Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-19

III lIollL OF you, the HOTlll, oii > 49,
right, the east: and on your left the
west. What have YOU behind you?"
After a few moments reflection the poN
exclaimed: "A patch on my pants,
and to make the information more EN-
phatic, he shamefacedly said; I knew
you'd see it. told my ma you Wouiu.
and so all the world will see the sar-
torial establishment on the demo-
cratic rear, but as misery is SAID 10
desire a catastrophe, we will leave the
democracy to its desires.
A temporary chairman is NOT sup
posed to make a political speech. me
reason for his existence is | thlnk,
that he shall eulogize his own side ana
damn the other fellows. So | am not
making political speech nor sound
ing a keynote. That must be left 10
other and ADLER men. But there is an
issue before the country concerning
which I may be pardoned a word
though / speak for myself alone, rep
resenting no party and no following III
a party.
The democratic party has had be
fore it ever since it was beaten on
the silver question several tentative IS
sues. Bourke Cochran urges his par
ty to make the President the issue OF
the next campaign. We Will sladly
accept his challenge and go before the
country with Theodore Roosevelt as
the issue. His deeds, his character
his works, we will cheerfully place
against the character, the work and
the standing of any democrat among
them all. Theodore Roosevelt as the
issue? Hell walk the line like
buck in spring
Trusts and Their Control.
The trusts were hailed as heaven
born issue, but the republican party
led by Theodore Roosevelt has gone
into the courts and under law pass
ed by a republican congress has dealt
the trusts a blow under which they are
now trembling, although every demo.
cratic justice on the supreme bench OF
the United States filed a dissenting
opinion. The democracy claims that
the tariff is the mother of trusts. BY
the same token the women are the
| mothers Of measles. The mothers OF
the land have children and the chill
dren have the measles. Kill all the
industries of the land and you will
surely kill the trusts, and abolish all
! the mothers of the land and you will
( just as surely abolish all the measles.
l confess with shame that your tenn
porary chairman is probably the only
man in the country outside of congress
| who does not know how to control
and regulate the trusts. But have full
faith that the party which freed
the slaves. which saved the union,
which made the homestead law, and
which gave the country the gold
standard will be fully able to meet and
solve the question of the trusts.
Colonization was tried as an issue.
and the democratic party begged the
! country not to embrace colonization,
but opposition to colonization was
soon dropped when it was found that
nobody was trying to COLOMBO any
f1,t. yt><,G t,arn
\ Imperialism was then nursed as a
lusty infant-having it's home in cul-
tured Boston-that town in New Eng
/ land-the mother-in-law of windy
Kansas, but the city of Boston just
4 beginning to be known to fame as the
Omaha of the East"--has ceased to
cry Imperialism because it has found
that Imperialism was popular with the
American people and for the very gooc
reason that We are an imperial people
living in an imperial country. in ar
imperial age, q and looking forward to
an imperial destiny when peacefully
but potently we expect to impress up
on the world the progressive IDEAS OF
this imperial republic
/ Tariff the Issue.
, The issue to which I refer is the
! tariff. Like Aaron's rod the tariff ha:
swallowed all other and minor issue.
and by this issue the republican part,
must stand in victory or go down il
g defeat.
$ For nearly seven years now TIL,
United States has done business unde
the Dingley tariff. / have no rever
t ence for the schedule figures of ;
tariff BILL it is no fetch before Which
j we must fall down and worship. 1t Il
simply the work of able and well in
8 formed men and represents at tn
$ time it becomes law the rates o
d duty necessary to preserve to thi
y country it's trade. its manufacturer,
interests, the economic welfare of 1t
e great working mass of people, wheth
er that work is done as a laborer, as
c mechanic in all the trades, as farm
en- as a railroad man, or bushes
q man, who is buying from one to sci
: to another.
y A tariff itself in its makeup is
! matter of detail and requires vas
!. knowledge The details of a tariff
Z the figures that govern the duties, tn
: per cent, demand minute and scien
: tific treatment. and this knowledg
= and this science car only be apple
by experts, but for these figures, rate
:, and per cents We always haze and al
= ways will hold congress responsible
), But with the principle of a tariff w
- have something to do.
RI ''s'
:, con. which make a nation great an
. prosperous: fertile soil, busy work
= shops and easy conveyance of ma
~ and goods from place to place. TIL
- fertile soil we have; the easy convey
- ance of man and goods from place t
IS place. we have, for our railroad
- girde the country from side to sid
- and from end to end,and our steamer
e. ply upon all our navigable water
making Bacons first and third re
J. quirements a living reality. But Ba
cons second requirement is bus
u work Shops" Busy work shops W
II did not have in CleveIand's secon
~ term under the Wilson bill. The gras
~ grew green on the paths that had bee
IN trodden by thousands of busy an
~ glittering feet going to and comm
:. from the mill and from the factor
&c The agile spider spun his web
is thousands of our great factories vi
is disturbed and the obscene bat and tt
IN unclean owl whirred and hooted In II
4. emptiness where a few years befol
: millions of people had earned the
"a bread.
% A wise man has told us that ma
na has assembled from the ape. rms ms
% be true but if the American Peep
" y. ever 90 back to free trade, or to II
=: shadow of free trade, then It W
Up ,,ndoub+edlv ba frtie that the MAJOR