Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-07
FORMER CONGRESSMAN aLANois
HERE FOR cHAuTAuouA, SAYS
THERE NEVER WILL BE A BILL
THAT SUITS EVERYBODY.
CAN'T UNDERSTAND
WHY IOWA WORRIES
CITES UNEXPLAINED PROSPER
lTY OF THIS STATE uNpEH
DiNGLEY LAW AS ARGUMENT
THAT PROTECTION is AID

1T is truly a maximum and mini
mum tariff law said former Can
gressman Charles B. Lands OF Indf
ana as he sat in the lobby Of the Ball
lingall this morning perusing the coli
umns Of newspaper type devoted I'd
the action OF the tariff conferees and
the two houses. Mr.. Lands is hero
to address the Chautauaua on "On1
Merchant Marine" and when not occ1s
pying the lecture platform is busy
noting the activities Of his former
fellows in the nations capital. III
has taken maximum of time I'd
make minimum Of change" " he com
tinued, "and the gentlemen who CON
tended that 1t would be a conparat
lively easy matter to revise the tarih
now see how and why they were mis-
taken. 1t is the most delicate and
complex job In the world. The fivt
months through which we have jus,
passed certainly establishes the fact
however. that the policy OF protection
is no longer sectional Although thu
Democrats voted against the bill. theJ
were Johnnie ON tlla spot for q prp
tective tariff when tho interests 81
their various localities were affected
Euu tnoy WSIe dil tttKeH cure OL, 100.
Prosperity VIII BE Resumed.
what will be the effect OF the biIl?.s
Mr. Lands was asked.
The tide of prosperity that was
rolling on" he replied, Temporarily
checked by the financial trouble tive
years ago, will now resume, and the
business activity and wealth-amassin
that characterized the years os thS
Dingley law, will be repeated. That Ii
to say this will be the case II ths
country settles down and talks busS
ness instead OF further tariff disturb
ance. If the great newspapers Of ths
country continue to assault the policy
of protection, calling on everybody I'd
arise in their might and smite It and
elect congress and president thnt
will give us "a real revision Of thd
tariff they can keep the waters dis
turbed and check return to the CON
ditions we had two years ago.
impossible to Suit Everybody.
.I do not think 1t possible for ans
party to frame tariff bill that wf1
suit everybody. Mr.. Cleveland, whd
was a low tariff man to the backbone
and man of rugged honesty, thought
he could do it. The people gave hin,
La congress, but after months and
months of wrangling, they passed M
to him bill that fell so far short OF
anything he had in mind that he could
not sign 1t. The Wilson bill became q
law without his signature. In other
words, when they got down to the 40
tual work Of revision each fellow look
ed after what he considered the inteS
ests Of his constituency. Well, therd
! are nearly 400 congressional constitl
uencies in this nation. not to SPEAK
, of the interests of Porto Rico and the
Philippines, and each representative ID
. looking for the best of it for his indh
| vidual constituency. When It comes
to agreeing on measure that will
represent an advantage to all Of them
and loss to none of them, you SEQ
i what a job 1t is. No sir, we will neves
have a tariff bill that will suit every
, body until we get a bill that will en-
able every man to buy what he has ID
!, buy at lower price and sell every
thing he has to sell at a higher price
Says Iowa Needn't Worry.
'What will be the effect of this BIZ
on Iowa?" Mr.. Lands was asked.
"If Iowa can leap and bound an,
higher and farther in wealth and glorJ
! and prosperity under this or any 9th
, er bill than she has under the Ding
!. ley BILL" he replied, "then you vii
certainly be In high clover. mus
confess that cannot reconcile Iowa,
distress over tariff revision witt
Iowa's growth and development dur
ing the period Of this continued un
happy mental condition. Why, during
this period every man who had 16'
t acres of land would have made for
tune on the increase in the value o
his farm had he simply sat down ant
folded his arms. There has not beel
a thing that walked or grew on th,
9 farm that he could not turn into gol,
! on q moments notice. At the sam
q time he could borrow money to maxi
/ improvements, If he wanted to branc,
out, at lower rate Of interest thar
ever before. Some one told me tn
other day that you had nearly a