Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-10-29
John WANAMAKER MAKES SOME THINGS
| PLAIN IN STATEMENT TO THE PUBLIC
Great Merchant of Philadelphia Sets Forth Convincing
Reasons Why the Support of Americans Should be
Given to Taft and Sherman.

derful prosperity. Only Swallowed at
the end by the treasury balances run
ming down by the congressional com.
pulsory purchase of silver bullion
which could not be gotten into circu-
lation, though easily coined. But any
one who stops to think can easily see
that the taking out Of the treasury
| by act of democratic house and a
republican senate put into circulation
largely for mining labor something
like twenty millions of dollars. It
fostered employments instead of kill
ing them. ...t. ..
Nothing in the world but the cut in
the tariff by the Wilson bill brought on
the paralysis of business and the
misery of the working people. We can
not sell as low as Europe and pay
are. Right thinking and right feeling
men must admit this. It must distress
the democratic party to have low
tariff in their platform. but they must
always face their past history OF re-
suits in their tariff work and the GER
tainty of the same results in any fu-
ture they may have In doctor1ng a
tariff they do no understand.
However determined democratic
president may be to do tariff in mod
Grafton, he cannot make any tariff
moderate enough for the political
/: party behind him.
! It is claimed by uniformed people
that manufacturers are in some sense
partners with the government. I have
| been in business fifty years. dealing
with manufacturers, and l affirm that
I never knew any Of them having any
| link with the government that was not
open to everybody choosing to 90 into
the manufacturing business.
| It would be very natural for manu-.
| facturers to at least attempt to safe
guard the continuance Of the invest
ments of their savings and real estate
dependent upon the tariff by subscr1b-
ing to election expenses, but the long
lists of contributors brought out by
the senate committee the past week
does not show many subscribing
manufacturers.
There is an abundant verif1cation of
the fact that from the days of George
Washington to the Mckinley bill the
tariff was not invented for the manu-
facturers.s ,g3s $s
1t was the boon that the first presi-
'dent gave to unemployed labor, and
before manufacturers could begin it
was necessary to make home mar
ket for products by restricting I'M
portations. @ .-....-.
/ Nearly all manufacturers have be-
gun in small way, and they have put
back into their looms, machinery and
buildings their profits. All they have
in the world in many instances is thus
invested. A single mill in little town
giving employment to thousand peo-
pie has some moral claim at least
against the government not to destroy
property and not to injure the COM
munity by the destructive work of a
wild drive into the tariff grounds.
The shriyeling Of work and wages
by the tariff reductions directed by
Baltimore will bring up some new
questions in these days Of unrest of
labor that will be troubling, such as:
Can the workpeople and their families
go back contentedly to the level Of
living Of the workpeople OF fifty years