Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-10

March 1, 1900, silence forever the vain
and foolish contention that reason
able American tariff contracts our for
eign trade.
Our National Trade.
sour taleXports for the year ending
March J., 1900, amounted to $1,303,0S4,-
ssS, while our total imports amounted
Ito 1924, S67,543, making our balance of
years years beginning March 1, 1898,
our total exports amounted to $780,
637 ,444, and during the three years be-
ports amounted to $3,693 1915, 527--a net
gain OF exports during the first three
years of McKinley's administration of
|$1,131,35s,oss. During. the same three
years our total balance of trade
amounted to 81 ,4S3,661 ,497, while dur
ing the three wears beginning March l.,
1898, our total balance of trade amour
ted to only $325,151,021, showing a net
gain in balance of trade during the first
three years of McKinley's administra-
ton of S1,15S, 51O,456. During the
three years beginning March L, 1898,
our, exports of agricultural products
amounted to $2,392,416,4f8, showing Il
net increase of exports OF agricultural
lproducts during the first three years
.lof McKinley's administration of $685.
42s,5s2.
$50 much for the 2balancse sheet
the ledger account-the fiscal facts
the practical affairs that affect the in
Idustrial situation of our country and
Tits people. Comment is unnecessary.
But simply have to say that if Presi-
dent Mckinley aud this republican adj
ministration had been placed under
bonds to accept the worst industrial
situation ever experienced in our his
tory and out of it to bring forth the
most substantial and i1lustrious sue
cess, there is not a judge nor a con-
|scientious business man in all the
world who would not today eNonerate
the bondsmen with the most favorable
recommendation.
But it is not enough for the repub-
lican party to be successful, to re-es-
ltablish the order of things, to restore
values, to fill the vacuum in the treas
Eury, to enact the standard of gold,
to redeem credit and to credit re-
Idemption, to make it possible to be
Eemployed, to fill the sky with the
Hight of furnaces and human hearts
with confidence and the light of hap
lpiness. 1t must always do even more
than it promised to do. 1t must inn
|prove. 1t mdst construct. 1t must
progress. 1t must give attention to
wrongs that have been neglected by
other parties. 1t must not stop with
the shore. 1t must enter the sea. 1t
must deal with the yillainy of the dark
lagos that encroached upon our Dor
|ders. 1t must send a ship to protect
Jour citizens and their interests. 1t
must bear the responsibility of misfor-
tune and the criticism of fault finders,
land finally, it must say to barbarism
thru the mouth of its chief executive,
Move OUT And that meant war.
The Maine Incident.
SIN the midst of the greatest indus
trial success that ever characterized
amy administration of public affairs in
this country, while acting in the ut
most good. faith and with the most
careful and conservative procedure, 260
lof the dearest and the brayest souls
that ever manned and Differed a ship
were blown into the sky, within a few
leagues of our, very shore, as the 'cul-
limitation of a century of cruelty and
|crime. The American eagle has been
Thought. of and sometimes pictured as
offensive and vain glorious, but it never
ideals with trifes and seldom leaves its
serene and lofty heights. But it may
4 be historically stated that in the ysal
Iof our Lord, 1898, it descended from
the crags and swept from the sea the
last barbarous remnant of the modern
land medieval ages and left a streak of
stars and stripes along the line of its
Industrious course which will in all pro
liability be somewhat difficult even fol
Mr.. Atkinson and his democrat allies
to obliterate.
! Without the least thought of acquir-
ling territory or empire, the president
of the United States and the congress
and our matchless army and navy,
prosecuted the Spanish war. With the
4 greatest justification it was begun and
with the most expeditions and brilliant
achievements it was concluded. The
4 glory of the war was eagerly shared
by all political parties and the treeaty
of peace was by all parties ratified /.
The misfortunes Of war, the accidents
Iof war and the problems which it
4 leaves for solution are charged to the
Responsibility of the republican party
ana TO the ADMINISTRATION. IndL party
in no way shirks that great response
bility. 1t receded from no position ia
ken. No flashlight of history reveals
the republican party in retreat and nc
| revelation of history ever yet exposed
the republican party deriving or dis
paraging the cause of the nations sol
ldiers or it's sailors while carrying the
flag against foe. The blood of Law
ton and Logan shall never be upon the
head of the party of Lincoln and Of
loyalty. No rebel of this nation and
no enemy of its flag was ever yet
heard praying for the success of re.
publican sidentialcandidate Theam
pushed assassin of Gen. Henry w. Law
ton, if he lives today, survives upo1
the miserable and detected hope tina
President Mckinley and the American
army may fail.
Days OF Reconstruction.
every war has finally it's days o
reconstruction. There is first the gla
mour and the glory OF success and vic
tory Then comes. the period of here
worship and then the test of toleranc.
and patience which after all requires
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