Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-30

otner country privileges within It's
markets which are withholden from
the people Of the United States, then
and In all such instances, the tariff
duties on all merchandise coming
from those countries showing such
preferences shall be = per cent high
err than provided in the schedules Of
existing tariff laws.
"This would constitute a miximum
and minimum tariff, the maximum to
be enforced only against such coun.
tries as exact a maximum rate against
u.s."
Merchant Marine.
Most of his remarks before the bank.
ers yesterday were relative to the mer-
chant marine. One-eighth of all the
of the world originates with
the United States. One-ninth of the
of the world comes here for
consumption. The exports of the
world amount to $4,000, oOO, 900, one
of which IS ours. But our do
nestle commerce amounts to $25, 000,-
900 90.
The country grows t~hree-fourths Of
the cotton of the earth; other nations
must come to us for it or do without.
Germany takes a hundred million of tt
and is willing to come after 1t. The
world never has more than six months
of food supply on hand, and the world
has looked to the United States for a
supply of food and has been willing
to come after it. But we are begin
ming more and more to consume what
we grow while our factories turn out
$4,000, 000, 900 a year than those
of Germany and England combined. I,
I'VE want outside markets for our ,
surplus manufactures" said the secre-
tary. "But foreign nations will not
come for our surplus products of this
character. We buy go per cent of
what Brazil sells and we sell her but
10 per cent of what she buys. The
merchant marine of Europe, travels
first to the south where there is "a
thousand million in commerce., brings
the southern products to our markets
and takes back to Europe our cotton
and our food supplies, but not our fac
tory products. We need a merchant
marine to sell manufactures"
Panama Canal.
The secretary insisted that he had
no pet scheme to encourage the build.
ing up of any American merchant ma
rine. Any way would suit him. But
if the nation which has subsidized
railroads and other enterprises should
guarantee against losses while trade
was building up the agent Of the
transportation company would knock
at every factory door in America for
the privilege of carrying into every
mart every manufacture of this coun-
try.
Construction of the Panama canal
changes the line of u commercial &C.
%tivities to the Orient. 1t is but a few
hours difference between New York
and Hong Kong by the canal than
from Liverpool to Hong Kong by the
Suez. 1t makes this nation the master
of the Pacific sea, if we shall take adj
vantage of our opportunity.
Our farms produce more than the
farms of any other land; our mines
turn out car loads of gold and train
loads of silver, and there is unloaded
on the soil of our commonwealth more
iron ore than any other country of
the world produces. Our factories
produce as much as the factories of
any three countries put together; our
railroads carry our products to. the
coast line at one-third the rates of
any other country and our coastwise
trade is the cheapest and best known
to the science Of navigation. But at the
coast we stop, while we seek foreign
bottoms in which to send our products
abroad.
President Monroe signed a bill Civ
ing a monopoly of our coastwise trade
to American ships. The American
tonnage today over the Detroit river
which enters the ports of Liverpool
and London n New York City COM
bined and under every pound is an
America ship built of American tim
Der by American hands and above ev-
cry mast floats the American flag. It
was a nonpartisan law which gave a
monopoly to u W people. And no
Railroad Subsidies.
The present minority party inaug-
urated the policy of substituting the
railroads of the country and the pres
ent majority party continued h pol
icy. We have subsidized rivers and
harbors and dredged navigable and un-
~navigable streams. We have paid $780,
600. 600 for the privilege of digging A
ditch and we will spend $4,000 900.
perhaps more, in dieeing it and mil
lions more to defend 1t and allow tn.
whole world to use it on equal terms.
These are all nonpartisan enter.
prises undertaken by the whole peo-
PIE for the whole nation; and the
merchant marine should be builded on
the same basis and involving neither
political nor partisan considerations"
Troops from Fl. Des Moines will be