Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-10-05
s. s. Wright's Speech.

s. S. Wright's Speech.
| While we are unable to do Justice
to the grand speech delivered by S. S.
Wright before the democracy at the
Opera house on Tuesday evening, we
feel that a few of it's many excellen
points must be noted. He most elo-
quently protrayed the evils of mill
tarism and Imperialism, and of the
latter clearly demonstrated from the
acts of the administ its tenden-
cy toward imperial government The
constitu ton provides that no money
shall be drawn from the treasury ex-
cept for appropriations previously
made. The cost of the Philippine
war up to the 30th of June was $685.
100000. The only appropriation by
congress was s5O,o0O,OOO appropriated
on the heels of the destruction Of the
Maine. This money has been drawn
from the treasury just as the imperial
car of Russia would take it, asking
no mans leave to do so. Congress
alone is authorized to declare war, yet
the president is prosecuting war in
the Philippines that has never been
authorized by congress. What more
could imperialism do in making and
conducting war? But there are abun-
dance of other and undisputed and ir-
REPUTABLE evidence of imperialistic
Tenderness that cannot be ignored or
explained away. The questions Of
imperialism was shown to be the par
mount issue In as much as it menaces
the very foundation principles on
which republican govern ment rests.
No Illustration of its effects can be
found in the his tory of the American
Republic, but must be sought for only
in the corruption and despotism, the
rot and decline of the gov ernments of
the past, and in the tyranny and des-
potic rule of the kingdoms and en-
pireS of the old world, which burden
the people with immense armies at
great cost and heavy taxation and
whose fundamental principles are the
exact reverse of our own.
The trusts and ordinations where
by capital is enabled to plunder labor
of its reward, were shown to be of
republican origin in America, and the
source from which Marcus Aurelius
Borealis Hanna draws his campaign
Doodle with which he hopes to con-
tinue this imperial administration in
power. With an abundance of law on
the statute book for their suppression
OF control the administration has as
its Attorney General, John w. Griggs,
| of N. j., the stat I, in which nearly all
and who uses bis office for their pro-
lection, refusing to enforce the law.
The treaty with the Sultan of Sulu
was commented upon and Mr.. Wright
read from the treaty made, showing
that both Slare1y and Polygany the
administration pledges itself by solemn
treaty to protect on the Island, and
pays over $4,000 year for the privi-
lege of having our flag float over the
harem OF the Sultan's dozen wives.
The flag which for thirty-three years
had tioated over stip of Alaska 20
miles in width and 300 in length, 5000
square miles, occupied by citizens of
the United States engaged in gold
mining, president Mckinley and his
secretary of state John Hay, hauled
down on the demand of John Bull.
This strip of territory had been in the
possession of Russia for forty years and
of the United States by purchase and
cession for thirty three years, and for
all that 73 years of time had been
represented on the maps of Russia,
England and America as belonging to
either Russia or the United States.
The prosperity so much boasted of
by the republican party he demon
strated was for the few and not for
the many, the same as in countries
where the doctrine Of Imperialism
prevails. In Illustration, he pointed
to the prosperity Of the operators in
the Anthracite coal regions, the pala-
ces they own and occupy, and to the
thousands of their employees in huts
and novels that barely shelter them
from the inclemency of the seasons
with 10000 men now on a strike be-
cause their compensation would not
furnish them and those dependent up
on them the necessaries of life. The
trusts, the railroad magnates, the coal
barons, the banking fraternity, each
and all have full dinner pals but the
pals Of those they employ are filled
with wind and their evening meal
crust of bread and cup Of water.
The speech was attentively listened
to throughout its entire delivery and
was at times and at its conclusion
rapturously applauded.