Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-21
DEMAND THAT ADVOCATES OF
TARIFF DESCEND ON WASH
INGToN IN FORCE.
SAY DANGER OF FREE TRADE
IMMINENT UNLESS HALTED
American Protective Tariff League
Opens Headquarters in Washington
For Purpose Of Fighting Reciprocity
Agreement - Rushing to Defense OF
Senator Stephenson.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
Washington, June 21-The American
! Protective Tariff league is urging pro-
tectionists to swoop down on Wash
| ington in body and thus save the
protective tariff system from utter de-
! struction and ruination.
! 1t will be recalled that in the 1903
/ extra session of congress, the league
came out with this advice to the be-
levers in preventing reduction Of dut-
les:
Let your office boy run the business
and YOU take the first train to WASH
| ington."
Now. the league is out with the same
! advice 1t is stirred up over the Ca
madam reciprocity agreement and
! is urging its mem bers and all high tar
! if supporters to descend on Washing
ton. hire a room. and stay at the CAPT
| tai until congress adjourns. 1t is urg-
! ing the believers in protection to can
vass every member Of house and SEN
ate and sound the alarm as to the
dangers that beset the protective tar
| if system.
In matter being sent out from New
York this week the league urges pro-
! tectionistS that the danger of free
trade is imminent if they do not forth
| with get busy and stand shoulder to
shoulder in vigorous and persistent OPP
position to the pending free trade ar
| rangement with Canada"
The lea que has opened headquarters
in Washington for the purpose or
fighting the reciprocity agreement and
all efforts to reduce the tariff and If
its call for help Is heard no doubt
Washington will soon be filled with
small army of folks who are trying 10
hold the props under the Payne Al
drich tariff law.
Talk Of an investigation by the sem
ate Of the United States into the cleo
ton of Senator Isaac Stephenson OF
Wisconsin has stirred up the support
ers Of Uncle Ike" IN that state and
they are rushing to his defense.
Senator Stephensons personal or
gan, the Milwaukee Free Press. has
come out in long editorial, copies OF
which it is distributing in Washington,
defending his election. It attacks the
| inyestisat ton which has been conducted
| by committee Of the Wisconsin leg
| islature It charges that the invest-
cation there cost $4,000, that there
was no proof Of bribery or attempted
bribery. that the resolution which re-
Gently was adopted By the state senate
calling on the senate to unseat Uncle
Ike" was purely political. and that
there is nothing for the senate of the
United States to investigate
It IS not denied that large sums were
spent by Senator Stephenson but 1t is
said this was chiefly for organizers
and workers 1t is charged by the
Free Press that the testimony before
the joint investigating committee
showed that a similar scrutiny OF Gov
ernor La Follette's campaigns would
have developed exactly the same con-
ditions, with the exception that Mr..
Stephenson himself paid for the or
sanizers and workers he employed.
while in Governor La Follette's time
an army of state employees was used
and their expenses paid by the state.
Senator Stephenson Is not a little
stirred up over the talk Of senate in
vestigation and in talks with his col
leagues he is justifying his course.
49,
Interesting data showing the i'm
proved agricultural conditions in Por-
to Rico, contained in the report OF the
agricultural experiment station Of the
island for 1910. have just been made
public by Secretary Wilson. The ex-
ports and imports Of the island in
creased from s17.502103 in 1901 to
sss,5e5.074 in 1910. This expansion Of
trade is credited by the report to the
greatly increased agricultural produc-
ton Of the island. which has not only
given impetus to ali the Industries, but
has greatly improved the living condi-
tons OF the inhabitants.
Whatever may be the results in the
various efforts made by the United
| States government In improving the
condition Of allen peoples. says the
special agent in charge Of the station,
there can be no doub. as to the ma
teriaI Improvement in the living con-
ditions of the people Of Porto Rico In
few years prosperity has been
reached hitherto unknown in the his
tory Of Porto Rico. This has been
brought about on an Impoverished
soil and in a country where the natur-
al resources have been practically ex-
hausted The prosperity Of Porto
Rico depends essentially on her agri-
cultural products. Cold mining is ex-
hausted and manufacturing is confined
to a very few lines and small output.
While the island is thickly populat-
ed. more so than any of the states ex-
cept two, the people are scattered thru
the country rather than in towns. In
other words. the great bulk Of the poo
pie live from the soil. The resources
of Porto Rico reside in her soil and
labor That these larguished in years
gone by was not due to the sterility OF
the one, or the unwillingness of the