Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-05
Press Comment.
THE VERDICT SHOULD MEAN
SOMETHING.


Des Moines Capital: For nearly
fifteen years large faction In the re-
publican party has been denouncing
the tariff. These men have made mil
lions of converts to the belief that the
tariff as it now exists is positive
damage to the business and prosperity
of the United States.
For ten years any assertion prom.
Using to cheaper the cost OF living Dy
cutting down the tarih has been re-
ceived with applause. The average
man believes that the tariff has caused
the present high cost OF living.
The average man believes that the
millionaires of today have been Gre
ated by the tariff. Woodrow Wilson
says the tariff has built up the trusts.
Champ Clark at many times said the
same thing. Republican leaders have
time and again asserted the same
doctrine.
The salaried man regards any kind
Of tariff as his enemy. Thousands
Of wage workers have thought and
now think the same thing.
No man can prove his assertion. 1t
will take a trial to demonstrate the
truthfulness or falsity OF these beliefs
and statements.
We are not in favor Of compromise
BY which q lot of low tariff repub-
licans shall be elected IN the name
of protection and lot Of low tarih
democrats shall be elected In the name
of low tariff.
The disagreement has gone on long
enough. There should be reckoning.
There should be roundup OF the
herd. The results should not be In
any manner doubtful
II Wilson is to be elected there
ought to be low tariff congress IN
order that the country may have
sample of the theories which all the
democrats and hundreds of thousands
of republicans have believed to be
the correct one. We are prepared to
live under low tariff. We shall do the
best we can. The Capital may be
mistaken in Its beliefs in regard to
the doctrine of protection. We are IN
favor Of the greatest good to the great
est number.
But we must say as we have said
many times, this country has never
prospered under low tariff and that 1t
never will prosper under low tariff.
We only urge that the experiment be
tried in order to settle an acrimonious
dispute. We want to settle 1t in order
that the candidates for Office may
have something else to talk about.
The country Is prosperous and would
continue to prosper marvelously II
Taft should be reelected. Taft ts the
only hope. Both houses of congress
are gone and that branch of the sub
iect might as well be dismissed. The
man who votes for Wilson's policies
Is going to get Wilson's policies If
Taft is defeated.
The election of Colonel Roosevelt
is an impossibility. A vote for
Colonel Roosevelt Is an indirect vote
for Woodrow Wilson.
II Woodrow Wilson carries Iowa
the republican nominee for office Will
be mainly to blame. They have con-
Quoted campaigns which are no credit
T. to our common intelligence as a peo-
pie
We are not going to predict dire
calamities. II Wilson shall be elected
we are going to do our best to prevent
dire calamities. We are going to still
be for the United States of America
against all corners. This country Is
big and strong and can get along with
foolish men in office and with foolish
theories put into practice.
But we insist that the election shall
mean something We want to know
who has won when 1t is over.
Fremont Tribune: A long eaded
farmer who we'll remembers what
happened to him in the early '9Os
when folks got 1t into their heads to
try another kind of medicine and
voted for a change, came into the Of
flee of the agricultural editor and.
seating himself on a luxurious stool,
he delivered himself thusly: I'm every
mail am getting appeals from the po-
litical headquarters of the bull moos-
ers, the Wilson progressive league,
the democratic state committee, the
near republican state committee, the
gressional committees, individual can
didates, socialists, prohibitionists and
whatnots. They all want me to vote
for a change. But they should save
their postage and save their breath to
cool their broth. well remember in
1892 when we fell for the same line
of bunk. We voted for change that
time and we got it. We got 1t 80 en-
phatically that we voted for another
change in 1896. That fall didn't hard
ly know whether to husk any corn or
not. Merely to husk 1t and haul 1t was
worth all got for it. And my fat hogs
when l hauled them to market, one
Jumped from the wagon and let him
70. I couldn't reload him myself. any
way, SO didn't bother with him. Since
then have put piano In the house,
added on a couple of rooms, bought an
auto for my family and sold piece
of my farm to neighbor who wanted
it to square up his own, and he paid
me s167.50 an acre for It,. These able
agitators who want my vote want me
to vote for change. I am getting So
cents for my corn, sold my wheat for
80 cents when / threshed 1t, and not
long ago took load Of hogs to town
and got $7S5 hundred for them. If
i thought change would bring me
81. go for my wheat, $1.16 for my corn
and $3.50 for my hogs would heed
the cry. But remembering what hap
pened to me last time, I fear 1t would
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