Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-16

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penses of the government.
From 1S46 to 1861 under demo
cratic tariff, the balance of trade was
against us every year but two and the
net adverse balance during these fiji
teen years was S431, 100000
Our policy has been broadly nation
al. Each portion of the great republic
is dependent upon the other. Pitts
burg's torch started the fires in Biz
mingham's furnaces without putting
out her own light.
Free labor in America and employ
ment for that labor at fair wages were
the rallying cries of our party in 1850
and only twice since then have the
people been beguiled into turning from
the policy of success to that of fail
ure.
Our party is no longer young but
it has lost nothing of it's old time Wig
or. 1t is not content with reliance
upon its past, though that past IS Sc.
cure. 1t calls attention with equal con.
fidence to the present and the present
gives assurance for the future.
in power in each branch of the
government it does not shun or shirk
the responsibility that attends upon
that power.
Success and failure both have their
critics and the criticism of the repub-
lican party has been founded on things
done and results accomplished. 1t has
never been party of negation.
A man must serve his time at
every trade
Save censure, critics all are ready
made
1T his endured criticism and had the
satisfaction later on to see its detract-
ors retire from circulation
Where now are the critics of Lin
coin? Where are the men who de-
nounced Mckinley? Where is Coin
Harvey and where is his Coins FL
nancial School now holding it's summer
session? And where is the crime of
1873?
THE reconciliation of the products
of labor was the real issue in 1896.
"The foreign market is not of much
comfort when the American Iaborer
has lost his job.
Farmers and Protection.
THE farmers of Iowa have been
constantly told that their products
needed no protection and that they
should therefore vote for cheap goods
imported from abroad. But these far
mers are enterprising and studious.
The free rural delivery with it's daily
papers and a general telephone system
keeps them in touch with the whole
world. They know that 95 per cent
of their market is at home and they
are not willing to throw away SUBJ
stance for shadow. Our party had it's
first contest in maintaining the union
of the states in the bloodiest war of
ancient or modern times, and during
the darkest hour Mr.. Lincoln and his
government never despaired of the re-
public.
when Hannibal was besieging
Rome, the grim patriots in the city
sold his camp at auction in the open
market and the title of deeds was
passed in spite of hostile occupation.
I'm 1862 in the darkest days of the
republic, one of the greatest acts Of
the patriot congress was to provide
for and commence the construction of
q ANYWAY " LuS dClllC OCGdL.
Such confidence in the future was
worthy of success. And about the
same time Galusha A. Grow secured
the final passage of the free homestead
law, which had been vetoed by the
timid and conservative James Buchan-
an not long before
"The struggle for the restoration and
preservation of the public credit fol-
lowed hard upon the restoration of the
union, and the battle for resumption
of specie payment was fit prelude to
the later contest in which the money
of the country was put upon the Sc
cure foundation of the gold standard.
"The recent irrigation and the for
estry laws have been excellent, supple
mentary legislation to the great home
stead law of Mr.. Grow.
Spanfsh-American War,
The Spanish-American war was
the united work of the American peo-
pie without regard to party, and Pres
ident Mckinley gave to the ex-confed-
crates and their sons the amplest re-
cognition and opportunity to show how
fully and freely they again yielded
their allegiance to the old flag Our
opponents, even if not ready to admit
that we were in the right from 1861
to 1865, are at least willing to concede
that it is better for all concerned that
the cause of the confederacy was lost.
Lincoln. Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Ar
thur Harrison and Mckinley have
passed over to the silent majority and
must be judged by results accomplish
ed
"a restored American navy is one
of the fruits of the present policy and
the rebuilding of merchant marine is
one of the problems of the future.
'The republican policy has never
been sectional: Provincialism is not
patriotism.
The South Is Prosperous.
Under the sway of national repub-
licanism the south is enjoying pros
perity unequaled in her history She
has reaped the benefit of wise laws
and yet has steadily and persistently
voted against her own best interests
on the great national issues of sound
money and protection. She has yield
ed to race prejudice.
"She has accepted and appropriated
the forty representatives in congress