Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-29
WILSON Talks 70
farmers ON TARIFF
ARGUES THAT COMMON PEOPLE
HAVE NOT HAD PART IN
GOVERNMENT.
TRUSTEES ELECTED az
PEOPLE FAVOR INTERESTS
Says Bankers and Manufacturers Have
Been Consulted in the Framing Of
Laws Instead Of the consumers-A
Government Of Hamilton Instead Of
jefferson.

Government Of Hamilton Instead Of
jefferson.
Williams Grove, Pa, Aug. 29.-Gov-
ernor Wilson in a speech at farmers
| rally here today talked Of the farmers
share of prosperity with existing tar
| if laws. He said in part:
1T is strange that we should have
put off so long looking into our gov
ernment to see whether it Is in fact
run according to the rules we originally
laid down for IT, but 1t is certain that
,, We are now looking into it very sharply
indeed and without the least danger
! that we shall be deceived again as to
| its character Our idea of 1t has been
from the first that it was a genuine
partnership and that all were upon one
| footing and were to share alike"
Government Of Hamilton.
"But very interesting thing has
! come to light. That is not in fact the
way the government has been admin
istered in our time. It has been in the
hands Of self-constituted trustees and
the partners have seldom been al
! lowed a real governing voice In its ad-
ministration.
I'VE had supposed that we were con-
Quoting the national business along the
lines laid down by Jefferson but we
And that as matter Of fact we have
been conducting it along the lines laid
down by Hamilton. Hamilton believed
that the common run of men had little
qualification for such business. that 1t
could be really comprehended and
wisely directed only by those who led
in commercial and Industrial enter
prises and owned the chief bodies OF
property In the country. And in our
time the leaders Of the republican par
ty have consciously or, unconsciously
adopted his action.
Always on "1nsids."
'These men hancied party cam
paigns and were always on the inside
, when party policy was to be deter
mined. Tariff schedules, the foreign
policy Of the country. the chief ex-
penditures OF the government every
| thing went as they suggested while
the rank and file of us Jared as we
might and were happy II we held any
small share in the prosperity which
they organized for themselves. They
were the trustees. we were their wards
and took part in the common life as
they planned and directed. What
went on in the trust-teen meetings
we were seldom allowed to learn
learned indeed only by impertinent in
quiry, only by congressional investiga-
tion or trials in court which the trust
ees complained sadly irterfered with
the regular course Of business.
Roosevelt Changes Front.
"Mr. Roosevelt has proclaimed him
self convert to the protective policy
II say convert because he at one
time very frankly avowed "A different
opinion-and has said that while he
admitted that, no doubt. some duties
were too high and ought to be lowered
on the whoes the policy pursued by
republican administrations have been
the right one and he thought the Prize
money which had been received under
that system by the manufacturers OF
the country was legitimate booty.
"The analogy Is very interesting.
Prize money Is generally acquired by
capture and not by any process OF
earning, but Mr.. Roosevelt Is always
frank and says that his only objection
to the system is that too much of the
prize money remains in the hands OF
the officers and too little OF 1t IS dis
tributed to the crew. His own object
he avows to be to see to it that more
Of the prize money gets into the pay
envelopes Of those whom the free
hooters employ. The interesting point
wish to raise now Is who supplies the
plunder, from whom is the prize
money taken.
oId.Fashioned Ideas.
"The present democratic congress had
the old fashioned idea Of government
They supposed that its benefits and
projections were to be distributed and
equally shared. 1t introduced and
passed bill which became known as
the farmers free list bill. That bin
put many indispenible things on the
free list. Most prominent among them
were agricultural implements. because
OF the American farmer, paying more
for his agricultural implements than
any other farmer in the world. The
American manufact cturers who make
implements. sell them much cheaper on
the other side Of the water. On the
other side they sell the local manufac-t
lures Of agricultural implements and
prove by their eagerness for foreign
business and their rapid expansion Of
It that they can afford to do so even
with the additional cost Of the ocean
freights. 1t was a very natural act on
the part Of the democratic congress.
therefore. they put agricultural imple-
ments on the free list. to put fence wire
also on the free list and the bagging
and ties which the southern farmer
needs and uses for his cotton. It added,
lumber and lath and shingles and leath-,
er and shares and salt and meats
thinking not Of the farmer alone. but
of all Of us who are struggling to live
and pay our bills. But such change
did not comport with the ideas and
plans Of the trustees and the president
vetoed the free list dare say he was
right from his point Of view. for he
represented the trustees and not the
people. Z
Alse Rspressnt 0anksrs.
"The trustees represent also the biz