Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-12

of the farm and the shop. More than
once has the cause of protection owed its
safety to the deliberate vote of the far
mers of the United States. The farmer
has been willing to accept a moderate de-
gree of protection upon the fruits of his
industry, and has been willing to support
tariff, law that gives to the American
manufacturer the market Of his country.
lie has found that this line of policy has
worked we'll for the farmer, for the best
customer of the farmer is the well paid
working man employed in all the other
| avocations of life
''The republicans should not be misled
by local prejudices. In certain portions of
the manufacturing regions of New York
and Pennsylvania, the demand is made to
take off all the duties from the products
of the Iowa farm so that cheaper products
may be obtained from Canada, but these
gentlemen insist that while opening to
themselves free market in Canada, the
same right shall not be exercised by the
farmers of the west. They want protected
boots. shoes and leather goods. so as to
preserve their home market, but they de-
| mand free beef, free hides ard open doors
to the things which they buy. They ask
for free wool and protected woolens.
Cares For Interest of ALL
''rhe republican party is the one party
which looks after the prosperity of the
| whole country. north. south, east and west
We do not need any PENNSYLVANIA idea
New York idea, Kansas idea, or Iowa idea
| What we should and must stand for is
the national republican idea which will
4 be content with nothing less than the pro
lection and successful operation of all of
the industries of our country. Let other
parties appeal to the prejudice of local in
| terests. Our party was organized to up
| hold the union of the states, and to make
and keep all labor free. The national re
publican idea is good enough for me.
Issues Makes Parties.
| Gentlemen we are facing the issues OF
| 1904. Parties do not make issues. Issues
make parties. Issues come to us. They
are not to be sent after The strength OF
| our party has been mainly based upon its
|unwillingness to he stampeded by any TEN
| pOrary cry of eXpediency. 1t has manfully
/ faced each situation as it has arisen in
| the last half century. content to be right
at the time, making no alliances with dan
gerous heresics but standing for the right
and for the best interests of our common
| country.
Leaders Always Found.
| .And for such party. leaders have al
ways been found able to marshal such Il
| host. Lincoln's name is linked with and
| glorifes its beginning. Grant, Blaine, Gar
| field, Harrison and Mckinley have coupled
| their names with republicanism in the
zenith Of its power. Three of the presi
dents of its choice have been assassinated
and thrice have the hearts of all the PEG
| pie beaten in unison at n martyrs tomb
The beloved Mckinley has fallen but the
republic and republicanism still survive.
The Man for 1904.
| "In 1900 we selected for the second place
on our ticket a man who did not want the
nomination. lie had his eye on 1904 lie
still has his eye on 1904-and 1904 has its
| eye on him When the clock strikes the
hour the man of the hour has always come
and the man of the present hour is oul
gifted. honest, able, versatile. young Pres
| ident Theodore Roosevelt, formerly of New
York, but now of the whole United States
| of America"