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

a vote cannot elect your man. but only
endanger President Taft and the re
publican party?
My appeal to democrats is on the
ground that for the first time In
generation has the Iowa democrat had
placed on him a direct responsibility
in this matter of the election OF
president. This state has heretofore
been republican beyond cavil OF
doubt. We democrats, therefore, felt
"a blissful sense Of personal irresponsi
bility so far as our vote might affect
the final result. We felt at liberty to
talk and vote as we pleased just az
our feelings or prejudices might move
us--well knowing that the electoral
vote of Iowa would be cast for the re-
publican candidate any way.
Blu! it is not so this year. The di'
visions in the ranks of the republican
party leave the vote Of Iowa in ex'
IRENE doubt. Who knows but that your
vote and mine and the votes OF FEW
like ours may determine how Iowa
shall go? And in the final summing Ip
who knows but that as Iowa goes SO
shall the nation go?
Thus is 1t put right up to the Iowa
democrat. You cannot escape. this
year, this sense Of personal RESPONSE.
bility And submit:
This responsibility il one thai cam
not be trifled with. You Ottumwa
bankers and business men who often
advise the people as to tho business
welfare: What is the matter with the
country now? Anything?
You members of the Commercial as
ISOLATION, who say you have at heart
only the welfare of our city, tell me
and quit your "kidding"-how do you
hope to help Ottumwa by defeating
President Taft?
You Wapello county farmers: What
on earth have you to find fault about?
What more may the laborer hope to
gain? What is the matter with William
Howard Taft?
You answer:
We'll. yes, that's all true, but I'm a
democrat"
So am I. I know how hard 1t is 10
cross over and scratch the head Of the
ticket. But the time has gone by in
this country when the citizen need feel
shame to vote according to his judg-
ment. A speaker need feel no embar-
rasment in lending his vote and Ills
voice to what he believes the course
of patriotic duty.
The Tariff Issue.
Those who hesitate to support the
president because Of their position on
the tariff issue should bear in mind
that the measure Of protection advo-
Gated by President Taft is the differ
ence in the cost Of production at home
and abroad. I affirm that this is not
different from the long
known democratic demand for "inci-
dental protection In my time we
have favored tariff for revenue, say.
ing that this will afford enough pro-
lection" Enough for what? Manifest
ly, enough to put our factories at home
on terms Of equality with the foreign
Every sane man KNOWS
that If our factories are placed at a
In our own market,
sooner or later but one result is In.
evitable: they must succumb. Does
any voter-of whatsoever party, want
to see our factories fail, our men
turned out Of their Jobs and the bust
ness Of manufacture transferred
abroad? Certainly not.
Then let us cover the difference Of
production at home and abroad and re-
tain our industries at their present
high standards Of wages and efficien-
cy. A permanent tariff board with
power to take evidence, 60 about -
broad II needs be-to get facts at first
hand Is best adapted to ascertain
this difference. The congressman hold
their short terms by too uncertain a
tenure. They are preoccupied with so
many other important official duties.
that it is idle to say the members Of
that body may be depended upon to
do this work WELL A tariff board. per.
manent and non.part1san in character,
should in a few years 60 long way
In taking the tariff out of partisan
politics and save our industries from
ceaseless agitation and arbitrary
changes.
The record Of the late congress is
one Of hostility toward these sound
The protection long opposed by the
democratic pal 10 LAoL IoAliA VoAi'
built high by special privilege. behind
which monopoly breeds and fattens on
the substance Of the people.
with Hon. E. G. Dunn. my candidate
for governor, I affirm that democratic
voters favor protection wherever and
whenever protection Is needed. What
I charge Is that in the late congress IN
unholy alliance. in pursuit of offices
and power. went on a rampage Of
tariff ripping and prosperity leveling
which the democratic voters have
never approved and which-if they
come to know the truth-they will re-
pudiate.
BY a courageous use Of the veto
President Taft saved the country from
the consequences of congressional
folly.
Governor Wilson on Wrong Side.
II Governor Wilson is elected, what
may we expect from him? We cnaE
lenge democrat and progressive alike
to appear before the American people
and justify and defend the "pop-gun"
tariff bills of the late congress. Those
IN, ,u.o~o mt Y,occo1 in onnH faith