Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-07-19
NOW is The TIME.

\ NOW is THE TIME.
To Look before you leap" Is JUS!
as advisable in the matter OF law
making and law changing as it Is in
the literal sense. The wise man anc
the wise country will weigh careful
}iy any changes or innovations THAI
may be sought, and accordingly will
have little need to retrace steps and
start over again, or fall through sto
destruction, as the case may be.
Senator McCumber of North Da-
kota believes in the old precept men
h toned above and in the senate OF
d the United States on Monday he did
little Cooking before the leap
Y which the country at large would do
we'll to give it's consideration The
/ senator was not seeking to get on
record with view to being able 70
say, II told you So" On the contrary
q he was making an earnest effort to
avoid the possibility Of such an ex-
preston.
He attacked the democratic tariff
\ measure that seems destined to be-
come q law, and he attacked it In
manner and with such facts that it's
designers will have hard time In
LII,
! upon to defend bill which has
enough votes pledged to insure pas
| sage.
The senator boldly and openly
charged the democratic party with
|, deliberately kicking the American
! farmer into the gutter He said, adj
! dressing the democratic senator's:
y "In this year 1913 you are about to
commit greater crime against the
American farmer than has ever been
\ perpetrated by any political party
\ against any class Of people during
4 any period of recorded history.
with violent hands, you are about
to strip him of every advantage
which the changed conditions 4, OF
home supply and demand were about
to yield to him. You have declared
that he Is an outcast in the land
which he has made, the only one OF
all the classes Of American people
which is not entitled to any consid-
Grafton at your hands. You have in
suited his sense of fairness, slapped
him in the face and kicked him into
the gutter .ss,s
It was the democrats, Senator
, McCumber declared, who told the
Il farmer that he had been wronged by
Mr., Taft because the former presi-
dent sought. ito trade off his protec'
ton for reciprocal tariff reductions
by Canada" and it was the demo-
Gratis who tried to convince the
farmer that the republican party was
not to be trusted and that they, IN
!, stead, should be entrusted with his
|b interests. The reciprocity PROPOSE
ton, the senator argued, had one viz
tue in that it proposed to get some
thing for surrendering nothing, while
the democrats proposed to trade away
the farmers interest in everything
J for absolutely nothing. Continuing, he
said:
"The reciprocity proposition sub
1ected the farmer to the free compe.
tition of Canada only. You subject
him to the competition of the whole
world-all of Canada, Australia, Ven
ezuela Argentina, Cuba, the Philip
pines and every other country on the
face Of the earth that may want to
dump it's products into the market
that belongs by right to the Ameri.
can farmer
Senator McCumber asserted that
the democrats admitted the tariff bill
would injure the farmer, contending
that he received too much for hi,
products and must be compelled to
sell them cheaper, and charged that
the democrats know that your claim
that you are going to benefit the con-
sumner is false and demagogic in the
extreme"
The North Dakota senator admit
ted that prices would be low after
the tariff bill becomes law, but that
It would be because of the inability
of the public to pay higher prices
I and because Of the general stagna-
ton Of business" brought about by
the tariff bill.
"The farmer may be slow, but he is
I quite sure" continued the senator.
'fHe may forget, but the hard raps Of
poverty can jab his memory. Once
pass this accursed measure, and be-
fore 1914 he will be fully awake to
i the realization of the offense COM
Y nitted against him. Pass this bill
yysand unless the cutthroat policy which
. Mnnihilated the republican party In
lk'912 continues there will not be g
@r,ocratic state in the whole north.
!, &ook the farmer sixteen years to
Net the last democratic policy.
Is this bill and the living genera
Z will never forgetYou."
MILITARY TRAINING.
Rhe departure Monday OF company
E54th infantry of the Iowa National
bard, means that half hundred Of