Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-29

present t1me,, saying that $40 was a
good average price then, while now
the figure had advanced to $3.50 and
5000. He asked his audience which
they wanted, a forty dollar administra-
|tion or two hundred dollarg Two
years ago in the western part Of the
state the governor spoke on the
relative prices Of farm products, par
ticularly oats and corn In 1895 COM
pared with the same products under
republican rule. Corn was shown as
being sold for twenty-five to thirty
cents ard in some instances as low as
fifteen cents. Oats Of 1896 brought
from twelve to eighteen cents. While
this exposition was In progress, there
were numerous persons in the audi
[ence who nodded their heads in &C
cent, and the governors figures were
substantiated. The great army of the
unemployed during the period Of demo
cratic rule was referred to and the
governor told Of Kelley's army which
passed through OttumWa on Its way
to Washington to plead for an oppor-
tunity to work. In an audience he
addressed not long ago there was a
stone mason. This man told the gov
ernor that in the old days he was
getting $1.5O per day and worked four
days out of the week. Now this same
man is getting $3.50 day and can
not handle all the work
The Tariff Bill.
care you looking at this proposition
from business standpoint" asked the
governor. How do you account for
the difference in these prices? The
answer is that we had gone back to a
tariff for revenue only and panic
and bad times came along. In 1905
you and I said the tariff is the chief
issue. The other side met in conven-
ton. and blamed the money question.
Has that fellow of the cross Of gold
been around here yet? He was up IN
Des Moines, but he cid not mention
free silver We won out in that CAM
paign and things began to look diff
ferent. The reason was the tariff bill
passed. We passed another tariff Dill
not long ago. / am not going to say
that 1t has no defects. l never saw
"a tariff bill yet that was perfect, but
/ do say that there is not repuD-
lican In this house who would trade
1t for any tariff measure the demo-
Gratis would make. We are all united
for a tariff commission. The presi-
dent wants it. The ex-president ap-
proves of it and we all want to de-
termine the tariff on each article on
the basis of the difference between
the cost of production at home and
abroad with a margin Of reasonable
profit.
THE republican party has always
teen the party of progress. For the
past fifty years it has been enacting
wise laws.
Standing to the credit Of the rapub-
lican. party are the Homestead law the
Logan tender act, the pensioning OF
Union soldiers, the resumption OF
specie payment, reduced rates OF post
age, rural free delivery, the meat In
speetion law, the antitrust law, the
establishment OF the gold standard, the
creation of the Interstate commerce
commission, the. establishment and
maintenance of the protective tariff
system, the employers liability act,
the digging and construction of the
Panama canal, and scores Of other
matters of important legislation, all OF
which make for the party record UNI
equalled and many of which We're en-
acted into law against the opposition