Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-20
REPUBLICAN RALLY
AT CHILLICOTHE
VOCAL SPEAKERS AND cANDl-
DATES ADDRESS VOTERS OF
CAss TOWNSHIP
Meeting Is Well Attended and Much
Interest Is Manifested-Taks are
Well Received-Harper, Enoch,
Hnchison and Epps Speak.

From Thursdays Daily.
One of the best attended and most
interesting and successful of the repub-
lican meetings held this fall in the
smaller towns of Wapello county, was
that held last night at Chillicothe.
Practically every seat in the town hall
was filled and the audience present
accorded the various speakers both at
tention and applause.
The gathering was called to order by
Township Committeeman Albert Cot
tom, who appointed d. M. Sackett as
chairman of the meeting. Mr.. Sac
kett after a few brief remarks intro
duced as thesfrst speaker of the even
ing Captain j. G. Hutchinson, who said
in part:
''Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men: have often spoken in Chilli
Gothic in days gone by at political
meetings and SO this occasion this
evening reminds me of the old times.
have always discussed the political
isues from the standpoint Of republi-
can. was then republican, am now,
and always expect to be as long as
find the republican party as good a
one as believe it to be now. be-
lieve in the protective tariff. You have
heard discussed from time to time the
advocacy of changes in this tariff on
Its reciprocity side, that will secure
reciprocity with Canada. / do not be-
lieye that the advocates of this step,
stop to think what it really means.
Against Canadian Reciprocity.
''It would be alright if we had reel.
procity in those things that we do not
produce and they do. But
where the rates should be
SO arranged that the grain raised
there would come into competi-
ton with the grain raised in this coun-
try, thensit is certainly a bad policy.
Take the new country in the western
part of Canada, consisting OF several
hundred million Of acres of land, sell
Ing for from So to SIS an acre. This
land Is being taken up and cultivated.
The wheat that they can produce there
Is as good, every bit, as that we can
produce in the United States. 1t is
produced there by the millions of BUSH
els In country, thousands of miles in
extent. That is the country which
with a reciprocity law we would have
i ~ SSAAApOG0 WILL
Opposes Revision at Present.
7 do not believe that man who ad-
vocates that kind Of a policy Is a man,
who can be regarded as a good republi-
can. Again do not believe 1t is good
policy to advocate the revision of the
tariff at this time. We have had tariff
law ever since the days of George Wash
ington. Whenever we have had a pro-
tective tariff, we have had prosperity;
whenever tariff for revenue only we
have had distress.
The last tariff law was the Dingley
law enacted in 1897. It became neces-
sary to enact 1t because during the
previous administration under Grover
Cleveland, a free trade or rather a
tariff for revenue only law, the Wills
bill, was passed. 1t is one of the pecu-
liar things of politics that the intelli-
gent people of the country should have
elected an administration that would
have taken such action as this. But
they did 1t because they desired a
change. Well they got 1t. The dis
tress came. There was no reason for
that distress except that the Wilson
law was an unfortunate law of the
country. When the Dingley law was