Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

bushels, for which there was no
market. That is just one of the ways
in which the protective tariff, our
American system, our republican poll
cies, bring enhancement of values in
the markets, and where there was
formerly poverty there is now progress
and wealth. l hope that the next
time you hear man say that there
is no difference about what party is in
power you will tell him that he is a
tyro in politics and that he has never
noticed the most patent and ostensible.l
facts with regard to the conditions OFT
the country.
Makes Difference.
ut does, decidedly, make a differ |
ence. Let me remind you OF lew
concrete facts. Since William McKin-
ley was first elected president the re-
ceipts of the United States, in the way
of a surplus-that is, l mean there
We're received for exports in excess OF
the amount expended for imports from
this country-more than $20O,0O0,0OO
Think of it! More than five times the
total amount of money which was IN
the whole United States when Abra-
ham Lincoln was first elected to the
presidency. This surplus for last year
exceeds all the surplus during all the
years OF democratic tariff. II there is
democrat here ! want him to chal-
| lenge that statement. | have the fig-
ures and can prove that what | say is
only too true.
when l think of these facts, these
palpable facts, that cannot be hidden
and that any man of even common
| intellect knows to be true, | wonder
how any man has the insolence to still
continue to say that the protective
tariff is not good thing for America.
In Former Years.
1--WE lived under practical demo-
cratic tariff policy, or free trade sys-
TEN, from the earliest period of the
settlement of the colonies out of which
grew these states up to 1860. we
never had, during all that time, what
today would be called a protective tar
iff. They used to quarrel about pro-
lection and a more liberal policy. But
the highest ever thought of, in 1928
, and 1880, was much lower than the
present protective system.
1
ence illustrated the advantages to be
derived from a tariff for revenue only
/, if there are any such advantages. Anc
from that day in 1920 when the gallant
:. little 'Mayflower' unloaded on the
: bleak New England shore its precious
), human freight, until the year 1866
240 years-during which six genera
i tons OF men We're born, tolled, lived
and died, used the best of their brains
: muscle and genius in the accumulation
of wealth, this country only succeeded
in laying up something like sixteeI
billions.
). Effect of Change.
n THAT is a pretty large amount, blu
s. when taken comparatively it is no
e large 1t is more than you or | nav
II in our pockets at the present time, bu
o as compared with the present Wealt
i, it was small In 1860 we changed tn
v policy OF the government. The pflo
theory had been to buy where th
lg prices are the cheapest and sell whel
IS the prices offered are the largest;
e. buy without regard to the labor cond
ST lions of the country and to leave OF
% of sight our people and the infiuene
II of this continued action upon them.
y, Then the republicans came I'M
III power in 1861, in fact, they had a
re influence even before Abraham LII
u. coin was inaugurated. After the re
le els had left the halls OF congress pr
IN tective tariff was passed The obje
d. was not so much revenue as the pr
VI lection of labor Congress said to II
W manufactures of steel: There is
- Bessemer steel manufactured in Anne
lea. If you will produce Bessemer v
will give you a protective duty of s.
. per ton; that is, we will make Il
an British pay S2S per ton for all Il
an steel they sell here This enable
to the manufacturers to pay America
us labor good prices and allowed the
w boring people to live up to the stan
to ard recognized in America.
RS so it was with glass and sever
do other products of the factories. Id
10 labor was employed and the laboril
nt classes became more prosperous. II
a workmen consumed meat to great
We extent than formerly. Markets co
menced booming, and that is why be
is so high today. Some people ia
,re about trust in beef. l don't kno'
of there may be a trust all right, but be
an is high because labor is all employ
For Its price does not run into fancy
,ce ures when labor is not employed,
pie Correcting Errors.
Bile "Now, want to correct democr
lie error which that party is labori
uf- under ut the present time. There
Inc nothing | like to do more than to c
Or rect democratic misunderstanding
inc and / have put in some of the b'
lhs years of my life in that very busine
elu They are being told and telling Il
~, .se here in Iowa there is a difference
~, the republican party regarding tai
t ~. This is not the truth. The pa
W stands today as for years, in favor
the protective tariff system which I
tects American labor. We may h;
hat some slight differences of opinion
it regards the minor schedules, but tn
1t | are not in themselves very import;
non That is as far as the difference
i've opinion extends in the republic
Ids, party. But we intend to preserve
nus protective tariff so as to enlarge
if labor field, SO that all the people !
no have an opportunity to work at an
al pla wage q