Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-10-22

There has grown up in the United
States in my memory, a party of dis
content, called "populistsn in the
west,and designated by several names
in the eastern states. 1t teaches that
the only way to become happy is to
overthrow the existing social condi-
tons. He fought from the humble po-
sition of school teach to the highest
civic position that can be bestowed
upon a man.
There are too many young men who
start in the world with all the money
they need, and who never get any
more. l look upon Mckinley as an
example for such people. They do no
good to society who advocate the re-
moval of lowly though celebrated
places, like the birthplace of McKin-
ley.
Mckinley in the House.
His career in the house of represen.
tatives was marked He entered that
body at the age of thirty-three years,
green country lawyer. He might
have taken course there that would
have left him obscure. But the
house gives different opportunities
and Mckinley grasped the better one.
In the sixth district you have been
fortunate in having as your represen-
tative my old friend, John F. Lacey.
When he and went into the house
| together we found Mckinley the lit
eral master of that body.
Had Many Friends.
He had inquired the best course
One of his characteristics was that
he had many good friends, and this
time ne turned to one of the best, old
John Sherman. of Ohio, who had been
in the house for twenty years. He
asked for advice, and Sherman told
him to take some permanent issue
and to make study of it. 1t was ev-
ident that he couldn't do all the work
of the house, that he must leave some
of it for the other fellows.
! Sherman's Advice.
I Mckinley was advised to select
some permanent question, to let the
! transient ones go. Following the adj
vice of Sherman he began the study
of Industrial problems and devoted
his entire time to it. In looking
! through the records of congress can
find no speeches of note made by Nc
Kinley except those affecting the tar
Il iff.
MckinIey's Success.
He made a research such as no
man has ever made before nor since.
He had all his time to himself. One
could find him before o'clock each
evening, seated at the bedside of his
invalid wife. After that hour he was
in another room, literally buried in
. books, all of which dealt with the tar
iff question. He soon knew more
than any other member of the house
regarding this national question.
When Lacey and / went to congress
we found him chairman of the ways
and means committee.
His Ambition.
Mckinley loved to see his policies
vindicated. His great ambition was to
see every one in the country getting
good wages and getting them regular
ly, and to see the farmer prosperous.
All his energies and ambitions were
!, bent to save the American market
place for the use of the American peo-
pie.
!, His Influence.
t I, for one, believe that McKinley'o
| policy is still a part of the progress OF
e the prosperity of the United States
e There may, of course, be changes in
e the tariff schedule. That is not sacred
0 as happen to know, having been on a
+ commission to establish a schedule in
: 1897. At that time, under the leader
ship of good old Governor Dingley, o.
Maine, who has long since gone to his
: just reward, I met with the others O
| the committee to re-adjust the tariff
/. schedule IF the United States so as tC
, give the American people the protec
+ ton they deserve. claim that thai
v law is still part of the working plan!
i of the republican party.
s American Progress.
! know that since 1897 there hav
! been many changes. Since 1897 w
have become distressingly rich. w
are drawing out of the treasury of tn
l. old world hundreds of millions Of dol
1t lars. American industries have beel
r recognized on new and larger scale
n And so, William Mckinley, the great
j. est student of practical questions G
E. economy, is still the leader in Ameri
e, can commerce and industry, eve
If when dead. His speech at Buffalo
II made just before he was shot, vii
Is class with the farewell address {
Washington and Lincoln's address O
the field of Gettysburg. He did nc
4. propose to make an agreement whic
~. would hurt some industries. He pr
s. posed where no duty was necessar
th that it should be reduced or omitte
". He favored reciprocity.
Of Free Wool and Coal.
u In 1890. Mr.. Blaine tried to get til
l ways and means committee to p,
IT. South American wool on the free lis
e, in return for important trade conce
ep sions in the Argentine Republic. M
N Kinley regarded that as impractic
ed BILE because it was no part of his pit
losophy to kill great industry
home, for any possible addition to OF
ms foreign commerce. But in 1894 ii
gs tarln was revised by gentlemen wi
70 had no such scruples as that I'll
ex- Argentine Republic again offered larl
lst trade advantages to us in exchan,
ity for the admission of their wool he
by without duty. But the democrat
lid managers were SO busy making tar
hot ln1s