Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-27

IloHeQ, DuC Cne real meaning OF Cne
term is that element whose prosperity,
no matter how great, is the result of
their own efforts; in few words the
masses are those who live by their
success in competition. The classes,
on the other hand, are those who are
made rich not by their own work, but
by special legislation. Now if you APP
ply this theory to every political prop
osition you will always be able to de-
termine your position.
did it ever occur to you that the
primary reason for the civil war was
the impelling motive inspiring human
slavery? Do you know that the orig
inal draft of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence included clause forbidding
slavery? This was changed, and the
ones who changed it We're moved by
the impulse of avarice and greed.
thank God that have lived in an age
when the courage of one great and
good man was sufficient to move him
to remove the shackles from the slaves
and l hope that no one will live to
Sc the day when those shackles will
again be placed upon any human
being black, white or brown
1.-THE classes have always been in
the minority, and they always will be.
They have never been able to succeed
in politics except when able to mis-
direct the public mind by false repre-
sensations. They have nearly always
succeeded, but their success has been
but temporary The campaign of 1896
was fought on false issues. The mon
ey question was not the real issue, but
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the real issue, which was nothing more
nor less than the leveling of condi-
lions. | believe that more money was
contributed four years ago for the pur-
pose of defeat of the income tax than
for the defeat of free silver.
For the last quarter of century,"
continued Mr.. Sells, 'the republican
party has never fought campaign
honestly. They have based all their
arguments on the fact that there was
once war in this country. They
have kept the eyes of the voters in
Dixie, while they robbed the till in
! Washington. While in 1860 the wealth
was almost equally distributed. you
cannot now go into Wall street in New
York and throw stone without hit
ting a multi,millionaire. And their
wealth was all accumulated by special
legislation. The classes have divided
the masses" He said that four years
ago, Mr.. Lacey promised that if the re-
| publican ticket was elected, the cut
!, lery, the starch works, and linseed oil
mills would begin operation, but that
they are still idle; and that in the face
of these facts, Mr.. Lacey was one of
the many who voted against the Dock
cry amendment to the Dingley bill.
i."And yet Mark Hanna says there are
no trusts. The republican partys at
titude on the trust question is dishon-
est. Why should they be honest in it
when their campaign fund is wrung
from those who control the trusts?
The democratic platform declares en-
4 phatically against monopolies. There
would be no trusts if there were no
protective tariff; y every trust article
should be put on the free list. In 1898
the American people imbued with pa
/ triotism, were impelled to stop the
war, Spain was waging against Cuba.
This was one of the grandest acts of
history. Ii the government had reas-
serted the spirit of HTS we should
have received the econiums of the
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the war which was begun for the benz
eft of humanity, has resolved itself
into struggle for possession. We
announced it as our intention to es-
tablish the fact that republic can be
successful and live an indefinite period
but now, after only a hundred and
twenty-five years of republican gov
eminent. we are trying to coerce the
people of another country and to sub
jugate them. Would the government
do for the Filipinos what they failed
to do for Cuba and Porto Rico? Many
people nowadays believe that the con-
ditions at the time of the adoption of
the treaty by which the United States
obtained the Louisiana Purchase are
similar to the conditions at present
in regard to the adoption of the Phil
ippines as part of the United States
and their government as such. This
is not the case. The people of the
Louisiana Purchase were assured citi.
zenship, while those of the Philip
pines have no reason to believe they
will be made citizens if their islands
are annexed
There are those who declare that
they are not afraid of king. Meth.
er am |, and pray God that the time
will never come when any citizen OF
this country will be the subject of a
monarch, but believe me that when
this government passed laws making
those who should be citizens, subjects
it incorporated into it's institutions the
first elements of monarchy. Caesar
was never crowned king of Rome, but
he was the greatest tyrant that coun
try ever knew. France is republic
only in name. 1t is simply military
oligarchy. Whoever would have said:
Long live Liberty in France during
the Dreyfus trial would have invited
assault. 1t was the cry of the liberty
loving people outside of France that
compelled the. government to reconsid
er the Dreyfus trial, and had not this
demand been made, he would have YET
been an unjust prisoner on Devils
Island. Monarchies may live long and
thrive without the coronation of q
king, and if you live till you see g
king crowned in America, the land Of
the free and the home OF the brave,
before you realize the trend events
(, have taken, may God pity YOU