Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-10-04
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country previous ~ .,iat time But no
Republican a'rns 10 say one word against
.hsm J want TO tell YOU that the demo-
Drought more suits against trusts, right
M this state, than have been brought bs'
the attorney general of the United States
IN the entiTe nation. IAppiause) In
the three Years they have naa control Of
lhe government Nour president has Sug-
eested ns r"nsdy, your house of repre-
sentAs'vass has offered nothing, your SEN
7 ole has given us no proposal But they
passed u bill To create Il paper money
trus;t,-tfey could find time TO do that and
sary And down at tho end Of the last
session of congress- they Introduced i
pm, under The suise OF anti-trust legis-
lation, Which was really designed 10 take
AWAY IRON the states the powers they
now have OF dealing With the trusts The
democrats opposed its passage and We're
republicans don't intend to destroy the
trusts If YOU doubt that statement read
tha letter of ACCEPTANCE of the president
Then You WIN be assured that he is
more afraid of injurng a good corpora
ton than he is anxious 10 punish a had
one one; The president has the greatest of
| might be hurt. liis soiicitude reminds
me OF the little boy. whose mother was
showing him some pictures of the favor
Christian martyrs in among the lions to
d. ient in pieces and devoured Looking
NJ one of the pictures for some time very
+
ideas
Why. mamma" no said, in sympa-
thetic %tone, see, there's pne poor little
lion here t;,i,t amt scttin none of it"
The Presidents Attitude.
Mud the presidents position is similar;
lie Is concerned for the poor little COR
pcration. the good trust. that may he
getting less than some other Is getting
| believe in destroying the trusts. II is
possible If You read some day OF the
Standard OH paving a dividend of 35 Or
40 per cent. ask Your republican neigh
Dor how much Standard Oil stock he has?
No, he hasn't amy. but he helped pay th;lt
dividend In the higher prices of oil. When
the sugar trust announces a high divi-
dcnd, Ut another increase of prices, in
quire how many of Your friends have any
sugar trust stock, and how much of it,
Vet YOU are al hepins earn Its big prof
ting up fruit lately. know more about
that than tine men do. When the barbea
wire trust announces big profit on its
of the stock on which to draw dividcndsr
No but Tho farmer got caught ON the
barbs when wire. went UP. just the same.
tLaughterD So long us you allow trusts
to exist you can't draw he line. They
should all he destroyed. But ask a re-
publican what they have done To rid the
he will answer-the fun dinner pail. ASK
what his party has done for labor for
the cause of compulsory arbitration in
great labor difficulties. aud what Will lie
tell NouY Again it's the same--the fun
dinner pail. Their only answer Is. 'spros-
perity.' Down east they tell about the
farmers, and out west they ten the
farmers about the prosperity OF the east
crn manufacturers and their employees.
was down east not long ago and learned
more than ever dreamed about how
prosperous We are out here In the west
Why, the New York Tribune printed a
farmer, designed to inform the people
down there as tn the wonderful pfosper-
itN was enjoying through my farming
operations. Now lin the first place. am
not n farmer;i am an asriculturist A
farmer is one who earns his money in
the country and spends it in town: am
and spends II Ia the country. And am
OF the latter class. | shouldn't tell vo;,
about nay own agricultural experiences.
hit for the fact that it illustrates how
Tribune, under n Lincoln date line. said
that had on my farm 100. acres of oats,
which was Yielding forty bushels to the
acre. md WAS selling at 30 cents per
bushci. This. II said, would produce
si.4Oo, or about twice as much as | paid
for the land. Now the fact Is | have only
thirty acres in nay farm. instead of 120
| had five acres al oats, instead of 30
cents, oats are selling for about 20 and
my crop for the year hasn't gone forty
bushels TO the acre, or been sold a! any
price, because haven't thrashed 1t. With
these few eSeept!9lis w Tribune ae-
substantially curreet. t.aughterD Oats
have averaged Il cent less in price dur
Ing the Mckinley Than under the Glove
j land administration. The farmer finds all
he buys is higher, ana what he sells is
no higher than heretofore. Tho repub-
!tean party has not a plan Offering help
for the farmer. II doesn't control the
sunshine and I he rain; VI ii did, IL would
nave organized a monopoly in water. aud
showers could only he obtained by pay
Ing fancy prices for them. tLaushteD.
No Relief in Kepuhlicnnis,,n.
The Republicans have proposed no plan
to help The itboring men Tho Lincoln
State Journal in an editorial the other
day said that there is no strike, ANA
never has been one since Mckinley was
elected. ON the nc"s page OF the same
paper 1t told of 600 men in the Pennsyl-
Niilia coal fields ont of employment The
| repub'can party answers, The full din.
ner pail, To every argument advanced
~ the democrats; But thc ippnblicans
don't dare carry the full dinner pail into
N antllracite regions of Pennsylvania
The republicans have no pla., To give per-
,,;lsll>, prospcri,ty Is! Some people have
/ We've prpspcred. Yes, the army con-
! tractors have prospcrea. the shipowners
who have rented their vessels TO carry
I've soldiers over to the Philippines and
dead ones back have nrospercd Inc re-
publfcans have no plan that brings prt =
peiity to. the masses. They say because
We can loan money in Europe we are
Ing money in Europe? Who is lending
money in Europe? The moneyel men
who are making it under Mckiniey's poll
Icy They find that business is better In
Europe than here, and go there TO lend
their money.
\ that the laboreis and farmers must meet
! the trust. What chance has The farmers
or or. la :, son s., of getting on In the
world when he must everywhere con-
tend with the trusts? The merchant too,
is tired of being dictated to. He is grad
uaily losing his Independence when he
Ina al pYpl l,1,
com1binations. OF capital,
Il The ,n,spuhllsans say they do oo not stand
ior ro m!ii{nris1n. and yst IN 1926 we had
J cemhef OF that Year, when the treaty
4 was almost signed. and all the conditions
/ known. the BIN raising he army to l0o,-
/ o'D was passed and signed al almost eX-
! actiy me same time US the treaty of
peace. The army could be Increased only
for TWO domestic and foreign.
The domestic reason Is To suppress by
/ force rebellion against the rule of monop-
+ oily. which could be stopped by remedial
legislation aud tho foreign reason is that
4 We want TO bring other independent peo-
4 pies under our own dependent form of
4 government The republicans have be-
! they do not realize the danger OF the mil
/ itary establishments of the old world.
1 Army VS.. Schools.
The cost of the education of our chill
dren every year Is S20o,OvJ0Io. The cost
OF maintaining standing army such as
I W ii'tNc IL 9luu,VpvYV'. NilIitaT!Sfn costs
half as much as the education OF Amer
lean children. We will never have d
smaller army under the republican pol
icy.
The United States has never decided
in favor. of imperialism. There was no
I such policy at Issue when Mckinley was
elected. The republicans said then that
forcibie annexation was criminal aggres-
sion. II YOU vote for Mckinley now YOU,
vote Tor Imperialism. When you voted
Tor u republican congressman YOU did not
! vote Tor imperialism. Ihere MaS no surh