Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-12


did not condescend to say. 1t was SIM
ply a part of their Fourth OF Juliars.
But the country will not be deceived by
this declaration of political trust
which has entered into combination
for the purpose of securing place and
power.
What has become Of the crown OF
,thorns upon the brow Of labor? Labor
is too busy to take time to be scrucified
on cross of gold. The people are too
busy with facts to be caught by the
cheap chaff Of metaphors and theories
The war with Spain and its conse-
quences have given rise to new condi-S
tions and responsibilities, and all these
things are eagerly caught at in the
search for a winning issue. The gentle
men who now ask uss to turn tail to all
the burdens and responsibilities en-8
tailed by that war We're the loudest in
their demands that the administration
should enter upon the contest, without
even waiting for the necessary prepar-
alton for hostilities.
Had Mckinley abandoned the islands
which fell into our hands. they would
have been the first to denounce the
abandonment as cowardly poltroonery.s
The war was short and glorious. Our
minister, Gen. Woodford. was stoned by
the Spanish mob at, Saragossa as he
journeyed to the French frontier, and.
his was the first. last and only Ameri-s
can back that the Spanish saw in all
that war. The Spanish navy disap-
pearad as ships that pass in the night
Columbus bonrs have gone back to
Spain. Mr.. Bryan now disapproves of
the conduct of that war. So did the
Spaniards and Filipinos.
THAT the results, OF the war have
opened toaus the dominion Of the sea
I and a vast array of opportunities is evil
dent to all. We long since had the white
man. the red man and the black man:
1.-The big brown man of the Pacific, who
turned the scale at Kansas City, has
been added to our problems: the Span
| ish war gave US the little brown man of
| the bush in I.uzon. That these people
present an interesting and difficult
lproblem no one will dispute. No sooner
had we freed them from the. thraidom
of 300 years of Spanish oppression than.
|they attacked our troops and began to
kill the men who had set them free.
This country has never feared to
grow. 1t began with expansion. The
tree that ceases to grow decays at the
heart Jefferson and Monroe began the
/ career in the beginning of the century
THAT Mckinley has followed at its close.
The same platform that denounces
Iall foreign entanglements. criticises the
Republican party for not taking an ac-
tive part IN the South African war. Was
1T sympathy for the Beers that led to
the adoption of the African plank in the
Kansas City platform? No. It vas
lmerely the hope OF catching votes. The
German government has adopted no
resolutions of sympathy for the Boer
people Holland has taken no official
action on the subject. And yet 1t is as
sumed thai German and Holland voters
in the United States will be influenced
against the republican party because
1.-THE administration, after rendering its
tinties did not extensively assume to
take up arms in the contest.
/ No party can escape history. BY its
deeds it should be willing to be judged.
4 BY this test there ought to be no ques-
ton as 10 the verdict of the American
people this year. II, with the record
THAT this administration has made. the
Republican party shall be condemned.
Its pledges. Mckinley and the republi-
can party We're called to power for the
purpose Of putting our currency on the
solid foundation of gold. for the purpose
of returning our wandering laborers to
fixed places of employment, for the pur-
pose of repeating the laws which had
crippled every sort Of industry, and had
even paralyzed the business which is
1.-The country. Labor is now fully etn-
ployed, commerce is again active, the
4 farmers produce are in demand, for the
men who consume these products have
.Iagain found remunerative employment.
j Kansas has taken up and made bon
i fire OF her mortgages, and nowhere does
Mr.. Bryan find the surroundings cons
genial for the only campaign he is By
nature or training able to conduct.
Here is a new illusion, freshly coined
at Lincoln, Neb. A price level. a blme1-
sIallic price level. The platform assumes
THAT there has been such level and 1t
lis desirable that it be restored Do
5|they want agricultural products re-
stored to. this binletallic price level?'
4 Do they want wages reduced or restored
Ito their imaginary price level? Let us
Ispare them their illusions. but let us be
i|spared from their illusions.
iowa sent 5000 young soldiers to the
sISpanish war. Not one of them was un-
liable to write his own name to the en-
Ilistment rolls.
a shall the present condition in state
and nation endured?
Americans all, whether naturalized
or native born. are alike interested In
1.-THE welfare OF the whole people. A cam
paign OF argument must be inaugurated
and kept up until election day.
THE people all want to do that which
liz for the best. but. when we recall the
4 fact that $4,000 voters in 1896 We're
|misled by the democratic battle cry of
4 that year, we must take nothing for
i granted in the year 1900.
Oregon has already spoken. Her ver-
4 dict was given after a full discussion in
which Mr.. Bryan personally took a
prominent part.
LET us see to 1t that ever faithful
Iowa does her duty in November. to
herself and to the whole American peo-
i pie.
4 4 e e !. Our ila tionai leaders have been VOL
chosen. The wise and sage Mckinley
the honest, brave and intrepid Rough
4 Rider Roosevelt. are leaders around
4 whom the friends of protection, sound
n money and law and order NAV rally for