Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-11

UMW-A COURIER.
lacy thereof was soon discovered and
brought home to the people of the Unit
ed States during the four years which
followed in a manner that could not
soon be forgotten. AS the disaster of
those years proved beyond question
the fallacy of that argument, it is al
ways regarded with suspicion on the
occasion of its temperance. These
advocates of free trade forget the value
of the home market and completely TO-
nored it as being factor in the com
mercial and industrial prosperity Of
the nation.
Protectionists, believing in serving
home Industries, home labor and every
thing American, are the natural oppo-
nents of such argument and policy.
Ezra 9. Williams, staunch protection
list of New York, discusses this sub
ject in an article appearing monthly in
the American Economist. This par
ticular phase of the protection and
free trade" question is set fortht i'm
most clear and comprehensive manner
that should receive the attention of
every voting American citizen. The
text of his discussion is taken from the
question propounded by Gov. Cum
Minis: sought Iowa farmers and their
dependents to be for or against the
general policy of reciprocity" In CIV
ing further attention to the governors
remarks, Mr.. Williams says:
"His answer is For, reasoning that
| if one sells, he must, in turn, buy of
his customer. That is law of trade.
Not followed generally by individuals
or nations The usual law of trade is,
BUY BECAUSE YOU WANT OR BE-
CAUSE YOU LIKE.
If the Cummins' law of trade is
natural law, then the trade with Great
Britain must be readjusted. Great
Britain buys of the United States
goods to the value Of s60O,000,000 and
sells $200,O00,0000. So also must our
trade with Switzerland Switzerland
| buys of the United States 100000
worth and sells $21 100000 So also
must our trade with Brazil. Brazil
buys of the United States $11, 100000
worth and sells $67,000,O0O. These diff
ferences between exports and imports
show no such balancing of give and
take as is implied in Governor Cum
| Minis address.
"Great Britain buys our cotton be-
cause she must have it to keep her peo-
pie busy. She buys our provisions
because she cannot raise enough to
feed her people We buy of Switzer-
land watches, music boxes, toys, ETC.,
because they suit our fancy. We buy
of Brazil coffee, hides, rubber, ETC., be-
cause we want them. England will not
stop buying of us because we do not
buy her goods. Neither will we stop
with Switzerland nor Brazil because of
like reason. So all arguments based
on the Cummins law of trade fall.
Suppose we look at the against
side of the question. Iowa farmers
are perhaps raising $40 worth of farm
products annually per acre; 100000,
900 for the, 35,000,000 acres in the
state. 3 They are naturally interested
in the purchasing power of the con
sumers Of those products; 100000 In
Massachusetts, 100000 in Connect
cut 100000 in Rhode Island, 100000
in New York, 100000 in New Jersey
These 13;0O0,000 of; people are now
spending 500 each per year to live;
4 81 BOO, 000, 900 in. all. There was a time
1886 when it cost them $72; s936,O00,
4 600 IN all, 4 Wien they had only 81:
4 per, year to- spend. DID IOWA FARM
ERss. FIND tIT5OUT?
"The difference between 1886 200, 00(
and s1,300,000. 900 represents little
of the trouble that ensues when yor
TRY to arrange the tariff for the bene
fit Of the foreign trade. This immense
foreign trade, what is it to the people
of Iowa? Five millions Of Canadians
buying of the United States $4,000,
900, or $22 EACH 10000, 900 of English
men buying of the United States
| $600,OO0,000 or SIS each; 5O,OOO.OOO O
Germans buying of the United States
| $200000,000 or 81 each Grand Gus
toners. May their tribe increase.
1.-THE of no account home trade; VIVA
! is that to the people of Iowa? Two
millions of Jerseymen buying Of theil
neighbors $2O0,O00000, $500 each, jus
to live. The whole product of Iowa
consumed by the people Of the New
York. These are the CUSTOMERS
| TO PROTECT AND STAND BY"
These are the reasons the republi
cans advocate the policy of protection
i anu StauQ LOT us continuance us Jnt
basis of the economic affairs of tn,
United States. Americans are en-
titled to the best that America has o.
can produce is the doctrine Of the pro
tectionists. But in addition let us re
member that the protective policy o
the republican party is causing
"houses, factories, towns, cities, build
ing and extending; people swarmlng in
4. drawing good pay and spending thei
money. Factories like the Edison, EN-
ploying a whole regiment, 1900; likt
i the international Pump Works to EN-
ploy 10000, half a corps, like thu
Singer Machine Co., now employing
half an army corps, 10000, but en-
larging to employ full corps, 10000
men. These and numerous others are
the customers for Iowa. Men who
buy at home" Conserve the home mar
ket..
why primary law" asks the Bur
lington Hawk-Eye, and then in its
usual clear and forceful manner i