Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-10-21
REPUBLICANS Fill
GAYETY THEATER TO
HEAR N 'C0RMICK..
UNITED STATES SENATOR AR
RAiGNS DEMOCRATS AND LAUDs
REPUBLICANS IN ADDRESS BE.
FORE COUNTY MASS MEETING
THIS AFTERNOON.

Announcement made earlier in the
week that Senator Medill Mccormack
Illinois senior representative in the
upper house OF congress, would be
in Ottawa this afternoon to deliver
an address, was the signal for a coun-
ty wide assemblage of republicans to
hear the senator at the Gayety thea
ter where a mass meeting had been
called by local G. o. p. leaders.
The Gayety was well filled with
men and women from all walks of
life. Frequently during his discourse
Senator Mccormick, as he drove home
argument after argument for a re-
publican house of representatives toI
support the president, he was cheer.
ed Justify His attacks upon Wilson
ian brands of democracy brought pro
longed applause from the audience.
The senator, who is on camapign !
tour of the country for the republi- /
can party, delivered addresses at
Kansas City, Omaha and Des Moines
he goes to Indiana and thence will
carry his campaign into the east. [
He said in part:
THE republican record, and the
claim of the republican candidates for
a renewed majority in congress must
be measured, too. by conditions which
today obtain in America, the general
unemployment Of workers, the recov-
cry of business and agriculture, as
contrasted with conditions abroad.
'In this campaign the American
man or woman who would understand
the issues, must look back over the
last years. and look abroad over the
Rio Grande to Mexico and southwark;
over the oceans to Europe and Asia,
to see that America alone among the
great states of the world is today
solvent and sound; that
America alone has been able to re-
ieve her citizens of a great burden
Of taxation: that America alone has
been able to find work and comfort
for her sons and daughters.
"The economic recovery of Ameri-
ga, due in great part to the courage
and energy of her people and in part
to her geographic situation and ma
tional riches, has been greatly accel-
Grated because two republican con
crosses and the republican president
we're determined to put aside the
ways of war and resume the habits of
peace.
"The last session of the last demo-
,ratic congress appropriated for the
S6, ASS 600 600 The first regular ses-
sion of the present republican con-
gress appropriated in Tound num-
Ders, $2T45, 900 ,00O-that is $2,710t
100000 less for the year than was
by the last democratic
congress.
For the current year, the republ-
,an estimates were S3,920,0O0, 900;
he republican appropriations $3,745,-
100000.
This tremendous decrease in fed
eral expenditures did not happen by
chance. 1t was brought about in full
illment of the concerted purpose of
he republican majority and the re-
publican president, to make an end
% the waste which marked the con-
luct of the war and which under the
Wilson administration had not only
leen continued, but encouraged, long
after the war.
ut was the basic industry of agri-
culture which suffered most from the
Wilsonian policies it was agriculture,
from northern and eastern Maine to
southern and western California,
which was stricken first and most
,earfully, by the abrupt and undis-
contraction of loans at
he behest of the democratic secretary
Of the treasury; it was agriculture
which suffered first, if not the most,
when, peace restored we felt again
the consequences of the democratic
tariff which he had forgotten since
1914.
That tariff act is not perfect. No
tariff or other legislative act is per
feet. The tariff act makes provision
for fiexibility in the rates. It reckons
with the fact that there are million
and half idle hands in England;
that there are thousands of idle fac
tory workers in every country of Scan
that on the continent of Eu-
rope skilled workers are paid here
81, there S. and yonder S10-not
day, but a week. Ask yourselves if
you want a democratic tariff which
will admit to competition in the