Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-13

mighty nations would march on i'm
perially in their blended career of con
quest and spoliation, unitedly con
quering and to conquer not libert,
foes, but those foolish enough to dar,
contend against them in the defens
of liberty.
| What is the large standing army bu
the trust in one of it's many forms-th,
standing army against which, as
menace to liberty, the Fathers warned
us? They considered it's existence in
compatible with the public welfare
They relied for the defence of our coun
try and its institutions upon the citi
ken soldiery, and all our experience
has testified to their wisdom. They
contemplated for the new republic
which they dedicated to freedom nc
wars of conquest or criminal aggres-
sion." The American volunteer has
proved in all our wars that the Fathers
did not overate him, while standing
army is a part of monarchy-its CHIEF
support-and what is a monarchy but
d trust?
Afflicted as they are with Anglo
pho bia, the republicans have shown a
disposition to come to blows with Ger
many over nothing; Germany, the
Fatherland of many of those who help
so largely to make up our total of
American citizenship, Braggadocio, re-
marks, offensive to the Germans, fall
from the lips and pens of officers of
the government and meet with no re-
proof in administration circles; while
conduct "unbecoming an officer and a
gentleman" wins a long vacation with
full pay.
Extravaganza in the managementof
the government fattens the trusts 1t
takes from the people more of their
substance than the government needs
and gives to those who thrive upon pub
lie prohigacy that to which they have
no right. Republicanism and extra
vagance are one.
Much time and space would be re-
quired for an enumeration of the re-
publican trusts of today. The gold
trust, the bank trust, the bad beef
trust, the Cuban trust, the Filipino
trust, the big army trust, the Hanna
Mckinley trust, the election purchase
trust, the office brokerage trust-these
are but few of them.
The creation of monopolies and their
maintenance by law must cease, and
those which can exist and Cypress the
people, independently of the law, must
be broken up by the law. This mighty
republic cannot endure with the people
dethroned and the monopolies enthron-
ed. The people mustrule and the trusts
must bow submissive to their sovereign
will. Franchises must be treated as
valuable public property, not the sub
ject of gift to the favored few from the
storehouses of the many. The hui
name, sacred doctrine of equal rights
to all special privileges to none, must
be enforced as vital to the republic, as
OF the very essence of liberty.
If the trusts are to be dealt with
etfectually the republican party,
which protects them and which they
help into power, must be retired.
And, OF course, the democratic party
must come into control of the govern
ment whose foundations the fathers
laid for the children of the free and
the brave. Then there must be an
end of the reckless creation of corpor-
ations, without check or bar. and
some simple, sure means must be pro-
vided for terminating summarily the
existence of those that prove baneful.
Taxation must be imposed in proper
| ton to the ability to meet it and not
according to the weight of necessity
resting upon the citizen. Freemen
must be taxed according to what they
have and not according to what they
must have. The silver in our noun
tains again must be regarded as
wealth. a portion of natures bounty
to us as a nation, to be drawn forEr
and made into money for the use q
the people. Again must the. Western
Hemisphere be considered ample fo,
the home and develor,ment of oul
nation, and from IL we must no
wander, in imitation of the unnatura
mother" from whom we separated
by force OF arms. more than centur,
ago. Again must the Monroe doctrin,
be a part OF our national policy.
AS demo- Gratis, it seems to me thatwt
must rea firm the Chicago platform o
1850; do d sensible declarations agains
ofusE Imperialism, militarism, higl
Iafp rs, extravaganza and 'entailing al
I'D nces": pick good running-mate TO
f'ryan, and win in 1900.