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

signal and the symbol of work for
the men, food for the children and rest
ana peace and plenty and happy
homes for the wives and mothers and |
for us all.
What has the tariff done for us2
great and peace loving prime minis
ter or England, to Queen Caroline:
Madam there are. fifty Thousand men
sam in Europe this year, and not an !
Englishman among Them" The de- /;
t re ., OF the Dingley tariff can say
10 the world that during the last seven
Years there have been poverty and
Pr ana suffering in the world,
put IN all the United States there has
peen work and good wages and food
ana drink and clothes and shelter from
the neat OF summer and the cold of
WiiiteF Tor every man in the United
states who wanted work and wages
and food and drink and clothes and a
rooI over his head-no man has suf-
terea y, Mn 10 wanted to work, and the
tarlff II 1T could speak could make as
proud boast as that of Walpole. Our
trade has been great and profitable
our workers have had wages before
which the pittance of Europe is but
doled-out and shabby charity Our
farmers have been the true captains
OF industry, living in peace and in
LIZ uSlliOCEdllc party says
that the republicans do not make good
crops. For once we admit they tell
the truth, but they forget the fact that
while God makes the crops, the Ding
ley tariff makes the market, and every
farmer in this broad land who sits on
his porch and looks out over the val
leys and the hills of his farm-over his
orchards and his woodland, over his
cattle and his horses and his sheep
and his hogs, over his swelling acres,
over his green and grassy meadows,
over his fields of golden oats and wav-
ing wheat and tasseled corn, should
call his wife and children around him
and bless the great God of us all that
| he lives in this age when the law of
| the land gives him the splendid bene-
| fit of a wise and enlightened tariff
law.
Believe in Protection.
believe fully, heartily, earnestly
in the doctrine and principle of pro-
lection. l do not believe in parting
with one atom of our tariff flag.
believe in Benthams greatest good to
| the greatest number and in Abraham
Lincoln's theory that the United
States with it's institutions, it's privi-
leges and it's markets, belong to the
people who inhabit it.
i l believe in giving labor all it's earns
and to capital all it honestly earns.
Il Booth Harrington somewhere says
that he who looks upon politics when
it is red, must steel his eyes to see
many man with the heart ACHE but
I'VE walk by faith" and when we find
II that we are in the wrong, that we
have been beguiled by Delilah and
that we are being led astray by the
glittering but academic doctrine of the
free traders let us hasten back to the
old republican ark of safety. Let us
protect our labor against the labor
of the world and our producers against
i the producers of the world. Let us
not tinker with a tariff which has
worked so splendidly and has brought
about such self-evident results. Let
us make mo league with death; nc
covenant with hell"
: Best Iowa Idea.
Let us adhere to the cardinal prin-
ciples of protection land if we are tc
, have an Iowa idea in the future, lie,
1 us try to make it like the note of al
e Iowa national bank-good from Maine
i to Texas and from Oregon to Florida
: If Canada wants reciprocity let i
4 come into the Union and add more star.
0 to the blue field of the flag, for reel
y procity otherwise in competitive pro
: ducts is free trade and is nothing
less.
Judge Logan, gentleman of higl
standing in the city where | live
was spending some time in Canad;
some years ago when the Wilson bill
$ was pending in congress, and becam
5 acquainted with a Canadian engaged
y in trade who was buying and STORING
n large quantities of eggs. The Canadian
told Judge Logan that he was onl.
= waiting for the Wilson bill to pas
y when he would ship his eggs over tn
: border. and he was SO enthusiastic
:, d over the Wilson bill that the Judg
II asked him, what, if the bill shoul
> pass, would be the effect on tn
: American hen. His reply was quic
e and hard, Damn the American Chick
y en-Pm looking out for the Canada
:, hen"
3, No "sons of the Shirt" Here.
= The Dingley tariff law has mad
a Hoods Song of the Shirt an impos
: sibility in the United States. 1t ha
IS made cheap men impossible in tn
II United States unless men deliberatel
are cheap and labor is cheap the
a flesh and blood is cheap and there is
!. worse thing than high prices and thu
:, worse thing is cheap prices.
IS Let us make no platform on tn
:. tariff question beyond announcing OF
"a allegiance TO the principle of tart
~ for protection Let us raise no ghost
, ( from past cOuNeIllOllS anu pldllol Il
: of the party-but let us quietly an
q decently ask that in the mellow rich
= ness of the present the dead pa:
shall bury its dead. Let us leave tn
:, tariff plank to the wise men of til
~ republican party when it meets in ns
=, tional convention where all needs wi
~ be considered and all interests wi
- be heard and then a platform will
= made upon which We can all star
~. .e and over which we can all rejoice.
ia The republican man today is We
nc He is exceedingly and exasperating
{. C Well Why then the need to give hi
., pills?
= If this great and splendid fabric
=, prosperity which has been built wit
~ so much labor and care and whie
Vi has brought content and happiness
ss every family in the land, is to
so purged and cut, let republicans sta
"a their hands and let democratic do
, , tors write the prescription and app
W the knife.
n If this great system under Whit
~ and through which we have prospe
~ ed, as no nation in the world ev
he prospered before, is to be crushed:
~ reciprocity is to be used in sen
,;n that Blaine never meant and McKinl
- never dreamed Of if the tariff whi
&c n whole has stood firm and sol