Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-05
FORMER COLLECTOR OF REvE-
NUE. AT NEW YORK BITTERLY
pENouNcEs RATES MADE BY
PRESENT ADMINISTRATION.
SAYS THE NEW LAW
is OUTRAGEOUS
DISTINGUISHED VISITOR SPEND.
ING A FEW DAYS HERE PRE-
PARAToRY TO GOING TO ST,
LOUIS; GUEST OF NEPHEW.

The most Infamous. unjust and out
rageous tariff that has ever been plac-
ed upon the statute books Is the
characterization of the present tariff
by Col Edward S. Fowler of New
York. Col. Fowler is the guest of his
nephew, =. D. Fowler, president of the
Fowler & Wilson Coal Co., and will
be in the city a few days. He is en-
route to st. Louis and Tennessee on
business for New York clients.
Col Fowler, who is accompanied by
his wife, stopped in Carroll before
coming to Ottumwa, to visit his broth
er, /. w. Fowler, formerly of Ottum-
wa. who is now receiver for the First
National bank Of that place.
Col Fowler Is best remembered as
collector for the port of New York,
from which position, as he stated,
I was removed by Mr. President Taft,
to make room for his personal friend,
Mr.. William Loeb
Col. Fowler has some very positive
opinions on the tariff question and
stands on his long experience in rev
enue and customs law as q basis for
1.his opinions. "We want tariff, said
sShe colonel shat will protect, but not
SO the point of exclusion. We want
duty on imports that will not prohibit
comEf stition to the extent that the cost
of living will be increased 25 per
cent beyond the wage earning capa-
city Of our working people. The rank
discrimination shown in many places
in the present tariff bill and the eva
sions that are seen throughout the
I, measure, make 1t specimen Of rank
hypocrisy"
Criticises the President.
The attitude of the president in his
speeches Of praise ior the tariff mea-
sure, in which he states that it is the
best that has ever been framed and
lambasts the insurgents for their atti-
tude in the matter was roundly criti-
cised by Col. Fowler, who summed up
the tariff as follows:
II have always been a straight Re
publican, and regard the present tar
iff law as the most infamous, unjust
and outrageous tariff law that has ever
been put in the statute books / be
heve that its aiders and abettors will
be severely dealt with by the voters
at the next election for congressman
base this judgment and criticism OF
the law upon the fact that have been
engaged in the practice OF revenue
and customs law, except the time
spent in the army, as revenue law,
yer for thirty-three years, and
believe that understand the subject
thoroughly and will place my exper
1ence second to none"
A Lawyer and Author.
Col Fowler is we'll known to the i'm
,,,l Sc
where he has practiced law for oveI
thirty years. He is graduate of the
Columbia college of New York City
and was trained in the Office of the
late Judge Fullerton, of the Beecher
Tilton trial fame. Aside from his legal
work, Col. Fowler finds time to write
and has been frequent contributor
to the Saturday Evening Post, a mum
ber of magazines and newspapers
Among his recent articles in the Post
are those dealing with customs laws
and pertained to the fixing of values
on dutiable merchandise. His writing
habit, as he says himself, comes nat
nrally, for in his early days he report
ed for the New York Commercial Ad
vertiser, the Sunday Mercury anc
other papers. He is an intimate anG
old personal friend Of George B. Cor
telyou, they having been close friends
for the past twenty-five years. 1t is
generally known that he more thar
anyone else discovered the former Sec
retary Cortelyou, and the latter los
nothing by the discovery. After Z
few days as the guest of his nephew
e. d. Fowler, he will go to st. Louis
In the interest of some clients in New
York City and thence on to Tennessee
m tb, cap,a n,icc;ro