Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-25

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be more plentiful. Fred White, who
was then running for congress against
me said that he would have to go to
England and borrow money because if
we adopted the gold standard we
would be using the same plans of ac-
ton used by England. See how that
prophecy has turned out. We are now
loaning money to England, to Russia
and other European nations. In the
year ending June 80, 1899, the exports
from this country amounted to about
$1,394, 100000, and the imports to about
40,000,000, leaving balance in IA
yor of this country of 1854, zoo, 900. For
the 107 years following the inaugura-
ton of George Washington, the bal
ance of trade in favor of this country
was but $3S3,000,000. So you see the
total balance of trade for 107 years
was SILL 100000 less than for one sin
gle year under Mckinley.
This year we do not hear any one
say anything about having to burn
his corn crop because he can find no
market for it. Everything is prosper
GUS. There is one question which is a
good one to ask the democratic voter
this fall,-'What do you want?' In 1898
you wanted Bryan for plentier money
You got plentier money, but you didn't
get Bryan. You wanted him for low
er rates of interest. You got the low
er rates of interest. You wanted fair
prices for produce, you wanted labor
employed, you got these and now
what more do you want? You never
would have gotten these things with
Bryan in the chair and free silver
policy in vogue.
The Coming of Prosperity.
-Four years ago the country was in a
state of financial depression. AS Nc
Kinley's administration progressed,
times got better, and the four years of
his term have passed quickly. This
year parties should shake hands and
declare peace. 1t is true that there
is still desultory war being carried
on in the Philippines, but this should
not be allowed to affect the parties at
| home.
at is easy to look at things and see
the wisdom of acts after they have
been performed, but much foresight
is needed to anticipate them. The
policies advocated by the republican
party have proved the best for you
| and for me, SO why should we change
them?
"They have a question which they
claim is a paramount, and call it in.
perialism' No one to whom / have
talked during this campaign has been
in favor of an empire, which fact l
have demonstrated by calling for a
vote on the matter at every meeting
1 have addressed. Now, if no one can
be found in the whole nation who
favors founding an imperial govern
ment in this country, why should we
be afraid that one will be founded?"
Before entering upon the discussion
Of the Philippine question, Major
Lacey had the entire audience sing
America" and after the strains of the
national air had died away, he con
tinued as follows:
The parties are now separated on
the question of expansion, or, as the
democratic leaders say, imperialism,
There was point, however, where we
were all united. When the war
broke out every democrat republican
\ and populist in congress- voted for the
appropriations with which to carry IT
on. Champ Clark said that it. was a
democratic war, that that party had
seized the republicans by the scruff OF
the neck and dragged them into that
war. Now, .altho Mr.. Clark is an esti
mable gentleman, l am compelled to
say that he was making a misstate
ment when he said that There was
an impeachment in his veracity that
day.
THAT war, as Mr.. Clark knew was
not republican, democratic, or popu-
list war, but national one. Every
one went into that war. not with a
spirit of party feeling, but in the in.
terests of humanity. There was nc
party consideration in the matter.
saw at Chickamauga the Fifty-second
Iowa brigade with the First Mississ
ippi. The First Tennessee and the
Fifty-frst Iowa marched side by side
across the island of Luzon. There was
not thought of politics in that war
"A Kansas regiment, nearly all popu
lists, under Funston, wrote kansas
on every hill and every ford in the is
/ lands. There were Wheeler, the ex
confederate, Fitzhugh Lee, another OF
the same belief, Wilson and Shafter OF
Union army fame, all fighting for one
1 country and one flag.
Victory on American Banners.
| mot only was the Spanish army sub
dued, but the Spanish navy was des
troyed. In ia days after the declara
ton of war, all was over, except the
treaty. We haven't yet come to the
parting of the ways. But Bryan says
that the American people are in dan
ger of being conquered by the army
i They have no reason for saying that
4 The American soldier is only the