of the Iowa idea, the men who
made the platform of 1901, who now
rush over to congratulate Uncle
Joe on exactly the same speeches
he was making in Iowa idea days;
exactly the same speeches in which
he held them up to ridicule through
out the trying times of the Iowa up
heaval?
I'm what position is the state to
find itself next year if we are counted |
in the same irreconcilable minority in
the senate that we are enrolled with |
in the house, with the same infiam |
matory speeches spread at length |
over the Congressional Record pages?
The question will be, shall repub-
ican administration be sustained in
joing what we have been talking
about in season and out OF season?
What shall We be in position to say
about it? Or are we to keep still
md go into the dumps with Speaker
1T ought to be perfectly plain that
he one thing President Taft has done
hat should bring him the enthusiast
lie approval of the tariff reform in
iurgency of the west has been his re.
rival of Blaine reciprocity. 1t may
lot have come in just the right place
o suit Iowa. but 1t has yet to be
shown that Iowa will not be the
,ainer by IL. II may not have come
n just the right commodities. But I
t has come just as Cuban reciprocity
anne under President Roosevelt, and
nee 1t has come the wonder VIII be,
IS in the case of Cuba. that we did
lot work for IL long ago.
Why Is Iowa out OF line? Why
re Iowa congressman afraid OF their
hadows? Why has Speaker Cannon
'een picked out in this emergency as {
he Rock OF Agcsg Why is Iowa
,etting where there win be tons of |
Record to eaten like
lain crow, or lot Of Iowa speh. (