Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-28
HOUR NEVER MORE PROPIT|OUS
FOR DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS Than
PRESENT SAYS JERRY SULLIVAN

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thority who does rule. The distin-
guished senator from Iowa declared IN
a recent utterance that the republican
party at Washington was dominated
and controlled by the corporations OF
our country. This question has never
been disputed by the democratic party
and no issue can thereby be Joined.
Our distinguished senior senator de-
clared in the senate OF the United
States that our tariff laws were die
tated and practically written by those
interested; and another distinguished
senator has declared that the postal
savings bank law was passed IN the
interest of eastern bankers. These
three acts are the sum total OF repub-
lican legislation, and upon these acts
it must stand or fall in the contest
now being waged.
I'VE stand opposed to a protective
tariff-have in the past and will In the
future. The protective principle, car
ried to its logical conclusion, has but
one purpose: tax on consumption, to
be paid by those least able to- do so.
It is yiolative of the rights of the con-
sumner and causes him to pay a tax to
others in making their business profit
able.
IF a commodity can not be pro-
duced at profit, the owner has not
the right to ask the government of the
United States to enter into the con.
Germ as a partner and cause al the
people to contribute, that a, single in
stitution may be success. The prin-
ciple is SO destructive of. equality OF
rights that it ought to be condemned
by every fair minded man. 1T was
formerly stated that this was done ia
the interest of American labor. That
fallacy has long since been exploded.
The American laboring man realizes
that when he sells his labor he conf
petes In the markets OF. the world
with the labor Of the world, while the
product of his labor Is sold in a re-
stricted market at the highest price
possible.
There is no room for Aldrichism
and Cannonism in the ranks of the
democratic party, and we do therefore
congratulate the democratic members
of congress in the fearless fight they
made to reorganize the rules Of the
house of representatives in the inter-
est OF representative government
s'The battle ground is marked out,
the issues are made up and the repre-
sentatives OF the people must be as
sincere and devoted after election as
they apparently were before. Democ-
racy stands for revision of the tariff,
the removal of the tax on the neces-
saries of life, that duties should be
for the purpose Of obtaining revenue
and not for private graft. Economy in
expenditure Of public affairs, the cleo.
ton Of United States senator's by the
possible for that portion of our nation
to become the home Of wealth and
thereby. the dominating influence In
our legislative assemblies.
"Is there any wonder New England
wishes to unite with the Shoots and
Guggenheims to continue to exploit the
people of the United States in their
own interest? Agriculture sitting In.
the center, that has done more to place
the commerce Of the United States In
the lap of the world than all its manu-
featuring interests combined, paying
tribute to New England. is now asked
&c bend the knee to the Shoots and
t;yxg .nheims that thrift may follow
Ia vniAg. These parties, representa-
'tives OF special interests, devoted fol
lowers Of the system, meet in the con-
gress of the United States, exchange
Fluctuations from one side of the table
to the other, and those under the table
must bear its burden.
"Is there anything in common be-
tween the copper Of Colorado and lem
unite with New England and Standard
Ia ~ ,,xI oy~ an, oN@s-
sumner in the Mississippi valley? These
men do not represent agriculture, they
represent special interests, and yet
unite as the guardian OF cotton and
wooden industries of New England
and the copper Of the west, requiring
the farmer and laborer to pay the tax
for private interests.
"The wooden schedule of the Payne
Aldrich tariff act is so obnoxious that
it has met the disapproval of practi-
cally the entire consuming public. The
duties are SO arranged that a thread
of wool placed in rubber boot win
permit it to be taxed as fabric of
wool and rubber.
Exemption Of Labor.
Labor stands today in humble sub
mission at the feet Of gigantic inter-
ests, personal rights subservient to
wealth, and yet when effort Is made to
destroy this combination, those who do
so are called traitors to their country.
In an open letter to one branch Of la.
Dor, President Taft particularly cham
pioned the refusal of congress to ex-
empt labor unions from the effect Of
the Sherman Anti Trust act, and elab-
Grated the proposition that the union
of men, Of soul and body, were in the
same category with chattels-a propo-
sition so destructive of human rights
that its mere statement should be
sufficient to condemn 1t. Members OF
congress from the state Of Iowa voted
to sustain the contention Of the pres