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Show Kgij TAKIFF IS THE ISSUE Hrfejl PRESIDENT nCODEVELT BE- HP LIEVED TO r'AVOR REVISION. LB ' i' H ) "The Iowa Idea" Hat Many Supporters B - ' In the Industrial Centers of the East B Subject Is One That Cannot Be BBJ Ignored. H 'fc H . According to Interesting anil inher- BBJ :L , ently probable reports, P.-osldont BBJ jL (loosovclt will sound the keynote of B- cj- tariff revision In his western speeches BH w ills sympathies, tlioro can bo no doubt, BBJ '5 are with the reformers with the au BBayr thors of "the Iowa Idea," and the BBK- ili courageous and progressive minority. BBJ' Kl i Tariff icvlslon Is spoken of as a BB f1 ) western Issue, but there Is consider- BBJ sjl able cvldeuca that "the Iowa idea" is BBJ ' ' (julto popular In tlio Industrial centers BBJ 1 r ! of the KasL Even Illmilo Inland and BBJ I Connecticut have been Infected or of- BBJ fectcd by it, and the proposition to BBJ lowor the tariff on goods controlled by BBJ powerful combinations Is meeting BBJ i with favor among the wagewurkoro of BBJ the very citadel of high protection. BBJ ' ' The tint itl and tlmo-sorvlug politicians BBJ ' ' havo been ndvlslng the president to BBJ v taboo the tariff Issue, but the com- BBJ mriits of the press upon his trust pro- BBJ 1 gram must havu convinced him that BBJ & j tlio subject could not be Ignored. How BBJ ! p icfrcshlng and Inspiring a presidential BBJ if? I utterance In favor of the Iowa Idea, as BBJ L j honestly and intelligently Interpreted BBJ J ' by Gov. Cummins, would be, nnd what BBJ a marvelous Impetus It would Impart BBL. ' to the movement for freer trade and BBJ u modern cumtncrclul policy! BBJ Mr. Roosevelt has been criticised In BBJ Democratic nnd independent papers BBJ for his silence on tho tariff question, BH " especially In Its relation to tho trust BBJ, V ovlls ho had been so vigorously con- BBj' ' demning. Of course, in so far as these BBfl strictures Implied doubt as to Mr. BBfl llooscvelt's couiago and sincerity, ret- BBJ utatlou of them would bo a work of BBfl 1 supererogation. The whole courso of BBj the administration holies and disposes BBJ of such insinuations. Tho president BBJ believes In determining what Is right BBJ In a given cuso nnd thutt "going nhcad" BBJ and defending the rignt ngalnst all BBJ nppoiicntf. Tho tariff question is a BBJ romplex one, but the conclusions Mr. BH Hoosovelt will dually reach may con BH I fldcutly be Indicated In advauco. Ha BH 1 ' will eventually be found on tho "Buf- BBJ ?f J falo platfoim" and in full accord with BH j ,J tho best and soundest thought of tho BH ' j Hepubllcnu party. To a program of BBfl 1 Ij tariff revision thcro will bo no such BBfl opposition as Ills trust proposals havu BH' ! , iirovokcd. Chicago Tribune. |