Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-10-13

opening as a rule. He cannot begin
business on his own account against
organized capital. He must join the
procession. He must content himself
with being mere clerk and the chanc-
es are that he will never getany furth-
er, because there are so many in his
class. This makes the situation a
serious one, and am sorry for the
young man OF to day. I've studied the
situation and IN sure of what l am
saying"
The pictures these men present are
not overdrawn, and it behooveS the
young men to acquaint themselves
with the cause and to apply the rene
dy if there is one. They should deep
ly ponder the political situation of the
country and of it's effects and influ-
ence upon their future. They should
understand that the tendency of COM
mercial and Industrial activity is to
deprive each and every one Of you of
business independence whatever may
be your ability and requirements.
Even though you may possess consider
able capital you cannot compete with
the multi-millionaire trusts in whose
hands are concentrated the money
that controls the transportation and
the industries of your country. You
must, if they continue to exist be a
hired man for the natural term of
your life not only, but must consider
yourself fortunate to secure situation
as a servant or laborer. Turn where
you will, whether it be as retail
dealer, jobbing or manufacturing, you
will be everywhere confronted by a
trust. This is the outlook for 1900,
and as a self-respecting citizen you
should canvas the situation thorough
ly to determine which of the great
parties offers you relief.
America has been held up as the
country of great possibilities for the
young man. 1t has been so, but that
was before the giant trusts had taken
control Of money, transportation, and
intelligence, against both the govern
ment and the people. Now when you
investigate these possibilities, you will
learn that you are the victim and a
slave to the trusts, which have
absorbed and controls them all for
their own selfish purposes. The rail
roads, the banking syndicates, the
telegraph, and giant manufacturing
and mining plants in iron and coal
hold in their grasp the destinies of
the young men who are to be either
serfs or the future sovereigns of
America. The republican party is
the apologist of these trusts which
have absorbed the opportunities that
our institutions should open to you,
and which until its advent to the adj
ministration of the government under
present republican policies was I'M
known in the United States.
A thoughtful consideration of the
situation as demonstrated to exist,
should determine the two and half
millions who will cast their first presi-
Dental vote in 1900, to unite their
fortunes with the frozen out manu-
facturers, jobbers and retailers, the
discharged travelling men, the idle
workingmen, the farmers and laborers
oyercharged for their tools and ma
chinery, and the people of the trust
blighted towns, whose workingmen
and operatives have been turned out
to Starve or to join the great army of
tramps whose advent was simultan-
eous with the triumph of republican
policies in governmental administra-
ton, and as first toward a return
of the better days of the republic,
when men were rated for their intelli-
gence and for their moral worth, be-
fore the dollar was made more impor-
tant than the man, should cast their
vote this fall for that Cincinnatus,
that grand German farmer, Fred E.
White. for Governor of Iowa.