Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-10-25
ELECTION DAY WILL
SOON Be At HAND
Every American Citizen Should Con-
slider the Importance Of the
Fight This Year.
MomEATous NATIONAL CRISIS
shnll We Leave the Straight and
Narrow Way ind Enter tho
Road Strcwn With I'm.
pir.'s Wrecks?
aEHTous NATIONAL CRISIS

pir.'s Wrecks?
Headquarters National Democratic
Committee, Chicago, Oct. 1S.-Election
day grows near. Every citizen should
vote. Every citizen should do great
deal of quiet thinking before he votes.
Think and think quick is the demand;
the voter must comply. There are
many things to think about. The
thousands Of American soldiers that
nave been slain in the Philippines, the
millions of dollars that been wasted in
the islands. should furnish considera-
Die food for large amount of quiet
meditation. Again, the voter might,
with a great deal of profit to himself,
think of the broken promises the adj
mlnfstration made to both Porto Rico
and Cuba. These questions are, how
ever, abstract in their nature They
come home to the hearts of the people,
IT Is true, but they do not appeal as di-
rectly to the pocket books as some
other questions that may be consid-
cred. II man doesn't choose to en-
ploy his time considering the griev-
ances of the F'ilipinos or the rights of
the Porto Ricans and Cubans, he may,
with considerable profit to himself, sit
down and do a little final thinking on
the trust proposition. If he is unable
to reach any conclusion on this mat
ter let him remember the advice given
to Mr.. Hanna by William Jennings
Bryan. Mr.. Bryan said that if Mr.,
Hanna really wants to know whether
Or no there are any trusts in the
United States let him ask his wife. The
advice is sound. If the voter is in the
dark regarding the trust question and
IS inclined to say with Mr.. Hanna that
there are no trusts, and repeat with
MI. Mckinley that even If there are
trusts they are good things, for they
raise the price Of labor and reduce the
commodities, If he really desires to OBJ
tain information upon the subject. let
him ask his wife.
ASK her, for example, about the SUI
gar trust. Tell her that the trust and
its allies. With capital of SIPS, 900. 900
pockets about s200GO,O 900 through the
tariff and ask her what effect this has
upon the family sugar bowl. Tell her
that the beef trust which poisons our
soldiers with can beef, We're enabled to
pinch the poor out of their occasional
steak Or roast, by virtue of tariff pro-
lection of cents a pound on fresh
beef. % per cent on preserved meat
271a per cent on cattle. Ask your wife
now this affects domestic economy.
Your wife must know about the
Standard OIL trust that monopolizes
the trade and puts the price of kero-
sene up 50 that its profits are unexam-
pied IN the history Of business. Ask
her how this affects your bills fol
lights, If you depend on lamps. Your
Wife finds borax Il great adjunct to
health and cleanliness. Ask her what
effect the 100000 borax trust, pro
tected by a per cent duty, has upon
her home. Ask her If the formation OF
the cracker trust has been q benefit te
her table.
Has your son Tommie had the mis-
fortune to break window with his
ball? Ask his mother what effect the
glass trust, with its millions has had
upon the glaciers bill. Ask her, too
what effect upon the family clothes
closet has been exercised by the $780,
100000 print cloth trust and the $50, O00,-
600 knit goods pool. There are scores
OF other trusts that aim at the home
and hit 1t.
Tell your Wife about some of the In.
crease in prices of necessities in the
last four years. Let her read this lis,
OF Increased cost and see what she
says: Agate ware, 80 per cent; but
TONS 20 per cent; brooms, 40 to go cents
per dozen; carpets 16 to 90 per cent
galvanized ware, about 40 per cent
glassware, 20 per cent; window glass
so per cent; hats l2k per cent: ham.
cents per pound: hardware, As pc,
| cent; knit underwearr, 10 per cent: lin.
seed Oil, 20 per cent; furniture, 25 pc,
cent; flour. within three weeks, 80 cent.
per barrel; wooden pals, so per cent
pins, " per cent; paper. 25 per cent
shoes, 10 per cent; ranges, 30 per cent
| soap, 20 per cent; spool cotton. 18 ne,
cent.
| These are only few of the MANY
What does your wife say about the
trusts?
| II the Hon. Tedious Roosevelt had
been born with the lock jaw or hat
never cut his teeth, he would not be
afflicted with all the troubles that nov
beset him. 1t Is not recorded at ex.
actly what age the precocious youngs,
ter began to use his mouth, but from
reliable authority 1t is learned that II
was not difficult for his nurse to teach
him to talk. The trouble with Roose
Velt Is that he has talked and writer
zoo much. In September 1896, in the
Review of Reviews, Governor Roose
welt placed himself on record as in fa,.
vor of government by Injunction. Ht
said.
The men who object to what the,
style government by injunction, or a.
regards essential principles of govern
ment are in hearty sympathy Will
their remote ancestors who lived Ii
caves, fought one another with stone
! headed arrows and ate the mammoth
and woolly rhinoceros They are in
teresting as representing a geological
survival. but they are dangerous
whenever there is the least chance o
:heir making the principles of this pas
bur.ed age living factors in our presen
life. They are not in sympathy witt
men of good minds and sound civil,
morality
In another article Governor Roose
veit gave his opinion of the western
people. From what he said then i
would seem that he would have n,
cause FOE complaint at the disturbanc,
ut Victor. Colo.
When drunk on the villainous whis
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