Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-02


been close. But we are now lining up
to support the party and to give one
of those old time Iowa majorities to
the ticket. 1t is fitting that we should
open the campaign by having Speaker
Cannon in this city, the most impor-
tant city in this district and Iowa's
chief manufacturing center. Speaker
Cannon and have been friends for a
long time and have voted for him
for speaker. I hope to again be able
this fall, with your assistance, to vote
for him. (Applause.)
We have also with us tonight Hon.
James e. Watson, congressman from
Indiana. Mr.. Watson is the man who
received President Roosevalt's letter
a short time ago, in which he made a
strong appeal to the people Of the
country to return this fall republican
congress to hold up his hanas and aid
him in his great work during the next
two years"
Introduces Mr.. Cannon.
Major Lacey then Introduced Speak.
er Cannon, who was greeted with en-
thusiastic applause. He said: TMr
Chairman and Citizens: Away back
after the fall when our first parents
were driven out of the garden, it is
recorded that the great I Am laid the
curse of condemnation upon the earth
and said to Adam and Eve, In the
sweat Of thy face shalt thou eat bread,
in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the
days Of thy life Therefore, from
that time down to the present the hui
man family has only formed charac-
ter, has only subsisted and progress
ed through all the centuries by labor.
The idle are always the vicious. No
man can strengthen the legs of an
other man by walking for him. No
man can form character Tor another.
y Labor Party.
"The republican party, which for
forty years has been only another
name for majority of the people, IS
labor party 1t was formed upon the
basis of labor. To the south of an
imaginary line there was cheap labor
servile labor Nothing was paid for
the education Of those who performed
this labor. Our brolners of the south
land had inherited this condition. 1t
was not created by them, but for them.
| That labor produced great values in
cotton and tobacco and they thought
that their best policy was to ship
these products of cheap labor across
the ocean and exchange them in the
old world for the products Of cheap
labor over there.
I'VE of the northland said: We
e-form the same labor that is per-
formed in the south brt we are cosoy-
ereigns. Our labor Is not servile.
This is a government Of the people.
We thought that our proper policy
was to develop the resources OF the
country, to bring the farm and the
factory together. The Almighty has
given us great natural advantages to
utilize and as we had the burden Of
government upon our shoulders, we
felt that each generation must be ed.
ucated and that we required better
profits, better compensation than our
brethren across the ocean who had not
the burden to bear that we had in a
government Of the people.
/ Tariff for Revenues.
"Now our friends of the southland
were for conducting the government
and paying its expenses by means o.
a plain tariff for revenue only.
tariff is a tax, by United States laws
levied on products made abroad There
are certain things we cannot produce
because of the peculiarities Of our eli
mate. If a tax were levied on these
articles the money would go into the
treasury as a pure. clean revenue, no
as a protection to American labor
That's tariff for revenue for revenue
only.
1--WE believed in tariff for the pro
lection of the home producers. w
believed that goods made by servile
foreign laborers should enter thi
country only in competition with tn
products of our own labor. A tax o
tariff on such articles as these put
the money into the treasury Whel
| they shipped manufactures to thi
country they paid tax. At the sam
\ time this makes a protection bulwar
behind which our laboring peopl
might stand in safety.
Labor, the Cause of War.
THE civil war grew out of the Que.
ton of labor, of compensation for Ii
Dor, of the policy Of labor. In the FIJI