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

sixteenth year, and in the Croker
brigade was with Grant and Sherman
in all the BATTLES in which that
brigade took part, having served thre e
and a half years, always in the ranks,
claimed the right to express his views
upon all political questions and poll
cies despite the arbitrary and despotic
doctrine of Imperialism that would
abridge orSdeny the right as unameri-
can and revolutionary.
In response to the statement of Gov.
Shaw placing the Louisiana purchase
upon the same plane of despotism as
that of the Philippines, Mr.. White
was very happy in his remarks as well
as correct showing their dissimilarity.
In the Louisiana purchase tine treaty
guaranteed the inhabitants the civil
rights of the people of the states with
the pledge of admission into the union
with the full rights and privileges of
the original states when they had the
requisite population. The law of
congress passed in pursuance of the
stipulations of that treaty he had
copied and read to the audience and in
which all these stipulated rights were
conferred, thus completely refuting
the statement made by Gov. Shaw in
his speech. The truth is that the
treaty with Spain for the purchase of
the Philippines is copied from the
treaty between France and England
in 1853 for the transfer of Canada to
England in which they are promised
nothing but to be colonies of the pur-
chasing country. And this is all that
we promise the Filipinos. Mr.. White
made some verv happy hits, one of
which was at the mulct saloon: a
thoroughly republican nstitution.
Mr.. White addressed a few words to
his brother farmers, who have been
voting for protection $500 per 1000
feet) to the manufacturers of lumber
until they have become rich enough
to buy and own all the pine timber in
the United States, and without fear
OF competition from any source are
raising the price of lumber. Their
organization is so thorough that the
local dealers in lumber have fixed for
them the price at which they must
sell each grade of lumber and any de-
parture from the price fixed for tlaem
would bar them from future purchas-
es. And yetso abject has the servi,
tude of the dealers, because that al
most without exception they vote with
the parties who are plundering the
people. The farmers have been delud-
ed into voting for protection to the
coal barons and iron kings of the coun-
try until they become so rich that by
combining they have bought and own
all the available coal and iron mines
in the country, owning the timber on
the surface of the earth and mineral
beneath, and yet we have farmers who
favor for them the continuance of a
protective sariff. These elements
y
combined with other corporate influ-
ences, railroads and banking, place be-
fore the people their candidates ror
Senators and judges. In Iowa they
have Gear and Cummins, representa-
tiyes of rival lines of railroad, instead
OF the farmers of the state, and they
have secured candidates for the legis=
lature pledged to one or the other Of
these rival interests. In this county
the republican party candidate is
claimed for Gear, who voted in the
Senate s64,oo0,00O of the peoples mon.
ey into the pockets of the Union Pa
cifc Railway Company. This county
with nine-tenths of its voters farmers,
should send that honest farmer and
representative of farm interests, G.
ID. Wallace to the legislature as re-
buke and protest against this undoly
combination to corporate influence ex-
tottion and robbery.