Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24

Thursday en- route to Panama Win MT.
Pepper of the second district. On his
return Mr.. Connolly will spend several
days here lining things up for his
service as a member Of the house.
Washington is not e to Mr.. Con-
molly, as he is a graduate of George
town university, an honor man, In fact,
and while here as a student he took an
active interest in political affairs. Also
he was here for a time last summer,
| after he had been nominated for con-
gress, on his way home from the Balt1-
more convention, which he attended
as an alternate delegate from his dis
trict.
While in Washington this week, Mr..
Pepper introduced Mr.. Connolly to the
leaders of the democratic majority IN
the house and to several chairman OF
the important committees. On the trip
to the isthmus the young 1owan Will
get better acquainted with many of
these men, who are to be members o.
the party, and he can rest assured
that If n Of the new members OF the
| sixty-third congress get any committee
plums he is likely to be n OF those
members. ~-.C
While Maurice Connolly. the new rep
~resentative from the third district,
was here last week, he was asked:
"How can an Iowa democrat favor
a revision of the tariff to the point
where it becomes practically free
trade?"
Maurice proved himself somewhat
of a politician by his answer. He also
showed that he intends to fall in line
with the democrats in their general
tariff revision work and keep in line.
He said:
81 don't know. I certainly, do not
favor such a policy. I believe that the
democratic party must revise the
tariff downward and comply in every
respect with the platform adopted at
the Baltimore convention. But this
does not mean that we must pass a
tariff bill removing the duty from
every article. ! cannot say that favor
free wool. for instance. An intelligent
revision will keep the democracy in
power for a long period Of years. and
I have the utmost confidence that the
party will make good. I confidently be-
lieye that Iowa, while a republican
state, will go democratic two years
from now, and If the democrats con-
tinue to make good, there Is a chance
that the Hawkeye state will be in the
democratic column again in 1915"
Together on Tariff.
The matter of the tariff has always
been the democrats greatest bugaboo.
Democrats from one part Of the coun-
try have favored protection on their
own products and free trade on their
brothers from some other district. AS
a result they have never been united.
This year, however, under the able
leadership of Mr.. Underwood, there
will be no division at all, but the pro-
gram on the tariff will be carried out
with a single purpose-that Of reduc-
ing the tax on the necessities of life
and raising the income from the
luxuries, of lifting the burden from
the shoulders of the man who a Ill
afford to carry it and shifting it to
those which have lodged 1t for so long.
The republicans, in past tariff re-
vision campaigns, have always been
united for high protection. This time,
however, the republicans will be sadly
divided and about one-third OF those
elected to the sixty-third congress will
doubtless vote for the democratic bills
If they wish to be consistent and fol-
low their course In the present con-
gress.
It is funny what different ideas diff
ferent nations will have on the tariff.
About all that is necessary to beat a
candidate for the house of commons
in England is to say that he favors 4
tariff on the necessities of life. Lloyd
Georges strongest assets in his cam
paigns have been his posters on his
opponents reading like this:
HE believes in taxing bread. Do
you?"
Such a sign as that would doubtless
produce results in this country, too,
if the working men stopped to read 1t.
Yet, on everything they eat and every
thing they wear, they have to pay
more than a fifty per cent tax. But not
withstanding this high rate Of tai
ton, very little income flows into the
government treasury for the tax Is so
high that it permits the local dealers
to sell at enormous profits until their
competitors cannot sell at all. and 1t Is
only from foreign goods that the gov.
eminent derives any income at all.
Patents Granted lowans.
Des Moines. Dec. 23.-The follow.
ing patents were granted to oWans
for the week ending December II.