Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-19

cannot find work., and the scale of
wages was never in our history as high
as now.
AS to Trusts.
Whenever a republican administers.
ton is in power there is constant talk
of trusts. The reason isn't far to seek.
AggregatioEs and combinations Of
capital find their only encouragement
in prosperous days and widening COM
merce. Democratic administration in
this country has universally meant in
dustrial stagnation and commercial de-
preston, when capital seeks a hiding
place instead of investment. The re-
publican party has always maintained
that any combination having for its
purpose the cornering of market or
the raising or controlling of the price of
the necessaries of life was unlawful and
should be punished, ana u commission
appointed by the president under act of
congress has made careful investiga-
lion and will soon present a fun report
of the best method of dealing With this
intricatesqu question. We shall meet it in
some efficient way and. as Il party,
shall have the courage to protect every
class of our citizens There was never
a better time To deal with it than now.
when there isn't in this broad land a
man willing to work who doesn't find
l.emploSment at fair wages. and when
the clamor OF the agitator who seeks
l.contiscation and not regulation falls on
| dead ears and finds no response from
the artisans in our busy workshops.
Satisfied With Gold.
fp1Ir} Years ago. wa
| fought on the currency question. The
|ipopuiistic democracy insisted that the
| United States alone should embark on
The free coinage Of silver at the RATA
Of lie 10 i. without waiting the concur
renee of sny other nation. The repub.
ilican party insisted that the question OF
I5bimstallis,n WAS International, and that
until it should be settled under agree
lsnent With the leading commercial ma
I tiuns of the world gold should continue
to be the standard Of value in these
| Grited States. Upon that issue we tri-
Iumphed. In accordance With the pledge
/ of the party an honest effort was made
TO reach some International solution of
1.-The question. The effort failed OF ac-
accomplishments. The mints Of the coun
| tries OF Europe We're open for the coin
| .agesot gold alone. The vast discoveries
i.of Alaska. South Africa and the states
i.of our own country have furnished a
l.steadiiy increasing volume of gold. and
| With the recent European action. have
demonstrated that the question is one
l3ealling for International action by all
/ the great countries of the world. and. III
ever entered into. must be by such con-
action Of the leading CONNER
Fetal nations as shall secure pernaEencei
tot the relative value 10 the two metals.
! Meanwiiile we follow4the path Of safety.
AS We grow year by Year more firmly
established as Il creditor nation. the!
iquestian concerns US less and otheT
Ecountries more, No Impairment of ma
is,ianal credit can be contemplated by
1 an honorable nation. We have made
advances 3enough:#this 5reuntry can bet,
ter afford than any other % entersuponI
ls3he contest fo, commercial supremacy
with gold as its standard. and for IS
tide time has come TO give fair notice
4 tn tbs world that we, TOO, make gold
Euur Standard and redeem eur obliga-
5tio,ls in thai metal For twelve years
bthe platforms Of the party have de-.
I clared in favor of The use of gold and
silver as money. The logic Of events
4 of recent years. together with the at
tempt OF the democracy to drag down
ifthe question from its International
4 character. To associate 1t with every
i vagary Of populism and socialism. and
i 10 drivethis country u an alliance with
Il MEXICO and China, as an exclusively
Il siiyer-usi,tg country. has impelied our
Il prophetic this settlement of this prob
Ilefrl a:sd the recent action of congress
has eliminated The danger which its
further agitation nenaced.
4 MAY Il a western man. add another
Il word2 The passage OF this bill, which
received he vote Of every western re-
publican in congress. marked the ter
nlinatipn. forever final, of any sort of
difference between republicans of the
least and Of the west growing out Of
.fcurreney problems. Even lie the stern
.llogic of events had not convinced us.
our deep and abiding loyalty to the
8lprinciples of the party. our belief that
4 the Judgment of its majority should
+, govern. would lead us TO abandon fur
4 ther contention Ard the thousands of
sisrspnblcans in8the west who left US -four
Il Years ago are returning home. The
n men of the far west are bone of you,
4 bone and flesh OF Your flesh The sun
5Iihat shines on you blesses them also
4 and the shadow before Your door dark
a ems their homes as Well They are
naturally expansionists in the western
A plains and mountains. and when they
see a great political parry attacking the
q intesritysof the nation, and lending en-.
4 coura cement to !nsurrectionists who
II are shooting down our soldiers and re,
4 sisting the authority of the govern
ment of the United States all Other
isquestions fade and are forgotten ant
they find themselves standing shoulder
Etc shoulder in the ranks of the repub
alslican rarty. keeping step. always Z,
1.-The music OF the union.
Ship Subsidies.
There is more 10 follow this summa.
ry of few of the leading measures
7 passed by republican congress ant
approved by republican president
Before the expiration of Mr.. Mckinley.
& first term We shall have passed Law
relieving certain articles from a portion
at least of the burdens they now carr,
: because Of the war revenue act anc
meanwhile we have. out of surplus rev
4 Eenues, already paid and called in 70
cancellation forty-three millions OF out
n standing bonds. The coming white
Will see enacted into law Legislation
which shall revivify and upbuild gu
iocean merchant marine, and enable u