Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-31
.SIBLEY FOR MAC.
Former Democratic Congressman
Tells Why He ..Fiopped''-Republi-
canism Means Prosperity for All.

Tells Why He - s.Flopped''-R Republi-
canism Means Prosperity for All.
Washington, Oct. s31.-Hon. Joseph G.
ISibey,swho was elected in 1895 to repre-
isent the Twenty-seventh district of
Pennsylvania. as democrat, is run
ming for congress this year in the same
district as a republican,. In a speech
before his constituents he recently
| said:
Standing in this place two years ago
Hooking into your faces. I made this
declarations: That If elected as your
Representative SO far as the power was
given me to construe my duty to you
and to my native land, would keep
faith with you.
/ IT looked into the faces OF men and
women here and said II elected as your
Representative that TO any measure
y coming before the American congress
would apply alone these standards:
s|.Does this measure in It's tendency
make for the welfare and the happi-
ness and the uplifting of our common
humanity? Does this measure throw:
wider open the door Of opportunity thru
Il gosout into the world to win an honora-
Ible place? L it does. Will support
that measure, even IL it originates on
Iblocks the wheels Of progress and
makes heavier the burdens upon the
q backs of struggling humanity, will
: \ oil 1vv,H,
q levery democrat in the house Of repre-
sentatives is for IT.
q IF looking AT the present. and trust
ling for grander future. rather than
!. facing backward to fan the smoldering
:. embers Of the past, constitutes one a
s Hopper, please enumerate me as such.
..Whenever see men who have been
!, working for one dollar day able to
d earn two dollars; when the man who
!, learned two dollars can have the oppor-
,Itunity to earn three. ] will flop as otter
: as it may be necessary to help that con-
!. .idition for that manto continue.
: When from 1888 to 1896 a per cent Of
1.-the wage -earners of this country Were
I unemployed or working on short hours
] and today only three-eights Of / pei
>5lcent of the wage-earners are unem'
ployed, will flop to help keep these
men employed whenever and wherever
lit is demanded.
when i see the open door policy II
), the orient furnishing the outlet for al
. our surplus wheat and cotton: wheI
Z President Hill, of the Great Northern
I Iroad. states that he is building twt
: sgisteamships, each capable of carryin,
: something like $4,000 tons Of freight
: land he tells us that the demand TO-
.s|wheat and cotton in the orient today u
!, limited only by the cargo capacity upol
), the Pacific ocean; when we see tn
:, wheat that formerly went around tn
= Horn to compete with the wheat OF tn
middle states the Mississippivalley an.
Il 1.-THE Red river country, now moving Z
3 1.-THE orient-for the policy which afford
: us base If distribution, and whicl
J "opens a market illimitable In its de
: mands to the American farmer, who 70
ii fso many years has been in the vale
L lof humiliation: for the pleasure Of see
{ ling him upon the heights of prosperit
3 land success, seeing him in command 9
L 1.-THE worlds markets; to know that tn
2 sunshine OF prosperity has not bee
. confined alone to our workshops. bu
= li,as bathed' the home OF every farme
,e1and blessed the life Of each and all {
II his loved ones. this makes fiopping eas l
,el for me-
When I Eee the flag fired upon: whe
II see the brave boys in blue, you
brothers.. your sons, and your sweet
= hearts, shot down by men in ambusl
g Imy sympathies go out to you and
70 them rather than to a Tagal savag
4. land have got to flop. Ard as 4 10y
lg my country. my fellow men and m
le God. no man will flop ahead Of me.
to II appeal to no mans partisanshil
e. lbut rather to his reason and his cor
science. The success Of those prime
pies which. embodied in our nationi
q life, open wide the doors OF opportun
= ty thru which your loved ones must {
: out to win an honorable place in II
3 world, means everything TO you ar
them. Let us tear down those ALTA
which. In our pride. we have builded I
r, our high places, and whereon we hay
he made sacrifices to selfshness to part
q san passion and prejudice, and on the
o. ruins erect fairer temples upon who
In |unprofaned affairs We shall lay 3.
u thank lEsfinss @ patriot tlsna Il q
s$ duty.