Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-09
DISCUSS "IOW WAIDEA"
TARIFF REVISION SUBJECT OF
MEETING IN EAST END.
ADDRESS BY 7. D. FOSTER

tonal Republican Platform-Meet-
ing Held In Dining Room Of Packing
Plant.
From Wednesdays Daily.
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being strangIed In its infancy, =
and ! am here to do what ! can
. to save its Iife."-T. D. Foster in y
his address at the packing houAs
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"The tariff should DE revised and it
should be revised by it's friends" was
the keynote of the meeting held last
evening in the dining room at the John
Morrell & Co. packing plant. Reciproc-
ity, especially with England, was
strongly advocated, as was the selec-
tion of Governor A. B. Cummins as one
of the delegates at large from the state
of Iowa to the national republican con-
yention in order that he might put be-
fore the delegates at Chicago the Iowa
idea" as plank in the republican ma
tional platform.
About 125 men were in attendance at
the meeting and despite the cold room
the attention and interest in the ad-
dresses was good, and the remarks Of
the speakers were greeted with enthus-
presided and on the platform We're
Sumner Siberell, D. H. Emery and AL
derman W. H. O'Malley.
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speaker of the evening. F. j. Bullock
Alderman O'Malley upon request of
chairman Bullock, stated that the pur-
pose for which they had been called to-
geIher was to discuss the question OF
reciprocity, that as the press of Wapel-
10 county had given but practically one
side of the matter the meeting was
called to give an opportunity to present
the other side.
Attorney Sumner Siberell followed
with a short statement expressing his
belief in the soundness of the protec-
tive tariff Certain members of the re-
publican party believe that the time
has come for the revision of the tariff
and I for one believe that the revision
should be done by it's friends said he.
He expressed his desire to see GER
tain advantageous reciprocity arrange
ments entered into and closed with a
staten ent that he believed in seeing
both sides of every question present
ed
D. H. Emery Speaks.
H. Emery was next called upon
spoke with warmth. In brief he
There never was time when
so mduih wrong has been done to some
of our public men. FROM the press
we have only the views of it's editor
and extracts from six or seven news
papers of Iowa. They intimate that
we are not republicans. Are we going
to be stultified by these six or eight
papers like the Marion Register, &C.
dar Rapids Republican, Keokuk Gate
City, Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Wash
ington Press, and others?
Reciprocity has been part of the
republican policy ever since the adop-
tion Of the Mckinley BILL said he. ut
was adopted as complement to the
tariff policy
Following MrEmery Mr.Foster read
a carefully and well prepared paper
advocating changes and readjustments
in the present tariff laws. Present
prosperity is not real" he declared,
t'and our tariff laws are not founded
on sound business principles"
Extracts from the paper arc as fol-
lows:
MIR. Fosters Address.
Fellow workers and friends:
We have come together tonight to
consider a situation involving the ag-
ricultural, commercial and manufac-
turing interests of our state, of ours
pre-eminently. because it is agricult
ural beyond the measure of any of her
sister states, but the interests do not
stop at our boundaries. every interest
of our nation is affected l have ref
erence to the present policy Of pari
of the republican party in maintaining
tariff that is fast alternating our Gus
toners and turning the world against
us commercially, and at the same time
enslaving free Americans. (so-called, J
with bonds that would be considered
intolerable if more fully understood By
the people.
grant that the past five or siS
years have been prosperous ones, and
this condition makes it all the harder
ard less agreeable to suggest that per
haps this prosperity may come to a
sudden end some day, in the not dis
tant future. yet in my opinion such is
the case, for the very good reason that
prosperity is not secured along the
lines of sound business methods. but
in direct violation Of them, and even
our great nation can no more afford
to ride rough shod over business prin
ciples that are as old as the Pentatucf
than can the smallest. dealer or work
shop proprietor in the land. Present
prosperity is not real, it is only Dor
rowed, and will have to be paid bach
with interest. 1t is easy to drink the
cream from the top of the bowl anc
revel in it's richness of flavor, while
it lasts. but the skim milk will be
reached after while, death and taxes
are not mSre certain, and we are fast
getting away with the cream
/ have made four statements in my
opening remarks:
First That our present tariff is
fast alternating our customers and turn
ing the world against us commercial