Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

>-~>NNNAS INV ONlio I1dI COulS WIFI
night and love darkness wrought their
havoc on mankind. And then all the
people cried aloud to Jupiter to give
them back their sun, and he heard
their prayer, and light. and Joy, and
blessings came again with the coming
OF the dawn.
Like the sun, the protective tariff
has showered blessings on us all; and
ii in response to some mad cry it
shall be blotted out. this people. too,
VIII cry again as they did in ninety
six, to give them back their sun.
That Is not the republican method of
curing the trust evil. We believe that
with ample power and vigorous deter
m1natlon to use that power. we can
and will cure every trust evil that at
fects us. 1t is domestic question, not
foreign one; and it calls for domes-
tic "big-stick" and not for foreign
club. 1t might be added tnat we have
the "big-stick."
Our democratic friends are fond OF
calling the tariff wall Let us apply
that thought here Behind the wall the
common rank and lie are protected.
One soldier assaults another. 1t Is
true the assault would not have occur
red if all had not been protected; but
the wall was not the cause of the as
sault, and it would not be wise to pun
ish the aggressor by tearing down the
wall. He can be successfully and sat
isfactorily aogged behind the wall.
No, the republican party proposes to
deal with the trust question on it's
merits. 1t does not propose to call in
any foreign assistance to aid in its de-
termination. And it will not abandon
the citadel Of protection because Of as
sault by the democracy charging un-
der the banner Of trust smashers''
but bearing commissions from the
arch enemies of protection,
Cheap Hides.
But from down in Massachusetts
comes cry to Immediately revise the
tariff, for they want Cheap hides"
From classic Massachusetts, the home
of Emerson and Holmes, Of Lowell
and Longfellow, whose lyrics Of free
dom lifted the despised plea of the alb
olitionist and made it splendid and i'm
mortal; from loyal Massachusetts,,
whose Otis and Adams. whose Web
ster and Sumner, whose Phillips and
Garrison, spoke such words for liberty
and for the rights of man that the
world will never let them die: from
Massachusetts now comes Douglas
crying for free hides"
1t is difficult to consider such a de-
mand with seriousness. 1t is not wor-
thy Of Massachusetts, because 1t Is
sectional. selfish and ridiculously I'M
reasonable. No other state has pros
pered more under a protective tariff
than Massachusetts. 1t Is doubtless
true she could obtain cheaper hides.
and beef, and flour, and butter and
eggs by admitting them free of duty
from other countries. But these are
the products of Iowa and the west; to
deprive us of our market and to cheap
en- the price of our product Injuries us.
Is Massachusetts ready to proclaim a
policy that will advance her interests
at the expense of the rest Of the coun-
try? Can she expect to have protec-
ton for everything she sells and free
trade in every thing she buys? Until
she is ready to take down the protec-
ton she receives on her manufactured
products, her boots and shoes, and cot
tons and woolens she ought not to at
tempt to sacrifice the finished product
of the west
The Wilson Law.
1t would hardly appear possible that
anyone who can recollect but ten
years back when the country was suf-
fering under the blight of democratic
administration and the Wilson law,
could not entertain even thought of
a recurrence Of such a calamity with
out shudder. we were blessAd with
bountiful crops There was no blight
upon the the harvest, no pestilence in
the air. But blight fell upon Ameri-
can enterprise; and pestilential va
por, noxious and deadly, fell upon
industry until it fell pros
trate and lifeless. The mills were ST.
lent, the factories were still. Work
ing men. tramped the streets all the
day for work, and at the close OF the
day, amid their fruitless endeavor, by
begging of public charity a crust of
bread and pint of soup to keep their
wives and children from starving.
Somebody has suggested that the
only reason why we did not capture
the markets of the world when we
tried the free trade method under
was because we were too
hungry to travel. The only persons
who could travel were the members
Of Coxey's army. and they foraged as
they went. That ragged procession of
"commonwealers" marched down to-
and uttered their ineffec-
tual protest in the shadow of the cap
itol, demanding work for the laboring
men of their country. If that aggrega-
ton could have been directed to the
harvest fields Of Kansas but few
weeks ago, they would have been met
with brass bands, conveyed to their
labor in carriages, fed on fried chicken
and ice cream, and asked to name
their wages.
1t is impossible for us now, amid these
scenes of plenty and in this era of
to realize what it was dur.
ing this free trade reign Of terror.
Prof. Matteucci, superintendent of
he Vesuvius observatory, endeavoring
10 make some friends understand
of the horrors OF an active