Show I I I I i iI I I I V j i I I I I I I I I I I I i 1 I I I V I i I II II I I fIGHT FHT fOR Senator Cummins in Spirited Ad Acl Address Address dress Scores Cannon and aDd Protection CONSERVATIVES AFRAID OF HURTING PRODUCER I Recent Defeat Iowan lowan Declares Will WIllI Not Stop Battle for Down Downward Downward I ward Revision I Des Moines Iowa Tow Jan 1 The fight ficht for tariff revision and und sivo principles will go on more moro zeal zealously than ever over and will win in tho the end thus declared Senator Alfred B Bi Cummins in an address here hero tonight j jor or nt the Progressive Republican organ organization dinner Much lIuch interest attached to the sena senn senators senators tors address addres aa as it was regarded as I furnishing the cho keynote for the pro progressive sight light in this state A largo large number heard his defiance of tho the con conservative element in the tho republican party It was said this address was I the tho opening of the campaign to be ha baI waged in Iowa by br the progressives I With ith respect to the tariff said saidI Senator Cummins tho I foci feel it makes little it If l any difference how high tho the duties are If they be high enough to exclude importations When they thoy approach their their first and I 1 havo have sometimes thought their only concern is 16 for tho the producer They are so BO much afraid of hurting hulling him that they the close their cars ears to every voice save his and as ati assume sumo sume that knowing what he wants he lie will not ask for more than ho de deserves deserves deserves serves The echoes of the platform of oi 1908 which contains pledges pled es of or tho the republican party to the tho people have become lecome so faInt In their councils that I they the are arc drowned in th of Im Impoverished Impoverished Impoverished manufacturers On the theother theothor theother other othor hand the progressives es remember her ber h r that we promised the American people Hople that the duties on imported competitive commodities should be measured by bj tho the difference between I Ithe the cost of oC production in this and rival lands and that we made tho the promise In order to give at once pro protection protection to the producer from unequal competition and protection to the con conri I from om e tho t Tn rr ri ninny many Holds fields of industry home coin com I petition has been substantially de the destroyed destroyed and we intended to subject oui om homo hOlDo producers to tho the fear o of for foreign eign elga competition if pi prices ices were raIsed above aboe a fair and reasonable profit I Fight Not Ended I MI UI I do not attempt to obscure or Ot to minimize the extent of or our defeat but if it any an one ono harboro tho the delusion that the passage of the recent tariff law ended the fight light for fair and reason renson reasonable reasonable able pi protective elective duties it would be ue bevIse wise vIse for fol him at once to reform hlll ht conclusion I The progressives after years of o struggle brought the convention to a full acknowledgement of o the justice of elf i their position With respect to further regulations of interstate commerce the ter occupies just the same position j that he has hns always occupied IL I ItIs is sufficient to say So that the tho for I Ithe II the strengthening of the law res lat I lug common carriers became antte a ute about 1890 j I It finally resulted in the amend amendment am nd ment meat of 1906 lOG It was a long War campaign The wore I rn e either silent or In opposition Cannon and Aldrich Joseph G Cannon was then a now flow the most conspicuous of the national house of oC lives ilves In all those years I never nover heard of o a single utterance from him that could by b any possibility be construed Into lute friendliness toward the cause that was w s struggling on through all ail I I I I V I 1 1 i i I these Aldrich was then as now one ono of the lenders leaders of or the senate and if any an ran can discover a solitary expression upon his part parl that helped the th movement to its ita final fruition I would be glad to havo It pointed out Hale Payne Dalzell were wore then an as now prominent In tho the congress of If the tho United States SLates but bitt I tho the memory of all who hear me to recall one single sympathetic word In hi tho the In Interests Interests interests of the people in their struggle with the tho railways AntiTrust Law Lav Congress as In jn 1890 adopted what is known as the antitrust law it is clearly clearl seen however howo r that It needs amendment The Fao spirit of the stat statute statute ute Is to preserve the force of oC corn com competition petition in business I have ha referred to these things in iu order to call your our attention to the fact that tho are not helping to solve Bolye the problems They Thoy content contout themselves with the constant reiteration ion tion of the fear that If it we touch any of or these things we may overturn the th fabric fa of commerce and destroy the thel l for which all lovers ot of o the human kind are seeking When hen it Is IsI proposed further to regulate railway rates they the shudder lest lesl we may luay hurt the railways The Tho progressive shudder lest they may not be he able alIe to help those thoo who arc are suffering Buffering the injustice of ot rate systems that arc admittedly indefensible Feels No Malice V I t am quite ready to admit pro sometimes try to do things that are unwise but without them nothing would be done wise or un unwise wise If the tho standpatter can cnn justify his hia hi existence by b the conscIousness that he Ii sometimes prevents the ac aCe accomplishment of an nn unjust thing by standing pat against every onward movement ho may IDa demonstrate his hit right to live lIvo politically but he will V net nel have ha shown his right to rule rulo the affairs of or a n great greal country countr i b It is Js quite as aj at Important that over ocr the V state o V government there shall shaH Ilont the Hag of the tIle Iowa Iowah h Is i recognized everywhere OB nil foremost I t In the tho march of o progress S There is IsI I yet much to be bedon done don There is no malice and I hope no selfishness In InIn my In suggestion that the tho should triumph In the tIle state as well w ll as elsewhere els where No matter mallor how the tho primaries may mar result you will find me meIn mein In the tho campaign which Is to follow doing everything within my 01 power for V republican success but hut before the primary primary V mary you OU will find me doing every everything cyer everything thing In my V power for success J V V V |