Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-03


So good in quality is the product of
your furnaces that it finds market by
the million dollars worth on the con.
tinent of Europe and in Asia. Did you
build the ships in which this iron was
sent? Did you Send it in American
bottoms? South America is building
railroads.&c. you furnish the iron? If
you were to take the contract, hcw
would you make the delivery? You
would probably be compelled 10 send
1t IN ships made in foreign ship yards
OF foreign iron, in charge of foreign
seamen under an alien flag, first to an
European port and thence under SINH
lar condition to South America. and
the freight would eat you up Why
don't you build shipyard and estab-
lish line of steamers between the
gulf and Brazilian points? sufficient
reason is the fact that you would be
ruined before you had the line on i
paying basis. You are probaly aware
that we get only ten per cent of South
American trade and five per cent of The
Pacific trade. 1t has - be butt up
South America has no coal AMI there
fore no workable iron, ana bu. very
little cotton. Why don't you instruct
your congressman to get an amend
ment to the shipsubsidy bill establish
ing line of American bull steamers
between the gulf and the far south that
will insure market for your coal,
your iron and your cotton? Wah as
surancss of this kind in the bill, it
would be far less Objectionable TO many
who favor it in its present condition
and it would make for it new friends.
l don't say this would be COOL politics.
Politics VS.. Business.
Il don't know much about politics,
but do say it would be mighty good
business, and l know a little of bust
ness. Standing where | do, on this
pile of iron ore. and looking out upon
the glare OF these blast furnaces and
the gloom of these many smokestacks
in view of these acres of coke ovens,
with rich cotton land stretching away
for hundreds of miles in every direc-
ton, | tarry to declare that in the
next ten years the question of mar
kets will be of vastly more Importance
to you than the question of who is re-
sponsible for the occasional lapse of
American manhood among our boys,
fl1ghtlng as best they know how, under
tropical sky, for the honor of the old
flag. Excuse me, gentlement, but this
question can no more be made of last
ing interest than the responsibility for
the death of Cock Robin. But unless
you can have markets, both home and
foreign, and the means of transporta-
ton, both transcontinental and trans
oceanic. your resources might as we'll
be located on the island of Martinique
Chain That Makes Us Rich.
1T costs half million of dollars
to build ship but of this sum 95 per.
cent goes to labor. OF this wage 95
per cent is paid to the local merchant
for food and clothing and material to
build homes. And of this share that
the merchant gets he pays 95 per cent
to the producer. and the producer in
turn pays 50 per cent to labor. And
thus the process is repeated ad infini-
tum. This is the endless chain that
makes a people rich, and not the end
less chain that makes us poor.
Illustration Working.
so that when something is propos-
posed that encourages the employ
ment of labor | am for it. Whenever
plan is suggested that will advance the
price of labor, | am for that. When
ever it is proposed to subsidize har-
Dor or river-unless it is entirely too
Visionary am for that. Whenever it
is proposed to reach out across seas
for markets beyond whether the
scheme involves the bisecting of con-
tinent and the nuptials of oceans, or
something else equally broad-guaged
and comprehensive, | am for that also.
l can't help it,
Opportunities for Combined Brains.
$50 have talked to you on business
lines and / hope / have not offended.
/ have enjoyed my stay in Alabama
very much Kind beyond measure
and hospitable beyond limit have
been all people / have met. / thank
you, friends, one and all, and if you
ever discover a plan by which the
brains of the north and the brains of
the south can be united in one SUI
preme effort to get the most and the
! best out of the matchless opportuni-
ties with which the dawn of the TWEEN
tieth century is frought, wire me; I'll
come back.
Assistant HltoTtey SSiSTa fulleT
Speaks.
Assistant Attorney General w. E.
Fuller of West Union spoke in happy
vein, adding a very cordial word for
Secretary Shaw, who, he said, was
compelled to lie awake nights to devise
ways to prevent congress spending all
| his surplus cash.
Council Bluffs Man Makes Hit.
Congressman Smith Of Council
| Bluffs made distinct hit in his
speech. In the course of his remarks
| he said:
1--WE were told this morning that at
the point on the mountain where we
stood the iron ore was forty feet deep.
was glad to hear this as Shaw and
| Littlefield usually make the earth
tremble when they get to speaking. 1t
reminded me of the old familiar hymn,
How Firm Foundation the Work of
| the Lord
1.-THE prosperity of the people de-
lpends upon the amount of work they
have to do and no nation ever enjoyed
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