The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-27
.DObSON SPOKE
IN MISSOURI
Told kahoka Audience That Iowa
Would Give Taft Majority Of
at Least One Hundred
Thousand.
TRIBUTE TO MR.. TAFT
Speaker Gave Considerable Attention
to the Tariff Which He Dis
cussed in Most In
structive Way.
TRIBUTE TO MR.. TAFT


a good sized audience at the opera
house Saturday evening despite the
inclemency of the weather. Mr.. Dob
son was substituted for Hon. c. A.
Newton, of ST. Louis, who had been
advertised for this date.
The speaker was introduced by Hon.
E. P. Spangler. Mr. Dobson's address
was wholly on national issues, the
tariff being the chief topic. Mr.. Dob
son spoke in part as follows:
Missouri and Iowa have much in
common. When Missouri is prosper
GUS, SO is Iowa. They are neighbors
and enjoy the friendliest relations.
What effects one likewise effects the
other. Missouri should be as much in
terested in a protective tariff as Iowa.
Iowa will give William Howard Taft
and protection 100000 majority on
November 8. do not believe in a
party which has to change its issues
every four years. I can, in the MAN.
make the same speech for the repub-
lican party tonight that made TWEEN
ty years ago. Not so with Mr.. Bryan
and the democratic party. Here MI.
Dobson recited the many different pol
icies Mr.. Bryan has advocated in the
past dozen years, and told of the dis
asters Bryan predicted would befall
the country If his policies were not
adopted by the people at the polls.
None of these predictions came true.
am firm believer in high pro-
tective tariff, and believe it is the
foundation on which this government
lis founded. Mr. Bryan has become a
wealthy man under high protective
tariff.
A few years ago China discovered
that it could raise cotton. Experts
were sent to this country and as re-
suit China now has one of the largest
cotton mills in the world. Last year
they sold s7O,000O00 worth of cotton
in the United States. The highest
wages paid laborers in these mills is
Is cents per day. Wages paid labor
ers in the United States is as high as
1915 per day. We have the mills and
the men and the cotton. and if | was
running this country ] would add an
other rail to our protective fence and
keep this S70o00,000 at home. China
also discovered that it had the mater
ial for making steel rails. Experts
were sent to this country, and as a
result China has one of the largest
steel mills in the world China sold
s40,000.000 worth of this product in
j the United States last year. Wages
paid laborers in China does not ex-
coed 90 cents per day in the United
States $500 per day is paid. If was
running this country | would add an
other rail to our protective fence and
keep this s40,000,000 at home Here
Mr.. Dobson drew picture of the re
suits to the laboring men of this couu-
try If the protective tariff on cotton
and steel was removed and the Is
and 90 cents per day laborers in the
cotton and steel mills of China were
permitted to compete with the labor
ers in these mills at home 1t was 4
gloomy picture. indeed In this con
nection the speaker said he was for
his country against all the world. and
from the applause this statement
brought forth the audience agreed
with him to man. In speaking of
the conditions in China, where Mr.
Dobson represented his country for a
80 10 ratI 49, mn
years ago China abandoned its belief
in living Cod then they were at the
top in point of civilization and now
they were at the bottom, and that he
had noticed that the nearer coun-
try lived to God the more prosperous
it was.
Mr. Bryan would destroy the trusts.
and in destroying the trusts would in
consequence first put out of business
all the independent companies in the
country. The republican party does
not believe in destroying the trusts,
but in regulating them.
The speaker in conclusion paid
glowing tribute to Mr.. Taft and pre-
dicted his election to the presidency.
He reviewed the splendid record of
Mr.. Taft as jurist. governor general
of the Philippines. his work in Cuba,
and asked his audience what Mr.. Bry-
an had ever accomplished to entitle
him to be elevated to the presidency.
In the opinion of the speaker Mr..
Taft is the best fitted man who has
ever offered himself as candidate for
the high Office of president.
The speech of Mr.. Dobson was a
learned and forceful one, and showed
that he had given deep thought and
research to study of the tariff.