Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-30
OUR CANDIDATE IN 1900
Peril Of Anericanism.


True republicanism in the United
States is in greater peril than at any
other epoch in history. In the begin
ming and at the close of the rebellion
patriotic statesmen were in command
of our national affairs. They could
not be bribed or inundated. There
were dishonest con tractors and greedy
money grabbers then as now but not
so many of them. There were traitors
then but they did not dominate the
president, the courts and legislatures
as now. Commercialism had not sup
planted the Declaration of Independ-
ence theories of government by the
people. The money power did not own
and control the great daily newspapers.
When the bankers, influenced by the
Rothschild banking pirates, undertook
to force the government into conduct
ing the war upon their own credit at
an interest rate of 33b per cent, Presi-
dent Lincoln and the patriots in con-
gress said no. They resorted to the
sovereign power of the people to pro-
vide revenue by issuing greenbacks,
the best money ever produced by any
government. The Rothschild and
American banking pirats changed their
method of robbery and secured, by pur-
chase, an exception clause on the back
of the greenbacks that, in the end,
robbed the nation of billions of dol
lars, a theft which now gives them the
power to change the policy of the gov
eminent into thatof expansion teri
torially and commercially with view
to discarding republicanism and erect
ing imperialism.
During the rebellion war the money
changers, by fraud, acquired fortunes
and tempted congress, after the war,
into stealing the public domain by
giving to corporations. To contract
the money that, by its abundance, was
making the masses prosperous and
happy, they ordered the greenbacks
burned and issued Understanding
bonds in their stead, thereby creating
an enormous public debt resulting il
a financial panic that filled the nation
with tramps seeking employment
Houses were sold for taxes and by
mortgage foreclosures. The money
changers and banking pirates were
happy. 1t was their harvest time anc
s'they reaped where they had not sown.
The people were blinded by partyisn
and continued the agents and attorn
eys of the pirates in office. With here
and there an exception they are Their
now and have inaugurated system o
expansion that must be controlled b.
patriotism or all of liberty won in Iii
will be lost.
American blood has been shed in tn
jungleS of Cuba, Porto Rico and tn
Philippines to secure the elephant eN
pansion that the banking, commercia
and corporate pirates may enlarge thei
fortunes and establish imperialism
To delude the people they point to til
heroes war has made. Every patriot
warning uttered by statesmen an
philanthropists is called treason. Th
pirates say we have got possession {
the elephant and must not let go. w
went to war with Spain togeye libert
to the people of the islands of the Sc
and now the liberated refuse to a,
knowledge our right to own and go
ern them. They must be subdued
meet our views of enlarged commerce
They excuse their barbarism with tt
plea that it advances America to a
equality with the nations of Europe
the commerce of the Orient. 1t wi
also make us equally responsible fl
whatever consequences that may +
suit. Ourposition of noninterpositie
with the affairs of Europe has bee
abandoned at the expense of the liv
and treasure of the people that m
lionaire Imperialism may be exalted.
What can be done to save to the pc
pie their Inheritance of free cover
ment? They have been unnecesSari
forced into war and unholy conques
Grave responsibilities have been d
sumed that cannot be relinquished e
.cept by helping those we have MAJ
dependents into a condition of SCI
government. The pirates say: "W
have bought and conquered them al
they are ours" Here patriotism al
philanthropy draws the line and i
sists upon being governed by iusti
and humanity. Ii the people in the
United States have the moral coura
to turn the rascalS out of congress tr
republicaniSm may be re-enthrone
and the inhabitants of the islam
Spain has heretofore misgoverned, m
be humanely guided into christianiz
independent dependencies. This
the only honorable way out of the {
lemma into which Imperialism h
placed us.-Natio,eal Republican.