Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-11

Everywhere high in favor who
ever tastes the Lowney products
becomes permanent customer
THE WALTER M. LoWNEY CO.
Makers OF Cocoa and Chocolates
II BOSTON, MASS.
state and Of the United States I'M
dertake to compel the companies to
do these things 1t is mighty fight
because the railways, naturally sell
fish land how could they be otherwise)
| try to prevent the enactment of laws
aimed at their control. How do they
do it? BY using their influence for
or against certain candidates for of
| flee. So long as selfishness rises in
the human heart, so long will these
conditions exist And the only way
you can prevent it is by being alert
And now you must determine which
party is most likely to enforce the
laws against corporations, especially
1 ..
age the democratic party. In the
upbuilding of this nation it is as i'm.
portant and indispensable as the re-
publican party. But there is moth.
| ing partisan in this. l am a republi
can and I want no democrat to vote
| for me on the belief that | do not ap.
plaud all the great things that have
been done by the republican party.
If any democrat votes for me, he must
do so on the hypothesis that there are
Issues in this campaign more impor-
tant than the strongest tenets of par.
tisanship.
lowa's Railway Legislation.
Eighteen years ago the republican
party of Iowa gave to the state one
/ of the strongest and most capable
statutes ever framed, dealing with the
4 regulation of railroads. | am glad
Ito say this, especially so because It
allows me to lay a tribute at the feet
4 of one of the greatest and most dis.
4 tineuished citizens of Iowa, man
whose heart always beats in unison
and sympathy with the people of his
state. | refer to William B. LARA.
bee, through whose personal efforts
the splendid railroad legislation that
graces Iowa's statute books, was
passed Now that brings me to the
point that my friend Porter makes
against me. He says that I, last win
ter, vetoed an amendment, or a pro
posed amendment to the part of that
statute known as the long and shorl
haul clause.
Veto Of Railway Bill.
Nov, the long and short hau
clause of the Iowa statute is one d
the most important, if not the mos
important part of the Iowa law or
the subject. 1t declared that, in the
case of passengers, railroads SHOULD
not charge more for a short than TO-
a long haul over their lines, the shor
haul being included in the long haul
AS to freight it went farther, and II
addition to making that same provis
; ion it further declared that if a rail
way charged between competing
points certain rate lowe
than the regular rate charged al
, over the state, it should be compelled
,, to charge the same rate for a slmila
, distance anywhere in the state. Nov
believed last winter that the stat
ute could be enlarged for passengers
, I believed that, as between compel
.. ing railroads, the longer line shoult
: carry passengers for the same rat
. between competing points as thu
shorter one. So I recommended ]
to the legislature, and when 1t cam
!, up the attorneys for at least on
: great railway company appeared be
: fore the legislative committee and pre-
= posed to make the measure applicabl
= to freight as well as passenger bus
mess. At first / was inclined to ia
!, vor 1t, but as l studied the situation
l saw beyond a doubt that such
measure would destroy all the goo
of the whole long and short hau
clause. The bill passed the legisls
It ture and came to me for my signature
i. I said that If it should be made mar
+ datory, with provision that any con
l. modify, instead of one or two specis
G commodities should come under tn
J. law, then would favor the bill If
e should make the same rate Applicant
t. on like distances anywhere in tn
n state. I believe in the square des
If and thought that If railroad coul
J. make a certain rate for one COMM
IS nifty, it could make the same rate &c
8 another.
VI Governor Larrabee appeared b
e fore me then representing, not an
n railroad, but the people of the State {
IS Iowa, and he appealed to me to vel
L. the act. This did and would do
d again were the same to come up, ar
st gladly.
National Railway Law.
e. II pass from the state to the natio
lie In 1887 the republican party gave
IS the nation the Interstate Commer'
n. law creating the Interstate CONNER
r. commission, one of the most Wit
n steps ever taken towards the regul
ton of railroads. Time soon discove
"a Cd many dofectc in the maa SIRE III