Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18

American market place protection IN
this matter in the very, nature of the
case. The law of competition will
solve the matter, as it is doing now
with the steel and wire trust.
THE republican party has done all
the legislation that has ever been
done in this country against the
goes as far as anything can in regard
to trusts, because the supreme court
has decided that congress has no
right to go from one state to another
in the regulation of trusts. Bryan
knows that and he wants the consti
tuition altered SO that congress shall
have the power to regulate the trusts.
Last winter the chance was given the
democrats to adopt such measure as
that. Amendment 16 to the constitu-
ton was proposed, which made the
necessary provisions. That question
was debated ably. The democrats
said that it would be wrong for con-
gress to go across state lines, and
when the question came up for vote
it got every republican vote but one,
and lost every democratic vote but
five. Consequently it failed to carry
) mot only do the democrats not in
tend to do anything to regulate the
trusts, but in my opinion, they have
not the sense. That is strong as
sertlon to make, and l wouldn't say
, it if l didn't have good reason.
, James Richardson is the best man in
the democratic side of the house of
representatives. If you defeat John
F. Lacey for congress in this district
the man you elect will vote for Rich
ardson for speaker of the house
, against Dave Henderson. Now this
; Richardson, who is commonly called
, Jim, was boiling over against the SUI
gar trusts At last he resolved to kill
it. And now is where l show you the
smartest man on the democratic side
of the house in his great act. He
proposed measure providing that all
the articles connected with the man
: uracture of sugar be admitted free
5 from Cuba and Porto Rico. This
5 would be s14,000000 in the pocket of
3 the sugar trust yearly, for that is the
T amount that trusts paid in duties last
: year.
Last winter the president recon-
: mended that the government pay
a back to the Porto Ricans the $4,000
I 600 paid to this nation as duties on
I articles imported from this country.
I Mr.. Jones, the chairman of the demo-
y cratic national committee, offered an
q amendment, to pay the amount to the
u people who paid it as duties, and not
: to the Porto Ricans. These people
l w4o paid the duty were no other than
L the American sugar trust. | charge
e the opposition with want of knowl-
g edge regarding political matters.
They live in cave into which practi-
l cally no political light enters.
.pryop had cchama for KILLING the
g trusts-by putting the articles affect.
n ed on the free list. We can kill any.
e thing by free trade, that has been
proven. But the worst trusts in the
country control the markets on arti
cles which are already on the free
- list The ice trust, which is controll
- ed by the democrats of New York, is
q one of the largest trusts. And ice is
:, on the free list.
y The Paramount Noise.
$ There is another noise the demo
y Gratis are making, which threatens tx
- drown all other sounds. They call i
- the paramount issue, imperialism,
:, don't know exactly what they are
y, talking about. l have travelled al
- over the country and if there is any
=, one who wants to start monarchy il
: this nation they haven't said any
=. thing to me about it. If they NEAR
70 that we will have big navy, 1 agree
:. with them AS long as | have a voice
- or vote in congress | will use both fol
-, !. the purpose of charging our navy
:. If they mean that we intend to con
- struct the Nicaragua canal, will ad
- nit that they are right. When the
T. canal is built it will be a monument
-. - not of war, but of peace, and of bust
~ ness progress. 1t will stand as wit
- ness thruout the ages that the mis-
~ :, sion of the American government il
u. peace. If they mean that we are go
ing to keep all we get out OF the Phil
III ipplne matter, and not leave the is
ly lands to the mercy of savages the.
es are again right. l think that the an
III ti-war men, instead of complainin:
r. against the hostilities, would hav'
I'd looked better on their knees thanking
" God that we are now out of it. Their
I'd are, it is true, few scattered rem
ed nants of it left in the island of Luzol
OF and in the capital of Nebraska, bu
;h these will soon be suppressed, and w
ne may say that we are out of the wal
Sc 1.-THE democrats boast that the,
at dragged the republicans into the wal
1t seems to me that if | had done thi
u | would have had the courage t
id stand up for my action, at least for
US few minutes. This applies especial
es to Mr.. Bryan for had it not been TO
lis him the treaty of peace with Spai
he would never have been ratified, ii
1g still he says that we should not ow,
es the Philippines, when the treaty h
ne came to Washington to nave rattle
al provided for the ownership of thos
h. islands by the United States.
e. Il have confidence in the America
ag people and in the administration.
op have confidence in the people of thi
re- district, and | will say that no one i
al congress has exercised more infll
I'd ence for good than has your represe1
as rative, John F. Lacey. | ask YOU t
of stand by him and the present admir-
Dr. istration. If the cause of human lii
an erty cannot be safely trusted to sue
IA men as Mckinley, Roosevelt, and l.;
ny cey, what will happen when 'Pitc
OIL Il ork' Tillman, Cyclone Davis an
~, their comrades take cnarpe of tho a