Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-08

the average prices of the necessities
and comforts of life growing cheaper.
may be necessary upon the
subject of great aggregations of capt.
tal and when these organizations be-
come menace to the ordinary citizen
and to the consumer, prompt and spe-
cific control by this government, under
properly enacted laws, must follow. A
vociferous cutlery against combina-
lions of capital will not avail. The
right to produce and manufacture upon
an extensive scale is too vital to the
continued prosperity of this country to
be jeopardized. Our dual form of gov
eminent, wherein the federal govern.
ment is limited to powers expressly
conferred and the state governments
limited to the control of matters strict
ly internal and not interstate, adds to
the complication. Before decisive
measures can be followed we must
have the light of some experience.
The natural laws of trade must be Civ
en- a chance to regulate the CONNER
cial world, but where abuses appear
the people of America can safely trust
the republican party-which has been
the only party since it's existence
which has organized and carried out
any legislative measures of reform
fearlessly and with courage to give the
people all the relief and protection
which the law affords, and to stand
between these great organizations and
oppression of any sort or degree.
Is Done BY Republicansm.
THE present unexampled prosperity
of our land is directly the result of that
republican doctrine of protection to
American manufacturers and Ameri-
can labor. which in connection with a
policy of reciprocity, has opened to
American manufacturers the markets
of the world. AS was recently said by
prominent republican in this state:
We are out in the world now, looking
for trade. We must give and take,
live and let live, grant favors to those
who grant favors to us-in other words
supplement protection with reciproc-
iity, giving reasonable consideration to
those who give it to u.s. The doctrine
of reciprocity has no hard and fast
rules. Different conditions call for
different measures of relief, and as
production cheapens and foreign mar
kets are invaded, the tariff can and will
be altered or abolished, as may be
necessary to enable the American peo-
| pie to attain the highest possible de-
gree of prosperity, always having in
mind that no law will be enacted
which will in anywise destroy the
most benificent of existing systems,
the American scale of wages
In view Of the great foreign trade
which we have established, the fact
that our cargoes are carried almost en-.
tirely by foreign shipping presents a
question which should receive the
careful consideration of the congress
of the United States, and such reason
able measures shonld be adopted as
will provide for the carrying of Ameri
can commerce in American vessels.
Responsibilities Great.
1T is difficult to appreciate the great
responsibilities that have rested upon
4 the present administration, questions
new and of supreme and controlling
1 mportance-questions for the solution
of which there were no precedents
and which involved the peace and pros
perity of the American people These
questions have all been solved with
honesty and sincerity of purpose. ant
with such an exhibition of Judgment
judicial consideration and wise states
manship, that William Mckinley ha!
so grown in the minds and hearts O
his countrymen as to stand today tn,
one prominent factor in this blessed
period of prosperity. head and shoul
ders above his fellows, and his admin
lstratlon will go down to posterity al
: one of the great administrations O
this country, his name inSeparabl-
: linked with the great presidents-witl
Washington, with Lincoln and witt
Grant.
: Is the Welfare of Iowa.
/. But this convention at this tim
has no special duty to perform in cor
! nection with national politics. Gu
great interest centers in the welfare O
our own fair state of Iowa. Iowa
! what a responsive chord that nam
stikes in the breast of every one Q
her patriotic and loyal sons. Iowa
, SO POLITICALLY and appropriately name
the beautiful land Iowa-an milan
+ empire. bounded, upon either side, b
two mighty and majestic rivers, N;
lures regulators of commerce, capi
: Bile, should necessity require, of ca
Trying upon their ample bosoms tn
commerce of the great Mississippi va
+. ley to the cities of the sea- The fac
5 that an all-wise Providence has nc
given us the usual generous yield {
the fruits of the earth does not di
hearten the farmers of Iowa, nor d.
: tract from their splendid courage. Fc
| so many years her fertile soil has +,
3 sponded with generous prodigality t
l the industry of the husbandman thu
l we have a reserve of riches to witt
: stand some reverses, and Iowa in he
I normal condition, in time of harve:
! presents a scene as fair as imagin
/ ton can picture, with fields OF golde
S grain reaching from horizon to hor
| zon, that have submitted to the han
! of the harvester-telds of CROWN
4 corn, that staple Iowa product, 'reacl
t ing its proud and tasseled head
i drink the dew and meet the dawl
l. bounded in extent only by the lin
e of human vision-a veritable garden
t Eden, possessessed by a happy, pro
n porous and contented people, Will
g brief glance at Iowa history at tn
II time be inappropriate? Admitted as