Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-14
SHAW DEMONSTRATES

Garner Is dependent upon high price
farm products and can also demon
strate that the prosperity Of the farm
er is dependent upon the ready ant
constant employment OF the vas
Garner In other words, 1t Is easix Ee1f
monstrated that the prosperity OF tn
artisan and farmer is interdependent7
phil Armour once said tot me:
got rich when comparatively yourllI
man by watching the coal and iroi
miners. Whenever they were employ
ed packed every ham could get nl
hands on. My partner would say
Phil, you will break us up would an
swer, No they are working now Blu
when saw the coal and iron worker
quit sold every ham we had
THE farmers of my state understand
this fully. 1t has been taught In ever
school house, in tent meetings in at
groves, and from the platforms OF al
towns, and as a result, more farmer
came to our recent republican stat
convention than ever before and ever
one of them came determined that TIL
American wage Garner should be END
ployed. In other words the Iowa fai
mer went to Des Moines on May IL
1904 to protect his market. Whei
wage earners understand this inter
dependence as thoroughly as the low
farmers understand it, they too will 6.
to republican conventions to proted
their market.
"And what is the market Of TIL
American wage Garner? 1t Is the Amer
lean consumer artisan, farmer, freigh
handler, business man and capitalist
The republican party insists that thu
American producer, to the limit OF hill
ability, shall supply the needs OF tht
| American consumer. The democratic
party seems to- think 1t OF no conse
quence providing only 1t Is cheap. Tho
republican party insists that 1T Is meas
urably unimportant what price we pa,
SO long as we pay the price to our
selves. Higher wages mean more and
/ better food for the waGa Garner, mort
and better clothes for his family, a bet
4 ter roof for the home and therefore Z
better market for the farmer. Higher
I prices for cattle and corn mean more
lumber for farm buildings, more barb
! ed wire for fences. more and better
clothes for happier family, more and
better furniture for the home, better
,lcarpets, better carriages, and more and
better implements of agriculture; and
therefore a better market for the wage
. Garner. In other words, both the wage
, Garner and the farmer--yes, the bust
ness man and the capitalist as we'll.
spend in one way or another about al
their income. 1t is spent either for i'm
proyements on the farm, or for III
tie home in town. or in the education
: of children, or in the construction o
a railroad or in building ship; an
80 per cent of 1T goes directly or In
directly for labor or for the products
Of labor. When the republican part.
I is in power, and it's policies are In on
t eration-when public buildings are be
: ing erected, when rivers and harborl
G are being dredged, when railroads ar
e being graded and widened and double
/ tracked, when canals are being dug
/ and when the home market is protect
$ ed in the interest of the American PR
e Queer, artisan and farmer, then ar
all men and all families clothed. Blu
r may the good Lord deliver us from al
n other period when living expenses ar
g cheap" 90 --1-'-'