Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30

was free, England got her revenge by
starting al-sectarian-religio or
ganization in Ireland. That organiza-
ton was mainly the cause of the turn
ing of Irish parliamentary harmony in
to that disunion that ended in the de-
struction of our industries and liberty
thru free trade. Thus we were made
the free-trade slaves of conditions aris-
ing from idleness.
1T is time we should use our delib-
crate judgment in political matters;
the above condensed sketch of En-
glish-democrat political intrigue shows
that we have inadvertently been the
tool of our enemies and have been
reasoning thru our passions. Thir-
ty years ago few Irish Americans
saw the danger to the republic arising
from conspiracy of the above charac-
ter, which thru the agency of free
| trade, used the 1rish-American vote to
aid England and injure this nation.
Those Irish-Americans, Joining with
the protection element of the Repub-
lican party have been at work instruct
ing the citizens in the evils of free
| trade. That instruction, which has
been especially directed toward the
| Irish-Americans, was aided very much
by the object lesson of the Democratic
panic of 1893. For that panic most
forcibly fulfilled all the predictions of
the protectionists. By reason of that
joint work and the object lesson of the
panic, million of Instantaneous
voted for Mckinley and protection in
| 1896, resulting in again re-establish-
| ing the centers of industrial activity
under the stars and stripes, and giving
supremacy arising from prosperity
. 20 the republic. Thus we transferred
the Industrial shoe to the other foot,
and, as a result, compelled the social
ed mistress Of the seas" whose flag
has waved for thousand years, to
come to this republic to borrow money.
This is but the beginning of our good
work for this republic, if we are true
to our interests. To my mind, that
one incident of England borrowing
money in this country has Inundated
the English people more and marks
the decline of that nation more de-
cisively than any event that has oc-
Cured in her modern history. Hence,
the work of protection has been more
destructive to England than all the
wars we have made on her for TOO
years. Consequently that million r.
lish-American votes which aided in the
passage of the Dingley law had a
mighty force for the welfare of this
republic and the injury of England.
England for Bryan.
Shall we now leave the party of
prosperity when with the aid of our
votes that party has caused this nation
to leap to the forefront of all nations
No! No! A thousand times no! BY
voting for Bryan we would be doing
just what England wants us to do, and
we would be permitting England to
get in on the ground floor with the
people and party which in the future
. will control this nation. That, from
self-interest she will try to do. Under
such circumstances, for the Irish now
to vote for Bryan woule be political
suicide.
imperialism is an old Democratic
: juggernaut car, used on convenient
: occasions to raise dust and to hide
the party's not very creditable RECORD
on American industrial development
!. and American prosperity. 1t was uset
against Lincoln and Grant. Mr.. Bryan
really stultifies his other manly quail
ties by trying to fit himself to the po
|
out apologizing for the official and I'm
official insult which his party hurled
, at that great man thru that same
old imperial fake. Looking dow
the history of the past forty years ant
measuring the sacrifices made by tht
American people for the cause of lib
erty and republican form of govern
; ment, the fact that any party rasesth
Of i'm, ioli cr is on n n
; manhood of this nation. and my wore
: for it, the people will shoot it to dealt
at the polls.
! Expansion is another hedge raise
to hide the results of democratic FIRE
trade. Elect Nh. Bryan, and with hi
" shibboleth of protection is robbery
. he would smash our welfare to smith
Greens. The Irish people would sui
), fer most and their old enemy be tn
gamer, while expansion, the highwa
of all our mental and material pros
!, perity, would be crippled unto dealt
= The trust question is subject TO
: law to settle, and the voters will Sc
tie that in time. Certainly the pee
pie can better afford to place the Sc
: tlement in the hand of the party tina
= has given us all the wonderful result
of the past forty years rather tina
. place it in the hands of the part
: which entered the doors Of tret
: son and almost death to defend an
support that most odious of trusts, til
:, slave trust, the suppression Of whic
: cost the nation half a million of live
and six bi lions of dollars. At tha
:, nterment the republican part
: was the undertaken, and it seems t
: me safer to place this new form {
: human selfishness, trusts, in the hand
= of the party that strangled the slav
trust, than in the hands of the part
!. which entered the doors OF treaso
, and death in defending it.
!, 'All these different issues are bl
;. red herrings trailed across the trac
= of the prosperity of the republi
= meant to deceive and attract our vote
= to follow the will-o -the-wisp promise
). OF Mir. Bryan, whose party promise
made during the last forty years woul
: if enacted into aw, have left us wit
- ont national credit, national industr
= and, unless God alone saved us, wou
- have left us a lot Of divided state
= weak and uncemented, like the o
Il German municipalities, perhaps to I