Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1903-07-02

people equalled or surpassed the hap
py conditions that have existed since
the Oath day Of July 1897, when the
mounted courier Of the American con-
gress carried to the White House the
Dingley bill and returned within 80
minutes bearing the great and illus
trious signature of William McKin-
ley.
Praise for Dingley Bill.
The DingIey bill was the result of
long investigation, of much discussion
and many conferences and the united
| efforts and wisdom of such statesmen
as Senators Allison, Nelson. Dingley
and their colleagues in both branches
of the national legislature. 1t is the
law of the land today and has been
for six consecutive years, and in all
probability will be for some consider
able time in the future.
That is what we old settlers and re-
publicans term protective tariff. 1t
is the wall of American protection up
on which the feet of industry and la
Dor leaped out of the panic and disas-
ter of '96, waving the flag of employ
ment, prosperity and independence in
the face of all the world 1t is not
quite so high as the old Mckinley wall
on the average and not SO low by a
mighty sight as Great Britain, Ger
many, France and the free trade con-
tingent of America would have it. But
it stands upon the rock of reason and
experience with the vines of thrift and
plenty climbing over it in the sunlight
and gladness and in the golden glitter
of a full treasury. The commercial
moles of Europe have tried to burrow
under and the rodents of reform tc
gnaw through, and democracy to tram
pie it down. But it rests secure in the
| judgment of the people who know by
sore experience the difference between
buying abroad and buying at home
sending money away and keeping it
here-as well as they know the differ.
ence between winter and summer.
1t is said of William of Orange that
when he saw the troops of Louis XIV.
covering Holland, he said: Break
down the diles and give Holland back
to the ocean" Not until the CONNER.
cial forces of Europe, with their hordes
of cheap labor assisted by the free
| trade contingents of this country, will
any such disparaging command ever
be given; not until they overrun this
fair and prosperous land of Columbia
will such a command be given for the
destiny of the United States. A dozen
words, a single sentence from the lips
of Abraham Lincoln, is worth more fol
the guidance of America than all the
precepts Of the school of Manchester
and the miserable mutterings ant
1 mouthings of the modern political ad
venturers running between party lines
whose theories when put in practice
have always cheapened American labo,
and surrendered her industries bacl
\ to the old world.
1 Iowa Has Profited.
!. Certainly no state in the union has
1 profited more than Our own by reason
of the republican industrial policy
4 which has saved the markets and the
money and the labor Of America fol
4 the people who inhabit it. In the
midst of plenty and good prices and
the uniform prosperity, we commend
4 the spirit and the purpose of Ameri
can protection. We make no apology
for success nor for any tent of the ma
tional republican faith. In the midst
of happiness and harmony on the basis
of genuine republicanism, we hail the
wisdom of such statesmen as William
B. Allison and Nelson Dingley and the
leaders In the framing of our great in
dustrial lay, and we hail also the cour
age and the frankness of such mer
as President Roosevelt and Marcus
1 A. Hanna who, in the face of cheaI
and clustering sensationalism, advo
Gated holding fast to that which You
know is good until you are sure OF
something better. (Applause.)
The Honorable Nelson Dingley, who
was at least the putative power of oul
i present tariff law, was both good and
lnsafnl in such an eminent degree that