Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-24

ton, would assist them by providing
for the extension of the drainage canal
to the Mississippi; by canal shorten
the trip through the lakes, and as.
sumo absolute control of and construct
ship canal across the Isthmus of
Panama, and then throw open the
water-carrying trade to all and any
who wish to engage therein.
Instead of fooling away our money
in the far-off Philippines, if it is land
we want j would spend the millions in
constructing reservoirs in the western
states.
with the s2o,ooo,ooo spent in that
Investment for an option on war
those western plains and valleys
would wave with their golden harvest
as fields never waved before.
"A law should be enacted providing
for a board of arbitration between cap
ital and labor that would and could
arbitrate, and thus stop the destruc.
ton OF property, loss of lives, stagna-
tion of business, and, worse than all,
loss of respect for our laws and insti-
tutiof1s. Compel an equitable adjust
ment of differences.
You ask what the leading issue Of
1900 will be. My answer is, good, old
fashioned democracy all along the
line, and our new Andrew jackson
leading the fight into every state in
the Union, Let every soldier enlisted
in our cause select such guns from the
many as may be best adapted to its
use; then aim at the enemy and not at
our own people. The war is not ended:
it has just begun"
Omaha, Aug. s3-William j. BRYAN
rwas,a the helm in the tripartite silver
conventions here yesterday. AS chair
man Of the democratic committee on
resolutions he wrote the platform
which all three gatherings adopted.
Then he persuaded the democrats TO
allow the populists to head the fusion
state ticket with former Governor Slas
A. Holcomb as the nominee for Justice
of the state supreme court. Finally
he urged the silver democrats, populists
and silver republicans to stand togeth-
er In the coming campaign, 'as we
can not win in Nebraska unless we
do"
1.-The platform is distinctively Bryan
esque. Sixteen to one is reaffirmed
and the entire Chicago platform is en-
dorsed. This comes first, but all the
delegates attach more Importance to
the plank attacking the administra-
tion's policy in the Philippines. The
declaration regarding trusts is Of a
vague character.
Here are the issues which Mr..
Bryan proclaims to the country under
his personal hand:
First. is endorsement of and empha-
sis upon each and every plank of the
national platform adopted at Chicago.
in 1867 The money plans is as fol-
lows:
Our confidence in the principles set
forth in the Chicago platform
has been increased as those prin-
ciples have been indicated by
events. The gold standard is less de-
feasible now than it was In 1896, since
the president has confessed Its failure
BY sending a commission to Europe to
secure international bimetallism, while
the inability of the commission to Sc
foreign aid is added proof that the
people of the United States must act
alone, if they expect relief"
The present legal ratio of 16 to is
the natural and necessary ratio, and
the opponents Of that ratio have moth
ing, to offer in its place but the evasive
and ambiguous phraseology which for
years furnished to the gold standard
advocates mask behind which to hide
while they secretly labored to, make
gold monometallism permanent.
Any improvements in business con-
ditioDs due to the increased production
OF gold or to favorable balance OF
trade. instead of supporting the gold
standard doctrine, shows that more
money makes better times and points
the way to bimetallism as the means
of securing a permanent increase in
the volume of standard money through
out She world. The republican scheme
to lessen the value of standard money
by making gold the only legal tender
money has at last become apparent to
all, and must be resisted by the debt
paying and wealth-producing classes of
the country.
"The plan to retire greenbacks in
the interest of national bank notes, de-
nounced by the democrats in 1896, but
then defended by the republicans, has
boldly stallxed forth from its hiding
place and threatens the formation of q
gigantic paper monev trust"
On the question of trusts, the plat
form declares:
"rhe industrial trusts springing up
on every hand testify to the admins
tration's Indifference to monopoly or
its inability to cope with it. We de-
nounce the failure of the administra-
ton to enforce the present law against
trusts or to recommend new laws
ii the present law is deemed ineffic-
lent.
"We are opposed to the principle OF
monopoly, wherever il manifests itself.
We demand the enforcement of the
present federal law, the enactment Of
such new legislation as may be nee
essary and constitutional amendment
|if the present constitution is construed
to protect trusts, to the end that the
monopolization of industry by private
corporations may be absolutely pre-
vented. Every trust rests upon cor
poration, and every corporation Is a
creature of laws, and the law, state and
national, must place upon the corpora
tons, such limitations and restrictions
as will protect the public from in
jury"
Then comes the war plank, gener-
ally held to be the distinguishing feat
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