Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-27
NOTED IowAN SPEAKING IN NEW
JERSEY. ANSWER WEAK Ar. a
GUMENTs.
CAUSES A ND EFFECTS
Secretary Of the Treasury Proves Con.
cluslveIy That Prosperity Has Al.
ways Followed Republican Victory
at the Polls and Reverses Have FOX
lowed Democratic Trlumphs. :


Washington. D. c., Oct 20. -
Secretary Shaw will be in Wash
ington Friday October 2S, speak
Ing In Virginia. Indiana and Wis.
consin until Friday, November 4,
when he speaks in the second dis
trict, probably at Clinton He will
be at Missouri Valley Saturday
afternoon and at Sioux City Satur-
day night. He will close the cam
paign in Crawford county Mon
day, November Z.
New York Oct. 26.-That the prin.
ciple of protection is as sound today
as 100 years ago, that its application
is as beneficial now as ever, and that
tariff revision by the democratic party
has Invariably been attended by disas-
ter was argued by Secretary of the
treasury Shaw at a monster political
meeting in Jersey City last night.
The speech consisted in the main
OF an answer to the assertions Of
Judge Parker last Saturday before a
delegation representing certain New
York democratic clubs, in which was
urged the contention, SO frequently ad-
,, vanced by democratic orators, that
protection, originally adopted for the
benefit of the country's growing INDUS
tries, Is no longer needed since the
country has reached Its present stage
of industrial advancement.
"On Saturday last the democratic
candidate for president discussed the
tariff question before delegation rep.
resenting certain democratic clubs Of
New York City. In this discussion he
i reviews the history Of tariff legislation
in the United States. He cites the HE
fact SO frequently stated, thets orieifIs
ally the protectiye tariff was imposed
for the encouragement of infant In
dustries, and he 1raws the conclusions
that because our industries are no
longer infantile. therefore the protec.
tive tariff should be removed.
Protection was originally adyo~
Gated for the encouragement OF Ameri-
can manufacture in the light Of condi-
tions then existing. and protection is,
now advocated for the purpose both Of
encouraging and maintaining American
manufacture in the light Of conditions
now existing. Those who advocated
protection under conditions existing
one hundred years ago very likely
i failed to anticipate conditions existing
now and therefore some Of the argu-
ments used then are not applicable
now. The principle of protection. how
ever, is as sound now as then, and the
application Of the principle Is as bene.
/ fetal now as it was then.
4 Judge Parker and Gloves.
1T is not likely that Alexander Himil.
ton, more than others, anticipated the
phenomenal growth and development
! Of this country. In other words. Alex.
ander Hamilton builded wiser than he
j. knew. He expected a protective tariff
would encourage the erection of fac.
tories in this country. and he reasoned
3 rightly. He probably did not expect
the American laborer to be paid from
two to four times as much for the same
work as is paid In Europe. nor that
he would live on much higher plane
than the laborer Of Europe. But with
:. every increased tariff rate in this coun.
try wages have increased and the plane
of living advanced. / do not know nor
does Judge Parker know. what Mr..
Hamilton If living would think or say
a IL certain man were TO tell him what
he told me only last week He owns
a glove factory in the state of New
! York ana is stockholder in
a glove factory in Milan, Italy, and
pays eighty cents for the same charac.
: ter and quantity of piece work in the
) New York factory that he readily Sc.
cures in Milan for one Ira (19.3 cents).
l anticipate that Alexander Hamilton
4 was statesman enough to know that
: the eight and one-half per cent tariff
: rate of 1889, to which Judge Parker
refers as proof that the country drifted
from the landmarks established by
3 the fathers, would prove insufficient to
: protect the eighty-cent workmen in
!, the United States against the twenty
cent workmen of Milan.
Henry clay's Compromise.
: Judge Parker quotes Henry Clay In
his support of his compromise tariff
. of 1888. Andrew Jackson was then
, president and the democratic party
: was in control of both houses of con.
: : gress They were free traders Henry
: Clay was a protectionist To save the
country from free trade Mr.. Clay sup
ported the compromise measure re-
! ferred to by Judge Parker, which was
: a gradual reduction of the tariff, the
: same as the democratic party and Mr..
. Parker now advocates. The bill pro-
!, vided that one-tenth of the existing
4 tariff should be removed bienrially, SO
that in twenty years the entire tarirf
: would be wiped out and the country
!, placed on free trade basis In the