Show THE IOWA IDEA ThInk tax A mil in hare nave so T more of II 11 ile iowa idea was that the mats as they no now exist and excite alarm are created and by the tariff and that to control the trusts trust it id it necessary more or less to break down the policy of protection the trouble with the lown iowa idea 1 was as that it mistook an effect for a causa cause the protect protective Ire policy baa has indeed enabled home manufacture to prosper and grow strong by reser ing to tt it the home market nut but that was the extent of its influence combinations of manufacturers with a 9 more or leaa less avowed aim am of getting a monopolistic control of their industry were not made possible by the tariff such combinations benefited by the tar iff LIT only aa as their members uncombined benefited by it this fact appeals appears at once when we remember that hilt trusts exist in free trade angland as well viell as in protected america and slid germany and that the in austry of the first brat great trust the standard OU oil company has no tariff protection i I 1 than there la Is the further fact that the men now at the bead head of the great trusts publicly avow indifference to thu the protective policy bome of these men are inclined to be hostile to protection it helps their small competitors to live and BO so makes their desired monopoly incomplete th the iowa a idea jumped to a con clelon from insufficient iknou knowledge ledge it was as absurd as mr bryan a idea that legislation and not natural causes da do the value of silver buyer in tho world market markel alo it was mischievous because it 1 darken I counsel in the republican bartys efforts to control and reg lg ulata tha the trusts and gave aid ald and comfort to the irrational trust busters austers who wlad to burn down the house of na dional because car certain tain groups of 0 it if inmates wet were gro growing wina BO 00 fat that they crowded the othen others the thinking of iowa 1 hae hats seen the shallowness of the iowa idea idee and will have no more of it tt thy they wil ra stand fast by the american idis i of proper protection to bome home igho i rand and of equality before tha the t 1 cago inter oceail t 1 |