Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-04

money at 8 per cent, to get your crops
tended to for nothing in case of sick
ness, to have your rent related in
case OF drought or hail, etc, ETC., (the
canvasser says the applicant is only
told these things in the secret work
Oh the order.) So near as we can
Judge the whole idea is a scheme of
the combined opposition to work the
renters OF the state to contribute to
the campaign fund and to vote for ev-
erything not republican. Keep your
eye on the men and your hand on your
pocketbooks, as they want So initia-
ton fee and 50 annual dues.
1T has been subject of remark
that the opposition is remarkably
quiet. The above explanation offers
full solution of the quietness. The
democracy is simply endeavoring to
accomplish in secret what they know
they cannot hope to bring about open
ly.
Principles cf the Brotherhood.
While the paper, the Iowa Renters
Guide does not explain the manner
in which it is expected to bring about
utopian conditions. yet the objects OF
the association are set forth in the fol-
lowing clipping:
I'VE do not offer impossibilities. If
each renter will do his duty, we will
! do everything we agree to do. What
do we agree to do?
We propose to unite the renters
and stop their competing against each
other and raising the rent
We propose to reduce farm rents
so the renter and his family can have
the use of some of the fruits of
their own labor without having to give
al to the landlord.
| I'VE propose to place upon the stat
ute book law, that in case of hot
winds, hail storms, drought, early
frosts or any other natural calamity,
the landlord shall be prohibited from
| collecting, not to exceed. one-half of
the actual cash value of the crop rails
ed on the premises that year
We propose in case of sickness or
accident, the renters business and
crops shall be cared for during his
disability, without any cost or expense
to HIM.
1--WE propose, that in case of death
of brother, his wife and children
shall not suffer for the necessaries OF
life.
I'VE propose that the expense to
any renter after he pays his initiation
fee of SIS shall never exceed SO a year
in money to obtain al these benefits
I'VE propose to place in the hands
of the renter all the farm implements
household furniture, etc, that he uses
at wholesale prices.
Are not any one of these PROPOSE
tons worth more than So to you!
Now, be honest with yourself, Wouldn't
you give So right now to have any one
OF these propositions put in force to
day? Then why not give So today,and
join the Brotherhood and have the
whole seven put into execution? II
we stop competition, we stop the rent
,, er from moving from one farm to an
other every year; that will save yol
$50 a year. Can you afford to be {
member of this Brotherhood and save
this? If you are paying $500 per yea
,, rent, and we save you per cent, tina
will be SIS; can't you afford to give
the grand lodge 81 annual dues, to car
ry on the business OF the Brotherhood
! and furnish you the Renters Guild
free, while you have $13 to spend 70
|, yourself and family? If any renter i
so simple to put off joining this Broth
erhood, God pity him, we cannot.
is like offering man a fortune am
, he with contempt refuses it.
! A Little Politics.
In the following blasphemous pray
err against the administration the ed
!, tor asks. Can you offer this prayer?
| Our Father in Washington, D. c
in American history be thy name
greatest of all men. Whose habitatio
consists of the finest mansion in tn
: land, bundled by the sweat and toll c
{ unpaid labor, who live in huts and hoy
!. els, that by SO doing they may be NOR
: able to contribute the neccssar
: amount to keep thee and thy consort
! in luxury, pomp and power. We az
: ever mindful Father Mack, for the IN;
: ny blessings thou art ever bestowin
, upon us, one of the greatest being til
= war tax; thru thy goodness and me
: cies we are prevented from GROWN
! rich, proud, or naughty; it is thr
y this tax system that we are relieve
Z daily of our surplus change that OF
- morals may be pure. Holy and mo:
, righteous Mack thou art hot stuff. An
= now, Father Mack, while we pay tbs
. thy salary of $4,000 per year, beside
N all you can swipe. we humhly beg
y thee to swipe enough that thee and til
W household may be amply provided II
: in the future. and in this we hay
great faith. And in thy stealings W
ask it, as a special favor, that thou 7
member thy creator, Mark Hanna, l.
. not thy heart become hardenc
a against any but socialities; if it is tt
vs. will just knock the everlasting stuff
d out of them, or all those who oppo!
/. thee and thy creator. The world W;
y made for thee and thy people-no OF
fe ers have a right to live only by II
4. permission, not even the Philippine
c. landers Father, we impiore thee
IS throw thy protecting arm around Il
W Filipinos, and il they still persist
st opposing thee, unjoint his neck Or al
i old thing, thou thinlSest best for "
G. and your chosen. Fill his heart wi
1t good things as thou did the Sultan
Sulu give him salary out of the pc
a. pies treasury to enable him to mai
N tain his many wives, and please, de