Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-07-15
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| I'm this year, 1913" said Senator
McCumber addressing the democrat
you are about to commit create
crime against the American farm
than has ever been perpetrated by any
political party against any class OF
people during any period OF recorded
history.
with violent hands, you are about
to strip him Of every advantage which
the changed conditions Of homo sup.
ply and demand were about to yield
to him. You have declared that he Is
an outcast in the land which he has
made tho only one Of all the classes
of American people which Ia not en-
titled to any consideration at your
hands. You have insulted hts sense Of
fairness, slapped him In the face and
kicked him into the gutter"
TO Punish Farmer7
| The tariff bill, Senator McCumber
declared, seemed to have been CON
ceived in animosity against every
American industry that needed pro-
lection with the American farmer
as the special object Of choler and
hate"
| rs 1t because OF his past political
affiliation that you are heaping upon
him the vengeance for all your previous
defeats? Or do you consider your
selves to be the instrument through
which providence is to work It's punish
ment, because In the last political
campaign he forgot the political faith
of his fathers and went chasing after
a strange god, with cloven hoofs and
branching antlers? II he is to be
punished for his heresy, are you the
proper persons to infiict tho punish.
ment? You are the heneflciaries OF
the farmers inhdelity to his own party
last fall. And for you now to be his
executfoner for the offense Of being
E.sled by you. strikes me as one OF
the most cold ,locded propositions J
ever have heard Of"
Betraylng Voters. I.
1t was the democrats, Senator
/ Cumber declared. who told the farr
that he had been wronged by Mr.,
because the former president SOL
ito trade off his protection for
and it was the democrats who tried ,
convince the farmer that the ron" Il
can party was not to be trnsteJ a., I
that they, instead should be cntris ~
with his interests. The recirrc y
proposition the senator argued. hid
one virtue, in that II proposed TO get
something for surrendering nothing,
while the democrats proposed to trade
away the farmers interest In every
thing for absolutely nothing"
THE reciprocity proposition he
continued, subjected the farmer 10 the
! free competition OF Canada only Vol
subject him to the competition OF the
whole world---all OF Canada. Australia,
Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba, the Phil.
t|ippines and every other country on the
face OF the earth that may want to
j dump its products into the market
that belongs by right to the American
farmer"
4 Admit unfairnsss.
Senator McCumber asserted that the
democrats admitted the tariff bill
would injure the farmer. contending
that he received too much for his pro-
Iducts and must be compelled to sell
them cheaper, and charged that the
democrats know that your claim that
you are going to benefit the consumer
Is false and demogogic In the ex-
! treme." The senator submitted statis-
tics seeking to show that the tariff did
not affect the price Of farm products
to the consumer and again addressing
the democrats, said:
you ears are closed to every appeal
for Justice for the tiller OF the soil.
You are reaching point where 70 #
income is unable to keep pace with
your extrayagances, ard you are Ask
Ing the farmer to make good the deficit
by reducing the price Of his products.
lit never occurs to you that the proper
4 ~, &c, he, 1,,x.
ur;es, the unnecessaries OF life. You
pie are paying $780, ZOO. 900 a year for
answers They also are paying S2,Oor.-
900 900 year for liquors. Cut yogr
liquor bill in haf and YOU will ga ],
enough to buy all your meat You
declare they are paying $43500C,000 n
year for flour. He replies, They are
paying 3OO,O00,0OO for tobacco. Cut
your tobacco bill half and your -four
lie free You declare they are paving
1925, 200, 900 year for potatoes. He
replies They are paying $500,000,000
! for theaters and amusements. Cut
your amusements in half and your POI
Itatoes are free You declare they are
paying $3O0,00O.00O a year for butter
land eggs. He replies, They are spend
ling $5OO,OOO,OOO a year for CONNECTION
cry His replies are unanswerable.
They are so many monuments read
ling in clear, black letters into your
eyes an indictment OF your own GRIM
inal extravagances and high living"
Business to Sta0nate.
4 The North Dakota senator asserted
that prices would be low after the tar
Iiff bill becomes law, but that 1t would
be because OF the inability Of the pub.
lie to pay higher prices and because Of
1.-THE general stagnation OF business"
drought about by the tariff bill.
The farmer may be slow. but he Is
quite sure" continued the senator.
"He may forget but the hard raps Of
POVERTY can jab his memory. Once
pass this accused measure, and be
fore 1914, he will be fully awake TO-
the realization Of the offense com.
mitted against him. Pass this bill
land unless this cut-throat policy which
annihilated the republican party In