Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-24
WADE FOR BAILEY
New Iowa Congressman Mistaken
For Fiery Texan.
MAJOR FRED HOPEIS MUCH IMPROVED
England is Dependent for it's Food
stuffs-Would Be Helpless in Case
of Prolonged War-TaIk of Vice
Presidential Possibilities.
TBY II. j. MAHIN.l

BY II. ]. MAHIN.l
Washington, March %. Judge
Wade, the new congressman from the
second district, bids fair to spring in
to instant fame as a man who resem-
bles Senator Bailey of Texas, late
congressman.
Judge Wade,aS matter of fact,
closely resembles several congress-
men, but perhaps the likeness to Sen
ator Baily is most striking. AT all
events Judge Wade was upon several
occasions, during the last week of the
session, while walking about the floor
of the house, taken for the fiery Tex
an.
Instances of getting members mixed
up are not uncommon, especially when
"a new congress convenes and many
new members are ushered into their
seats. 1t is recalled that shortly after
Judge Conner of the tenth district
came to congress for the first time,
he was repeatedly mistaken for Sen
ator Aldrich, whom he strikingly re-
Isembles. Many amusing and annoying
errors occurred in which Judge Con-
,ner was mistaken for Sen
Iator Aldrich and was held
up on various accounts upon the
,supposition that he was in fact the
Rhode Island senator However, lat
terly such errors We're exceedingly
few and it is not likely that after a
few weeks Judge Wade will have any
difficulty in preserving his identity.
Major Fred Hope of Mt. Pleasant,
employed in the treasury department,
who has been critically i'll with kid
iney complications for nearly three
/ the past few days and hopes are now
entertained that .-e may in large
measure regain his former state of
health. He hopes to be able to re-
sumo work about April l.
| Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
made some examinations and esti--
mates in relation to the food supply of
Great Britain and discovers that our
English cousins are very dependent
land would be practically helpless in
! case of prolonged war. Secretary
Wilson's observations will be of gen.
eral interest to the Iowa producer of
| food-stuffs.
For the five years from 1S52-1S5S to
l1S56-1S57, which includes the period OF
the Crimean war, the imports of wheat
Including -four reduced to it's wheat
equivalent, amounted to little less
thin 26A per cent of the total wheat
supply of the kingdom available for
consumption During the five years
from 1S96-1S97 to 1900-l901, the for
Ieign part of the wheat supply, -four be.
Included as before, constituted 75.5 per
lcent, over three-fourths of the whole
! Speaking broadly it may be said that
Iduring The earlier five year period
Great Britain produced nearly three
Ifourths, while during the latter she
produced not quite one-fourth of the
wheat that she required for food
With population averaging during
the earlier of these periods considera
IDLY less than 2S.v00,000, she had up
wards of 1000 600 acres under wheat
whereas during the latter period, with
la population considerably exceeding
100000 900, her wheat area has shrunt
Ito an average of less than 100000
acres, the exact figures being 1857 ,56{
acres.
The sense of insecurity produced b.
this condition of affairs was no doub
greatly quickened by the South Afr
can war and by the danger that wa
felt to exist of becoming involved wit
more formidable adversaries than tn
Beers before the war should be owe
1t is at any rate certain that of lat
the feeling has grown very rapid
both in strength and in diffusion.
A conspicuous evidence of this ha
been furnished by the attitude assun
ed by leading members of the grail
trade in relation to the question 0
increasing the security Of the food SUI
ply, and another was afforded by
/ meeting held at the Stafford hous,
, London, ON February 4 on the invit;
ton of the Duke of Sutherland. to prc
mote an official inquiry into the secu
ity of the nations food supply in tn
i time of war. The attendance was larg
and included many members of tn
house Of lords and the house Of con
mons, distinguished officers OF the a
my and navy, and prominent represel
tatiyes of official and business life an
!. OF organized labor,
Is the agitation now in progress
likely to result in such a change in tn
policy of Great Britain as to cause
large reduction in her purchases
? food supplies in foreign countries, il
Guiding the United States. of who's
surplus food products she is now I'll
largest purchaser. In reply to tn
S question it may be said that many
0 probably majority--of those who al
t earnestly participating in the presel
|. movement are uncompromisingly o
|. posed to the adoption of protect,
l. system, such as prevails in Franc
il Germany and other continental coul
t tries. The working classes would ne
/, er tolerate a system that would ha,
the effect OF making bread dear. and
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