Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-06-25

Of necessary protection to insure to
the American laborer the highest
wages in the world and to the Ameri.
can farmer the best market in the
world does not require the present
rate of duty, it will be lowered to that
extent regardless of what protest may
come from any special interest, and in
the same spirit and with the same
promptitude If 1t should appear that
the present schedule does not in any
single instance give to our citizen a
distinct disadvantage over the citizen.
of every other nation, the duty upon
that article must be raised according
ly. H
"The Iowa idea Of protective ta~
if Is the nationwide doctrine of the
Republican party, that there must be
all the protection required to give to
home industry, the exclusive Ameri-
can field, SO far as it can occupy the
| same, at clear profit, after paying
wages commensurate with the Amer
lean idea of sufficient earnings to
maintain comfortable home owned
by the wage Garner himself, with
something laid by for the rainy day
Of sickness and misfortune, and when
the duty goes beyond such limitations
and only then, 1t should be stricken
off without question as a burden for
| which there Is no rightful beneficiary.
The Currency Question.
'The financial troubles of last year
disclosed certain inadequacies of our
currency system, resulting from its
lack Of adoption to the sudden and
| ;o11 ,,s> att >f
our commercial activity, incident to
present day conditions, and with
commendable promptitude, tempered
by conservative wisdom, and against
the opposition of avowed Democrats
and Democrats parading themselves
as Republicans, Republican con-
gress met the emergency and prom.
ises further legislation safeguarding
the future against the inconvenience
and annoyance then experienced.
"By optimistic Democrats and cold
storage Republicans, the old time ar.
dor of Republican loyalty Is denied
and doubted: but wait until the tur-
noil Of the campaign, when the sun
shine Of our complacency is becloud.
ed by the simeon Of eloquent discon
tent, rolling from the storm cente.
|
our political optics are irritated by
the dust Of vicious agitation, and our
civic garments are besmit,ched by the
mire Of Misrepresentation, and the old
time political watch fires are lighted
once more in the little schoolhouses
by the waysioe, then listen to tn:
thunder of the trampllng host of Re
publicanism coming in Penticostal tri
jority for Taft and Sherman.
Bryan Hypnotlsed; johnson Accident
'"The man who proclaims either dis
sension in or desertion from thc
ranks of Iowa Republicanism, eithel
dreams in the lethargy or insensibility
or ISLANDERS the intelligence of state
! that in 1892 rallied from the defeat 1:
months before and repudiated fret
trade by majority of $4,000, and II
1896 again repudiated free trade ant
reafflrmed its everlasting faith il
sound money by more than $4,000 ma
jority.
'The trouble Of our day is we hav'
in our political campaigns too mucl
rainbow chasing and rainbow paintin
of miraculous futures upon skies y
\ impossibility and too little conside,
r alton and review of past achievement
) as an indication of future perform
2 ances.
t. sSelf interest compels the Demo
cratic party to worship at the shrin
D of forgetfulness, for what man, in hi
4 sober senses with his memory re
S freshed upon the tariff reform can
4 paign of 1892 and the siren song :
free silver in 1896, and tne wall {
q anti-imperialism in 1900 would eve
0 want to vote the Democratic tickle
''Mr. Bryan himself would hail wit
= delight a national obscession Of men
R DRY of doctrines proclaimed an
:, prophesies heralded from his lips, an
l. fain would build a bridge of eloquenc
= from the cross Of gold to the Denvf
i nomination.
= LET factionalism in Republica
q Iowa be thing of the past. Perm
!. it to no longer exist except as tn
- chapter of a history that is neve
t. opened, as story no longer told.
d eff the habits of the past seve
q years have afflicted us with cravin
If for its arena, take Whit, at safe di
IS lance, from the concoction prescribe
,r for our Democratic friends as a ha
monizer elixir and the appetite wi
no longer affiict u.s.
le Iowa sends republican greeting
ID from Maine to Oregon and will we
IN come with an avalanche the oppos
ID ton whether it comes under the lea
IN ership of a hypnotist from Nebrasl
re or an accident from Minnesota"