Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-10-31

began to receive his benefit because
he could sell his crop on the increas.
ing home market The demand be-
came greater for what he raised be-
cause the country was busily engaged
working, and consumed his product.
That condition still exists. Labor is
well Employed there is hardly a daily
paper printed in the United States
today but that contains in every is
sue an advertisement for help. The
wages paid in this country today are
the highest paid in any country.
Wheat today in Ottumwa sells for 80
cents per bushel, corn 70 cents per
bushel and oats 40 cents per bushel.
Hogs are $3.50. Farm products never
bring prices like those unless labor
is we'll employed.
These are facts, yet in the face
of these very conditions, which are
so good for every one, the Democratic
candidates stand UP and say the peo-
pie are being robbed and that there
is panic on, and that times are hard
and every other kind of charge that
can be made to excite the prejudices
Of people are now being yelled around
the country by Messrs. Bryan and
Kern. For 16 years Bryan has kept up
this kind of an effort to appeal to the
prejudices, instead of the judgment
of the people. He has found fault with
every good policy that has been adopt
ed during that time. He Is fast coming
to be looked upon as simply a COM
mon scoid. Mckinley, Roosevelt and
Taft are constructionists and Bryan
is destructionist. He is even worse
than his party. It is satisfied with just
a continuous harangue and nagging
opposition of everything that is sue
cessful, but Bryan would tear down
of all the people.
The above statements are made for
the benefit, OF the first voter. He will
find upon investigation that they are
the policies that have built up the
country and contributed to the success
true. BY force of reason and logic and
in its very formative intention, 1t
would seem that the Republican party
was made for the young man.
Senator Beveridge in an article sew
eral years ago said, ''The Republican
party is the party for the young man.
It furnishes the field in which he can
That is the reason it is the party for
fthe young man. Youth is constructive.
Young blood is the blood that builds.
The Democratic party is the party of
opposition and it is unnatural for the
young man to belong to that party. 1t
is SO unnatural that it is uncanny to
see a young man in a state of habit
ual opposition. The years Of his active
manhood, when his veins are filled
with power and purpose. are the years
when in his personal life a man ought
to be accomplishing something sub
stantial and Affirmative. So should he
also in his political life, but whoever
heard of young man largely success.
full in anything the whole life of which
has been chronic objection and ha-
bitual criticism"
Never did two candidates more typi-
fy their parties than do Mr.. Taft and
Mr.. Bryan. Mr.. Taft is joviaT, smiling.
with big strong face, which, in every
! line shows that he wishes we'll for
every man and for his country. He is
an optimist. He believes in the people
and they believe in him. He says that
| times are good and that he is going
to do everything he can to make them
better. He knows the world and loves
| the people He is a great man and
looks the part.
On the other hand, Bryan is a pessi.
mist. He says everything is bad, moth
/ ing has been good and probably never
will be- He will stand and look into
the faces of crowd of men who have
! just come from work and tell them
that there is a panic ON and that ey-
erybody is out of work and that the
country is going to the bad as fast as
it can. He does not have a good word
/ for any one and he does not seem to
think that there are any good people
! left. if there ever were any.
Young man. you have got your way
! to make in the world. You have got
| to shoulder your share of the burdens
of this country and you will make a
mistake If you follow the party or the
man who is always finding fault with
/ everybody and never sees anything
but the cloudy side Of every question
that comes up.
I 1UckNER SUPPORTS TAFT.