Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-13


his own benefit, would not that be called |
an act of Imperialism, of trusts as prac-
ticed in this country to-day? The truth
is that trusts do what kings would never
dare The king of England laid a tax on
tea in Boston harbor, and as a conse-
querre lost an empire; but the king of i
monopoly in the United States lays
tax on every article in universal use, and
as a consequence expects his dupcs TO re-
elect a president who will confirm this
power. Show me anywhere on earth an
act of monarch or dictator more i'm
perious than an act of congress that
turns the highest functions of govern
ment over to national banks and makes
the magnitude Of the peoples debts the
index of their prosperity. Show me In
the worlds history a more arbitrary use
of imperial power than Is implied when
the money trust controls the circulating
medium OF country and the other trusts
control all Its manufactured and many OF |
its natural products You cannot SNOW |
1t. And still our opponents say there Is
no imperialism-there Is only duty and
destiny and responsibility Meanwhile
duty wears crown. Destiny carries a
scepter and responsibility benignly
smiles on both and says: God bless you,
my children
only short time ago they were tell
Ing us with equal earnestness that there
we're no trusts. But when Mark Hanna
dictated a platform for the republican
state convention of Ohio, which was
adopted in this Auditorium but few
weeks since. he forsook that old false
hood and made full confession of his
sins and the sins of the republican party.
| That platform not only acknowledged the
| existence of trusts, but proceeded to
classify them. In effect. 1t declared that
there are three kinds of trusts-good, bad
| and indifferent. The Indifferent trust is
| the trust that is not big enough to at
| tract much attention; the bad trust Is the
| trust that refuses to throw up Its hands
| when the political highwayman appears,
| and the good trust is the trust that con-
| tributes most to the republican party, 10
which it owes it's life. Thus nowadays
| instead of telling us there Is no impe-
rialism. they will be pointing us to the
| comparative advantages of different
brands of imperialism Some will doubt
less be labeled .Polygamy, others 'Slav-
ery others Tariff Taxes Between PartS
of the Union and still others with va
rious designations more or less approprl-
ate And then VIC shall have disserta-
lions on their respective merits by
man whose only claim to renown Is that
he bought a United States dictatorship
| and afterward boosted that he knows
his business. But when this happens we
shall have gained one point we snail
have forced them TO admit that Imperial
ism is at hand, just as we have already
forced them to admit trusts are to-day
operating in every state OF the union,
in violation Of the law and to the ruin
of the public welfare.
Behind these trusts--the industrial and
the imperial-is one greater than any and
from which all the others come. 1t Is the
political trust operated by Nj. A. Hanna
and represented in the white house by
William Mckinley. This is the trust that
goes Into every state, every congressional
district every county and every precinct
,T,;. nj f.t.,t i1g
candidates for public Office; who, he':.s;;
candidates. shall be elected: who shall
make the laws and what kind of laws
they shall be wien made. The political
trust is The trust that goes into state
q legislatures and even to the dlStaEt Is
lands of the sea, TO procure public fran
chises for Its favoritcs. This is the trust
that determines which party shall pre-
dominate in both branches of congress,
and in return for services to that end
openlv and shamelcssly bcStows foreign
consulships and local offices upon those
who promote Its interests. This is the
trust which gathers up the usufruct OF
all the other trusts and applies Their
| millions annually to perpetuate ltselt IN
power. This is the trust that worms
itself into political conventions, as 1t has
recently done in Ohio. and from TINS very
platform, and is able to prevent delegates
from voting for their choice for a state
tar tlae,s--haAt -heen-ln-
!, to IbSfPte This Is the trust that is able
brating tho one hl uhareadtrQfl hlq from eele.
| glorious history In manner already
provided by law. because, forsooth. the
political trust would make of the Ohio
! centennial political machine. This is
the trust whose operations are universal
the mother of all the other trusts.
} Sometimes Its offspring multiply too rap
: idly, and then 1t becomes like the old
e woman who lived in a shoe-she had SC
: many children she didn't know what tc
o do. But when this happens to the po
g liucai trust it has a remedy in killing
d off some of its children by giving Others
e advantages over them: and SO the fam
> lily resumes it's former numbers and pros
st pers or continued robbery without at
e. tracing too much attention. This trus
lie fixes the policy of the government by die
tating who shan constitute it, 1t is able t
IS stife freedom abroad and breed corrup
al ton at home: for under Its operation
d Il is easier for political boss to buy
1t United States senatorship than for
,e slave to buy his liberty in the Philippines
Id You cannot destroy the other trust
lie and let the political trust live. The
e must stand or fall together. If all tn
d other trusts were destroyed, the poiitica
c trust would breed their successors; bu
J. if the political trust Is destroyed. a
l. the others will die from lack of nourisf
1t ment. To accomplish this is the objec
an of democracy; it is the object of your as
re scnblage here and will be the object
d, the greater assemblage that will pre-:
III entity give a new expression of the M
Id tional faith at Kansas City. And whe
1t that is done and our candidate is non
he mated at one stroke we shall have mao
r? an end of the Imperialism of industr
he and the Imperialism of arms.
fc My friends in all we think, in all "
lie express, in all VIC do In all we propos
is it is most essential now that we rene
10 our devotion to the cardinal principl,
w of American craftsmanship. since othel
TO have departed from them. II was wri
n ten on the death of great Persia
ou philosopher that, taking the first foo
ST step with the good thought, the secor
n | with the good word and the third VIII
I'M the good deed, he entered Paradise
no the same order of progress the Peep
ZEE OF this country, marshaied under Il
ur banners of triumphant democracy. ms
tic recnter the land of the fathers and pc
Is sess 1t. 1t is astonishing, 1t is humlia
ISL ing-but it is true-that to-day we a
We obliged to reailirm fundamental doctrine
40 that were accepted as matters of cour
only four years ago. in order to pro-
ng our title to the name of freemcn.
d. I'VE believe in the constitution of Il
~ United States. We believe in the declar
ton of independence. We believe in Il
re Monroe doctrine. We believe that Il
ed love of liberty is Unborn In the hume
ay breast and thas possessing Its fruits ou
ey selves through more than century
y trial and temptation, we cannot der
u them to others. We believe that the 10,
10 of liberty Is the same In California
ne in California; the same in Porto RI,
| nc in, 'nl tll, In, no I'm