The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-09-13

lions have changed. That is what
these laws were enacted for. to pro
duce change in our conditions.
i For nine years the nation HIS en-
joyed the fruits of that victory and
& these have been years of such pro
gress and prosperity as neither this
nation or any other had ever seer
\ before.
! point this convention to the temple
Of actual national prosperity standing
where Mckinley painted the rain
bow of promise. Solid results have
rewarded the independent voter who
cast his lot with us in 1896. All have
shared the fruits of that great vic
tory, North, South, East and Wesi
alike. And now comes Mr.. Bryan
with the latest news from abroad
"Our progress is all que to the In
creased gold product from Grippe
Creek and Alaska"
Let us take reckoning of our pres
ent conditions and see if they are
worthy of your approval.
Our fields have produced abundant
! harvests and yet we do not hear the
common complaint that good yrops
give no comfort because they bring
unremunerative prices. The conf
dence in our financial and industrial
condition is such that the farmers con
fidently expect to get fair prices fol-
their products, although they iaFe
abundant to an unusual degree.
Farm values have nearly doubled
in these last nine years. Our state
is out of debt. The progress or rne
world shows that the United States
Of America is at the very head Of the
procession. Our banner was in the
industrial dust in 1896. Mckinley car.
ried it to the pinnacle Of success and
planted it there where it still waves
The wealth of the leading nations OF
the earth is estimated by good author
tiles about as follows:
United States $110,O0O,000,000. Just
think of it, hundred and ten thous-
and million dollars.
Great Britain's wealth is about
half that much, $4,000, 100000, whilst
France is worth $45,000,000,0 and
Germany nearly the same.
Our national wealth has risen to
| more than that of Great Britain and
France combined, or Great Britain
and Germany combined.
These are instructive and pleasing
figures.
Conditions are highly gratifying,
and the pledges of the republican
party, made in 1896, have been e.
deemed with full measure, heaped up,
shaken together and running over.
Our opponents candidates for gov
.eRnsr and for congress in this district
are eontending with us for victory
upon we'll defined issues. -
Our party had a strenuous confess
within its lines before the|conven
ton, byt it emerd J fyp1h that contes
with AZ clear a1d wen defined declara
ton in1hehaR of its historic tariff pol
11Cy in the following language:
n I'VE are uncompromisingly in fayo
of the American system of protection
Duties on foreign imports should no
be levied for revenue only, bu
should be so adjusted as to promote
/ our domestic interests, enlarge GU
foreign markets, secure remunera
tive prices for the products of oul
factories and farms and maintain
superior scale of wages and STANDARD
of living for American labor"
| We stand again on the solid rocl
of protection, and every nominee o
that party, state or national, is pledg
ed to support the cause OF the protec
tive policy.
| Now let us see what the issue is a
rendered by our opponents. Upon thu
tariff they say:
1--WE believe in ,ariff for revenue
only, and in approaching to that c"n
dition of our revenue laws Their
should be immediate relief grantee
to the people who are now bein'
robbed by extortionate prices exactet
under the shelter Of tariff"
/ So the issue is again drawn clearl!
and plainly, tariff for protecuol
against a tariff for revenue only.
| A tariff for protection should be 81
levied as to collect the bulk Of our re
venues from goods imported an
which we can ourselves porduce, thu
giving our own producers the benefi
of our own market.
i And why should we not have thi
market2 1t is the product Of our owl
industry. 1t has proven to be tn
i great source of industrial success an
commerce, and consumes 81 per cen
of all our products. -...
Our home marKet is preserved t
US through the operation of the pre-
i tective tariff, and after the lesson o
the Wilson Bill, the present genera
ton is not ready to renew anothe
such experience.
Our opponents, on the other hand
declare in favor of tariff for reyenu
only.
To levy a tariff for revenue onl.
means to so frame it as not to Civ
protection to our industries.
A protective tariff is levied upol
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