Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-10-08

and this is . higher rate of interest
than money would bear il Gates and
his fellow blatherskites were not en-.
gagged in repelling capital from our
midst, instead of encouraging it to
come among us.
The files of any newspaper which
contained truthful market reports win
show that during the past thirteen
years the products Of the farm, not
only in Iowa but elsewhere all over the
country, have brought an average OF
fully fifty per cent. more than they did
during the thirteen years which immc-
diately preceded, under Democratic
rule. IL it Mr.. Gates's idea of polit.
ical and financial millennium to 20
back to three cents per dozen for eggs.
six cents per pound for butter, ten
cents per bushel for corn, and two
cents per pound for pork, which were
fair Average prices during the halcyon
days Of Democracy
. !.
Upder the fostering care and good
financial management Of the party in
power during the past decade and 4
alf>railroads have been built Ill over
the West; 20 that to-day the farmer Of
Wapello county can send his freight 10
New York for less than he could to
keokuk before. One dollar per hum
dred used to be the freight from Kco-
kuk to Ottunwa, and now the average
per hundred, either to or nom Chicago
or st. Louis, has not exceeded about
- cents per hundred during the past
four years.
Ten people now come to town in
buggies and carriages where one did
in Democratic times. Ten farmers
son, and daughter1 are now dressed in
broadcloth and silk where one wore
those fabrics before the war. Ten
people travel for pleasure and to visit
their friends where owe did before the
Republican party came into power ;
and yet Gates, croaking dismally on
his hinges, would have us believe the
rule of the party in power has brought
everything TO perdition aud bank
ruptcy.
II used to he the rulc that the bigger
the crop the poorer the people, but it
is not 80 now. The truth is that the
corn crop of Jasper county in which
Gates lives, and where he has grown
immensely rich under this grinding
Republican monopoly, will bring more
good money per acre in this good year
Of our Lord 1874, than the entire land
would have brought including its en-
tire products any year during the thir-
teen years prior 10 the coming in OF
Father Abraham.
OF course we do not wish TO be un.
derstood that everybody is happy, aud
that the "Good Times ofsong and,
story are upon us. "Good Times"
like human happiness, are always
either ahead or behind US.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast, .
Man never Is. but always is to be blessed
What we do undertake to say is that
the financial management Of the Re.
publican party since il came into pow
or has been, and IL the marvel of the
nineteenth century. It carried on the
most gigantic war Of modern times,
and at the same time 60 managed the
finances, that no suffering occurred /;
upon the contrary all classes Of people
made more money than during any
other period of the same length in the
history Of the country. Since the
close Of that war NO panic or paralysis
worth mentioning has occurred, and
the taxes levied to meet the principal
and interest Of the public debt. do mo-
touch the product or labor Of the grea
masses Of the people.
/! Finally the people are better fed AND
clothed, and are nearer out of debt
and haye more surplus money in theil
pockets than they ever had undel
Democratic regime, and Mr.. Gate,
knows it, and his vsporing 70 thu
people of the Sixth Congressiona
District, to the contrary, is an insult t.
their intelligence, and they show that
he 10 unfit to be their representative in
Congress. Besiles he won't be.