Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01


fearless representative would not indorse
protection.
The distinguished gentleman from Ohio
lMr. Grosvenor], after hearing the great
speech of the gentleman from Iowa in
support of the protective tariff policy of
the Republican party, said:
II do not intend to mar the beauty. the
symmetry and irresistible logic of the gen.
tlsman from Iowa.
We may assume that the good people Of
Athens county. O.. are prosperous, too, or
surely the great leader from Ohio would
not concede the Irresistible logic" of an
argument in support of the Dingley tariff.
At this point. Mr.. Chairman, desire to
submit some statistics, which 1 shall in
corporate In my remarks, showing the
mortgage Indebtedness and the number Of
homes mortgaged in Iowa and Ohio. two
Of the leading agricultural states Of the
Union:
Mortgage Per cent
Indebtedness. of in
1890. 1900 crease.
iowa ........... ses.774,1n s217.o4o,25s se4
Ohio ........... 259,S42.1SS 325sSS.374 25.4a
Page Co., Ia. 1,9S9.992 2113,26i 619
Athens Co., o. 4.3S3,5S1 5,176.792 1916
Homes Per cent
mortgaged. In of in
1890. 1900. crease. crease.
Ohio ...........123.42 s 1885 1882 1880
Page Co., Ia. l.l66 l,4n so5 26.16
Athens Co., o. s13 1,12O POI 22.67
These figures, which are carefully COM
piled from data furnished by the census
bureau, show that under the operation of
this 80 called wise and beneficial policy Of
the Republican party the mortgage in
debtedness of Iowa. that stalwart Repub-
lican state, has increased 8.64 per cent and
the number OF mortgaged homes has in
creased 1856 per cent in ten years.
In Ohio the increase of mortgage indebt-
ednesH from 1890 to 1900 is 25.42 per cent
and Of mortgaged homes $3.50 per cent.
This Is not ALL In Page county, Ia,
100 per capita, these statistics prove that
for every dollar deposited in 1908 by the
more fortunate there was a like sum in
1900 plastered upon the homes of the peo-
pie. To be entirely accurate, statistics
show that in 1900 there was secured by
mortgage-not chattel mortgage, munici-
pal or corporate indebtedness, but by
deeds of trust upon homes of the people
OF Page county, LA sum equal to sS7.40
for each and every man, woman and child
In that county.
In Athens county, o., the home Of the
Chief idclater Of high tariff, mortgage in
dsbtedness has increased 1916 per cent
and the number of mortgaged homes 22.67
per cent in ten years. These are addi-
tional evidences OF the wholesome and
highly beneficial results of so called pro-
lection. Iowa and Ohio are great agri-
cultural states, and under normal condi-
tons the people ought to prosper But
the blight OF tariff for protection falls up
on producers everywhere and insidiously
day by day steals the fruits of labor to fill
the Golfers Of those who reap where they
have not sown.
As Colonel Hepburn and General
Grosvenor have made no reply to this,
1t must be assumed that there is no re-
ply that can be made and that Judge
Rucker, by digging into the facts in
stead Of INDUCING in empty rhetoric,
put these two illustrious Republicans
in hole.
Hypocrisy Arraiened.
Evidently Judge Rucker is familiar
with the classics as we'll as with sta
tistics, as is demonstrated by the fol-
lowing excerpt from his speech:
Colonel j. H. Brigham assistant secre-
tary of agriculture in an interview pub
lished in the Washington Post recently
used this language:
1T is very well understood by intelli-
gent farmers that trade conditions now
existing do not secure to the farmer the
full share OF the value of his products
that rightfully belongs to him. They also
know that existing combinations compel
the farmer to pay more than is equitable
TOR the implements with which he tills
the soil and the supplies of the farm and
home. It is also well understood that the
farmer bears more than his full share Of
tho burden Of taxation"
Thus, with great precision and accu-
Tacy, speaks one high In authority, whose
official duties require him to study the
condition OF those engaged in agricultural
pursuits. Why. IN the name Of coma,on
decency and of all that is right and fair.
should trade conditions be sacredly pre-.
served and long continued which rob the
farmer Of part ''of the value OF his prod.
ucts that rightfully belongs to him?"
What justification can great political
party urge for willfully, knowingly and
deliberately compelling the farmers Of the
United States to pay more than their
full share of the burden of taxation?"
These are vital questions which you, my
Republican friends, will soon be called
upon to answer. and predict your at
tempted answer. like Macbeth's "Amen,"
will stick in your threats" Your siren
gained and held public confidence, won't
always avail you. A day Of reckoning is
approaching, and, In my Judgment, the
time IL not remote when the "intelligent
earmers' Of tina limited States win arise
n their might and, az reasonable and
richly merited punishment for your mary
sins and transgressions. will Danish you
from political place and power forever
He closed his speech with these Wig
orDus paragraphs:
A few days ago we were derisively ask
cd, What does the Democratic party
stand for?"
The old party stands as it has always
done, for equal rights to all and special
privileges to none. 1t stands for that
great. true principle, once of universal ac-
ceptation, that governments derive their
just powers from the consent of the gov
erned." 1t stands as the proud champion
OF the oppressed wage Garner and pro-
Queer, resisting further encroachment Of
organized wealth, the tariff worshipers,
the trusts, the devil and the Republican
party. 1t stands for revision of the tariff,
without hostile intent to any legitimate
business, but with an unalterable purpose
II Entrusted with power to perform its
duty though the combined trusts tn the
United States should perish in less time
than 1t took the president to produce
abortion in Colombia and deliver the In
fant republic of Panama.
Tue peEocratic party stands on tptoe
OF GXpecfaney. looking with hopeful ey6
Into the near future, copfidently believing
Tue lntel!lgent ]armrrs' and wage earn.
ere OF the United States have discovered
the emptiness and barrenness of Repub-
hean promises and the utter insincerity
q the party and that they will In next
November tear from you the robes Of
hypocrisy md put In every honest hand
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