Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-25
FoWLER's GOOD TALK.
The Eminent Methodist Divine Speaks

The Eminent Methodist Divine Speaks
in Chicago.
Chicago, Oct. 22.-Friday evening
Right Rev. Bishop Fowler of Buffalo,
spoke to great assemblage in the
Auditorium, under the auspices of the
Marquette Club, on Lincoln and Nc
kiniey." The bishop spoke for two
hours, holding the rapt attention of
his hearers. AT times the applause
VS. tremendous. He said, in part:
Il am invited here to talk under the
auspices of the Marquette Club upon
two providential men, Lincoln and Nc
'kinley. In coupling these names in
this order we are following the logical
order, from knowledge of Iaitn, from
that which we know to that which we
believe. All men honor Abraham Lin
coin today. All men will honor Nc
kinley tomorrow.
In 1898 the business of the country
was dead. Forty per cent of the rail
roads of the country were in the hands
of receivers. Five millions out of 90
II 1000 of our laboring men were idle
and 100000 more were on reduced
wages, or reduced time, or both. Our
exports had run down to only $780,
100000 and the deposits in the banks
had been reduced to only $197,000,000.
Failures in business had gone up so
per cent from 10000 under Harrison to
$4,000 under Cleveland. Farm prod
ucts 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 up
on us by competition with cheap for
eign labor by free trade.
'Test the prophets of 1896 by their
prophecy Bryan prophesied that if
Mckinley was elected the distress
would increase and The number of the
unemployed would multiply. What are
the facts? Distress has disappeared
everywhere except from the minds of
the calamity buZzards, who are hunt
ing for carcasses, and the number of
the unemployed has been reduced
from % per cent of our laboring men
to 2 per cent, that is from 100000 to
only 100000. Bryan prophesied that
if Mckinley was elected farm products
and wages would go down with silver
and that farmers would lose their
farms under their mortgages. What
are the facts? Farm products 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
before in the history of this country,
and money can be borrowed as cheap
ly in the great farming centers as any
where else. The farming centers are
lending money to the great cities. Ev-
cry prophecy of Bryan has utterly
failed
mot 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
him as a prophet, and that Is what we
must have just nova prophet we
can trust:
''As believer in American history,
l am an expansionist. Tha is what we
have been doing in all our past. 1t is
republican doctrine and democratic
practice. Expansion is the law of
Saxon life.
10 call expansion imperialism is
either foolish or insincereS OF both. 1t
| is practicing fallacies upon the unin-
formed and the contiding. Imperialism
| is absurd. No department of the gov
eminent can usurp the supreme power.
THE only possible emperor is the
absolute power above congress, above
the supreme court, above the presi-
ldent-77 100000 people.
IF Bryan is elected, he will ask the
Immediate repeal of the present tariff
law and secure free trade. This will
stop our spindles, close our factories
and cool our furnaces. This will
transfer our work beyond the seas to
strangers, and leave our laborers idle
and their families hungry. If Bryan
is elected he will call back our armies,
turn over all the tribes of the Philip
| pine islands to be robbed and MUIR
dered by the Tagalos and haul down
our flag from where our heroes ave
| planted it. We do not want that.
con the other hand, what? If Nc
Kinley is elected he will continue the
protective tariff, keeping our factories
and furnaces running and furnish
work and high wages to our laborers.
That is what we do want.
IF Mckinley is elected, he will re-
tam the gold standard, preserve sound
money and pay all our salaries and
wages in money worth 100 cents to the
dollar. That is what we do want.
"If Mckinley is elected, he will hold
our flag floating over all our territory
preserving our national honor. That
is what we do want.
| IF Mckinley is elected, he will hold
the United States up to the front as a
world power, secure the open door for
trade and the gospel, and help to per
petuate civilization, thus fastening the
end of heathenism and the Christianiz
alton of the world. That is what we dc
want.
Let us send him back to his job"
Mason citys Military College.
Mason City, Oct 20.-At the meet
ing of the local board having in charge