Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-25

busy to go to Washington to dicS,....e
the policies of these matters. They
ssnd representative down there, he is
met at the station as soon as he ar
rives by a man who slaps him on the
back; they play a game of draw poker
and the first thing you know he Is leg
islating the money right out OF your
pockets" Mr. Rinehart told the far
mers that they had as much right to
claim protection on their corn and
products as the grower of any other
commodity has.
Too Much Power.
Mr.. Rinehart then began a. series of
fiimsy argument on the great Dugga-
boo, imperialism. He accused the re-
publican party of intimidating voters
and said this fact alone Is evident
that the republicans have too much
power, and should be summarily dealt
with. "The republicans" he said
raised sixteen million dollar corrup-
ton fund with which to reflect McKin-
ley. Mark Hanna, when he first went
among these people to raise this fund
told them that it would be returned
an hundred fold. There is honor
among thieves and they have paid it
Mckinley has been the cause of their
growth.
The Standing Army.
"a republic can't have standing
army without a perpetual menace to
| the peace and comfort of that people.
The standing army originated in this
country in the early days when it was
| necessary to be organized against the
Indians. Here we are in 1900, all the
Indians dead and buried and instead
of abandoning the little army formally
maintained, William Mckinley increas-
es it four-fold and sends it to the
Philippine islands. twenty-five thou
sand of these soldiers have been fight
ing in the Philippines for one and one
half years and they will have to fight
many times that number of years be-
fore they gain their object. You can't
force a government onto people,
In further treating the Philippine
question Mr.. Rinehart said this gov
eminent paid twenty million dollars
for scrap, and continuing said we
are at it yet" He said we paid that
amount to Spain for the divine right
of kings that our forefathers fought to
abolish.
| The remainder of Mr.. Rinehart's
speech was devoted principally to the
treaty with the Sultan of the Sulu, in
which he referred to Mckinley as a
rank violator of the constitution OF
the United States in that he recogn.z-
ed the sovereignty of the Sultan of the
Sulu. He presented what he claimed
to be copy of the treaty and from it
quoted extensively. He referred to the
salaries, which were paid, as he ex-
pressed it, by Mckinley to the Sultan
for what? To maintain harem,
and buy calico and frills for his many
wives. Passing further down the list
Mr.. Rinehart read the names of other
officials upon whom he said Mckinley
had bestowed handsome salaries, re-
ferring to one especially as being as
signed to the duty of looking after the
lSultan's harem-keeping the women In
and the men out.
Mr.. Rinehart associated Mckinley
and Mark Hanna in rank polygamy,
slavery and everything mean under
the sun, and some of his hearers ap-
plauded his remarks. He said the
Dreyfus case pals into insignificance
compared to the trouble in Utah
where Mckinley sent his army to cor
raj and in many instances kill inno-
lcent men.
He accused Mckinley, in direct de-
fiance of the wishes of the people, of
declaring the war of the Philippines,
and said that the people in those
Islands, who are fighting for their lib-
erty, are depending on the democrats
to put stop to the war. He said on
the seventh day of November, when
the word conveying the news of the
victory of William Jennings Bryan is
waited across the ocean to those strng-
Cling freemen, there will be an imge-
date cessation of hostilities, and the
war will Immediately be at an end.