Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

own country.
A Trumped Up Charge.
1 "You can see at glance, then this
trust theory is trumped up The
democrats have managed to trump ND
4 some charge to prevent every new
industry the country has ever had, in
Guiding the manufacture of tin plate,
linen, white ware, queensware, and
many more.
Change of Plans.
"Our political opponets try to
make the people believe that the great
body of the laboring public is en-
ployed in the tariff protected indus
tries. 1t was but a few years ago when
Grover Cleveland, In message to
congress, presented statistics to show
that there was but small PERCENTAGE
of the laboring people employed in
these industries and that therefore
] the policy of the democrats, to re-
duce their wages, would effect only
comparatively small portion of the
population. At that time | conceded
that he was practically correct. but
now the democrats try to tell us that
re great body of the laboring people
1 10 III Vic u uSt plOleCUSu INDUSTRIES.
Now my fellow republicans, here
is presented by the democrats again
| the same old fallacy of 1892, namely,
that of the protected workmen in the
country. Their stand is that the only
ones who are benefited by the protec-
| tive tariff are those who manufacture
tariff protected goods. They lose
sight of the fact that the naturally
protected workmen, such as produce
houses, brick walls, ETC., are really the
only truly protected workmen The
protective tariff only raises those
working in tariff protected industries
to a level with those who are natural
! ly protected
Important Campaign.
You can see at a glance the i'm
portance of electing republican con-
gressmen this fall. Suppose we elect
a democratic congress. What will be
done? Nothing. We will still have
the President and the senate. The
democrats will not allow any bill look
ing to the advancement and improve
ment of the country pass the lower
house, for it will give the republicans
the advantage of the coming presi-
dental campaign. Every democratic
scheme will, likewise, die in the SEN
ate. The result will be paralysis of
business. The great commercial rush
OF today will stop until the presiden-
tial election. Millions of men Will be
thrown out of work in factories. and
an attack will be made upon the work.
ingmen. A vote for Mr.. Reese this
fall means a vote to attack the wages
of the laboring man. They cant re.
duce the tariff system to one for reve-
nue. only without attacking the wage
Garner.
Democratic Record.
Let me give you the record of the
democratic party on trusts. In 1883
the republicans, in special plank in
their platform spoke of trusts and
pledged themselves to enact legisla-
ticn looking to their control. The dem
ocrats said nothing about the trust
question that year. The republicans
won and elected Benjamin Harrison
president. They proceeded at once
TO carry out the pledge they had made
and passed the Sherman law, now the
only law on the subject
The democrats opposed this bill
and denounced it as creating a new
class OF criminals. But in 1892, after
having a chance to- study tie matter
for four years, they discovered the
trust danger. So they made plank
denouncing trusts and demanding new
legislation against them. They were
victorious and elected president. SEN
ate and house for the first time since
1860. | would like for some democrat
to point to some trust legislation en-
acted by them to carry out their
plank. They did nothing. But now
they come forth as the great enemies
OF the trusts. They did nothing when
they had the power, except that they
gave the country great mountain Of
Gistrust that ruined the nation. There
is a record that speaks for itself.
Origin of Trusts.
Now if the tariff is not the mother
of trusts, whence do they come Go
back a few years with me. There
We're no trusts then because the con
ditions We're such that they could not
exist. In the era before man became
able to control steam and electricity
and before he invented labor saving
machinery, a combine was impractical
Bile. The time and cost required for
transportation over big field from a.
central location was greater than the
profit from the manufacture of the pro.
ducts. The industries were separate
and small and each had its own small
territory.
Now all that is revolutionized. Now
electricity, the telegraph and the fast
mail have burst the bands of local sup
ply Into the commercial and manu-
featuring field progressive business
men have entered. Capital was ad-
vanced and big companies were form
ed. This was the origin, the cause, of
the big trusts and combines.
Incentive to Combine.
What created the incentive to the
small industries to give up their indi-
yiduality? | lay it at the door of the
democratic party and one other at
tendant The democratic party
through its congressional committee,
says: The era of trusts really began
shortly after the passage of the Ding
ley bill in 1897 That is true. That's
one truth contained in that book. But
why is this so? Not on account of
the Dingley law, necessarily. When
the democrats went into rowar II, 900