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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06
AGAIN HoWLlNG CALAMITY.

ST. Louis Globe-Democrat - Clarke,
the democratic candidate for senator
in Ohio, has been saying that this
country is on the verge Of a financial
collapse and some of the democratic
papers in and out of Ohio have been
quoting the utterance as if it were Cos
pei. This is renewal of the bowling
which the country heard from the
democrats with a good deal of vocifer-
business few years ago. 1t is to be
made campaign cry. evidently, in
Ohio this year, and possibly in some of
the other states which have elections.
But is this going to help the demo-
Gratis? The chances are that it will not
The general business outlook was new
er brighter in the United States than
it is at this time. All the country's fac
tories are busy. The railroads have
more work than they can conveniently
handle Bank clearances are at very
high figures. All the country's great
interests are tlourishing So far as
can be discerned, there is not a cloud
on the financial horizon. 1t would puz-
zle Candidate Clarke to give single
sane reason for his assertion that the
country is on the verge of disaster.
The only thing that can readily be
conceived which would bring financial
calamity is the triumph of the demo-
cratic party, but not even Clarke can
predict any such thing with any conf
dence. There is no chance for dem
ocratic victory in Ohio in 1908, nor is
there in Iowa or any of the other nor
mally republican states which vote this
year. No democratic prophet any
where in the country has yet been
found who is bold enough to prophesy
a triumph for his party in the presiden-
tial or congressional canvass of 1904.
The political outlook for the United
States is bright in all quarters. The
panic of 1893, which the democrats
brought and which the republican VIC
tory of 1896 ended, is not likely to have
a counterpart for good many years
to come
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06

with all the resources of their COM
2mand, knowing that ii he is nominated
he will certainly be elected, and that
his campaign against the trusts in the
next four years will be harder than it
has been thus far until he brings them
under the control OF the law.
This league between the trust boss
es and few labor leaders is the
sort of an alliance which will be quick
ly knocked out when the people get
a chance at it. The vast majority
of the members of the labor societies
know that the words of the Knights
of Labor in praise of the President
are true. President Roosevelt 'is the
best friend organized labor ever had
in the White House His work in
aid OF labor, organized and morgan
lied, in ending the coal strike last fall
on terms agreeable to both sides was
a master achievement in aid of labor
and of the people in general. Wall
street may think it can work effective
ly through the junta of the labor boss
es, which it has won over to it's side,
but it will be mistaken. The crusade
which it has started against Roose-
welt will bring out the connection
which the republican party has had
in advancing all sorts of labor, and
give Roosevelt and the party largely
increased majority in 1904.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06
"A BIT OF DEMAeoeuERY.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil.- Good as
Jerry Sullivan's opening campaign
speech was, he brought into it re-
markable lot of demagoguery when he
undertook the discussion of the Phil
ippine question. With a noisy fan
fare he introduced the star spangled
banner, the constitution and the de-
claration of independence, and by i'm
plication rather than otherwise, sought
to show that the policy of the govern
ment in taking over the islands at
the close of the Spanish-American war
and establishing peace and order with
in their confines was a gross VIOLA
ton and Dissertation of all three.
Mr.. Sullivan's declaration upon this
matter were mere tommyrot He
knows it and so does everybody else,
and nobody knows it better than he
His entire discussion of the Philip
pine question was Atkinsonian, not
Sullivanesque, and it was rather be-
meath the general dignity of his adj
dress to indulge himself in such finn
sy efforts to make political capital out
OF the fact that in a barbarous corner
OF the Philippine islands the natives
have not yet been induced or com
PEELED to give up an ancient custom
OF slavery. There are more impor-
tant things than that involved in the
present campaign. The people have
no time for such nonsense.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06
ROOSEVELT AS LAsoR's FRIEND.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat.- Simon
Burns, general master workman of the
Knights of Labor, shows sense in con-
demning the members of those work
ingmen's societies who are opposing
President Roosevelt for his action in
the Miller case. The knights execu--
tive board, at it's meeting just held at
Washington, adopted series of res
olutions in which it declared that the
President is the best friend organized
labor ever had in the White House.
The resolutions also say that "the
present move is a political ane in the
interest of prominent republicans who
control few labor organizations, with
desire 20 attempt the defeat of Presi-
dent Roosevelt"
Reports have been current in the
past few days that Wall street is be-
hind the few labor magnates who are
opposing the President for saying, in
the Miller case, that the statutes of
the United States must be paramount
to the laws of any labor or any other
sort of association This is the open
shop" issue which some of the labor
leaders have been trying to inject into
politics. 1t would please the trust mag
mates of Wall street to see the Presi-
dent defeated in the national conyen-
lion They are working for that end
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06

thousands of cheap Chinese laborers
from over running this country. Dur
ing the last session OF congress an
amendment to the immigration laws
was passed preventing large numbers
of paupers from Europe coming to the
United States and thereby protecting
labor from an influence that would un-
questionably have a tendency to low
er its wages.
Mr.. Sullivan's second statement is
equally as inaccurate. Union labor
has reached SO perfected state of
organization that it may well be COM
pared with the combinations Of capital.
1t is largely due to this organized in
fiuence that wages have been maintains
ed at their present high level, that the
rewards for labor are preserved at a
practically uniform rate throughout
the country. This is but the attain
ment of the avowed object of the Ia
Dor organizations. No right thinking
man will deny their right to use all
honorable means to better their condi-
ton and in view of these facts it can
not be rightly said that labor is with
out protection in the United States.
But were the protective tariff wiped
out as Mr.. Sullivan pleads, these 9TH
er aids to the protection of the work
ingmen would be inadequate to main
tanning wages at their present high
standard.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06
PROTECTION TO LABOR.

In perusing the opening speech of
Hon. j. B. Sullivan, democratic candi-
date for governor, attention is attract
ed to his statements regarding labor.
Mr.. Sullivan boldly asserts that labor
is on the free list and that the labor
ing man cannot form trust. To the
person who carefully examines these
two statements their inaccuracy is ap-
parent. Laws for the protection OF
the American laboring man are to be
found on the federal statute books and
no party has been more faithful in con.
serving the welfare of the working
American citizens than has the repub.
lican party.
Exclusion acts and immigration laws
have been passed by congress in
abundance having as their object the
protection Of American labor from
competition with the pauper labor OF
foreign countries. In making the
statement that labor was on the free
list Mr.. Sullivan evidently forgot the
Chinese exclusion act which keeps
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06
IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR.

Joe Trigg in the Rockford Register.
We hardly know what best typifies
the fall of the year. Sometimes we
think field of shocked corn with ripe
pumpkins scattered around best does
it; that when we go into the orchard
and see Wealthy apple tree loaded
down with ripe red fruit, that's it; that
when we get off half day and land
a string of bass from the pool up in
the woods, that's fall doings; that
when we run across a hedgerow of
goldenrod and wild aster or some
fringed gentian down by the creek,
and see the blood red south side of
some jack oak, or flush a coyey of
quail, or see lot of robins stripping
the last OF the fruit from the black
cherry, or have some candidate for
county Office come around, then we
know fall is here, or. better yet, when
the evening lengthens out, and a little
fire seems pleasant and pumpkin pies
get on the bill of fare, and one hates
to get UP in the morning, there is no
question but the summer has gone and
winter is not very far away.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06
AN INplsPuTARLE WARNING.

One OF the best testimonials to the
practicability of American protection
outside the wonderful growth and di-
versity of American interests, is the
proven policy of Great Britain to con-
serve the welfare of its dopestic mar
ket and its failure to insure the stabil-
ity in its exports. The discussion pro-
yoked by Joseph Chamberlain's propos-
al for a protective tariff for England
has brought out certain facts as to the
operation OF free trade that will be of
interest to Iowa voters in view of the
tariff being the issue in the present
campaign.
1t was maxim with old-fashioned
economists that imports and exports
must rise and fall together, because
as they said I'VE pay for imports with
exports" The fallacy of this position
has long been proven. AS further
demonstration that this position is in
correct it will be well to note the COM
parison of English exports with i'm
ports as set forth in the report of the
tariff committee of Birmingham, Eng.
The total value of the manufactured
goods exported from the United King
dom in the years 1888, 1890 and 1901
was:
In 1882 ....,.. ;. ;. s215 100000
In 1890 ;. 1. -. 100000, 900
In 1901 49,. >. >. -. 222 100000
For the same years the total imports
were:
1888 49,. :. ;. ;. ....,.. 6 SO 100000
1851 ....'.... 6S,O00,000
1901 az 600 00O
BY these figures it is seen that the
imports OF Great Britain are rising,
while its exports are on the decline.
Is it any wonder that farseeing public
men in England are advocating
change in the British tariff policy?
But the Birmingham committee has
made further comparison that cannot
but show the wisdom OF the American
protective policy to every person who
is willing to judge the value of the
two systems on the report of this
committee that British exports have
decreased under the policy of free
trade. In contradiction thereto the
committee calls attention to the. export
trade OF the United States and Ger
many. two highly protected countries.
The result of investigation as to the
value of manufactured goods exported
from these two countries is given as
follows:
United States Germany
In 1883 2s.000,OO0 e9s,O00, 900
In 1890 =. 31,000.000 107 000, 900
In 1901. S6000,000 $4,000, 900
Thus the rates of increase and de-
crease per cent of the export trade lin
manufacturer of the three competing
countries were:
United Kingdom - Decrease OF 81
per cent.
United States - Increase of 174 per
cent
Germany - Increase of s5Ks per
cent
y These percentages of decrease and
increase speak for themselves.
While the United States has expert
enced this ia per cent increase in it's
export trade it has enjoyed the bene-
fits of an ever expanding home market.
Iowans do not care to inaugurate a
policy that will not only destroy do
mestic markets but is liable also to re-
duce the export trade.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06
loWANs TO HEAR SHAW.

Iowans will be pleased to learn that
Secretary Shaw is to participate in
the Hawkeye campaign this fall At
this time it cannot be announced def
nitely just when he will be heard or
how much time he will be able to
give to campaign work AS cam
paigner it may safely be said that
Secretary Shaw has few equals in the
country. His speeches are pleasing,
not because of their f1owery SMILES,
but for the simplicity of their elo-
quence. Always clear and to the point
his addresses are of great education-
al value. His arguments appeal to
citizens in every walk of life because
they illumine political doctrines in
language that can be understood
by all
Iowans may well feel gratifed that
they are to have the opportunity again
of listening to their eminent fellow
citizen. Secretary Shaw is held in
high esteem by citizens throughout
this entire state and he will be greeted
by large and enthusiastic audiences
wherever he may speak.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06
woRklNeMAN,s TESTIMONY.

Cedar Rapids Republican, Since
1896 wages in Iowa have gone UP 81
per cent as shown by the reports made
to State Labor Commissioner Brig
ham. himself a laboring man. This
does not tell all of the story The
hours that have been Topped off should
also be considered. There has been
decrease of at least 10 per cent IN
many of the trades. This may not ac-
crue to the workman in the form of
higher wages, but it comes out of the
pockets Of the employers just the
same and is as much an item of ex.
pense to the employer as the higher
wages are. If this decreased time is
added the per cent will stand nearer
80 than 90, which will represent the
increased cost of labor, as far as the
employer is concerned. 1t is a show
ing that labor can be proud of in this
state and it demonstrates that in
Iowa at least the workman has re-
ceived some of the benefits of the
wave of prosperity that has swept
across the country.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06
FACTS FROM THE PHILIPPINES.

Des Moines Capital The Span
ish government took an official
census Of the Philippines in 1887
No systematic attempt was made aft
er that until the one undertaken by the
United States government few
months ago. The work has now been
completed and the report is on file at
Washington The facts collected will
be classified and published as soon as
possible.
The work of taking the census was
in charge of Henry Gannett of the
United States geological survey. The
field covered included information not
only as to numerical population, but
agriculture, manufacture and trans
portation as well.
1t was found that the civilized in
habitants of the islands numbered
about 6,975,000. The inhabitants
classified as wild are about 614.OOO
The standard adopted in classifying
the civilized and the wild people was
religious one. If native has been
baptized he was classified as civil
lized
The work of enumeration was all
done by the natives. Mr.. Gannett
says that as a class he never saw more
intelligent, capable or faithful enumer-
ators. There were more than 5000
employed and they were paid So per
day.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06
COL. LINCOLN AND THE IOWA
BOYS,

Iowa will be represented at the
army maneuvers at Fort Kiley, Kan,
by the Fifty-fifth regiment of the Iowa
National Guard in command of that
veteran military man, Colonel James
Rush Lincoln The Iowa boys will be
brigaded with the Sixth and Twenty
fifth United States infantry under
the command of General j. Franklin
Bell. 1t will not be the first time that
many of the Iowa boys have been asso-
ciated with these regiments or the
noted commanders. While the old
Fifty-first Iowa was seeing service in
the Philippines both the Sixth and
Twenty-fifth regiments were sent to
the islands. During the months when
the Iowans were seeing service with
Generals Hale, Wheaton, Funston and
jor, was acting chief of scouts for the
second division.
Though a majority of the men then
with the regiment are no longer with
the guard, the identity of the regi-
ment has not been altogether changed,
and the association at the coming ma
neuvers will recall many pleasing
"reminiscences.
Colonel Lincoln, commander of the
Iowa boys, is military instructor at
Ames and is recognized as probably
the most able, man in military affairs
connected with the Iowa guard Col
onel Lincoln served during the civil
war with the confederate forces,
where he attained distinction Soon
after the close of the struggle he
came to Iowa and since that time has
been connected with the Iowa military
organization in various capacities
During the Spanish-American war he
served as brigadier general of volun-
teers.
1t is safe to assume that under his
leadership the Iowa boys will gain
much valuable Information and in
struction at the coming maneuvers
and that their part in the evolutions
will be conducted in thoroughly mil
itary manner.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06

sheep in the country being augment
ed by % per cent. The increase in
the next decade from 1870 to 1880 was
"A per cent. The growth would have
unquestionably continued but for the
fact that in 1883 the solid south, back
ed by its servile followers or the
north united and repealed the tariff
on wool adopted in 1867.
Various attempts were made during
the eighties to modify the tariff but
the republicans stood like a rock
against the lashing waves of demo-
cratic convention. In 1883 the Mills
free trade bill was passed by the
democratic house of representatives
but met it's doom in the republican
senate.
In the presidential election of that
year the voters of the country en-
phatically declared that the protec-
tive policy, inaugurated by the repub-
licans in 1861 and maintained by that
party during the succeeding years.
should be further secured by proper
revision, but that such revision should
be strictly in line with the principles
and purposes of protection. For this
task Speaker Reed named William
Mckinley as chairman of the ways
and means committee. This was in
December, 1889. Never was a tariff
bill prepared with greater care than
this Due consideration was given to
the numerous and varied interests of
the country. Not until the following
October was the bill allowed to be
brought to vote that it's makers
might be assured it was the best pos
sible tariff bill that could be framed
The wisdom of this measure was soon
manifest. Under it the diversified in
terests of the nation took on new
life, the demand for labor was in
creased and prosperity prevailed in
all parts of the nation. Under this
law the nation prospered for the
,, next two years in a measure before I'M
heard of.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06
NO HEDGING HERE.

President Roosevelt does not hedge,
does not hesitate, and does not beat
around the stump. He goes straight to
the point in making the following clear
cut and unequivocal declaration:
81 am President of all the people of
the United States, without regard to
creed, color, birthplace, occupation or
social conditions. My aim is to do
equal and exact justice as among them
all. In the employing nt and dismissal
of men in the government service |
can no more recognize the fact that a
man does or does not belong to the
union as being for or against him than
/ can recognize the fact that he is a
Protestant or Catholic, Jew or Gentle,
as being for or against him"
This is the law and it is conceded
by thinking men to be the only stand
which the President of the United
States or any other public official could
properly take. At the same time Pres
ident Roosevelt is not uppish or unwil-
ling to do what some employers fool
ishly refuse to do, and that is to meet
with the representatives of labor or
CARNATIONS, treat them with consider
alton and carefully discuss the points
at issue. President Roosevelt goes to
the extent of thanking the labor dele
gates for their courtesy and publicly
expressing his appreciation of the op-
portunity to meet and talk with them
AT the same time, his utterances and
conclusions leave no question of doubt
as to his attitude upon the matter at
issue. President Roosevelt has the
courage to be the President of all the
people.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06

Keokuk Gate City.-The Oskaloosa
Herald has paragraph to the effect
that "the recent A. M. e. conference
at Des Moines developed the fact that
it takes Ottumwa and Keokuk togeth-
er to support one colored church,
while Oskaloosa has two. The impor-
lance OF the towns named can be
judged accordingly" The Oskaloosa
paper will probably wish it hadn't
said anything when it learns that
Keokuk has three colored churches
one Methodist and two Baptist. On
the basis of churches of that kind
this city ranks first i'm Importance in
the state.
1t would have been well for the Os,
kaloosa paper to have examined con,
ditions in Ottumwa more closely be,
fore making any comparison along the
church line. In addition to the Afri-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06
PROPHET BRYAN.

9 T. /
Philadelphia Press.-Mr. Bryan
has discovered a new way to carry
an election. He has written a letter
about the campaign in Indiana in
which he says that the only way to
carry the state is to conduct a penni-
less campaign that will appeal to the
conscience and patriotism of the peo-
pie" He probably smiled when he
wrote that. A penniless campaign by
the democrats in Indiana would indeed
be a novelty. Bryan knows that there
is no chance whatever of the democ-
Gratis carrying that state. and he
knows that they will spend every
dollar they can get from any source.
But when it is all over Bryan can say,
Il told you SO" He is a great pro-
phet,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-06
THE AUTUMN OF LIFE.

W. d. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune.
Some lives are like the autumn leaves
That fiutter softly to and fro
In every breeze that family grieves-
The leaves CLEAN richest as they go.
In one swift burst of regal hues
They blaze with crimson and with gold
And none Of their perfection lose
When, whitening, they drop their hold.
The leaves. at last. when all is done,
Show lis anew the days of June
The golden glory Of the sun
Aud softened luster of The moon,
The red that riots in the dawn
Is mingled with the restful brown
That tints the leaves ere they have gone,
While they are slowly swaying down.
Some lives are like the autumn leaves
The rose hued memory Of youth
In all their acts pattern weayes
With the most precious gold Of truth;
And they grow fair, and fairer still
Like autumn leaves their beauty CLOVIS
With newer charm and grace, until
Their lives are perfect at the close.
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