Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-10-31
Such Was the so-called aFairmind.
ed" Address of Father Nugent.
DISCUSSED TRUSTS AND WAR POLICY
Tho Des NIoines Divine Makes Pros
nounced Democratic Address De.
nouncing Mckinley's Adminis-
tratIon and disqualification.
i[From Saturdays Daily.l

Rev. Father j. F. Nngent, pastor Of
st. Mary's of the Visitation
church at Des AIoines, spoke
at the Grand opera house last
evening on the subject of sFlesh and
Blood VS.. Steam and Steel" In his
introductory remarks Father Nugent
announced that it was not his inten-
ton to address the people there assem-
hed as political orator would speak
to them, but as one who came to view
certain national questions from a fair
minded and unbiased point of view.
Notwithstanding the fact that he re-
quested that his discussions be con-
sidered as coming from neither a re-
publican nor q democrat, Father MI
gent at the very beginning OF his talk
took up the issues as advocated by the
democratic party, and during the two
hours that he spoke never ceased in his
advocacy Of them and denunciation of
republican policies. Trusts and the re-
publican policy in the Philippines were
the two subjects which occupied his at
tention, with an impercaptible relation
TO 0Flesh and Blood VS.. Steam and
Steel.''
The attendance was perhaps all that
was anticipated, although not nearly
all the seats in the opera house We're
occupied. A number of the prominent
democrats of the city and county occu-
pied seats on the stage, including d. =.
Chisman, chairman of the democratic
I county central committee, who called
the meeting to order. Attorney j. j.
Smith was appointed chairman of the
meeting, and after a few introduc-
tory remarks he presented the speak
er.
Father Nugent said he did not in
tend to tell the people how to vote
but how to think. He said the people
were not in the habit of thinking
enough for themselves and are too cas-.
{ lily influenced by party affiliations and
leaders. Politicians he pronounced as
tricksters, and the political speeches oil
campaign orators and the tips of poll.
ticians he classed as uncertain as spec.
pousal of principle by party was
sufficient for some people to vote fol
it, without having given the subject
any thought whatever.
The first blow was aimed at trusts
Their primary object was defined as
being for thepurpose of destroying com
petition, which permits the monopolist.
in any one line to control the output
and price of the article monopolized
All this was defined in Father Nugent'.
masterful way, and was then advanced
as the cause of the present alleged
good times. The fact that factorie.
are working overtime, Father Nugen
attempted to make his audience believe
was due to the policy OF the trust!
In that they control the output and can
by diminishing the supply at times
make it appear that the general de
mand is increasing, when in reality it il
no greater. Competition, he said, is de
stroyed, and the output of one factor,
represents that of several before til,
combination was effected. As Il remed,
for this condition, Father Nugent sug
gested tariff legislation, which he sal,
would bring trusts down to an ordi
nary condition by permitting foreig,
cheap-labor-made goods to compet'
with American manufactures.
Trusts, he said, had destroyed Thu
parity about which the republican
party had so much to say in the las
campaign. As result of trusts, Faith
er Nugent said, a Mexican dollar, de
preciated in value as it is, is worth a
much as the American gold dollar, con
sidering the advance in everythin,
that is within the trusts. In his ''fai
minded" way Father Nugent attempte
to demonstrate wherein the farmer i
made one of the greatest sufferers b
the existence of trusts. He said TIL