Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-21

fidelity to home trade cannot be
doubted, realized before his death
that the period of eXclusiveness had
passed, and In his last public utter.
ance at Buffalo on September s, 1901,
said:
I've must not repose in fancied Sc.
curity that we can forever sell every.
thing and buy little or nothing. Reel
procity is the natural outgrowth of
our wonderful industrial DEVELOPMENT
under the domestic policy now firmly
established. y +, The period of eX.
clusiyeness Is past. Reciprocity
treaties are in harmony with the spir..
1t of the times, measures of retalia.
ton are not"
In accord with this policy announc.
ed by President Mckinley. numerous
treaties were negotiated with other
nations of the world, and presented to
the United States senate for ratifica-
ton. Not receiving the approval of
the senate, these same treaties were
afterward re-submitted by President
Roosevelt with an urgent appeal for
their ratification. but it is matter of
great significance that every reciproc-
al treaty which has been proposed
since the doctrine was first announced
by Blaine has been defeated by the
republican senate.
The republican party has shifted
grounds on reciprocity but still hopes
to incur the favor of the people by the
adoption of plank that really means
the abandonment OF this great doc
trine. From the honest policy of
Blaine and Mckinley it has swung to
the doubtful policy of Aldrich and
Lodge, New England's high priests of
protection, who declare for reciprocity
in non-competitive articles only. Such
commercial treaties are practical i'm
possibility and republican leaders know
it. If made such treaties would not,
as the great diplomat John A. Kasson.
tells US, bring into the country enough
goods to start a store at a Kentucky
cross roads. The republican party
now stands committed to the practical
abandonment of reciprocity and is
ready under the leadership of the east
to return to it's old-time worn doctrine
Of commercial exclusiveness.
The democratic party of the nation
reaffirms it's traditional adherence to
the principle of reciprocity. Especial
ly do we believe that it would prove
advantageous to us as a nation to es-
tablish reciprocal relations of the
broadcast character with the dominion
of Canada
BY nature, by physical environments
and by all the conditions that make
tions as divide us, the people of Can
nlo Ia 80
States are one people. Our kinsmen
and friends have gone to that land
just as our fathers and mothers came
out from New York and settled in
Ohio, and from Ohio came into Iowa
and Nebraska and the Dakotas. The
people of the north are like our peo-
pie, they are of our blood and Ian
guage and have similar standards of
life. The civil and religious institu-
lions of Canada are similar to our
institutions and of as high an order.
The aims, aspirations, hopes and des-
tiny Of the people dwelling across our
northern border are the aims, aspira-
lions, hope and destiny of the Americ.
an people There is no satisfactory
reason why they and we should not
be one in all the commercial relations
of life.
And what prevents? There is moth
ing to prevent the broad, universal
and natural trade relations between
the United States and Canada which
nature has designed, except the same
stupid ignorance and blind prejudice
which existed in New England against
the people of the west when the Mis-
sissippi valley was opened to settle
ment. The republican party is today
using the same arguments against
reciprocal relations with Canada that
were reiterated in the halls of the west
when new states were created by the
Louisiana purchase. The people Of
Canada are six millions: we are eigh-
ty millions. The republican party
tells us that open trade with them
means disaster to us. / ask them to
us, Why?
Trusts Do Not Create Wealth.
The trust was conceived in greed,
fostered by special privileges, endured
through conception, is sanctioned by
republican administration, and main
tains and fattens itself on the sweat of
toll and of honest endeavor. Trusts
Go not create wealth. They absorb
the natural property rights of man, fix
prices and prey on producers and con
sumers alike.
This denunciation of the unnatural
trust is plea for the rights of Ameri-
can citizens. trampled upon and scorn-
ed by this arrogant power whose
heart knows not the toiling masses.
The essential and natural tendencies
of the trust are to crush out individual
independence and hinder and prevent
the free use of human faculties and
the full development of human char.
acter. Its principles are reactionary
in the extreme, transporting our dear,
ly bought ..yinciples of equality and
individual liberty back to the central
lied and monarchial age of govern.
ment.
1t would relegate man to the level
of passive obedience, paralyze his will
and hold him to the wheel to be
ground and moulded to the shape his
tyrant master may desire.
The man should be all. In every
man slumbers reason and intelligence
He should be his own master and to
become this. to realize his divine pow.