The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-05-11
BriAkerh0ff's Lecture and Rove.
onue Reform.


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DrlhAOrAOns L0ctur0 ahu IA0vo-
onuo Reform.
| ssTho Ottumwa CouRrYR, which
processes to be In favor Of ssrevenue
REFORM notices Gen. Brinkerhoffs
/ lecture ID that city. but L n more to
| condemn than to praise, The CouR-
liER sshas no doubt that the time is
| rapidly coming when the eyilsspoken
| of BY Gen. Brinkerhoff will be reme-
died, but when that time comes, it
| will be done BY the republican party. =
| The COURIER admits that amany
grievous and unjust impositions have
| grown up under the present system;
and then with q profundity that Is
remarkable only for its righteousness
adds: "As soon as the results Of the
war are garnered /; az soon as we
have q republican government in all
the states wherein life and property
shall be duly respected and protec-
ted, then the party whicu was tho
salvation Of the country in war,
aciu Get itself to the task Of ren,edvino
these minor financial evils."
II that is not comforting assur
an:e to the millions of people Of
this country who are the victims Of
these "grievous and unjust imposi.
tions," then has language for once
lost its force and become meaning.
less. If there is such q thing as
Haunting people in their misery, the
COURIER has certainly learned to
practice it in its most exquisite
methods. According to the pro-
gramme of the CouRIER the time
when the republican party will set
itself to the task Of remedying "the
evils" Of the present tariff. is quite
as uncertain as that other event so
often spoken Of, to-wit: the usher
ling in of the millennium. The re.
cent action Of the republican Sena-
torial caucus. in reference to the
House bill repeating the duties on
coal and salt, admonished the
COURIER, as it has admonished the
country, that arevonue reform" is
not at loast one of the present mr.
poses Of the republican party. The
:" io1 ~ P"l AZ
well. therefore. to fix the commence
ment OF the work at very indefinite
tr;oLS.n - ~. .Sa. 1u' uaU.hi;o. ~ n. .uJ
nrofesssino tn be the advocates If
revenue reform" seek to ward off
.no olec.s ~ Drinkornon = iacts anu
able to answer. But as if this little
piece OF trlckery and deception wero
CourIrn ottamnts - ro;rd;no IL
readers against Gen. Brinkerhoff, by
telling them that aho is the paid
Iesanro. Tho. ~ 4ahas r,an,, nns;
tions which. if assailed by 3 we'll
informed protectlonlst, would speed
comes hefar., tho naonia uo. nursod
BY democratic tricksters, and de-
loIms many Par.s !" ms ellols "
rogue. n-Reokuk Constellation
""' inA ooonih- Ano
ooohi1h s'a'eu 'na' den' Drink-
etno1 was ~ Inc employ OF tho
w" AorA riee Araue League oe'
'"0so d0n0ia' Df'nA0rnon "auo 'na'
S"'no S'A'oii0i' W US al INC Presence
o. "i'oesSeS'
1t charged him with being "wet-
nursed by democratic tricksters,"
which statement tho active interest
taken in his behalf, here and else
where, by Will Porter, correspondent
OF the Chicago Times, and the editors
of the Keokuk Constitutions and Of
tumwa Democrat, ought to be sufi-
oient testimony to establish.
The Republican parry in it's last
National Convention. and uniformly
| in it's State Conventions. has de-
clared for as rapid reduction of
tariffs, and taxes, as the National
faith pledged to pay the debt con-
tracted by tho Democratic "Reds"
of tho South, and their allies of the
North will permit. Acting in con-
formity with those Oft repeated
pledges, it has from timo to time, not
only decreased informal taxes, but
also those on imports, and in due
time, will correct oil the grievous i'm
positions which surreptitiously crept
into our system, while the public at
tention was absorbed in saving the
life OF the Nation. 1t tho time whom
tho Republican party shall set Itself
to the task OF remedying these evils
| il indefinite, 1t Is because the Co"sf'
Q tom and Its ku klux friends IN the
SOUTH are rendering . restoration o.
r law and order INDEFINITE, ana 40
lsOrbing tho entire attention OF thu