Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-04

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mands of those who are its beneficial
ries is as absurd as a proposition that
a republican administration would ap-
point democratic postmasters.
Trusts Due to Tariff.
The vital principle, the avowed
purpose of the republican party is to
destroy competition in the interests of
certain enterprises which have kept
faith with the party and assisted it in
its fight for supremacy in national af.
fairs, and the tariff wall having been
built SO high as to shut out all compe-
tltlon from abroad, the protected in
dustrles formed the great combina-.
lions known as the trusts for the sole
purpose of eliminating domestic COM
petition, and in this they have been SO
Wondrously successful that a single
one of these great tariff protected
combinations, the American Steel and
Wire company took from the consum-
ers of their products in single year
$140,000,00O in profits, at least $780,
100000 of which can be called by no
other name than stolen goods; stol-
en- from the people under the bene,
ficient' protective policy of the repub.
lican party.
Appeals to Farmers.
Can any Iowa farmer name good
and sufficient reason for the advance
of more than 100 per cent, on wire
fencing, that product most necessary
to Iowa farmers. which advance was
made three years ago and has been
since maintained?
Says There Are Others.
ut took the Iowa farmer but three
minutes to discover that in this in
stance protection afforded shelter to
monopoly but after three years the
republican congressman from this
state have been unable to discover the
TACT. Ii these are the profits of sim
gle one of the great industries that
nave been able to destroy competition
under the republican protection policy,
what an enormous sum must be the
aggregate profits of all the industries
that have thus combined to destroy do
nestle competition?
Take Praise Even for the Weather.
For the purpose of holding the sup
port of the voters of the great agricul-
tural northwest the republican spell
binders cajole the farmers from whom
great portion of these profits have
been taken with stories that are as
soft and sweet as the poets song or
the fairy tale. They combine the ele-
ments, the sun, moon and stars, the
gentle and nourishing rains. the balmy
| breezes OF the south. the rich and pro-
ductive soil and the very music and
harmony of the spheres and declare
them all to be but the natural results
OF the beneficent laws of the republic
an party.
| Says ills Insult to Farmers.
with the most fertile soil of any
land upon which the sun shines; with
favorable natural conditions; with an
enormous foreign demand for it's pro-
ducts, in the sweat of his brow the
Iowa farmer has been able to obtain
somewhat more than a competence,
but to say that the fruits Of his toll
and the blessings Providence has be-
slowed upon him, are the result of re-
publican party policies is an insult to
his intelligence and the rankest of
blasphemy.
Protection Means Nothing.
There can be no modification of
the tariff schedules to prevent afford
| ing shelter to monopoly without en-
tirely eliminating the protective fea-
ture of tariff taxation. Protection
means nothing more or less than TAX.
| ing a portion of the earnings of the
unprotected and giving it to the man
VINO is engaged in the protected indus
Try the tariff schedules do not give
MIN TINS privilege, 1t affords him no
lprotectlon Where. then, in honor or
Justice can you find excuse for taking
the product OF one mans toll to enrich
announcer!
Trusts Own the Party.
KNOWING the men eneaoed in tho
nrotected ind,,stry oannnt he ,rataotns
without the consumers Of his product
paying whatever Increase in price pro-
| tectlon from competition permits him
10 make, can the people of this nation
nope FOR relief from these extortions
by modlfication OF the tariff schedules
IN a republican congress? II any
thlnk otherwise. | wish to call their
attentlon 10 the TACT that the trusts
and protected industries own the re-
publican party The officers and di-