Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-11-01

and the factories grew sunt1l no coun-
try in the world has so many well paid
workmen.
..Then the railroads came because
the farmers came, and the farmers
came into the west because they could,
under this new idea, get good prices
for their farm products. Land prices
rose In value. Labor came and the
country grew and prospered.
"We came along, prosperous coun-
try. until the early '90s. Our demo-
cratic friends could never agree with
us. The importer was on the other
side Of the tariff fence trying to get
in with his cheap labor made goods.
The young people who had known
nothing but prosperity grew to man
hood and began to question II some
thing was not wrong with the repub-
lican policy. They said some men got
rich under the policy and they began
to inquire how they got 1t They
wanted q change. Then came the
democratic victory in 1892. We got
the tariff legislation proposed by the
importers on the other side Of the
tariff fence. The bars were let down.
And what did we get? What hap
pened from 1893 to 1897?
"The importer got In with his cheap
goods; the whole world got in. We got
the whole thing changed. With what
result? You older men know that you
took your eggs and butter, your corn
and your wheat, your cattle and your
hogs to market and you couldn't get
enough to pay the cost Of marketing.
You older farmers wore patches on
your knees, on your elbows and on
other places. The workingman,s JoD
went over the Atlantic and with 1t
went the price Of that Job. There was
no labor. You could get farm hands
then for their keep during the winter.
But they were OF no use. The only use
full thing was the soup house. 1t dldn, t
take the people long, however, to ma
that we had stepped off on the wrong
foot.
s.We had revision Of the tariff law.
Before the Payne-Aldrich bill Euro
pean countries Disseminated against
This country. That law provides Tor
a; 25 per cent maximum duty to be used
AZ the discretion of the president. He
has used it and now there is no dis
termination by European countries
against us. That Is one thing Presi-
dent Taft did. He is a man who does
things. Another thing. President
Taft believed that we should know
the cost Of things abroad. He told
this to congress and got an appropria-
ton for the tariff board. He is now
getting the facts. And II we find the
tariff is too high on any one thing we
can change it.
..The democrats are against pro-
lection. Champ Clark wants reye-
nue. tariff. He is honest in what he
wants. He wants free trade. 1t will
take away the wages and good prices.
Take these away and there will be
trouble.
Mr.. Wilson knows more about the
science Of agriculture than any man
IN the country. He knows what the
farmers Of the United States can do
and are doing, and he knows what
the farmers across the borders in
Canada and Mexico are doing, and
could do IL the tariff bars were let
down and their products were let in
free to compete with the products OF
American farms Mr.. Wilson knows
that that would mean disaster to the
American farmer, and as all financial
Authorities are agreed that the farmer
Is the basis Of this country's prosper
ity, IT would mean equal disaster to
the people generally.