Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-03

to have your neighbor employed?
Doesn't Mr.. White like the noise of the
s o'clock whistle? Do you prefer "a and
'95 to '9S and 80? Isn't it better to feed
hungry men who can pay than tramps
who tell of their discharge? Does Mr..
White really want to make Mexico
out of America and have her dollars
weighed before they are taken, or is he
merely talking through his visionary
gubernatorial hat? Do the people of
Iowa who produce every year at least
500. 100000 worth of products more than
they buy, want to lower the standard
of value, and do they want to have es-
tablished by legislation the Chicago
platform which Mr.. White and his con-
vention today "unreservedly" endorse,
Sin whole and in detail?" Is there
man or a woman in Iowa who wants to
shorten the standard mile for the
played out race horse, or the standard
dollar for the played out politician?
Has Iowa ever had the worst of 1t when
the country went republican,? Did you
ever notice how much warmer it is in
summer than in winter? AS a matter of
fact, when was our country ever more
prosperous than now?
TRUSTS AND COMBINES.
What political party Is best equipped
to deal with the great economic prob
lem of combinations called trusts? AL
though the attempt ia made, this prob
lem can no more legitimately be made
political issue than can cyclones or
corns and bunions, both the leading po-
litical parties having expressed them
selves against all harmful combina
tions. The democratic party tried the
experiment In 1893 of destroying all in
dustries and at the same time practi-
cally all employment of labor. Perhaps
the country would like to try that terri
bic experiment again. The same plan
is proposed by the democracy now, and
in addition thereto, in order to make
destruction complete, they heartily pro-
pose the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of is to l. Nobody who lived
through the last democratic admins
tration entertains the slightest doubt as
to their destructive abilities. The only
question is whether the people are will
| ing to pull down the house in order to
kill few rats: whether or not we can
afford to go barefooted all our lives in.
order to avoid corns and bunions,.
whether or not we can afford to let MIR.
Bryan of Nebraska and Jerry Simpson
of Medicine Lodge and Mr.. Tillman of
South Carolina and Mr.. White of Iowa
bungle all the business of the country
and split its dollar and its honor in two
in order to bankrupt few capitalists
and stock companies.
The fact is that upon investigation
we find all countries are confronted
with the problem of industrial combi-
nations or trusts; and it so happens
that the very country cited as the free
trade country, Great Britain. has far
more trusts than any other.
SUDDEN CHANGE OF ISSUES.
| / have sometimes thought it was a
great pity that President Mckinley
could not have had the test OF the next
election made on the simple issue of the
industrial question. Suppose there had
been no war-wouldp any one have
| thought of making a campaign against
the great Industrial success and none
| tary situation that has characterized
| the present administration?
| 1t just so happened that in the very
midst of the greatest success that ever
accompanied any administration of aft
4 fairs, our country was involved in war.
| Just at the crucial test of a great eco
! monte issue that had commanded the
| attention of statesmen for a century.
! the public thought was diverted by the
/ greatest sensation and the most spec
! tacular performances ever enacted in
| the worlds history. 1t so happened
4 that the same genius that was bent
! upon the solution of economic and i'm
\ dustriai questions was called To the
Isolution of internal difIiculties-and /
i dare say. il the truth were known. that
! there was hardly man, woman or
child in America who, when the cloud
of war burst upon the country, did not
inwardly rejoice that the party OF
| Abraham Lincoln was at the helm.
! 1t is upon the solution of the difficult
ties and results of the war that the
principal political issues seem now to
be based. Let us consider those issues
let us go fully into that great subject
Let US begin at the beginning.
Just when the wheels We're beginning
to spin. just when relief was coming tc
i the anxious and the idle, just when the
i dove was returning to the storm-tossed
ark bearing the leaf of promise that
told of continent of thrift and beauty
and confidence and employment-jusi
4 then. the cloud of war, which had beer
1 threatening, burst upon the country.
THE PHILIPPINE QUESTION.
Congressman Cousins then told of the
events leading up to the declaration OF
war with Spain. of the responsibilities
forced upon the president but brave
lily assumed. of Dewey's wonderful
achievement. and said that as Dewey
had not yet been advised by Mr.. Akin
son or by any of the democratic reso-
buttons committees in America that he
was a crimal aggressor. He presumed
lin all innocence that he was doing
the duty of patriot in upholding the
flag and maintaining the position of his
country and in protecting the lives and
property of citizens of Manila. Mr.
4 Cousins gave thrilling word picture
of the success of the American arms
4 within ninety days, the whole country
applauding the accomplishments. After
the signing of the peace protocol the
democratic party commenced to find
fault. OF their unpatriotic position to-
day Congressman Cousins said
After endorsing unreservedly. ir
whole and in detail. the late Chicago
platform with all it's revolutionary anc
|cheap money propositions. and declar-
ing that w. j. Bryan is the exponent
of their principles and that they favor
"A his nomination in 1900 thew proceed tf