The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-02-20
SHAW AT KANSAS CITY.
The Governor Gives Rousing Talk to the
Yonng Republicans of Missouri.

Ihe Governor Gives a Rousing Talk to the
Young Republicans of Missouri.
The Kansas City Star says:
1t Was l:4O this morning when Cover
nor Leslie M. Shaw OF Iowa rose to re-
spond to the toast, Possible Issues of
1902
Give me the ear of the young men,
he said. land 1 will write your plat
forms. Give me the confidence of the
young men and 1 will make your nom.
nations. Give me the help of the
young men and l will elect your Off
GERS. Give me the eloquence OF the
young men of Missouri and [ will set
the woods afire.
Speaking of the issues, believe the
campaign of 1896 settled the academic
proposition that there can be but one
standard of value. The United States
will have forever the standard the
world has adopted. Whatever congress
may do on the currency question will be
reviewed this year. 1t will be your
duty to defend it or get out of the
party 1t you think it's right, defend
1T. Ii you think it's wrong, leave the
party and attack it. Republicans
should stand by their party because of
principle Republican politics is not
scramble for Office. We must appeal to
mems reason. We have had enough of
appealing to their passions. When you
go home get the people together and
tell them the truth. We want
this money question to remain i'm
politics until every man, woman and
child in the nation shall know the
truth.
1--WE WON'T get much of an issue out
OF the trusts this year. Both parties
have declared against them, but, un.
fortunately, neither has suggested
remedy The democratic party is max
ing tremendous row about it, but it
should either suggest remedy or keep
still. There never was time when
prosperity did not tend to build up con-
solicitations. We have good times in a
town. There are two drayman there
and work enough for both. One goes
to the bank and borrows enough money
to buy the other mans dray. He buys.
Here you have a consolidation of CAPT
tai. Along comes a period of depres
sion, and the man who has two drays
hunts for a buyer for one of them. It's
just the same in the larger business en-
terprises. When times are good, labor
combines and makes you pay more for
labor. When panic comes. labor be-
gins to compete and prices come down.
Panic will dissolve consolid ations of
either capital or labor.
II don't know what the issue will be
on expansion. 1t is said that once
when jackson was in doubt about what
to do about the tariff, he said: Let it
go. Wait till the Wings say what they
Will DO, and we will declare against it.
It's the genuine Jackson democracy to
declare against whatever republicans
declare for, and we can be sure they
VIII 10 IL ChlS year.
They can't raise an issue on the
Spanish war. It's over. They can't
say it was failure. They can't say
we have no navy. The world knows
better. The world knows that ole
spring after we had planted our corn
we raised an army of 26O. 900 men. wh,p.
ped one of the nations of Europe and
had the boys back IN time to husk out
the corn they had planted. That was
never done before and it won't be done
again until we have another war. Now
the treaty we made after that war was
ratified by democratic votes. In that
treaty it was written that for the per-
iod OF ten years SPANS ships should
nave the same access to the ports of
the archipelago as we had. Don't that
look as though we meant to stay aroundp
We said to the people who wanted to
go to Manila, 60 ahead, and the stars
will. wy
Suppose we had had an argument
with England and she had ceded Can
ada to us, and suppose some morning
the Canadians should fire on our flag.
l don't say that before we got through
all Canadians would be compelled to
take off their hats to Old GLORY.
but | do say that all the survivors
would and you can carry Missouri on
that issue. / don't know what the is-
sue will be, but the policy will be, first
peace, then government. Are thew
ready for self government? don't
know. Will these Malays assimilate?
don't know. We set in to assimilate
the Indians. but they did't ass,milate.
and most of the Indians are dead. [
don't know whether 1t will be thus with
the Aalass. lido know that God never
swung this old planet into space to
make it the home of naked savases."