Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-10-20
Fred White in cresco.

Fred White in Cresco.
| Tuesday evening the opera house
was filled to overlooking to listen tc
Hon. Fred E. White, democratic candi.
date for Governor, expound democrat
ic doctrine. His speech was logical
and argumentative from start te
finish. In abiding to the prosperity
of the country Mr.. White stated what
is known to every reading, thinking
person, that Notwithstanding the
stereotyped declaration in every re.
publican paper and on every republi.
rostrum, that confidence and prosper.
ity would come with the election OF
Mr.. Mckinley, that the idle money in
the banks, and that hid away in old
stockings would come out to engage in
business, to give employment to labor
and Il stimulus to commercial activity
that Notwithstanding all thes predict
(, ions and promises times grew worse
and worse for months after the inaugu.
ration. Then there came change fol
/ the better. The grain producing coun-
tries OF Europe, parched and dried up,
had failed to produce their annual
harvest, not only for one, but for two
successive years, while abundant har.
vests, with large surplus, was each
year produced in this country, and
shipped to Europe. With the return
OF the money for those products pros
porous times came, thus proving true
the democratic contention of 1896, that
the need of the country was more
money among the producers and labor
ers of the country.
Iu speaking of the tariff he said the
republican platform of the state in it's
declaration that industry and COM
MERGE should be free, took the same
position that he took in the 5lst
Congress; that Senator Allison in his
speech opening the campaign declared
that to make them free would cripple
and destroy industry, while President
Mckinley declared, in a recent speech
that this country is now producing
and sending our goods to Europe and
selling at less price than goods can be
made and sold for in that country.
thus disproying the statement of
Senator Allison as untrue, and also
showing that if our goods are in the
markets of the world at less price and
of better quality than can be produced
by Others, that the only use of pro-
tective tariff is to compel the people
of this country to pay more for Ameri-
can products than Europeans pay with
5000 miles of transportation added to
their cost.
In speaking of State expenditures
and taxation he showed from official
data, that the tax levey of 81 mills
under Gov. Larrabee was reduced I'M
der Gov. Boies to mills on the dollar,
but increased under both Jackson and
Drake a mill, and under Shaw to
3 $40 mills on the dillar. Under Gov.
Boies there were no McFarland's to
maintain lot Of Census supernumer-
aries in idleness at large salaries the
principal part of which went to
Nc Garland as commission, and no
Dobsons to give employment at s75
per month to 9 l5 year old son away
attending school, and also to a horde
of spittoon cleaners who are paid
salaries for cleaning the Governors
spittoons equal to what is paid to
officers in our court house. The legis-
lature of which Mr.. Lowry was a
member undertook to lop off this class
but Governors Drake and Shaw retain
them all on the pay rolls. The tax
levy is made by the legislature; the
Governor by extravaganza and dis
honesty, as in the Mcfarland and
Dobson matters give need to supply
the treasury with the money unjustly
and Rrongfully taken. He showed
that while the farmers, the merchants,
and business men had their taxes
largely increased; that of the railroads
have been decreased. The Governor
and executive council which makes
the levy upon the railroads may be
painstaking men, but the facts indi2
cate that they are also cashtaking
men. The printing and book binding
scandals and steal connected with
them, he overlooked, both of which
were large factors in making a large
tax levy necessary.
The money question he stated, it
was not important to discuss at this
time because the congress which is
to deal with the question is already
chosen and will meet in December.
That if the vast sums of gold the
republicans have in sight are coined
there will be no need of the demo-
Gratis striving for bimetallism $780,
100000 from the Klondike, $s,O00,0O0,-
600 from the south of Africa, which
when coined will make gold so plenti-
full that the republicans will become
bimetallistS and ask to have silver
declared the money of the world be-
cause gold is so cheap and plentiful.
All this added to the unlimited issue