Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-10-12

mills were to open up; unemployed
would find profitab BILE market for his
promised to take place as soon as it
was known that Mckinley was elected.
Months have passed since that event,
and instead of the fultillment of these
promises, prosperity has not made its
appearances; the mills and shops are
closing down; the army of the unem-
ployed is growing larger, and the far
mers of Iowa since his election are
marketing their products at less
profit than ever before"
Mckinley had only been in the White
House a few months when this plat
form was written, and in the midst OF
the ruin that he had helped to produce,
Mr.. White pointed to the calamitous
situation and argued that free trade
and free silver alone could remedy the
evil.
Now he admits there is prosperity.
but - endeavors to account for it all
by European crop failures.
Statistics are dreary reading, and it
is always more agreeable to study the
visible evidences OF our condition than
it is to pore over bank ledgers, custom
house returns and commercial reports.
On every hand. in all parts of the
United States, labor has found employ
ment and the wheels of industry are
in motion. In 1892 a similar condition
prevailed, but was very much less
marked. The people made a mistake
then. That event is too recent and the
witnesses to its disastrous conse-
quences are too numerous to need
much argument now
There is nothing in the condition of
the nation that would suggest the de-
STABILITY of a change in the policy un-
der which it has lived since 1896.
The State of Iowa.
In Iowa and Ohio is now being waged
the contest preliminary to the battle
royal OF 1900. Iowa has been loyal
republican state with almost persist
ent steadfastness since the organization
of the party. If there is nothing in
our national affairs justifying change
how is it with the state? Our COM
monwealth is sharing in high de-
gree the benefits which l have already
spoken of as being enjoyed by the ma
ton at large. Our state finances are in
a satisfactory condition. The deficit
produced by the general depression and
the loss by fire in some of the state
institutions has been made good, and
the state treasury has comfortable
surplus, large enough for all practical
purposes, and not sufficient to CON
stitute an element of danger. and best
of all, the state is wholly out of debt.
To the governor, under whose skillful
management these good results have
been accomplished, there is due from
the people the answer: well done,
thou good and faithful servant, Gov
ernor Shaw and the answer may be
confidently expected in November. To-
wa has been rapidly coming to the
front on land and sea. The baltleship
Iowa carried the name of our state to
the forefront at Santiago, and the
Fifty-first Iowa has kept the name to
the front on the firing line in Luzon.
1t has been said that "some are born
great, others achieve greatness, others
have greatness thrust upon them. and
Others still are born in Ohio" But To-
wa is good place to hail from. She
has long held the first place in the
senate, and now the speakership, the
first place in the house of representa-
tives and the second place in the ma
ton is awarded to our gallant David B.
Henderson.
The War, It's Results and Responsible
tiles.
Events that could not be foreseen
have arisen under the present admins
tration. A condition existed in the
neighboring island of Cuba that had
become intolerable. ] need not review
the events of the war. 1t was not no
litical. All parties arose as one man
and stood by the administration with
unanimity that has never been equal
ed in the history of our country.
Col. Bryan, the opponent of McKin-
ley in 1896, became an officer in that
war, subject to the orders of his late
opponent as commander-in-chief We
did not realize our power nor the
weakness of the adversary when, after
the slaughter of our brave sailors on
the Maine, the nation girded itself for
battle. We commenced the contest
with the purpose of overthrowing the
Spanish power in Cuba. The blows we
struck eliminated the Spanish power
II oill lue OCedn duU all lne Islands of
the sea. Nations cannot stand still,
They must grow or decline, and Spain
has shriveled into her old boundaries
between the Pyrenees and the sea.
When the Alaskan miner comes to
the rapids of the Yukon he has his
choice to turn back or go through, but
when he once embarks upon the tor
rent there is no means of retracine his
steps. The only way is on to the end.
And so it always is in war. We enter
ed upon. that war with single object
in view, but when it was once begun
the events We're no longer under our
control.
1t is easy to find fault. 1t is easy to
criticise, but we must consider the sit
uation as it was when the war closed.
SPANS navy was at the bottom of the
ocean. Dewey, Sampson, and Schley
had struck her SO hard that there was
no connection left between her and
her former colonies, but telegraph
cable and Dewey even cut that at Ma
Mia. Having destroyed the only gov
eminent in Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines there was nothing left be-
tween anarchy and these islands, but
the power of the government of the