Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-10-17

government has the right to step in
and interfere is hard to say. The dem-
ocrats tell us that the trust evil will be
abolished as soon as the tariff is re-
moved What about the sugar trust,
ton make it possible for them to eN-
list? The record of the two parties on
the trust question will stand for itself,
and the speaker referred to the laws
enacted by the republicans i'll the fifty
second congress relative to the trusts
and how the democrats when they
could get into power, made absolutely
no attempt at trust legislation.
The republican party today stands
opposed to any combination of capital
that is in any way detrimental TO the
welfare of the people.s Her leaders are
men who will give the people oppor-
tunity to change the constitution to
regulate them if necessary.
They tell us that we want 16 to j.
1t does make me tired to have to say
anything on this subject. We sat
down on them SO hard in 1896 that ]
did not suppose they would ever come
up again with that issue. But they
cannot do anything better for the re-
publican party than to nominate Will
liam Jennings Bryan for president,and
announce their issue as 16 to for the
campaign next year
The democrats have also suggested
that the panic which we We're com
PEELED to undergo as a result OF their
misrule. was the outcome of ''the
crime of 1871 That it had broken
out anew after smouldering for years.
Well, we are now camped on those en-
bers. They fooled us in 1892, but in
the language of Honest Abraham Lin
coin. You can fool part of the people
all the time, and you can fool all the
people part Of the time, hut you cam
The intentions of the democrats might
have been good, but they were intoxi-
Gated
Mr.. Rankin then took up the war
policy of the administration, begin
ming with the breaking out of the war
with Spain; how this government
| waited until the last moment before
| she struck blow in defense of the
Cubnns, and then how honorabiy and
successfully President Mckinley has
conducted the difficulties which arose
from that war. 1t requires statesmen
| to accomplish the work of preparing
fleet and in 113 days from the time
war was declared we annihilated two
of the enemy's fleets and drove the
Spanish from what has been their
stronghold for over 300 years. AS 4
result of that war the Philippine Is
lands came under our control. The
treaty was ratified by two-thirds vote
of the senate, and w. j. Bryan helped
to do it. BY the ratification Of that
treaty those islands became our prop
erty; they are so recognized by the
people of the world, and ii is our duty
to look after them. 1t isn't a question
now of are we going to take them. We
have them. They are ours. We have
better title to them than we did to
Iowa which we secured through the
Louisiana purchase, and ii i'll becomes
Bryan to go around talking against
this policy w,ien he aided in it. We
are as much i'll duty bound to assume
control and maintain order in the Phil.
ippines as we are il, the United Stutas
They say we should give those peo
pie the same Independence that VIZ
gave Cuba. They are no5 parable
eases at all. We went to Cuba wifi
that avowed purpose. Cuba is within
the very Boundaries of the Monroe doc
;rnc. We obtained the Philippines as
u result of the war. they We're not mads
an object of the war. No nation OBJ
jected to our acquiring them.
The speaker then reviewed the ca
reer of the Filipino leader, Aguinaldo
or the George Washington Of thu
Philippine Islands, as he has peer
termed by the democrats. He is tn,
Benedict Arnold of the Philippines
continued Mr.. Rankin, and the audi
ence voiced his sentiment in one pro
longed cheer.
But we're down there, democrat.
and all, and we are going to stay ans
accomplish what we set out to do
There isn't any one person there tina
l would any sooner trust, either, THAI
. that white-haired old veteran, Jo
Wheeler. Just what we will do witt
the Islands don't know, but it is al
injustice to the fair name of this ma
ton to even talk imperialism" a
Bishop ireland said: Eve can trus
| the old flag to float over them and d.
f justice to the Philippines"
/ Mr.. Rankin then closed by urgin!
the republicans to stand by the repub
. lican leaders who are in every particu
t lar worthy of our support. d. b
r Henderson, he said, would stand as
Z stone wall against Imperialism" o
! imperialistic legislation, as accused b
1.-THE democrats.