Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-23

duct yearly is greater than the manu-
featured product of the people OF
Great Britain, Germany and France
combined, and this product is sub
stantially consumed by our own people
finding markets within the borders of
the republic. Although our exports
of manufactured products are
rapidly growing last year there were
over S4OO, O00, 900 - 20 per cent of our
total exports. 1t is not a few great
wealth that make good markets, but it
is the multiplied millions that work to-
day and consume tomorrow, with inter
change of their respective products
amongst one another and the prosperi-
| ty of the farmer on one hand and OF
| the operative upon the other depend
upon the prosperity Of each as produc-
ers of their respective products and as
consumers of the products Of others.
The Great American Market.
1--WE are one harmonious whole; and
il one or more of the great industries
is seriously affected those engaged in
that line Of production cease to be val
liable customers for all the other pro-
ducers in the country. If we did not
sell one particle Of our immense pro-
duct outside of our own borders, we
would still have the best market Of
any people on earth 1t has been said
and truly said that our market
amongst ourselves is of greater
amount and value than the interna-
tional markets of all the world
amongst all the peoples Of the world;
and while our people are seeing to it
that our foreign markets shall grow
and we are now the greatest export
ing nation on earth--yet it is absolute
ly necessary that we should see to it
that we continue that policy which en-
able us to dominate our own markets
and to continue the present and grow
ing wage to our own people.
IT can perhaps best present to you
the progress of the country by stat
ing that the wealth per capita of the
United States in 1850 was 1907 while
in 1900 it was $1,235and by stating fur
Their that the total wealth of the Unit
ed States in 1860 was $16.oo0,0Oo and
in 1900, s94,000,000.0 900 and now over
one hundred billions.
; Postal Receipts.
"But I can give better illustration
of the progress of the country under
the leadership of the republican party
by referring to the postoffice depart
ment, that great service that gathers
! no penny of money except by the vol
untary contributions of the people Of
. the republic. Since 1850 the rates Of
I postage have been practically reduced
more than onehalf. III 1860, the veal
4 that the republican party first came
i into power, the revenues OF the post
9 office department were in round nun
$ bers $S,50O,009, while the expenditure
d were $4,000 000-a deficit one ant
s one-fourth times as great as the IN
= come The revenues of the city post
e Office of Chicago last year wer'
= greater in amount than the postal rev
d enues of the whole country In tn
e year 1860. Last year the revenues Q
y the postal service were Sl24 ,0Oo,ooo
e and the deficit only $4,0o0,OO0, or les
S. than three per cent. and this, too. no.
D. withstanding the very large growth o
e rural free delivery. involving an eS
ID penditure of $1000O,OO0. This yea
q the revenues have not been ascel
e tanned, but will safely increase by $40
"a 600 900, and in the coming year by al
=. other $4,000 900, all of which mes
% sures, and truly measures, the con
- mercial. the busineus, the social an
a. a. the individual prosperity and well b'
"a ing of the people.
~ "For more than sixty years tn
= democratic party has denounced pr
ie lection as robbery, and their cry ha
as been. sometimes, "a tariff for reyenu
only sometimes for progressi'
n free trade throughout the world b'
Tn whatever the expression may be, the
by have always been ready, when clothe
er with power, to run the dagger I'M
nd the protective policy. And such
ny still the position of that party.
'e- the closing days of the late session
nd congress Representative Cochran,
on New York. preached the pure dem
es cratic faith; and there never was
70. my recollection such demonstrate