Show r SHAW ON THE TARIFF 1 1 Secretary of the Treasury Declares He Never I Opposed a Revision But Favors Changes i System He Has Expressed Doubt However About the Wisdom of Instruct ing by Resolutions or Exacting Pledges From Candidates for Congress When the Effect Is Liable to Precipitate Protracted 1 Debate with Very Uncertain Results f Morrlsvllle Vt Aug 19Fh thousand thou-sand persons listened to Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M Shaw who was I the principal speaker at a Republican rally here today Secretary Shaw lived here when he was a boy and went to I school here and the residents of all the section roundabout came here to hear I him He spoke In part as follows I have been quoted as opposed to a I revision I vision of the tariff 1 have never opposed readjustment of tho tariff Whenever Congress readies tim conclusion that tho S friends of protection am strong enough to conservatively modify certain schcdulpt FO as Jo meet changed conditions and at tho name time successfully resist the efforts ef-forts of the opposition to revise tho on tire tariff law thug parnlyzlncr business for a frcason 1 1 am In favor of It J have expressed Homo doubt however I hOI t the wisdom of instructing by resolutions or cxaetlnj plertpes from candidates for Con pre s when the effect Is l liable to prcclpl ate a protracted debate with very uncertain uncer-tain results r CONDITIONS CHANGE C have n > ver seen the time since I have ven nubile questions consideration that J would not reduce tho rate on quite a large number of Items nor when I would not Increase the rate on other Items ItS It-S i not likely that t any member I of either hems of Congress over oted for a tariff bill entirely to his liking nor Is It I t probable proba-ble that any President over KlpncJ a bill that ho would not have changed In some particular had it been In his power I am I willing to concede that conditions I change nnd that tho old Morrlll bill of the MWs for Instance when Ill I country 1 was Involved In-volved In war would not he appropriate for us now but I will not admit that I ho I tariff Is the mother of trusts t nor will 1 concede that a tariff for revcirif only will destroy trusts on rny other theory Ulan that a fire In a wheat field will destroy l Canadian thistles Tho protective tariff Is not the mother I of trusts though It Is l lh > parent of eon I dltlons that make It profitable for capital to combine and congenial for labor to organ r or-gan I rePOSITION 1 re-POSITION OF IOWA REPUBLICANS The Republican party In my State recently re-cently reaffirmed the tariff platform of JM Tills has caused considerable comment I com-ment It has been misrepresented not quite I an persistently but In the same i way that the memorablo speech of President Me I Kinley at nufYulo has b < ou mlMoprencnt cd mteciuoti0 fntacunslrucil l and misapplied misap-plied This platform w ns unanimously I adopted both yeirs It declares in favor of such changes In the tariff from time to lime as become advisable I through the I progress of our Industries anil their changed relations to the commerce of the world Is theme I anyone who Is not In favor of such changes In the tariff t from time to time as are advisable I am willing time Jury shall be polled on that proposition Sn SOY we all Ji I I also do dares In favor of any modi Heat Ion of I tariff schedules that may be required to I prevent their t affording shelter to mo ifopoly Mid again we all Fay Aye sir to the proposition There may ho quite a radical difference of opinion as to the truth of the Implied admission that the I protccth tariff does afford shelter shel-ter to monopoly but there would be no difference of opinion about removing It HIt H-It did aord such shelter TARIFIT ON CATTlE AND iIEAT A few days ago the butchers In convention conven-tion assembled declared In favor of abol lahlng the tariff on cattle and meat to tho end that this I supposed shelter for tho alleged meat trust might be removed but 1 am disposed to think t the good farmoni of my State would vote quite unanimously unanimous-ly against aiieh an experiment Suppose wo take tho tariff off beef and then sup posc tho herds of cattle from Mexico and South America are brought In by ito I hundred thousand They will find their way to time stockyards and ho I butchers will be compelled to bid against the packers pack-ers then as now No the removal of the tariff on live stock and meat would not restore the butrhera to business IL might ruin the farmers but the packers could stand It I i for nothing less than I orjjnnbcd capita could enter the Import moat business busi-ness with packinghouses In foreign countries coun-tries refrlgcratlntr shlpw and other expensive expen-sive equipment I happen to know that ut least one and I understand two of time big packinghouses have had men looking into the South American Hold fry I nmro than two years Tho farmer as It Is bar ample reason to he apprehensive LOOKS UP THE QUESIION I have taken occasion to look thin matter mat-ter up since reading these resolutions and I think I can hail reason for the present price of meat other ihan the protective tariff T find that there were received at the stockyards In Chicago In the month of July 1002 GTioriO leas beeves and 170000 less hogs than t In the t same month of one year ago That mcanu 7000 less anlmaTs per day The Q road alone during the I month brought from the Southwest where the corn crop was a failure last year 1000 less fat steers per day this year than I last NOT DEFENDING PACKERS Let no one understand this to he a defense de-fense of bun I packers or an extenuation t of their offenses A suit Is I now pending against them and If J the allegations of the petition are sualalned and that seems probable they arc goIng to have trouble us It will lake a very much more acute form than It would to say to he farmers of Z the United I States that t their t Industrv shall bo opened to competition I from the unlimited range of South America The secretary appealed for the election elec-tion of a Republican Congress Then he said let the representatives from all sections of he country get together and If they can agree upon one or a dozen Items in the present tariff schedule sched-ule that can be reduced let it be done and done without three months acrimonious acri-monious debate |