The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-20

said the price of his products is fixe,
lin Liverpool, In the free trade market
of the world, while the articles tina
he must buy were protected; that ii,
paid more for what he bought undo,
that rule and got no more, or ever
less. for what he Sold Our farmer,
gave some attention to that, ant
though 1t was only ten years aftel
the great war that made the issues
of the parties for more than a gener
alton, they contemplated voting the
Democratic ticket.
AS rule heretofore man who
has been dissatisfied with the tariff
has resorted to voting the Democratic
ticket. At this later time as a Repub
llican he has introduced the heresay
into his own party and remained
But they did not go to the Demo
cratic party, because Blaine came
Iout from Maine, and under his leader
ship we organized trust-a combi,
nation-betwesn Iowa, Massachusetts
and Maine. We will disregard Maine
in speaking OF this combination, be
cause Maine is largely mountains and
seashore. Dut we will continue to in
clude Massachusetts. After Blaine
had proposed to us a system of recip.
rocity, which looked good. by which
we should produce the food and Mas
sachusetts should eat ii, we formed a
mutual cooperative society, and we
might have issued cards announcing
Iowa and Massachusetts combina-
ton; western office, Des Moines, Ia !:
eastern Office, Boston. Mass; object,
mutual advantage; the Iowa depart
ment to produce the food, the Massa-
chusetts department 10 produce the
manufactured product
That firm flourished and pros pered
in Massachusetts fifteen years before
We came into any benefit from it. Our
young farmers heard Blaine, and they
gave hurrahs for the Grand Old Par
~, and stood by the ticket fifteen
years when they were burning corn
for fuel and allowing potatoes to rot
in the caves Massachusetts flourish
ing at the home office of their depart
ment. Iowa suffering at the home of
flee of the western branch
Then we had the Dingley Law, and
We had a general elimination and
putting to death of every dangerous
thing in 1896. To use q southern
phrase. I'VE did a great big killing
at that time. For thirty years every
ism had flourished, and in 1896 we
brought it all in under one tent and
into one campaign. and we had a gem
eral catalogue of all the ills that man
had thought of in politics, or sought
an office upon, and in that general
roundup, after debate on street cor
ners. we held an election and put
these heresies to death.
Then we began 10 do business.
know this country has fIourished
more since the election of McKinley
than in any double period of time in
the previous history of the goycIr-
ment. At that time the Iowa members
of the firm cyan TO mark up the
prices. We no longer agreed TO sell
hogs at 50 a hundred we began to
mark them up from year to year. We
quit burning corn, and then the part
nership was on an equality Both
members of tie firm flourished, and
it seems that Massachusetts became
jealous beca1se we were getting 50 .
for hogs. We never found any
fault with their prices in this combi-
nation, but it is said every time the
scale moved the hog price ga our
partners in Boston and on the sea
shore became restless. Finally there
arose man in Massachusetts VINO
painted on his banner Free food
products from Canada: untaxed raw
MATERIAL and he took TO the hust-
lings and ne came back from the cleo
ton with $4,000 majority, with no
tice OF dissolution of the firm OF Iowa
and Massachusetts.
1t is a grand scheme. The people
of Massachusetts evidently could not
stand our part of the prosperity, and
If that goyernor-elect is here, or it
can be conveyed to him, want to
tell him to be in a hurry about accom-
his ends, because we will at
tend to his case in due season But if
he should come to Iowa, God spare
him. ! hope he may come to Iowa and
make the same kind of speeches he
made In Massachusetts | would be
elected TO this body, if he woud do it,
and | presume otherwise l have a
very remote possibility Of returning.
Hence this hurry-up call. daughter
Mr. President, regret The dissolu-
tons OF this old firm. It's Influence
will be widespread. 1t means a great
deal TO the country. II means that
Massachusetts will finally be compell-
ed to compete with Japan and Ger
many III American markets as re-
CARDS manufactured products. If
is determined to buy
Canadian wheat, corn and oats be-
cause they may be cheaper, the farm
ers viii insist on buying manufacture
ed products where they are the cheap
est. protection that does not pro-
tect all must perish. II would be too