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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-27
VETERANS FROM MARYLAND.
Major Mckinley Delivers TO Them an
Unusually Earnest Address.

MChtntey DELIVERS to Aho'o ON
Unusually Earnest Address.
The Maryland G.. 4. r. club, one of
the delegations of the day, was honored
with one of the most earnest addresses
Mai. Mckinley has yet delivered. In
response to Gen. Theodore Il. Lang, who
spoke for the Maryland visitors, Maj.
Mckinley said:
''The spectacle which we witness IN
Canton today is most encouraging and
inspiring. There are delegations here
from New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Mary.
land. Great applause and cries OF
"Iowa.o Yes, Iowa and Kentucky, and
on yesterday we had delegations from
the Old Dominion state of Virginia and
from the state of Tennessee. All are
welcome to my home and city, for all of
them are moved by common purpose,
and that purpose is to save the country
from reputation and dishonor.
This visit on the part of my fellow
citizens from Maryland indicates their
concern at the present condition of the
country, and manifests belief on their
part that the sooner ii comes to an end
the more gratifying it will be. 1t is an
unmistakable expression of your belief
that the change most to be desired can
only be secured through Republican
triumph, and that you are jealous end
alert to do your full part in bringing
about the result. This campaign has
many peculiar phases. 1t involves the
most vital interests To country. 1t is
unique in American politics. One of the
old and most honored political parties of
this country is very much divided this
year. A part of it has united with the
other parties, and in some of the states
the alliance has been rejected, and the
fusion repudiated, so that the condition
is not altogether and everywhere bar-
monious. The old leaders of the Demo
cratic party those who carried it's bur-
dens and fought its battles in the past,
framed in the city of indianapolis a few
weeks ago an indictment against their
old party associates who met at Chicago,
which in severity has been unequaled.
They pronounced the declarations of the
Chicago convention, which was Demo
cratic in name, as an attack upon in
dividual freedom, right of private con-
tract, the independence of the Judiciary
and authority of the President TO en-
force the laws of the United States.
Chicago Convention Arraigned.
''They charged the Chicago convention
with reckless attempt to increase the
price of silver by legislation TO The de-.
basement of our monetary system, and
threatened unlimited issues of paper
money by the government. They pro.
claim in view of these and other grave
departures from Democratic principles
that they cannot support the candidate
of that convention, nor be bound by it's
acts. They declare that the Democratic
party has survived many defeats, but
could never survive victory won in be-
half of the policy proclaimed in it's rame
at Chicago. On the money question they
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-27
MINERS OF ANTHRACITE COAL.
Three Hundred Workingmen from the
Pennsylvania Coal District.

Three Hundred Workingmen from the
Pennsylvania Coal District.
The little reviewing stand was brought
into requisition at this point, when the
crowd had become so dense that the
porch could no longer be used, and Mai
Mckinley faced some 300 miners from
the anthracite district of Pennsylvania,
who were introduced by Prof. w. T..
Gregory. Maj. Mckinley responded as
follows:
You have all found in your own
lives that if you get anything that is val
liable you have to work for it, You
nave found in your own experience that
there is no way to earn living or ac-
eumuiate property except by labor and
toll, energy and industry, and by frugal
savings, and knowing that all that you
are interested in at this moment is how
you can best use what you have-your
labor, your farms, your products; in u
word, all you want is an opportunity
to work, and when that opportunity is
furnished you you will perform the la
bor,. and there are not enough mints
in the United States or in the world to
give employment to the miners of Penn
sylvania. Therefore, my fellow citizens,
you must not be looking to the mints
for the money which you need. You
must look to the mines, TO the mills and
the factories. Great applause.) You do
not mine coal unless somebody wants to
use that coal, and the more users of
coal there are, the more miners there
will be and the better will be their en-
ployment and their wages. (Cries of
Right, right.o
''Now, that is the whole philosophy of
this business. (Applause.) When you
have an opportunity to work you want
to be paid in dollars that are as good
as any in the world; when you have
given your good, hard blows in the
mines or in the factories, given the mine
owner or the factory-owner good, hon
est days work, you want to be paid in
good, honest dollars that will not de-
preciate over night. (Tremandous cheer
ing.) So what the county wants is
work and the continuance of the good
money we have, and the prevalence of
law and order. We want peace and
tranquility In this country; we want TO
preserve the honor of the government
of the United States, and we will re-
nounce reputation in every form. / am
glad to meet my fellow citizens from
the state of Pennsylvania. We have
in this country miners by the hundreds.
! know something about them. / know
that the only aim they have is an honest
one, to stand by honest things, and /
know how the farmers of Stark county
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-27
STEEL COMPANY EMPLOYEES.
A Delegation of Three Hundred Work
inPmen

n DetegatiOn OF Ihre6 Hundred Work.
ingmen.
Concluding his preceding address to
the miners, Maj. Mckinley had to but
face about to find patiently awaiting an
audience of some 800 steel workers, en-
pioyed by the Otis Steel company of
Cleveland. This party was introduced
by Otto Grabien, and Maj. Mckinley
responded briefly. saying:
II am honored by this visit and en-
couraged by it because l know that you
bring TO me assurances of loyalty to the
great principles of the Republican party
and of your untiring zeal to make these
principles victorious on the Sd day of
November. This audience fairly repre-
sents the conditions with which the bust
ness of this country is done. The men
on the otlfer side of me mine coal. The
men on this side use coal in their mills,
and because you so use it the others
mine it. If you created no demand for
it there would be no demand for the
miner
II use this illustration to show you how
dependent we are upon each other; how
every thread of business is interviewer
with every other thread of business, and
when You snap one thread you injure all.
When the employer does not find il prof
liable to manufacture he ceases to do so,
and when he does not manufacture you
do not have employment. When he finds
it profitable to manufacture you have
steady employment at fair wages. Now,
what we want to do in this country is
to favor whatever policy will encourage
American industry and promote Ameri-
can manufactures. That which will
build more factories and give more en-
ployment to workingmen should be the
true, genuine and universally accepted
American policy.
II am one of those who believe that
we should look after our own people be-
fore we look after the people of other
lands, who owe no allegiance to the gov
eminent of the United States. ] believe
the right policy is the one which pro-
tects the American workshop by putting
a tariff upon the products of the foreign
workshop. My fellow citizens, l do not
believe that we ought to have tariff
policy that will let the products of cheap
er lands and of unpaid labor come into
this country and destroy our manufac-
tories and impoverish and degrade our
labor. The protective policy is my pol
icy. 1t is the doctrine / have always
believed in. and ! MAKE no apology to
anybody anywhere for holding that view,
and if on the Sd day of November the
American people in their sovereign ca
pacity shall decree that protective pol
icy shall be restored and sound money
continue, hope and fervently pray that
we will enter upon an era of prosperity
that will give happiness and comfort to
every American home. Tremendous
cheering and cries of "Hurrah for Nc
Kinley.O thank you for this call and
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-27

are benefited when the mines of Stark
county are running.
81 thank you over and over again for
this call. / must now turn to the other
side of this stand and address another
delegation, the members of which have
the same purpose in their hearts that
you haye-victory for the principles of
protection, honest money and good gov
ernment Great applause.) thank
you and bid you good afternoon"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-27
IRON WORKERS AT THE FRONT.
They Testify Their Feaity to Protection
and Prospective.

anu prosperity.
No delegation of the day was more
cordially welcomed than the band of
iron workers from Cleveland, whose
sturdy figures and frank faces were seen
as soon as the commercial travellers had
given place, and to them Mr. Mckinley
said:
II welcome you to Canton and my
home. j am glad 10 learn from your
banners and your spokesman that you
stand for the great purpose of the Repub-
lican party and the American union, that
gives TO every citizen OF every race and
nationality equal chance and opportunity
in the race of life-a Union that Knows
neither caste nor classes, nor creeds nor
nationality. but gives equal projection
10 all. l am glad to see from your ban
ners that you are in favor of protection
to American industries. So am i. I
believe it is the duty of the American
people TO vote for that policy which will
protect American industry, defend Ameri-
can labor, and preserve the old scale
of American wageS / thank you hear.
lily for this call. am always glad to
meet the workipgmen, and there is moth
ing in this campaign that gives me more
encouragement than to have behind me
the men who toll" Great cheering and
cries of "Hurrah for McKinley.O
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-27

dollars any more than we want light
weights. We are in favor Of good, round
100-cent dollars with which TO pay the
labor of this country and measure the
exchanges of the American people and
we will have no other kind.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-27

ucts, and its own labor. The country is
prosperous when we have plenty of labor,
If we are paid in good money. We be-
lieve in sound money, and we are going
always TO have it," Continuous cheer
ing.)
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-27
THREE STATES ABREAST.

Delegations from Illinois, Iowa and
Pennsylvania Grouped.
Scarcely had the preceding crowd va.
Gated the lawn when the shouts and
cheers of another coming up the street
were heard. This was composed of tho
Hardware Mems Sound Money club of
Reading, Pa, and railroad men and
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-27

umph. loud cries of 1--WE well; we
will. followed by. three .rousing cheers
for the next President. ""
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-27

bid you good afternoon" Great cheer
ing,)
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-27

Continued on Second Pooe.
The advocate., 1896-11-25

spoke in the softly modulated voice of
her race, but sadder, more monotonous,
troubled tones one seldom hears.
She smoOthed the counterpane with
her thin, black hand slowly as she said. {.
"Yuh see dis Is how it is, lady. I'm uh
hidin frum him. Ebry wun dat kumz
dis-a-way in de waud 1 sez: You is
him. and dun hides undah de bed
cloze an shakes an shakes"
"Yes, yuh see, thehs ben trubble.
reckun ebry wun hez uh heap o trub-
BILE, an ef 1t amt lake my heap, its trub-
BILE jes' de same. reckun.
II wuI jes uh young guhrl an seen
him. He wuz dressed up naice, an he
had uh mannuhly way-sn' SO we wuz
mahrid. amt lake some o. dem
pOouh guhrls yondah, foh 1 wuz suah
mahried. My cousin, Sylla Pearl, she
dun reckuned 1t wuz de wuhst wulx
/ evah dun, 'kase Sylla Pearl she nevah
TUX no notion to him.
swell, at fuhst it wuz Ida heah an
Ida yOndah, all pleasant an nice, but
wun day he says: I amt got no moh
money, Ida, an wants oh new pah uh
gallusses an uh bettah hat an coat.
Go out an git 'em foh me. What yuh
good foh, ennyhow-' an'-an'-he hit
me- but / reckun he didn't mean dat
pohsw. &OthRh aha wun 20 gentle an
The advocate., 1896-11-25

Behold the garnered treasures OF the field!
All promises Of April are fulfilled;
The earth exhausted with its bounteous
yield,
Az some brown Samson suddenly DER
wtlled,
shorn Of its flowing locks all nervelesB
lies
A helpless subject to the low'ring skies.
From distant fields come lowing herds Of
kline
TO lie at ease beside the bursting rick,
Content to know, with reason wOnd'rous
fine,
II fast or slow the clock Of Nature tick,
That shelter, food and drink In plenty
wait
TO cheer their stay within the farmyard
gate.
What though old Winter rouses in the
north,
VINO fears him now that Plenty relgns
supreme?
The honest yeomen lead their children
forth
rO mingle voices with the praiseful
stream,
The prayerful rushes and the chanting
wood,
In grand thanksgiving to the God Of
SOou.
Impatient Love, now weary tasks are done,
Trips all as lightly 20 the homely tune
Az fairies sporting where the brooklets run
Through rose-trees nodding In the month
OF June.
Hope long deferred sweet fulfllment
finds,
As grapes give answer to the bending
vines.
Not rural homes alone to-day are blest,
The mother welcomes everywhere her
child,
The wcrldling stands a sinner sel9-con.
fessed
And ID again to virtue reconclled.
Thanksgiving for the spirit born OF
Thee.
o man Of God In blessed Galllee!
From lowly vale and lofty mountain peak
Still prayer and praise and glad thanks
giving rise;
The strong grow thoughtful OF the pooV
and weak,
The dove Of peace from cot to palace
fiies,
While strange, sweet music wakened by
her wings
Thrills every heart till every creature
sings:
The Lord in His temple
Ne'er ceAsSs ROrglying,
Sing praise to Him, praise to Ham,
Praise and Thanksgiving.
The advocate., 1896-11-25
THANKSGIBIN' IDA.
III none were sick and none were sad
What service could we render?
I think II we were always glad,
We scarcely could be tender"

It was "a years ago, on Thanks
giving day 1872, that dainty little
cards announced to the many friends
in society's world that unto Margaret
and Edward Stanhope a daughter had
been born.
Into the softly lighted, luxurious
room where the mother lay, Edward
Stanhope walked gently. He sat down
beside the bed and held tenderIy the
hand of the wife and mother.
The white-capped, important-looking
nurse, obeying his gesture, brought
from its lace and downy nest the tiny,
carefully-guarded pink and white NOR
tal and laid 1t down between them with
much careful patting and adjustment Of
Its dainty draperies.
Together the father and mother
gazed fondly at the child; the mother
with the expression that only mother
love and reverent thankfulness can
give to happy woman's face, while the
fathers manly countenance showed
wonder and paternal love just dawn
Ing.
AS the husband rose to leave the room,
he kissed his wife tenderly, saying:
''We have great cause for thankfulness
on this day, and always. What
more welcome and precious gift could
have come to US than this? God grant
chat she may be the cause Of thankfulA
ness to many AZ the yeara 60 on"
The advocate., 1896-11-25
UneQuAled Service

Denver to chicago, via Kansas City. In
given via the Union Pacific and Chicago &
Alton Railways.
Through Pullman Sleepers, Pullman Din.
ing Cars and Free Reclining Chair ars
leave Denver daily. The Union Pacific II
the great through car line Of the West.
Ask your nearest ticket agent for sickets
via ehia line. z. l. LoMAx,
Gan. Paas. and TkI Ar,
Omaha. Heb
The advocate., 1896-11-25
ONE THANKSGIVING.

" II was Thanksgiving day and the
kitchen so full Of delicious odors that
Mr., Beebee fingered in it after break
fast, watching his wife make pies.
"0le Mis- Tooker's goin' to the pore
house tomorrow" she remarked.
"so?" CALCULATED Mr.. Beebee, man
Of few words.
'Why, yes, father; where you been for
two days not to hear it? Coin TO the
porehouse at Thanksgivin', an her with
two married daughters!"
Mr.. Beebee puffed at his pipe, making
no reply.
"Jane Rose said she'd take her ma if
she'd wear false teeth"
"False teeth, hey?"
ayes. I'd like to know how she'd
even have cut her own teeth if her ma
hadn't took care of her while she was
doin' it," she made dive at the unof-
fensive cat, "the pore ole sole's most
heart broke. Sary Loo won't have her
ma because her grammar's bad"
Mr.. Beebee took his pipe out Of his
mouth long enough to say: "Who
taught her to talk, / wonder?" and inn.
mediately replaced it.
That's you, father" cried his wife,
'you amt much of hand
to talk, but when you do you say some
thing" The sole reply was grunt.
"She was over to tn graveyard last
week to see her husbands grave; says
she can't ever hope to get over from the
porehouse, bein' secha a poor walker"
Mr.. Beebee's pipe was done, and he
knocked the ashes cut. 'She amt goin'I
nohow," he said.
Matthew Beebee, you don't sayI"
eth church has labored with her
they're goin' to have her week
about. Don't know it herself yet,
though; Jane Rose don't want her till
after Thanksgivin'-she's goin' to sur
prise her tomorrow"
''Well, If you wouldn't try the pa
tience of saint, lettin' me most spoil
my Thanksgivin' over IL for nothin'.
There comes Mis- Roach, father; you
watch the pies while I run out and tell
her. Say, Mis- Roach, ole Mis- Tooker
amt goin' to tn porehousc!" she cried,
breathlessly.
"Iknow she amt" her face was very
grave.
"Who told you?"
''The doctor; she died an hour ago."
"An' she never knew she wasn't to
go to the porehouse; never knew Jane
Rose was comm fer her tomorrow"
''Not word Of it; last thing she said
was: is the porehOuse wagon come
yitT"
Mrs. Beebee sat down upon the steps,
her apron over her head, and wept aloud.
nvOwVAlVawFN
The advocate., 1896-11-25

Clara-Going to church Thanksgiv-
lng2
Tilly-No, I amt got nOthin' to be
thankful for.
Clara-Well. you ought to be thank
Rul for that.-Bay City Chat.
The advocate., 1896-11-25


The bell OF the Maternity home
changed sharply week after Thanks
giving day Of 1895.
A trim matron, in blue seersucker
gown and neat, white apron, answered
the bell. The visitor, showing her a
slip Of newspaper and card, asked to
see Ida.
The nurse glanced inquiringly at the
visitor and the card and then read the
slip that said: Housewives who will
take women with infants for general
housework can be supplied by applying
to the Children's Aid society"
The matron said there was colored
woman there named Ida, and that she
could be seen.
The maternity ward was clean and
bare except for the long rows of iron
bedsteads. In these beds lay women
and girls. There were young slips OF
girls, young women, and middle-aged
faces here and there. Faces lined and
scanned with trouble, poverty, hard
work and care. Sad faces, bad faces, bold
faces, scared, white despairing faces Of
young girls, ashamed of the tiny bum.
dies beside them.
But the dusky face of Ida, with its
mournful eyes and patient mouth, was
not easily forgotten.
Her emaciated form lay immovabla
upon the cot and tiny bundle, wrapped
in q coarse flannel blanket, lay beside
her. When the blanket was pulled
aside, the contents proved to be small,
wriggling study In mahogany.
That 1t had been a study to Ida, one
could see by the loving but troubled
glance she gave it..
At first she was reticent and shy, but
after q while the story came out, Ida
The advocate., 1896-11-25


cookin'; foh, ef ] do say it, reckun
no wun evah foun emmy fault wild my
cookin'.
But pears lake he had to have so
menny trinkets, an he TUX all de money
I could git an'-den pears lake lle got
worse an worse ub drinkin' an gam
blin', an de ole doctah I went to when
got so drefful tired an sick he said If
it wuzn't too late foh me he'd try an
save me but mus leave him suah. Den
I didn't know whah tub 60, noh what
tuh do nex-I reckuned what wus KUN.
min tub me-"
Here she stopped exhausted, and gave
another troubled glance at the uncon-
sciOus mahogany bundle.
$50 dat kim ole doctah he dun foun'
out de lady at de aid society what yuh
KUN frum, an she helped me tub git
in heah.
Eyes. want wuk when I git out OBJ
heah; only pears lake I'm so tairid like
an de Lawd he dun keeps calm soAy
in muh heartburn, Ida--Kum an
res'-Jes' lake my mothah used tub
say when she wuz libin'. So I've laid
heah uh studyin' an uh studyin--an'
sez: Eff de Lawd sez KUN, Ida, chile;
kun an res den whahs my little baby
goin' tub git TUX cab o'-an' den de
Lawd he reach down an sent some wun
foh Ida's little baby. So I reckun de
Lawd means bettah glib it away"
"Give your baby awayl" echoed the
voice by the bedside.
"Yes, MISS" said Ida. "Yuh see it's
uh guhl chile an de livin' image o. him,
so reckun eff she gifts uh good raisin'
up she'll grow up kind an willin' tuh
wuk an help long"
"But why not keep your baby, Ida,
till it Is older, and maybe there will be
way opened for you to earn a living
for both?"
"Yes, / dun did try tuh t'ink de Lawd
meant dat away-but dassen't keep
it, foh eff I dun it, she wud git cunnin'
an crawl aroun', an be cute lake, am
den, yuh see-yuh see-de Lawd He
cudn't AK Ida tub do sech hahd wuk "a
dat"
Here Ida turned her troubled eyes
away.
"Dut, Ida," said the voice by the bed
side, ''who would want to take little
helpless baby2 How old is it?"
"She dun kum uh Thanksgibin day.
Der wuz uh lady--a young lady, an she
had uh kline, smilin' face, lake she wuz
allus good an happy, she KUN in heah
de othuh day--an' she recl1uns she'll
dun taxi il. She sez she'll raise her up,
an train huh to be huh little waitin'-
maid, an SEN huh tub school sum, an
thet she will lib wild huh always. OATS
de bes' can do foh huh, pears like, an
befoh she gifts emmy cute ways, an be-
foh l gifts too taired like to heah de
Lawd when He calls in muh heahrt:
KUN, chile, KUN, an res'.'"
Here Ida paused and lay smoothing
the counterpane feebly.
linen she said: II ben uh Btudyin'
bout dem good wuds in de Bible-my
mothuh luhned me, bout Thanksgibin'
an pears lake Ida kin luhn 'em tub
say tub de kline Lawd when she gifts to
His gates: 'Entah--intO-His gates,
wid-Thanksgibin'.' For de Lawd He
ies reached down an smoothed out all
de tangles frum Ida's heap o troubles
an sent de lady foh huh before she got
any cute ways lake. De lady dun put
huh name-kahd undah my pillow.
Heah it is"
AS / read the name. Miss Margaret
Ida fumbled feebly for a
stump of lead pencil under her pillow,
and said:
"Jes put huh name, pointing to the
hahv down ON de nnma lahd fnh mo
The advocate., 1896-11-25

And happy Margaret gently pressed
his hand as her eyes turned toward their
baby daughter with love and thankful
ness.
Tweuty-four years later this precious
little Thanksgiving bundle had unfolded
and become to the social world Miss
Margaret Stanhope, lovely and Iowa
bic, helpful member of society.
The advocate., 1896-11-25

The bell Of the Maternity home
changed sharply week after Thanks
giving day Of 1895,