Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-10-27
REPUBLICAN SPEAKERS
ENTHUSE EDDYVlLLE VOTERS

bic citizen of our common country.
"Your native land and mine is free
from bitter partisan strife because the
energies of the people are turned to
the affairs of every day business life
and men are out of politics and inl
business. The marvellous business
development in the wake of present |
policies in this country has not only
employed the muscle and the brain OIL
our people, but attracted the attention.
of the business centers of civilization
everywhere. We cannot have materi-
al progress, business activity, CONNER
cial greatness, with ultimate national
glory without small measure,at least
of patriotic pride being reflected into
the individual lives OF the humblest
citizens OF this mighty republic.
Nourished in Cradle of Liberty.
THE fundamental principles of this
government were nourished in the
cradle of our Anglo-SaXon liberty that
has struggled along the rugged path
way OF civilization until in our accom-
plishments we command the respect
of the combined powers OF this earth.
Prosperity VS.. Adversely.
1--WE have had seven years of plen-|
ty that have produced this cloudless
era of business contentment. and the
only issue before you is, prosperity
against adversely. Shall we depart
from the policies that have caused the
fires of business activity to be rekind-
led upon the hearthstones of six mil
lions of homes in this land?
Could Enforce Idleness
"If we should turn the sovereign
power of the ballot against the bust
ness and financial world, and engage
in experimental legislation, we could
produce an enforced vacation for 7,000-
600 day laborers that would cost us
more, in the shrinkage of values in the
next twelve months than the combined
wars of the great powers for the last
century.
Use Your Eyes.
'If you use your eyes you can see
! what the people of this country can do
1 when money is plenty and labor is EN-
ployed. Farm hands are scarce, con-
tractors lack men, carpenters are busy,
/ factories are filled with orders. The
| great arteries of commerce and eX--
/ change are crowded and choked to
/ their full capacity, delivering the
manufactured products of the people,
who are consuming more. because they
4 have the wherewithall with which to
4 make the purchases. Your real estate
i has almost doubled in value in the last
seven years. Board any of the great
ans.continental trains today and you
/ find them crowded with farmers seek.
1 ing cheaper land. Your merchants are
busy with good trade, your mines
4 have not been idle for months and in
1 this unparalleled era of business activ
ity, the entire American people are re
;, joicing.
4 Would You Reverse the Wheels?
1.-The question then Is, are we ready
to reverse the great wheels of indus
/, try and call halt In the progress Of
our beloved land? On Iast Saturday
!, heard the candidate for governor upoI
!, the democratic ticket declare tina
i there was no place for protection
/ democrat IN the democratic party ant
there was no place for tariff reform
er in the republican party" And HI
: followed this with the declaration tina,
the great issues before the American
people We're free trade against protec
ton. If our experiences in the pas
+ are of any value the average voter vii
\ find little difficulty in choosing the sid
/ for which he will use his sovereign
L power of the ballot box.
e England is Stirred.
e "The United States is now passin
s through the supreme Accomplishment
$ of a great prosperity Twenty mi
/: lions of our people are engaged in carr
t ing their bread in the sweat OF thei
It face. under policies thar have made u
h supreme in the commercial and final
n cial world Old England herself is t.
$ day agitated from center to circun
S ference over the commercial victorie
$ of the United States. She has a grea
It national record behind her. Her Chri
s. tian civilization is the acme of Angl,
I'll Saxon accomplishment. Her powerf'
h armies and navies have made her mi
tress of land and sea, but she coz!
the commercial power Of the young +
public on the western continent.
e Protection the Desire of Labor.
II 1.-The protective feature of our tart
- system is the mighty bulwark benin
u which S0000,000 of progressive, intel
70 gent American citizens have been Ell
N irenched for thirty-five years. Can v
e, afford now to stop this mighty progre
IL and stop the wheels of industry? "
possessthc standard of wages, the sta
re dard of living and the standard OF i
ST telligence, that is NOT enjoyed by al
I'd other people. An Irishman never blu,
Sc ticket when he leaves the Emera
2, Isle for free trade port. A Scotchmi
is never leaves his native heath for fr'
ly trade land. An Englishman never sc
as ers his allegiance to the English CROW
il for free trade wages. The sturdy Ge
&c man always looks to protective Ame
Mt lea to better his condition. Why, the
OF should we reverse the policies tn
IT. have added material wealth, popu
OF ton, opportunity and hope to the o
lg pressed of every nation on this glol
at for a tariff for revenue policy that
va stunned by the honest toiler OF
he climes and countries?
eel Where the Value of Change?
sr- Gould any gentleman present, W
to- favors a tariff reform, demonstrate
us that a change in our present fins
cial and commercial policy would tie
to increase the wages of Americ