Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-10-19

ing been the recipients Of political
honors through at least questionable
methods In conventions.
The Iowa Candidates
have recently seen In the news
papers some interesting letters and
among them one urging the people OF
Iowa to elect q Republican legisla.
ture and thus insure the reelection
Of Senator Kenyon. l am for Sen,
Kenyon and Gov. Clarke, and have
been from the beginning and for all
other republicans ON the ticket, and
the reasons given for the reelection
Of Senator Kenyon are good and
weighty. and concur In them all, In
Guiding the one that It Ia OF great
Importance that the republican party
should maintain It's majority In the
senate, slender though 1t Is, and even
though some of those constituting
that majority have on occasions voted
with the democrats on important
measures. But hold that the reasons
for the reelection of President Taft
are more numerous and still more
weighty, for he has stood like wall
OF adamant for the principles OF the
republican party. He has given us an
honest and economical administra-
ton, he has shown genuine courage
and abiding faith in the people and
has protected the working man and
the farmer and merchants and the
against tho destruction
OF the principles of protection at
tempted by democrats in congress aid
ed by some who have ,professed to be
It was he who vetoed the
tariff bills which were presented In
the last congress, not for the purpose
OF a genuine revision Of the tarih
schedules. but for political purposes.
You remember well enough that 1t
was President Taft who urged and
secured the appointment Of q board OF
experts to make scientific examin-
alton into the tariff schedules and re-
port the facts, and that when the
democrats found that this report as
regards the cotton and WOODEN
schedules did not conform to their
notion of free trade" in cotton and
cotton manufactures, and wool and
wooden manufactures, they hastily
and without hearings, and IN total
disregard of the work OF the tarin
board, attempted q revision OF these
schedules in such way as would
have paralyzed these industries.
F. The Cost Of Living.
Oh. but they say they want to re.
duoe the high cost OF living. The other
night heard speech Of the chautau-
qua order, by Governor Marshall of
Indiana, candidate for vice president
Of the United States. He started an
argument on the high cost OF living
but remembering that he was IN
Iowa, where our chief industries are
AGRICULTURAL and stock raising, he said
he did not mean necessarily the high
cost of cattle and hogs and farm pro-
ducts, but the high cost Of clothing
and boots and shoes and other things
YOU wear and use. Those who have
given the subject a moments consid.
Grafton are we'll aware of the fact
that the high cost of living 10 not con
fined to the. United States. It Is world
wide. The cost Of living is higher IN
free trade England than 1t 10 In pro
,tective Germany or protective United
States. High prices may be accounted
for In part from the fact that since
the democratic party was defeated In
its attempt to destroy our monetary
system by the free coinage OF silver
the production of gold has about
doubled It Is further accounted for
from the fact that the increase IN pro
duction has not kept pace with the m
crease in population, and further from
the fact that AZ has been we'll said. II
"a not 80 much the. high cost Of liv'
ing" but the cost bf high living.
that makes prices high. They say that
the tariff is tax and that the tariff
ii added to the cost of the protected
article. To realize that this is not true
il to look at your own feet and con
slider the cost of your shoes. You VIII
remember that we farmers In lows
objected to the removal of Is per cent
duty OF, hides under the Paine-Aldrict
bill. and that the manufacturer o.
shoes objected to the reduction Of
duty on the manufactured leather Of
about So per cent, but shoes have
gone up in price and 80 has leather
I have a pair on and have worn tne
same kind for several years, manu-
featured by the same house, custom
made shoe. used to buy this shoe
for s.. Then 1t cost me $3.50, and now
the last pair was IS. How DO yor
account for this? No doubt In part by
the general rise in prices. but largely
through the fact that on the farms II
the United States there were a few
years ago, 100000 head Of cattle
and now there are but 37.000,0O0.
The Democratic Tariff.
But I cannot take the time to dis
cuss the tariff in detail. The demo
cratic proposition as stated by Leader
Underwood in the lower house of con
gress, is to absolutely ignore the pro
tective principle and levy tariff dutief
for revenue only, while tho republican
principle is to preserve the protective
principle and at the same time raise
the revenue. The republicans propose
that in the main there shall be nc
tariff on articles which we do not
produce in this country, and that OF
a rticIos which we do produce In thif