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The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-03-15
Butler.
W.. o..

The roads are pretty muddy and
the frost will soon be out.
Carrie and Ella Burgess came from
Rose Hill last Wednesday.
Mr.. Palmer, of Fremont, is taking
in hogs here to-day at S4.55 per hun.
dred.
At the school election on Monday
Matt Argenbyight was elected director
to succeed himself.
Our prophets are prophesying for
nice spring and elsa 0srSG, both sides
quote the ground hog as evidence.
E. A. Speck and Robert Davis and
families moved to Oklahoma last
week. Wesley Mock will start for
the same place this week.
Isaac Moore and family from near
Tioga, moved near Butler last week.
Morris Stroud, of Butler, will move
on his farm in the near future.
We are sorry to hear of the death
of Comrade Amos Wymore, of Rose
Hill, a member of the 10Th Iowa In
fantry. We deeply sympathize with
the bereaved family and friends.
SKIRMIsHER.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-03-15
CAUSE UNKNOWN.
Finally Found to Lie I'm the Coffee

ave have had a curious and I'M
pleasant experience with coffee
drinking, husband and 1. / have
been great sufferer for several
years with indigestion and heart
trouble, and did not know the cause
of it until l finally came to the con-
clusion that it was the use of coffee.
So we abandoned the coffee and took
up Postum Cereal Food Coffee which
l had seen advertised in the daily
papers.
"Since using it have, to my great
surprise, improved wonderfully.
Husband has gained IL pounds in
two months since he left off coffee
and began the use of Postum. He
sleeps soundly at nights now, which
he does not remember having done
for several years before on account
of nervousness. 1t is remarkable
that people go on in ill health and do
not discover the cause of the trouble
"You may depend upon it we know
how to make Postum good, and that
is easy, if one will use a sufficient
amount and boil it long enough. 1t
is really an elegant and delicious
drink. don't want my name to ap-
pear in the papers, if you should pub
lish this testimonial" -, Chat
tanooga, Tenn. The Postum Cereal
Co., Ltd, Battle Creek, Mich, are
permitted to give the name of this
lady by letter, if desired.
TRIED HIS SPEED. delivery
horse of the James Madison Grocery
house tried his speed for short dis.
lance on North Market Tuesday
evening. He scattered things some
but broke nothing until he wa'
brought to a halt.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-03-15
New Building.

The work of tearing down the old
frame building, Immediately east of
the court house which has been occu-
pied by Chas. Glover's blacksmith
shop, has been begun. w. @. Shep-
pard, who recently purchased the
property from Mr.. Glover, will build
thereon new two-story brick build
ing.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-03-15
Rose Hill.

J. H. Augustine shipped car
load of good horses to Chicago last
Wednesday.
ID. o. Olive, j. III. Augustine and
s. j. Stringfellow were in Des Moines
Tuesday on business.
l.. M. Bacon and wife were down
from Oskaloosa to attend the funeral
of Amos Wymore last Sunday.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-03-15

The following is a list of the mar
riage licenses issued by the clerk since
our last report:
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-03-15
Births. Dssfbs. Marriages.
MARRIAGE LICENSES

The following is a list of the mar
riage licenses issued by the clerk since
our last report:
NO. NAME. RESIDENCE. AGE.
eo5o + George B. McDoll, Eddyville "a
O-o Nora B. Coryell, Leighton. "a
eoso I j. w. Taylor, Tioga .. 81
o-0o Lizzie Fuller, Oskaloosa. 80
eosA Phillip Ley, Oskaloosa. -. 20
o-o Sophia Minor, Oskaloosa. (. 81
eoEs John VIM. Richards, Evans %
o-oo Mary Ann Dougall, Evans. %
so5e Henry van Brogan, MarionCo 25
O-o Blanche Clark, Olivet. ...... II
RICHARDS-DOUGALL Married
at the office of the officiating justice,
Charles Stanley, at IL A. NJ, Tuesday,
March 10, 1900, JOHN WILLIAM RICH
ARDS and Miss MARY ANN DoUGALL,
both of Evans.
MINOR Married, at the
home of the officiating minister, Tues
day afternoon at o'clock, March ID,
1900, MR.. PHILIP LEY and Miss SOPHIA
MINOR, both of this city.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Jay Somerville, of Central nj E..
church and was witnessed BY only a
few friends. The young people are
well and favorably known to a large
circle of friends in this city who will
wish them life's best blessingsin their
new relation. The groom is the jun
ior member of the established and
successful furniture firm of F. Wiley
& Co., and is an energetic and enter
prising business man. The bride is a
popular young lady, and in all rela-
tions in life is a general favorite.
The HERALD joins in extending best
wishes.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-03-15
Gates Goes.

Grinnell, March 14.-At a meeting
of the trustees yesterday President
Gates rendered his resignation as
president of Iowa College to take eff
feet before Nov. 1.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-03-15
Of the Misses Stevens one night last

week.
School election Monday resulted in
the election of Wilbur johnson as
director for term of three years, j.
M. Stevens retiring.
Claud Prime and wife and daugh-
ter Gladys, Clyde Bartlett and wife,
III. III. Prime and Frank Prime were
Sunday visitors at Bartlett's.
ENRIP
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28
VII [|AM j. BRYANS LETTER OF A66EP TAN66

paramount issue in this campaign.
Whether we shall adhere to, or aban-
don those ideas of government which
have distinguished this nation from
other nations and given to its history
its peculiar charm and value, Is ques-
ton the settlement of which cannot
be delayed. No other question can ap-
preach it in Importance; no other
question demands such immediate con-
sideration. 1t is easier to lose repu-
tation than to establish one, and this
nation would find 1t a long and labori-
GUS task to regain its proud position
among the nations, If, under the stress
Of temptation, 1t should repddiate the
self-evident truths proclaimed by our
heroic ancestors and sacredly treasured
during career unparalleled in the
annals of time. When the doctrine
that the people are the only source Of
power is made secure from further at
tack we can safely proceed to the set
Element of the numerous questions
which involve the domestic and eco
nomic welfare of our citizens.
Very truly yours,
w. ]. BRYAN.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28
Forelpn Alliances.

The reasons given by Washington,
Jefferson. and the other statesmen Of
the early days in support of the doc
trine that we should maintain friendly
relations with all nations, but enter
into entangling alliances with none.
are even stronger to-day than they
were a hundred years ago. Our COM
MERGE is rapidly increasing, and we are
brought into constant communication
with all parts of the world. Even if we
desired to do so, we could not afford to
ALLEVIATE many nations by cultivating
unnecessary intimacy with few. Our
strength and standing are such that it
is less necessary than ever before to
lean for aid upon the friendliness Of a
foreign power.
We cannot connect ourselves with
European nations, and share in their
jealousies and ambitions without los
ing the peculiar advantage. which our
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28

I cannot too strongly emphasize the
Importance of the platform recon-
mendation of the establishment of a
department of labor, with member
of the cabinet at it's head. When we
remember how important position
the laborer fills in our economic, So
cial and political fabric. it is hard to
conceive of valid objection being
made to this recognition of his serv-
ices. Agriculture is already represent
ed in the presidents official household;
the army and navy have their repre-
sentatives there; the state department,
with its consular service, and the
treasury department, with its close
connection with fiscal affairs, keep the
executive in touch with the business
and commercial interests. A cabinet
officer truly representative of the wage
earning class would be of invaluable
aid, not only to the toilers, but to the
president.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28

BY inadvertence the Income Tax
plank agreed upon by the Resolutions
committee, was omitted from the plat
form as read and adopted. The sub
ject, however, is covered by the re-
affirmation of the Chicago platform,
and / take this occasion to resssert
my belief in the principle which under
lies the income tax. Congress should
have authority to levy and collect an
income tax whenever necessary, and
an amendment to the federal consti-
tuition specifically comforting such au-
thority ought to be supported by even
those who may think the tax unneces-
sary at this time. In the hour Of
danger the government can draft the
citizen; it ought to be able to draft
the pocketbook as we'll. Unless money
is more precious than blood, we can
not afford to give greater protection to
the incomes of the rich than to the
lives Of the poor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28
Nicaragua.

The Democratic party is In favor OF
the immediate construction, ownership
and control of the Nicaragua canal by
the United States. The failure Of the
Republican party to make any prog
ress in carrying out pledge contained
in it's platform four years ago, together
with the substitution in its latest plat
form of a plank favoring an isthmian
canal for a specific declaration in ia
vor of the Nicarcguan canal, would in
dictate that the Republican leaders
either do not appreciate the Importance
of this great waterway to the mari
time strength and commercial inter-
ests of the country or that they give
too much consideration to the interest
ed opposition of transcontinental lines.
The HaysPauncefote treaty, now be-
fore the senate, would, If ratified,
greatly lessen the value of the canal,
if it would not indeed convert 1t into
a positive menace in time of war. The
paramount interests Of the United
States in the western hemisphere, to-
gether with the obligations to defend
the republics to the south of us, makes
it necessary that our government shall
be able to close the canal against any
hostile power.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28

House Of Representatives, and that,
too, practically without opposition.
Whatever may have been the reasons
which secured the adoption of the pres
ent plan, century ago, new conditions
have made it imperative that the peo-
pie be permitted to speak directly in
the selection of their representatives in
the Senate. A Senator is no less the
representative of the State because he
receives his commission from the peo-
pie themselves, rather than from the
members of the State legislature. If
voter is competent to vote for MEM
Der of Congress, for State officers and
for President, he is competent to
choose his representative in the Sem
ate. A system which makes the SEN
ator responsible for his election to the
people, as whole, and amenable to
them If he misrepresents them, must
commend itself to those who have con-
fidence in the intelligence. and patriot
ism of the masses.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28
Pensions.


The party expresses its pride in the
soldiers and sailors Of all our wars,
and declares its purpose to deal gen.
erously with them and their depend
ents. A liberal policy is natural and
necessary in a government which de-
ponds upon q citizen soldiery, instead
Of large standing army. Self-inter-
est, as we'll as gratitude, compels the
government to make bountiful pro-
vision for those who, in the hour Of
danger, and at great sacrifice of bust
ness, health and life, tender their
services to their country.
The pension laws should be con-
strued according to the generous spirit
which prompted their passage. The
platform very properly reiterates the
position taken in 1896, that the fact of
enlistment shall be deemed conclusive
evidence that the soldier was sound
when the government accepted him.
A certificate given now to the health OF
a person 40 years ago, even If easily
obtainable. should not have as much
weight as the certificate of the medical
officer who examined the volunteer
with a view of ascertaining his fitness
for army service.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28
Arbitration.

The platform renews the demand
for arbitration between corporations
and their employees. No one who has
observed the friction which arises be-
tween great corporations and their
numerous employees can doubt the
wisdom of establishing an impartial
court for the Just and equitable set
Element of disputes. The demand for
arbitration ought to be supported as
heartily by the public, which suffers
inconvenience because of strikes and
lockouts, and by the employers them
selves, as by the employees. The estab-
lishment of arbitration will insure
friendly relations between labor and
capital, and render obsolete the grow
ing practice of calling in the army to
settle labor. troubles.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28
Reclama tIon of Arid Lands.

The time is ripe for systematic and
extended effort to reclaim the arid
lands and fit them for actual settlers.
The last agricultural report estimates
that homes can thus be provided for
many millions of people. The i'm
pounding and use of the waters which
are wasted in the spring would people
the western states with thrifty, intelli-
gent, and Industrious citizens, and
these would furnish valuable market
for all the products Of the factories. A
small percentage of the money spent
in war of conquest would provide oc-
cupation and habitation for more peo-
pie than would ever seek a residence
in colonies within the tropics.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28


The Republican party, drawing as It
does enormous campaign funds from
those who enjoy special privileges at
the hands of the government, is power
less to protect the tax payers from the
attack of those who profit by large ap-
preparations. A surplus in the treas
ury offers constant temptation to ex-
travagance, and extravaganza, in turn,
compels a resort to new means of taxa
ton, which, is being kept in the back
ground until the campaign is over. is
a fair illustration of the imposition
which will be attempted when there is
a considerable amount of money idle
in the treasury. The rehabilitation OF
the merchant marine, laudable in it.
self, is made the pretext for expen-
diture of public money for the benefit
Of large ship owners, and in the in
terests of a transportation monopoly.
The government being only the agent
of the people, has no right to collect
from the people taxes beyond the le-
Ultimate needs of a government hon.
estly and effectively administered, and
public servants should exercise the
same degree of care in the use OF the
peoples money that private individ-
uals do in the use of their own money.
With restoration Of a foreign policy
consistent with American ideas there
can be an immediate and large reduc-
ton in the burdens now borne by the
people.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28
Cuba.

The recognition contained in both
the Democratic and Republican plat
forms of the right Of the Cubans to in
dependence, removes the general prin-
ciple involved from the domain Of par
tisan politics. 1t is proper, however,
to consider whether the accomplish
ment Of this purpose can be safely en-
trusted to the Republican party after
1t has yielded to the allurements of the
Colonial idea, and abandoned its ear
lier faith in the natural and inalien-
able rights of man.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28
Direct Legislation.

The platform Endorses the princi-
pie of direct legislation. This is al
ready applied to the more important
questions in nation, state and city. 1t
rests upon the sound theory that the
people can be trusted, and that the
more responsive the government is to
the will Of the people, the more free
it will be from misuse and abuss
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28

does it seek to embarrass corporations
engaged in legitimate business, but 1t
does protest against corporations en-
tering politics, and attempting to as
sumo control of the instrumentalities
of government. A corporation Is not
organized for political purposes, and
should be compelled to confine itself
to the business described in its char
ter. Honest corporations, engaged In
an honest business, will find it to
their advantage to aid in the enact
ment of such legislation as will pro-
tect them from the undeserved odium
which will be brought upon them by
those corporations which enter the po-
litical arena.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28

The Republican party has persist
emily refused to comply with the ur-
gent request of the Interstate Com
merce commission, for such an en-
largement of the scope Of the inter-
state commerce law as will enable the
commission to realize the hopes
aroused by its creation. The Demo-
cratic party is pledged to legislation
which will empower the commission
to protect individuals and communi-
ties from discrimination, and the pub
lie at large from unjust and unfair
transportation rates.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28
Chinese Exclusion.

The Chinese exclusion act has proven
an advantage to the country, and its
and strict enforcement, as
well as its extension to other similar
races, are imperatively necessary. The
Asiatic is so essentially different from
the American that he cannot be as
simulated with our population, and is,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28

therefore, not desirable as permanent
citizen. His presence as temporary
laborer, preserving his national identi-
ty, and maintaining a foreign scale OF
wages and living, must ever prove an
injustice to American producers, as
well as a perpetual source Of irrita-
ton.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28
Tho Blacklist.

The blacklist as now employed in
some places enables the employer to
place the employee under practical
duress, for the skilled laborer loses his
independence when the employers can
not only discharge him, but prevent his
securing any similar employment.
The blacklist enables employers to Sc
cure, by mutual agreement, that con-
troll over the wage earners which a
private monopoly exercises without
contract.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28

There will be popular acquiescence
in the demand for home rule. and a
territorial form Of government in
Alaska and Porto Rico. Both are en-
titled to local self-government and
representation in Congress
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28

Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma
have long been ready to assume the
responsibilities and enjoy the privi-
leges Of statehood, and 1t will be a
pleasure, as well as duty. to carry
out the platform pledge concerning
them.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28

The subjects, however, treated in
this letter, important as each may
seem in itself, do not press so impera-
lively for solation as the question
which the platform declares to be the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28
Monroe Doctrine.

monroe Doctrihos
The doctrine enunciated by Monroe,
and approved by succeeding presidents,
is essential to the welfare OF the
United States The continents of
North and South America are dedica-
ted to the development of free govern
ment. One republic after another has
been established, until to-day mon
archial idea has barely foothold in
the new world.
While it is not the policy OF this
country to interfere where amicable
relations exist between European
countries and their dependencies IN
America, our people would look with
dsfavor upon any attempt on the part
of European governments to maintain
an unwilling or forcible sovereignty
over the people living on this side OF
the Atlantic.
The position taken by the Republic
can leaders, and more recently set
forth by the Republican candidate for
the Presidency, viz: That we cannot
protect a nation from outside inter-
ference without exercising sovereignty
over its people, is an assault upon the
Monroe doctrine, for while this argyll
ment is at this time directed against
the proposition to give to the Filipinos
both independence and protection, 1t
is equally applicable to the Republics
of Central and South America. If this
government cannot lend its strength'to
another Republic without making sub
jects of its people, then we must
either withdraw our protection from
the Republics to the south of us or alb
sorb them. Under the same plea, that
the guardian nation must exert an au-
thority equal to it's responsibility, Eu-
ropean nations have for centuries ex-
plotted their wards, and it Is sig
nificant fact that the Republican party
should accept the European idea OF
protectorate, at the same time that 1t
adopts a European colonial policy.
There is no excuse for this abandon
ment of the American idea We have
maintained the Monroe doctrine for
three-quarters of century. The ex-
pense to us has been practically moth
ing, but the protection has been beyond
value to our sister Republics. II
Filipino Republic is erected upon the
ruins of Spanish tyranny, its protec-
ton by us will be neither difficult nor
expensive. No European nation would
be willing for any other European ma
ton to have the islands, neither would
any European nation be willing to pro-
woke a war with us in order to obtain
possession of the islands. If we assert
sovereignty over the Filipinos we will
have to defend that sovereignty by
force and the Filipinos will be our
enemies; if we protect them from out
side interference, they will defend
themselves and will be our friends. If
they show as much determination in
opposing the sovereignty of other ma
tons as they have shown in opposing
our sovereignty, they will not require
much assistance from us.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-28
Labor Question.

Several planks of the labor plat
form are devoted to questions in which
the laboring classes have an immediate
interest, but which more remotely eff
feet our entire population. While what
is generally known as government by
injunction is at present directed chief
ly against the employees of corpora
tions, when there is disagreement be-
tween them and their employer, it in
wolves a principle which concerns
every one. The purpose of the in
junction in such cases Is to substitute
trial by Judge for trial by jury, and is
a covert blow at the jury system. The
abolition of government by injunction
is as, necessary for the protection of
the reputation of the court, as it is for
the security of the citizen. Blackstone
in defending trial by jury, says:
THE impartial administration Of
justice, which secures both our persons,
and our properties is the great end of
civil society. but if that be entrusted
entirely to the magistracy, a select
body of men. and those selected by
the prince such as enjoy the highest
offices of the state. their decisions in
spite of their natural integrity, will
have frequently an Involuntary bias
toward those Of their own rank. and
dignity. 1t is not to be expected from
human nature that the few should be
always attentive to the interests and
good Of the many"
If the criminal laws are not sufficient
for the protection Of property, they
can be made more severe, but citi
zen charged with crime must have his
case tried before a jury of his peers.