Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-20
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Tho Eminent Methodist Divine
Speaks in Chicago on "Lincoln
and Mckinley
ays Every prophecy Of Bryan Has
Failed-lhe speaker Favored
Expansion.
But to Call 1t imperialism is Either
Foolish or lnsincers. or
Both.


Foolish or lnsincers. or
Both.
Chicago, Oct. 20, Last evening ri.
Rev. Bishop Fowler, of Buffalo, spoke to
u great assemblage in the Auditorium,
under the auepices of the Marquette
Club, on Lincoln and Mckinley. :" The
bishop spoke for two hours, holding the
rapt attention Of his hearers. At times
the applause was tremendous. He said,
in part:
Il am invited here to talk under the
auspices Of the Marquette Club upon
two providential men Lincoln and Me-
Kinley. In coupling these names in this
order we are following the logical order.
from knowledge Of faith, from that
which we know to that which we be-
lieNe. All men honor Abraham Lincoln
today. All men will honor Mckinley to-
morrow.
In 1895 the business, of the country
Was dead. Forty per cent of the rail-
roads of the country We're in the hands
of receivers. Five millions out of co..
00O, 900 of our laboiing men were idle and
1000, 900 more We're on reduced wages, or
reduced time, or both. Our exports had
run down to only s200.000000 and the de-
posits in the banks had been reduced to
only $197, 100000. Failures in business
had gone up so per cent from 10000 un-t
der Harrison TO $4,000 under Cleveland.
Farm products would not bring enough
TO pay for production. Farmers could
not pay the interest on their mortgages.
Factories were closed. furnaces cold,
mines shut down. All this forced upon
US by competition With cheap foreign la
Dor by free trade.
Test the prophets Of 1895 by their
prophecy. Bryan prophesied that If Me-
skinley was elected the distress would
increase and the number Of the unem-
ployed would multiply. What are the
facts? Distress has disappeared every
where except from the minds OF the cal
tamity buzzards, who are hunting for
3carca sses, and the number of the unem-
ployed has been reduced from % per
cent OF our laboring men to 2 per cent,
tha, is from 5, 100000 to only 900. Bry-
an prophessed that II Mckinley was
elected farm products and wages would
go down With silver and that farmers
would lose their farms under their mort
cages. What are the facts? Farm prod
uots are higher than they have been for
years wages have advanced from 10 to
25 per cent and farm mortgages have
been paid Off more rapidly than ever be-
fore in the history of this country. and
money can be borrowed as cheaply in
the great farming centers as anywhere
else. These farming centers are lending
money to the great citief. Every proph-
ecy Of Bryan has utterly failed.
Not only have his prophecies failed to
come true, but the reverse of every one
Of the prophecies he uttered has come
true. Whatever we may think OF Mr..
Bryan's candor. eloquence and physical
endurance. we can not trust his prophe-
cies. We can not trust him as proph-5
at. and that 10 what We must have just
nova prophet we can trust
As a believer in American history. I
am an expansionist. That is what we
have been doing in all our pact 1t is
republican doctrine and democratic
practice. Expansion is the law of Saxon
life
To call expansion imperialism is:
either foolieh or insincere. or both. 1t
practicing fallacies upon the uninformel.
and the confiding. Imperialism is abb
surd. No department Of the government
can usnrp the supreme power.
The only possible emperor liz the alb
solute power above congress-. above the
supreme court, above the president-77,- =
900. 600 people.
If Bryan is elected. he will ask the.
Immediate repeal Of the present tarifY.
tr,&
our spindles close our factories and cool
our furnaces This will transfer our
work beyond thetseas TO strangers, and
leave our laborers idle and their fami-
lies hungry. If Bryan Is elected he will
call back our armies. turn over all the.
tribes of the Philippine islands to be
robbed and murdered by the Tagalos
and haul down our flag from where our
heroes have planted 1t. We do not want
that.
On the other hand. what? II Nc.
kinley is elected he will continue the
protective tariff. keeping our factories
and furnaces running and furnish work
and high wages to our slab orers. That Is
what we do want
If Mckinley Is elected he will retain
the gold standard, preserve sound mon
| ey and pay all our salaries and wages IN
money worth 100 cents to the dollar.
4 That Is what we do want.
II Mckinley is elected, he VIII keep
our flag floating over all our territory,
preserving our national honor. That is
what we do want
IL Mckinley is elected. he will hold
the United States up to the front az a
world power. secure the open door for
JtraGe and the gospel, and help to per-
lpetuate civilization, thus Fastening the
end of heathenism and the Christianixa-
ton Of the world. That lie what NE do
want.
Let ue send him back to his job!''
M'K1NLEY a SURE WINNER