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

Thus does modern republicanisn, a slave
for mess a of yo he Thus
does 1t trti,e with the rights of those 1t
processes to protect.
The smocrattc Proposal.
The democratic party proposes to taal
with this question pf industrial eunihina-
ton NJ ways vigorous and sensible. "
has nj fanatieal quarrel With wealth, Hit
1t dies believe that wealth Is DESIGNED Is
them. II beliaves that men are dc more
Importance than dollars. and that I'LL the
elements of civilization are subordinate
forcement of every law on the statute
books, state and national, for the regula-
tion of trusts; 1t proposes, secondly, to
all Combinations in restraint of trade: 'i il
proposes, thirdly, to place every article
produced. sold, or controlled by. a trust
upon the free list; II proposes. fourthly.
porallonsi 1t proposes tifthly. to strength
en- en- the hands of the in.erstate commences
e ron, a., T. me end that discrniina.
and finally, 1t proposes to make tile Sher:
man anti-trust law stirling up To the con-
stituti5nal limit.
And; my friends; these methods are
practicable and feasible. They can be
brought into action at once They are
neither mel I'll e cunt nor slow: n hon
DEMOCRATIC hands-evcry trust In the
land may be efficiently controlled. If you
ask us to go further than this, ! say to
you that II is the plighted word of the
great democracy of the ntaion that every
trust that cannot be controlled must be
destroyed.
War mud Pence.
The policy Of peace has been honorsd
Pile. Peace friendship and honest com.
merce with all nations, entangling ali-
nnoes with none has been our rule Of
approved by people: In 1898 we laid aside,
temporarily. with the approval of ali the
people, tins policy of century, listened
pie In tyrant's grasp. and undertook a
war that the bounds of constitutional lib
csrty might be widcned and a new nation
born under the, blessing of God into the
fought Tor tho weak in their fight for
I +, We did MT step 81 ask, Are
tsns or violent tatins?'' we only knew
that they we're men who loved liberty
We fought for people without an or
sanized government, without capital;
without system Of courts, without d
port or a navy. And we fought that the
Cuban people might have these things
that pertain to nationality, that upon
Cuban soil Cuban government OF Cuban
maintained 10y. virtue of the self-sover-.
eighty of the. Cuban people.
were the weapons of the tyrant and tn the
oppressor: we knew tho trials of insurrees
tion and rebellion. our own independ=
enee was declared by q congress Of rebel
colonies and won by an army Of insur-
gents In the name bf self-government
we unfurled the banner OF rebellion and
denied the authority df Great Britain:
scattered people. with constant quarrel
ing and pickering among the thirteen
colonies, with tory party SO strong that
m NJ 4
very colonies. with a congress that at
one time numbered but thirty members,
and fled from capital to capital pursued
by British soldiers so thai during the
war 1t sat In nineteen different cities,
with populace that sold provisions to
the enemy and left the continentals Of
atcd government, without power or
money or respect. with treason among
our generals and cabals In congress, with
disorganization so rife that it was found
necessary to make the commander-in.
chief a dictator in fact, with an army
that at times was but IL rabbe of wan
, fields wasted and women raped by the
Iicssians of Howe, IS 1t any wonder that
our nation knows the worth of liberty
and prizes self-govelnmcnt as IA boon ia
be bought at the price of life itself? And
is liberty to us more valuable than 1t
is to others? Shall we deny to our neigh
though they may be. the things for which
our fathers fought? Ah my friends, the
love of liberty is universal; 1t is born III
the breasts of the lowly and humble
white or black or brown, whether Cuban
or Ihipino nd i is found IN al lands
ton That den,es S liberty 70 s9u 10 ' nnb fs a
Sites that denial unto ITSELF
Sympathy for THE Oppressed.
Throughout our history we have
scanned sea, the horizon of the world for the
ilrst signs of peoples struggling out Of
legitimacy and into the light of liberty
and self-rule. For century we have
mourned the dismemberment of Poland
and the death of KCsciusko. Every day
we hope for the freedom of Ireland and
the upraising OF the Shamrock. We saw
the states of Spanish America struggle
against their oppressor and we babe them
take hope in that strife and welcomed
them to the sisterhood of the worlds re-
publics when their rebellion. was won:
We saw Greece strive, to free herself
from the tyranny of the Turk and we
sent Our message of good cheer. We
knew the fight that Hungary made and
/! Nossuth. We rejoiced with Brazil when
she sent Dom Pedro back to Portugal and
rid herself of Imperialism forever. And.
finally. We took up the red gauge Of bat
| tie that a republic might be established
on the island of Cuba. 1t remained for a
republican administration to reverse this
| party TO DEFY public opinion. to divorce
government from the sovereign people,
to. turn its back upon brave men strug-
Cling for independence and lend its moral,
! II not its physical aid. to the monarchy
Of Victoria while it crushed the Beers.
trality" while republics are destroyed!
shame to the party that embraces the
policy OF decrepit Spain to prevent the
/ the, party that once claimed Lincoln
and IL Seward, Sumner and Chase,
to desert the children of liberty and take
4 up the policy of an Alphonso and I,
| Chamberlain!
Dawn IF l. brrty im Asin.
But the oppression of Spain was not
younger days when her statesmen were
preaching the doctrine of world pover
world dominion. of duty to christianize
and destiny to civilize, her mariners had
sailed into the orient and planted her yell
Philippines. And there for 800 years She .
waged war of loot and plumber and
treachery She planted her custom houses
on the coasts. levied taxes on the natives
and ruled in savage manner over q
part of the tribes and a portion of the
territory.
ish governor general in Manila had been
forced, at the point of insurgent bay
onets, to promise reform in the govern
ment. He pledged autonomous govern
! lowering of taxes; and, Spaniard-like, he
broke mis- promises.
| - eu tHe HdNdl forces OF the United
States def. Nted the Spanish feet III the
bay OF MAJ lila; Santiago was captured
the same Santiago at which a certain Inn
itation hero charged up a hill in the sec
ond line Of battle. a hill already taken
by colored troops. The colonial empire
possessed colonial policy: for 800 years
she had been a world power. lighting and
schemtng fov gold and glory; for 800 years
she had followed duty and destiny, tax.
ing her sons to die in tropical lands
among foreign peoples; and at the end