Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18

silver. How could he do it? How
much more could he get than has been
made? All the minis in the United
States, working all the time, and coin
ing nothing but silver dollars, would
turn out s50,000,000 in a year. This
would have given the country $780,
100000 under Bryan's plan in four
years. But the policy of the republic
an party has done better. The report
of the secretary of the tresury shows
that there has been added to the
volume of money in this country since
Mckinley was elected, 59O,000,00O,
sum, which, if it goes on increasing I'M
til March 1, will be $700,0OO,OO0, nearly
all gold, and all as good as gold. Re
member that this is a sum it would
have taken all the minis in the coun-
try twelve years to equal. In other
words the populists have been given
six times what they proposed to give
themselves. Isn't it time for some
of them to get out of the main road
and let the republican procession pass
on.
| Bryan's idea was to increase the
| debt. During Harrison's administra-
ton every one wanted to loan mon
ey. The gold standard, instead of
making money dearer. has put every
ioanable dollar of the world at our. dis
posal. Then we were borrowing mon
ey, now we are lending it. But even
this state of affairs does not satisfy
Mr.. Bryan. When we were borrowing
money of European countries he said
that they had our country by the
throat. Now that we are lending mon
ey he says that we would not be lend
ing it if the people of this country had
any money and could use this that we
lend. He cannot be satisfied. He asks
/ to have the interests of the people
but into his hands, but he doesn't
even know that you lend money be.
4 cause you have it to lend.
Practical Experience.
'sThe money of the world is pouring
into this country, some of it for an in
vestment and some to pay for things
that have been received from this
country. The funds of the world have
been placed at our disposal. Governor
Carpenter, just before his death, ask
ed me to buy his old homestead
did so and found that it was cucumber
ed by mortgage for $4,000 which
was bearing 8 per cent interest. Il
was about two years before l thought
of politics. I said to myself, Haven
you been going around the country
telling the people that with the golt
standard in force the rate of interes
would go down. thus lessening the bur
den of the doctor. With that lea
wrote to the people who held the mort
gage and told them that unless thu
rate of interest was reduced to fiv,
per cent would feel compelled to pa.
the whole amount Immediately.
didn't have the money, nor did know
any one who did have it, but I mad,
a bluff. In few days received al
answer to the effect that the rat
would be reduced.
The Real Issue.
Now if you ask me the issue of tn
campaign | will tell you. We do no
have to go round the world to find al
: issue. If you see man travelling tn
high seas thousands of miles iron
, home in search of an issue, you ma
depend upon it that there is somethin
: sadly wrong with his local issue. Tn
: issue is for the American people t
. hold on by main strength to the fo1
tunate and prosperous conditions tina
! Bryan does not promise to raise wage
. nor to make anything better. TIL
+ man who votes for him will take onl
t one chance, that of running himself
7 There is only one real issue, to max
!. a living for ourselves and our familie
, and to lay up few dollars for rain
+ day. | think that it is more importan
f that the laboring men of the countr
have plenty to eat and wear than tina
Senior Aguinaldo enjoys the benefit
!, of the right of habeas corpus. | al
{ peal to every man whose conduct i
v guided by experience to stand by tn
:. man who was not only the advanc
:. agent of prosperity, but opened tn
;. show promptly at the time advertised
d Mlitarism Noise.
e what the democratic leaders ca
:. the issues of this campaign are simpl
8, noises. The first one of these noise
}, ! shall talk about is the noise whic
d declares that the liberties of the Anne
" lean people are about to be subverte
n by the military power of the countr,
e They call it militarism.' l have rea
e the military history of the Unite
9 States in it's entirety and have nj
# found passage that tells of any sue
II act by the army. The only army til
p people of the United States had caus
d to fear was Coxey's army, and tn;
e was strictly a populist organization.
e "At Topeka, Bryan, in one of his n
If merous speeches of acceptance, sa
l. that he felt sorry for our poor DO,
Il who are dying yonder under alien skit
;. killed by hostile bullets. If he fee
so sorry for them cannot see why l
!. has for some months past been givir
= aid and comfort to the armed enemis
l. of the United States. This is borr
e out by the letter written by Gener
a Lawton a few days before his deaf
= At this mans grave l made the r
T solve that | would stand by the fiji
- and put forth my best efforts to ste
=. this firing at the back, which was r
y sponsible for the death of Gener
~ Lawton. l have the greatest regal
- for the American army. 1t always h;
:, been and always will be composed
i. volunteers. 1t is less now in propo
~ ton to the size of the country thu
u when Thomas Jefferson made his
~ nous speech against having too maj
- men in the army. The American 81
y dier ALWAYS will he fha America