Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-20

the notification committee that he
CHANGED to be in Chicago in June and
had an inkling of the conventions
action. The speech shows, too, that
the candidate had convictions, as his
utterance on the tariff and other ques-
lions of the campaign gives proof.
or. Sherman expressed his convic-
ton on the tariff question when he
said that he was a, protectionist, be-
cause he was Sufficiently practical to
value the utility of fact higher than
the beauty of theory" and because
experience has demonstrated that the
application of that principle has lifted
us as nation to plane of prosperity
above that occupied by any other peo-
pie" He especially commended that
plank of the platform which promises
an early revision of tariff schedules,
because that pledge will be fulfilled
in an adjustment based in every par
ticular upon the broad principles OF
protection for all American interests;
alike for labor, for capital, for pro-
ducers and consumers Mr.. Sherman
gives his conception of the Republi
can idea on the tariff as follows:
The Republican idea of such a
profit embraces not alone the manrl>
facturer, not alone the capital invest,
ed, but all engaged in American pro-
duction, the employer and employed,
the artisan, the farmer, the miner and
those engaged in transportation and
trade; broadly speaking those engaged
in every pursuit and calling which our
tariff directly or indirectly affects,
During a statutory application of this
principle, prosperity has abided with
US. When revenue tariff has been
the law, adversely and want have been
our portion,
And he contrasts this with the Dem
ocratic theory:
Our Democratic brethren, whose
memories are as short as their prom
ises are frail, and who have always
exhibited a lack of capacity to profit
by experience, unmindful of the dis
tress and destruction that arrived and
departed with the last Democratic
administration, declare in their plat
form that they favor such Immediate
revision of schedules as may
be necessary to restore the tariff to
revenue basis" A revenue basis"
tariff for revenue only ultimate
meaning; that meaning being an as
sault upon American industries, an at
tack upon the American wage scale,
a lessening demand for the products
of American soil and American toll;
less work; less pay, less of the neces-
saries of and comforts of life.
Mr.. Sherman is as outspoken in CIV
ing his views on the question of CAPT
tai and labor. The Republican party,
he says, believes in the equality of all
men before the law; believes in grant
ing labor's every request that does
not seek to accord rights to one man
denied to another. Fair-minded labor,
he says, asks no more, no less, and
approves the record of the Republican
party because of that party's acts.
Mr. Sherman refers to Bryan's ques-
ton: "Shall the people rule" as an
insult to the intelligence of the Amer
lean voter. The people shall rule, have
ruled and do rule. No party rules. The
party, commissioned by the people, Is
simply the instrument to execute the
peoples will
He closes by endorsing every plank
in the republican platform and in the
speech of Secretary Taft and by as
sorting that the overshadowing issue
in this campaign really is:
Shall the administration of Presi-
dent Roosevelt be approved; shall a
party of demonstrated capacity in adj
ministration affairs be continued in
power, shall the reins of government
be placed in experienced hands or do
the people prefer to trust their des-
TIMES to an aggregation of experiment
tai malcontents and theorists, whose
only claim to a history is party
name they pilfered.