Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-10-01


abandoned that bottle. He declared
that the tariff on sugar was tax, and
that Is true, because there was no com.
petition at home, but where there is
competition in home manufacture the
argument has no application. lie
named a list Of articles upon which du.
ties have been increased, but the price
at retail has not been advanced in a
single instance. lie referred with hor.
ror to the billion dollar congress, but .
cited no instance of unwarranted ex.
penditure. lie was guilty of deception
In his allusion to Hiram G. Wheelcr's
importation of horses, saying that he
imported them, added the tariff to the
cost, and so sold them. The argument
is found in the last issue of a local
democratic paper. 1t is fact that hors.
es imported for breeding purposes arc
admitted fee and that is the only class
Mr.. Wheeler ever imported. This
breach of truth of our democratic
friend is doubtless calculated to create
prejudice against the law and Mr..
Wheeler ut the same time. 1t is sur
prising that the governor should mako
such a misrepresentation, when tho
truth is 30 easily learned.
Then the governor cautiously ap.
preached the subject of his speech be.
fore the reform club in New York. He
said he went down there to present tho
claim OF the farmers of the northwest.
After he had been assigned his toast
"Our New Allies in the Northwest"
his commissioner of labor statistics
the notorious Sovereignty met him and
said that he could furnish some valu-
able data for that speech, which the
governor accepted. Mr.. Boies con fess-
ell that he didn't know anything about
the matter but trusting to the compu.
tations which the commissioner of la
Dor statistics (Soyerign) had made from
the estimates furnished he went down
to New York and told the reform club
that tale. lie said that he was censu..
cd before he had returned home and
had heard II ever since. lie did not re.
peat, however, that he told them that
lowa's chief cereal was raised ut loss,
and that "what Is true Of The produce
ton of corn in Iowa is equally true of
all the great staples raised on her
farms" lie stopped short of this, and
, was satisfied with leaving the response.
bility on his man Sovereign. Why did
not the governor satisfy himself wheth.
or these figures and the deductions truly
represented the conditions Of affairs In
this state, instead Of parroting the
gloomy deductions OF his man Soy.
ereign, who Is notorious as irresponsi.
bic aud without character. Gov. Boies
knows that tho people of Iowa are pros.
pering and that agriculture is the chief
source of their prosperity, but the New
York men who heard his banquet
speech must believe that Iowa lands are
Improbable and worthless, for certain
ly land that will not raise crop worth
the cost of its production IL not worth
farming. The people who believe what
he said in New York can have no faith
In Iowa land. Mr.. Boies iloundcred for
q half hour, shifting tho responsibility
upon Sovereign and the Alliance, and
In painful cndeayor to defend what is
indefensible. In this connection, too,
he quoted Senator Allison rs saying that
" farmers received all they ought to
for their crops" Now Mr.. Allison
meyer said that. lie did say and show
from Soyereign's statistics accurately
and honestly computed, that farmers
made more than dollar an acre on
corn above the cost of production: and
further that prices ought to be higher,
but showed how increased acreage and
bountiful yield had been in excess of
the demand. Senator Allison shows
further that in spite of these facts tho
farmers OF Iowa ne prospecting and her
lands are growing in value. Wherever
Senator Allison goes by his conduct
and usterances Iowa is creditably rep
resented, and he was never decoyed in-
to misrepresenting his constituents by
statistics jugged by political monte
bank.
A gentleman interrupted Mr.. Boies
in his argument in self-defense by say
ing word for the Iowa farm, but the
governo: was prompted, and instead Of
replying with argument and dignity be-
coming his position, he tainted the
gentleman with the misfortune which
oyercame him ten years ago in which
he lost his farm as the result Of pro
t.acted sickness in his family. How
ever, it Is never profitable to interrupt
political speaker.
Judge Willard harangued the audi
ence half nour, following Boies. The