The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-05-05

pOnentS. NO man IN the house has |
has been more outspoken in his parts
anship, but no man has more friends
among the opposing party. Col. Hen
derson would bring to the chair, years
of experience in parliamentary affairs,
the most strict probity and a fairness
and sense of justice beyond compare
The Iowa delegation will unite in pre-
senting his name and should he be
elected the Hawkeye state, next to
Ohio, will be the strongest factor in
American politics.
Des Moines after the greatest exer-
ton, after dozens of meetings and con-
ferences, after columns of newspaper
appeals has finally raised the enormous
sum of twenty.seven thousand dollars
for an auditorium. Several years ago
Denison raised $780, 600 dollars for the
erection of our college buildings and
did it without any urging and without
any fuss and feathers and blowing of
trumpets. Des Moines ought in fact to
be ashamed of itself. Its pretty strifes
and dissensions are the laughing stock
of all the state. AS far as private en-.
terprise is concerned the Capital city is
pushing and progressive, but let any
matter of public nature be broached
and the historic bombat of the kilkenney
cats pales into insignifcance.
We like Des Moines in many re-
spects, but there is no country village
in Iowa which is torn by such bitter
personal feuds as IS the city of Des
Moines.
A week from to-day special electors
meeting will be held for the purpose of
deciding upon calling another election
to vote additional bonds for the new
high school building. We trust that
this meeting will be we'll attended and
that the electors will give the matter
some thought beforehand. We are
heartily in favor of voting additional
amounts both for the site and for the
building. The smallness of the
amounts was the only objection the
REVIEW had to the first proposition
voted on. Not less than $4,000 addi-
tional should 5e asked for the building
and not less than 5000 additional fol
the site. The committee should bear in
mind the idea of a central location and
remember that no site within two
blocks OF the present high school and
within three blocks of the north limi,
of the city will be considered central
No question of location however shoulG
prevent our citizens from showing theil
publlc-spirltedness and energy by vot
ing sufficient funds, for a building which
shall at once be convenient for oul
schools and monument to the enter
prise of Denison.
,
II The REVIEW is in favor of stron1
: antitrust plank in the next republica,
state platform and the passage of sucf
laws as shall aid and strengthen tn,
National laws on that question. Will,
to certain extent We agree with Eu
gene V. Debs that trusts are an in
dustrial development which will final
~ become the order of the day and il
realty the first step toward socialism il
its best sense, still we believe the unre
strlcted grasping trusts of to-day al.
harmful to the best interests of thu
people.
When one thinks of it Alright it i.
hard to understand how free trader
s can be all enemy of trusts. The anti
/ trust movement is but a development
OF the protective theory. Protec
ton as it is usually understood is
tariff so framed as to protect American
industries from the encroachment O
foreign manufacturers and cheap labor
The anti trust IS movement to pro
tect the little fish from being swallowe,
up by the big fish. Its principle i
exactly the same as that of the pro
tective tariff. The free trade theory i
to''buy where you can buy the cheapest
regardless of whether you buy at HON,
or abroad, and whether the buyin,
!crushes out the life of American instj
buttons. 1t always amuses us to hear
democratic merchant proclaimin
against the department mail orde
houses, for the arguments he uses ar
exactly the same as, those which tn
protectionists have been using TO
years,
Thus if trust by combining capital
reducing expences, cutting of the mum
Der OF employees and preventing tn
duplication OF machinery can reduc
the cost of any article, as the Standar,
Oil Co. has done, the free trader Shout,
rise up and call it blessed.
The republican party has always pro
claimed that to buy where you coult
buy the cheapest, regardless of an,
ether consideration, was a dangerous
policy, which if pushed to it's ultimate
conclusion would put an end to all dl
versity of employment, and place GU
country at the mercy of strangers. JUS
as the farmer knows the advantage of ;