Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-08-23

IN the past after acquiring territory
sessed BY the innabitsnts OF the land IL
self; And during our history. We have
paid more than sloo9oo.ooo to the variou.
acquired; but this new policy proclaims
that the natives haye no fishts IN the
land which they inhabit: ~.
spread of Americanism. freedom and the
REPUBLIC: the imperialism of Mckinley Is
the extension N! s, OF absolutism, subtection
Constitution. ana the Institutions Of de-
moSraek; the imperialism Of Mckinley
the constitution at home, and Institutes
the machinery of monarchy. ,Yhe expan-
sion of Tyler was the peaceatle arnera-
perialism Of Mckinley is the forcible sub
jugation Of foreign colony. The expan-
sion Of Polk was the opening Of new land
of Mckinley Is the depression Of. a new
people into American subjects the en-.
pansion Of Pierce was the peaceable set=
perialism of Mckinley is the purchase
of foreign war. The expansion of john
son was kindly act for friendly pow
psrfdious Betrayal Of the friendship of
t,ast has been The expansion Of friendship.
Is taa psie e 81 wan force a .na
despotism.
The Paramount fsstic.
The issue Of the republic or an empire
Is The overlapping issue Of the campaign.
fade. Secondary issues may at times de-
mand and receive the attention. ~ the
tury are questioned, when the principles
OF the founders of the government are
doubted. when sordjd commercialism,
shameless in Its lust Of gain, seizes the
government V,f M
hands dare to pollute tine sacred instru-
tasnts gf the Republic, factions are silent.
voices 81 discofd are hustled. il, such a
time as this men who love ettttntry and
not party; who prize the true and not
Of manhood and not in the glimmer OF
gSld. who believe. that what we want
m rs ne mani mare IN tbs IN w b nap td but
square and firm, unmoved b threat Of
force OF fear of power.
:, Three generations ago the followers of
,a .lsl threatened to engraft upon the
infant republic the forms of continental
monarchy.
The Hone and tho Man.
The times demanded man and he
Game f4 Th eth, the tanks Of the democratic
lions ago that sY1tsaiV Il tederalis sas tils
United States bank under the lead al
Nicholas Biddle. threatened to unda the
work Of forty years, and take from tie
people the substance of power though 1t
left the form Again the times demanded
man az and again he came from the ranks
90 the one ars 5aGk
and threatened the ' nations nt nts. .xssii5
the tim, times demanded man and the sen
man. who belongs not in the ranks Of
modern republicanism, but whose name
y lsaee among the saints in the valhalla
nld The i,, generatia'nn when the eyls Of the
re new ttia,ss Wilsh the mi,,ons Of mer.
the substance Of power; when q once
great party in the hands of faittless
leaders attempts to assign the peoples
when horde OF vampire combinations
feed and fatten upon the necessities Of
the peonls. when basphemous leaders
Of Gali.ee concealing beneath the robe
of righteousness the sword of slaughter,
when new school of politicians attempts
Constitution but q. charter of trade. when
the ensign that has stood for freedom
ft ,s the thu 4, gays q George ~, down to
Is mads tie symbol Of subsection. the
pennant. 6f polygamy and the flag of
force, Then again the times demand a
nished a Jefferson. that provided Jack
son, that produced a Lincoln, comes for
ward With man
w VI eLc WCSt ne comes, lne west
where men are made great Out of the
electric west where discussion is still free
and liberation common virtue. Out of
the newer west that thinks with the wis
dom of the older east Out of the west
Of sunshine and sunlight, of boundless
plains atf ,h and , praires broad Out Of the
current Of the father of waters and west
ward TO the. summit Of the Rockies. Out
old William the Silent DIS pure 40 the
white plume of Henry of Navarro, as
just as the elder Brutus and as virtuous
as the younger, and his name, my friends,
Is Bryan; of Nebraska