Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-03

through Kentucky and the other Dor
der states along the 1900 miles of
tariff protected border into the north.
ern states and there sold to the far.
mer at the Englishmans own price. 1t
pictured in glowing terms how the
northern states devoid of factories by
reason Of the workings of false pro-
tective tariff policy would grab at the
chance to secure the splendid products
of the British factories.
The Problem Today.
What is the problem for Britain
today? Not how to ship it's manufac.
tured products through the woods of
Kentucky across the rivers into the
northern states and avoid the protec.
tive tariff but how can Britain herself
be protected from the manufactured
products of the American nation.
"One-half century ago we were
blighted by human slavery. 1t is not
so today. Then we were selling to
them at their own arbitrary prices.
We were buying their manufactured
products from them at their own fig
ures. Today we stand on the thresh-
old of every market in the world with
our own products made by the best
paid workmen in the world.
DO not imagine that even IL 1t did
require 300 years for the British ma
ton to learn the two words William
Shakespeare, the name of the worlds
greatest poet. that it will take them
$50 years, even to learn the value of
Joseph Chamberlain's protective tariff
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May Go to the Bad.
We may go to the bad again. I
don't know. believe that the major
has interpreted the quiet of this cam.
paign correctly. 1t may be that again
the well to do will abandon its pros
perity and have nothing to do.
The time was when the smoke
rolled from the chimneys when hus-
bandry thrived. when the treasury of
the United States smiled with it's full
ness and when bonds We're met and
paid that we needed senseless and tor.
tuous alarms. How we'll do you re.
member those dark days. Behind the
fair picture of our present prosperity
we see those dark years of our
troubles. Will you listen again to that
senseless ranting?
Let us endure prosperity with pa
thence. Let us now at least have as
much sense when we are doing we'll as
when we were doing nothing.
Trail of Two Great Parties.
Just fifty years ago this country
began it's greatest age of up-building
and of progress Looking back we see
through all this time the the trail of
two great parties. One is zigzag, I'M
certain and unsteady. stretching now
this way and then that way, now
marching boldly up the mountain side
following vainly some new born hope
now retracing its footsteps, seeking
ever and anon for noble things, then
turning back and plunging forward
again with fresh stubbornness and
ZEAL
At Parting Of the Ways.
Coming up again we see another
party starting at the parting of the
ways when the path turned away from
the auction block and the flag of lib
erty was unfurled. For the first few
years that great party marched
through a sacrifice of life the great.
est ever recorded. For its heritage of
sorrow, it's hearts that were broken,
trinkets that tell of the loved che That
has gone and never returned, there
still remains the great recompense OF
liberty and the union.
Political Emancipation.
Down the years the party has
marched 1nnrl.ing it's pathway with
prosperity and thrift, 10 The political
emancipation flom the foreign master
Out Of the stoIm of great struggles
slowly, surely, unswervingly it has
made its progress toward Tie goal OF
industrial independence.
The Mighty Progress.
To-day all over this broad land, the
smoke rolls from the chimneys of the
factories, the belts are on the wheels,
we have brought the iron from the
mountains, we have set the wheels, the
axles and the spindles to turning. The
cotton that in years past went through
English looms, now runs through our
own. We have touched and inspired the
inventors genius. A giant with band
| of steel in either hand has marched
across the scorching plains and the
| trackless deserts over rivers, through
tunnels and up the forbidding paths
of the mountain sides till, smiling al
all opposition, he has reached the
broad Pacific.
"Such has been the mighty progress
of this magnificent party. If the most
enthusiastic man who stood under the
shade of the oaks in that little Mich
gan town when the party was formed
had been told one half of what We
know today to be true of this great
party it would have taxed his credulity
to the utmost.
Go and Vote.
/ 1--WE are told that the democrats Of
the east have picked out two districts
In Iowa where they are going to re
turn democratic congressman. This ii
one of them. tell you this simply t.
illustrate the fact that you had bette,
go and vote on election day. The
truth is that Major Lacey has become
SO useful in the national house that he
Is simply indispensable there. DOM
forget what say. Go and VOTE
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