Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-22
Little Loss or Waste.

New Zealand >. ~. -. I. -. 1880
Little Loss or Waste.
"There Is scarcely little loss or
waste in the matter of conducting the
government. If the average citizen
was as careful in the matter of con-
Quoting his W private business as
the officials are in looking after the
finances of the government he would
have a big increase in his individual
bank account. If the cities of Iowa
were as careful in their business mat
tiers the taxes in Iowa would be much
less.
The Same Old Subject.
"Our democratic friends are again
alarmed over the protective tariff.
This same old subject is always bob
bling up %serenely. Protection, they
say is the robbery of the many for the
benefit Of the few. Is it so? What
does history teach us? We have had
recent experience in the fundamental
difference of the democratic and the
republican parties.
Along Scientific Lines.
"Every time the democratic party
has had the opportunity it has assailed
the protective tariff. Parker carefully
says that he believes the tariff should
be revised along scientific lines. Think
of it! Remember the past and then
think of the democrats revising the
tariff along scientific lines.
Something Went Wrong.
Are you willing to give up the prin.
o;o1o ~ protoo@;onp r I111fo1,o thu ~ apo
cries of '96 are too fresh in your
minds. We had good crops during
those years, we had money in the say
ings banks of our states, yet we know
that something went wrong. We did
not send so many of Jul boys and
girls to college. We did not paint and
repair SO many of our old buildings
and we did not build so many new
ones. What was the trouble? Simply
this. the difference between the two
parties on the matter of protection
and the threatened change in the
tariff. What happened? The demo
Gratis proposed a quack remedy, that OF
tinkering with the money. You know
with what results.
Protection and Trusts.
"Our democratic friends contend
that protection fosters the trusts. Dc
you know that of all the manufactured
products of the United States only
12A per cent are made by factories
that are in the trusts. Does a farmer
go out and set fire to his wheat in or.
der to get rid of the weeds that are
in it?
A Foolish Thing.
"What a foolish thing for this coun
try when it has grown strong under
a protective tariff to be thinking O.
giving I'm that policy just when Eng
land is thinking Of adopting it. Cham
in a speech says. Gradually during
the past twenty-five years the Ameri
cans under the general system of pro
lection, have gotten a firm hold upon
their own markets and are now com
lection as exemplified in America
brings to the laboring man higher
wages and shorter hours of labor II
is the very idea and purpose Of pro
lection to furnish the laboring mar
with work and with a good return fol
his labor.
Trust and Trust 7Legis Iation.
"Our democratic friends have hat
something to say about trusts ant
trust legislation. but Of late they have
been singing low on that strain. Why
The New York World one of the lead
ing democratic papers Of the countr,
expresses the matter fully when /
says there is not a particle OF show tx
base the charge Of favoring trusts
against the republican party.
A State Duty.
"The United States congress hal
no right to pass laws only SO far a.
they apply to traffic from one STATE
to another. If there are violation,
within the state it is the duty Of tn.
state to attend to the matter. The re
publicans in congress have done al
that lies in their power and right IL
do.
Suggests Common Law.
Parker says that he believes thu
common law has the power to dea
with the trust question, and is sui
ficient. 1t is not sufficient and for tina
very reason congress has passed tn,
legislation that now exists on the sub
ject. The republican party is also re
sponsible for the Interstate commerce
law and gradually but surely through
it's efforts all the great trusts and cor
porations are being brought unde
control.
Slowly and Surely Gaining Ground.
"a democratic judge after the pas
sage of the Interstate Law
said that it was a dangerous law. TIL,
federal court has recently decide,
that coal roads must produce thei
books when called upon by the prope
officials. | say again that we ar,
slowly but surely gaining ground OF
the trust question.
Imperialism.
There can be no imperialism with
out an emperor. When the democrat
charge imperialism they mean the ru.
ing of one people by another as a sub
ject people. That there is no such in
tention is proven by the treatment O
the Filipinos. The republicans wer
lead into the war with Spain by tn
most powerful influences from the pee
pie of the nation. William McKinle