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

lnlo our HdIhStS over l,uUU,UUu DuSnelS
Of barley; S36,5S9 the following
year and 1,271,554 bushels in 1897.
Near the close of that year the
Dingley law restored the duty of so
cents per bushel on barley and the
very next year, 1898, our imports of
barley from Canada dropped to 1884,
76S bushels, and last year only 56,O46.
During the three years Immediately
following the democratic reduction of
the duty on barley, Canada sold in
our markets 4,110,2SO bushels. Dur
ing the six years since the passage Of
the Dingley law restoring the duty of
30 cents on barley We have imported
from Canada only 7o7,4S9 bushels.
Meantime our own production of bar
ley and its price have greatly in
creased.
Figures to Remember.
Under the protection afforded ty
the Dingley law the crop of that cereal
in the United States has increased
! nearly 70 per cent during the past
seven years, and the production has
nearly doubled, while at the same time
the price per bushel to the American
farmer has increased over 40 per cent.
RobS the People.
"The agitators contend that the pro-
lection tariff robs the people. A farmer
in northern Iowa went to his dealer to
buy a wagon. He objected because
the dealer askd him $50 for the same
wagon which was sold to a neighbor
] for $55 in 1903. paying for it by haul
ing to the dealer 500 bushels of corn.
You bring to me 500 bushels of
corn and I will give you this wagon
said the dealer. Just to make it good
] I win give you 1872 sullzy plow, $22
i bobsled. a $35 cook stove. Come in to-
morrow and / will give you $25 shot
gum
No won't do that was the farm
er's answer. That will only be allow
ing me forty-five cents per bushel for
my corn and my neighbor has offered
me fifty cents
"'All right, you bring me the corn
and I'll give you four of the same
wagons"
Fail to Compare Prices.
''It very often happens that people
in estimating prices fail to compare
the prices of other peoples products
with their own. do not believe there
ever was a time in our history when
the products of the farm would buy as
much of things a farmer uses as they
:, do today. although the prices of GER
tain manufactured goods have been
advanced Naturally SO, because the
laborer who makes them is receiving
at least 1S per cent greater wages and
/ is constantly employed instead of
| hale mt
! fact accounts for the advance in value
of products of the firm. Show me the
smokestacks and chimeneys of Amer
lean manufactures and I'll tell you
with reasonable accuracy the condi-
ton of the American farmer.
/ Wheat for Calico.
! my father and both my grand
fathers gave bushel of wheat for two
yards of calico in the early days of
Cedar county. Iowa, because the man
ufacturies were situated beyond the
sea. Talk about trusts, in those days
the old world was relentless, con-
| tinental trust to which we paid our
constant wheat and corn and other ag.
ricultural tributes. Not so today We
feed the laborers who make our goods
on this side of the sea and at such
wages as make them the greatest con-
sumers in the laboring world.
"The smoke now rolls from the fun
nels of our own American factories
not half time, but night and day. The
cleaning sparks leap forth from chin
neys towering from the great steel
], buildings Of our fair cities. The glare
of furnaces illuminate the towering ed
ifices and the myraid dwellings of the
countless workmen in our own me
tropolis. Bee hives of industry bedeck
our waterways and every line Of trans
continental railways witnesses the
multiplying enterprises that employ
! the thousands of mankind, and you
wouldn't give a bushel of wheat any
where in America today for twenty
yards of calico.
Philosophy Of 1t All.
And what is the philosophy of it all
of this republican industrial system
Primarily, as Mckinley said, "A days
work for every man who wants to
labor But deeper than that, the doc.
trine of Webster that whoever Is OF
substantial and lasting benefit to any
portion of our country is likewise a
4 DeneHt TO every part.
Divines the Basis.
Chamberlain, the most significant
1 figure in the English nation today, has
OWNED correctly what lies at the basis
of the American industrial growth and
increasing supremacy and has sug.
gested the protective tariff for his own
country.
Leads to Inevitable Ruin.
"The protective tariff declared the
British press in the sixties is founded
upon gigantic error and will inevita-
bly, lead to industrial ruin 1t pictured
how when the war was ended, and the
: south recognized as an independent
government the cotton and the pro
: ducts of the southern states would be
! brought to England, sent through the
! looms and the manufactured goods
sent back to the states and sold to the
planters at the English mans own
price.
4 at pictured how the British manu-
featured goods would be smuggled