Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-10-20
announced that he was ready for the
extraordinary session of congress.
The Dinaiey Bill.

announced tnaC ne was ready rOr Cne
extraordinary session of congress.
The DinsIey Bill.
When the extraordinary session |
convened and Governor Dingley Offer
ed his tariff bill it would have done |
your heart good to have heard the |
yell from the galleries and this yell |
was echoed from ocean to ocean.
What did we do in that committee
When we found an indus
try had been forced to fight foreign
competition until 1t was forced to go
into receivership and American la
bor was pushed to the wall, we raised
the protective tariff SO high it gave the
home product basis of fair competi
tfon 1t put the American people
back to the employment they We're
forced to leave in the panic and smoke
was again seen issuing from the Chin
neys, which had not been darkened
for months. submit it to every man
who has eyes and can see whether or
not we accomplished our object.
Il have studied the panic of 1887
and have been unable to find clearly
what was the cause. Some said it
was the tariff: others that it was an
ullSOullu cpIlulliOll III lue CURRENCY.
| have studied the panic of 1857,
and have not been able to determine
positively the cause. But you cannot
fool me on the panic of 1893.
II have a hard grip on
that When saw honest
American industries going into re-
ceivership. the laboring men idle and
hunger and want abroad in the land
4 knew what caused the panic. But |
watched the hole where prosperity
went in and watched it until | saw
prosperity again come out and | know
the cause for the panic and the remedy
administered so successfully.
Mr.. SulIivans Mistake.
"Now talking of the duties on lum-
her. | don't know whether Mr. Sullivan
knows it or not, but the lumber tariff is
an old one In discussing the duties
on the lumber tariff and the salt tariff,
Mr.. Sullivan said if Henry Clay and AL
exander Hamilton knew what the re-
publican party was doing with these
articles they would turn over in their
graves. slight acquaintance with
the history of the subject would have
inform ed Mr. Sullivan that Henry Clay
was the author of the lumber tariff and
Alexander Hamilton of the duties on
salt. which were nearly twice as high
/ while he was secretary OF the treasury
! as they are now.
Lumber on Free List.
"The tariff of 1912 made all manu-
features of wood subject to duty oi
thirty per cent That is higher duty
than we have today or have had at any
,c,t t1rrn, ~
4 per cent. The rate was SO obviously
fair that it wasn't touched in the free
trade revision four years later. The
democrats transformed all of the
schedule that relates to the manufac
ture of wood on the free list in 1894
They didn't put many more there. Why
: didn't they put textiles, iron and stee
on the free list, instead of placins
! them so high that we had to reduce
them in 1881? Why did the democrats
place lumber on the free list? Becaus'
for twenty years they had been sneak
ing into the country school houses an
telling the farmer he.Was robbing him
self, and they put it on the free lis
: to save the face OF athe old STUN
; speakers.
The Leading Industries.
\
aon Z lnlnk lnes hneM any Inin'
ABOUT lhaustrs OF they @o'iiuh na ., ',
put lumber on .he irse iisl wheii sns
dld, because tnen 1he lunpei sala
!. were ciosea up anu t4e peopie W.. W.,
not pulidlng houses, II was d. INA INA
time When you couiah ! see GU. % ueu LEI,
and couian get ~. II WAS .le r,ul. loul. .
/ greatest lnoustfy IN the ohlteu olase ave
G that the democrals put on the re
a list. me iolir leaders are; AsIiGu
+ ture, whlch leaas theh an, teItlie.
0 ineaua.nS tani sotns M %Ir,,, I,,,,,sar 49,
W "trhav how we're dealing with a
q indnstrv which had 10000 G!
u tohlishmants with a nav ro
!, If T. 90 no0 men the leading i,
S drstrv outside Of agriculture an
s fro nsnortation in Iowa. 1t was til
4 chief industry in thirty differer
s. statas ] and tba total outlay per annul
l. ] would raacb 81 OOnoo0 900.
9 s,,innea Canadian Lumber.
# t.wben the ningIey bin revised th
It dnty ships were hauling lumber fro
If Brit Prif,sh Columbia to California an
S the states on the western coast, ar
er Canadian lumber yards were shippir
le ~, al, ,roduct into the markets alOI