Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-12
VOL SON AND THE TARIFF.
IN q recent speech Gov. Wilson

said: =
America Is much Interested II
breaking down, wherever 1t IS pos
sih1e without danger to break It down
thaA dam against which an the udes
81 our prosperity have banked up
that great dam that runs around al
nnr coasts and which we call the pro
fectiye tariff. I would prefer to cail y
the restrictive tariff. I would prefer &c
ear Il the tariff that hens US IN
chokes US, smothers u.s."
The New York Evening Mail sees
danger In Wilson's expressed purposs
Of breaking down the protective taiin
and shows the fallacy of Wilson'S %,
aertion that the tariff has "choKeo an anu
smothered" the American nation. Inc
Mall saysi
Let IA examine the choking process
~ iaaf,. before the real protective
Ieefslation was adopted, the popuia'
tion 81 the United States was -,
asa O20. In 1910 1t had Increased 70
92.174.515. But that. perhaps, does no'
signify very much. II we had TWO nun.
dred million people, and they were
nor and miserable, their NUMBERS
wonld only bd disadvantage. IL oe'
wolves supon Ne to know whether the
vaatIv Increased number OF people IN
America In 1910 were or were not pet,
tAr IN. under the influence OF TINS
"chofing' tariff than the people OF
the earlier day.
The wear 1850 was the first year
v.,an statistics of wealth per capita
ware taken, That was slxty-two years
AGO. In 1850 the wealth per capita ..
the people was 1907 go. In 1sAo II w" Va
31,s1o.ll.
n 1870 the circulation Of money
- this country was ,@12.O1 per capita
n 1910 It had risen to @S4.3s the
veon1a had been 'choked' UP 70 more
than three times this amount o,
wealth. to every man. woman ano !,
child that they possessed In 1850 ana
the amount OF money available Tor the
trsnsantfun of each mans business
had advanced In virtually the same
Pm n isso. before the protective tarin
,,a~on "a "strangie" us, there were
az 1,35 people in all America who mao
derostts in savings banks-a very
smalI nroportion to the population
ia thn amount of money they had
q tha .hanks was $S6,973,So4. In 1911
~. n,,mher Of depositors had risen to
8 5e7. 1876 and their deposits had SVEN
"a ~ the tremendous sum of $4,2l2,'
$500.
IN W have been terribly choked
and restricted by protection! ana ~
class has really benehted more oy tne
tarfff than the farmers. to whom GOV;
Wilson was talking YESTERDAY anu
whom he was trying TO persuade "
.break down the dam" In 1Soo tne
farms and farm property OF IN sne
Tinted States were valued at @o,ooa,
1850. In 1910 that property nad 40 az
vanced In value to $4O,9Sl, 44s.Ooo,
Farm products we're first ascertaineu
undar the census of 1870, when tnelI
so;d value was $1,95s,03O,927. In lslo
their gold value had arisen TO $4O,'
eo1 449. O96. Study the proportions ex'
nrassed In these two last sets OF ng.
Hrss-tha relation of the value OF
farm products to the value OF the
Farms themselves-and see wnetner OF
not tha farmer has got his share OF
the protective tarin!
II this represents choking and hold:
ing back. Prof. Wilson, the people OF
the limited states, including the farm
- ara willing to be choked some
more
The Mail adds by warning Coy;
wi,son that the American people Will
not W vote for any presidential candi-
d i Who announces his intention to
Ehraak down" the instrumentahty
which has enriched them Tar oeyono
the people Of any other country on