Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-10-03

CHICAGO: 226 Filth AVE. Now ~ .
City: Gumbel Bldg. Kansas City. MO.
WHAT Low TARIFF MEANS.
The same ,old table, issuing, from
the Department Of Commerce, makes
It's monthly appearance with respect
to July: Importations from Japan con-
tinue to increase. July. 1915, they
totaled 100000, July 1916. they
were $l2,ooo,ooo. For the. seven
months period ended July. 1915, they
totaled $5s .o0o,O 900: for the seven
months period ended July 1916, they
totaled $4,000, 900. Our exports to
japan for the two periods, respective
". were valued at $4,000, 1000 and
s57,6oo,o 900. We gained $22.0o0.0oo In
the japanese market; Japan gained
S42,0oO,0oO in ours. A large percent
age Of our exports to Japan consisted
Of war material for manufacture and
sale to Russia: Japan's exports to Us
consisted wholly Of peace products.
Japan got her goods into our market
practically duty-free: We got our
goods into the Japanse market after
paying . high tariff. Japan brought
ali her goods to Us. and then some, in
her own ships; she took about all our
goods to her ports in her own ships.
The tailors and the shirtmakers Of
Japan send their salesmen to this
country and they measure lot Of US
for suits and shirts. Secretary Red
field preens his whiskers and brass
about our increased exports to textile
machinery to Japan, or China; the
statesmen mail their measurements
and orders to Japan, and the tailors
and the shirtmakers make up the suits
and shirts from cloths woven on ma
chimes copied from those purchased
In America. Eighty per cent Of the
employees working on the Japanese
looms are women, receiving from Il
to "a cents day. The suits and the
shirts are shipped to the United States
and pay the ridiculously low duties
required by the Wilson Underwood
tariff law, and some moro American
labor is denied its wage. We don't
miss it now, OF course. We are max
ing up uniforms. overcoats. socks.
blankets. and shirts for blood-crazed
Europe. But what is going to check
the ever Increasing volume Of Japan
csc imports II the end Of the war finds
us still operatt.g under : tariff policy
which even the democrats would like
to repudiate, IL Wilson would permit
them. Hughes and protection. Mr..
Voter! 1t is the only way II We want
prosperity whom the protection Afford
ed our industries BY the war. ends.
SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING.
Friday. October 20, has been desig
mated as Iowa day and efforts are be-
ing made to have the day observed in
the scheolD 6 the state. Relative to
this effort to spread among the young
the news Of Iowa's greatness. the Sec
rotary Of the Greater Iowa association,
says:
Our school children should know
that Iowa is the only state in the I'm
ion the products Of whose fields ap-
proximate billion dollars = year or
one hundred million dollars month
They should be told that one OF the
largest street freight car manufactor
les in the United States is in Iowa
and that 1t is even now building four
thousand cars for the Russian govern
ment: that there Ii factory in Iowa
that il making farm tractors for China
and Australia and South Africa: that
Iowa-made gasoline engines have been
pumping the water out Of the blood
soaked trenches Of Europe for the past
two years: and that Iowa-built locomo
tives were used In the construction Of
the Panama canal and that they haul
trains through the rice fields Of Japan.
How many pupils in our SCHOOL,
or grown folks for that matter-have
any conception of Iowa's scenic
beauty? How many know that Iowa
has the lowest percentage Of illiteracy
and the greatest per capita wealth Of
any equal area in all the world?
"By Ill means let us have an Iowa
day every year; let US tell the chill
dren how fortunate they are to live in
Iowa. The children will tell the old
folks-and then we will have achieved
our Greater lows"
Enough Of the exterior of the new
hotel is done, to show that 1t is going
to be most pleasing to the eye and
building Of which the city may well
be proud. especially In view Of the fact