Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-10-30
The Mountain was in labor and
Brought Forth a Mouse"


scribes the Dolliver meeting held in
Cresco last Friday. A tent with cap
acity for 5000 people was obtained for
one-fourth that number of persons in
attendance.
We were disappointed as much in
Mr.. Doliver as the republicans were in
the attendance. Instead of stating
what the democrats favor he invari-
ably erected "straw man" and then
proceeded to demolish his own Gre
alton. He stated that Mr.. Bryan and
the democratic party in 1896 advocat-
ed cutting the dollar in two, creating
dollars worth but so cents and boldly
and chivalrously demolished that here
sy of his own creation. Mr.. Bryan
and the democratic party in 1896, fav-
ored coming just such silver dollars as
the present republican administration
is coming at the rate of 2 million a
month at the ratio of 16 to l. The
democrats advocated that as means
of giving the country more money for
transaction of business, and as nee
essary means of enhancing the price
of labor and its products. The repub-
lican reply to this was "there is mon
ey enough in the country if you have
Ianything to get it with" Now the
country has $500, 1000, 900 more than it
had in 1886, with republican law for
an unlimited increase of bank money,
not dollar of which will be legal ten
der for any purpose. Instead of pro-
viding for the payment of the public
debt the party has provided means for
an unlimited increase and for its per-
petuation.
He adroitly avoided all allusion to
these unpleasant truths, but dram
atically told of his visit to the birth
place of Mr.. Lincoln down among the
mountains of Kentucky, almost as af-
fecting as the visit of Mark Twain to
the grave Of Adam, the earliest ances-
tor of his race.
| In 1896, and since, the democratic
party has insisted that the contest be-
tween the parties over what Mr. Dol
liver calls sound money, was whether
the banks, or the government should
issue the paper money. He forgot to al
lude to this in his speech but Mr.. Dol
liver and bis party voted in favor of
bank money instead of government
money and to retire the greenbacks.
He said he would not have advised
the PHILIPPINE war, but failed to men
tion anything making it more advis-
able now than at it's commencement.
And he failed to tell his audience
whether the Filipino is to be made
citizen or subject. After the war of
subjugation is over what does he or
his party propose to do with that peo-
Pile? AS a Senator the people had
right to hear from him on this point
about which he was as silent as the
sphinx.
A strip of country 20 miles in width
300 miles in length which for Is years
had been represented on the maps of
Russia, England and the United Stat
es, as belonging to either Russia, or
the United States since 1867, settled
largely by citizens of the United Stat
es has within the past three months
been turned over to English rule by
the President and his secretary OF
state. Thousands of American citi-
zens and millions of property have
been placed under English rule by the
administration, with the rich gold
mines Of that country, and Senator
Dolliver avoided all allusion to the
subject. AS a senator the people had
right to know where he is at.
The trusts that are robbing all clas-
ses of the people and which have des-
troyed all healthful and legitimate
competition he passed by not even al
luding to the ice trust in N. Y. which
Teddy has failed to prosecute under
the antitrust law of the state because
all its member and stockholders eX-
cept two, are republicans.
The treaty of the President with
the Sultan of Sulu protecting both
slavery and polygamy, he failed to
mention. Will he as Senator vote for
its ratification? He failed to inform
| his hearers.
His contempt for the volunteer
citizen soldiers of the country was
shown IN his remarks about General
Lawlton whom he classed as "a regu-
lar" He told his audience that ''the
chief problem Of life is to make a
living and that the republican party
understands this" He might have
cited in Illustration Nelly and Rath-
bone appropriating Cuban post office
funds to their individual use.
The treaty of peace with Spain its
ratification he attributes to the intlu-
ence of Bryan with senators who were
to act upon it. But Bryan had no
reason to believe that after peace was
established between the United States
and Spain that the war would be con-
tinued. The FilipinoS we're our allies
in that conflict, were armed by our
people, and that 1T would continue af-
ter peace was declared for their subju-