Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-07-12

scandals are notorious. and are based
upon the earnest and repeated written
d ae MAJ .ns OF the officers of some of these
this administration because of money
contributed by them with which to buy
the presidency In 1885,
Correspondence submitted to congress
shows that, i'll one case at least, AN APP
peal from an institution In New York
city to the secretary of the treasury for
claimed. the officers of that bank had
contributed literally to the election of
IN present chief executive, was not made
TINS case. from the government was free
", If not corruptly, given.
twelfth: The scandals which sur
rounded the war department in feeding
embalmed beef to the soldiers, in its pur-
chase of old yachts. tugs. ocean liners,
ocean tramps. barges, scows. etc, for use
as army transports constitute an import
ant chapter.
thirteenth: So also the scandals in
connection with the postotiice matters In
with the expenditure of the funds of the
Paris exposition. Time will not permit an
am, ,iii, OF , all these scandals
theirs is the party of liberty. and in their
vaingory boast of their very name, re-
PUBLICAN, yet they are caught coquet.!ng
and forming secret entangling alliances
of the most detestable character with the
old mother monarchy
They stand supinely by and refuse even
republics in their heroic and unequal
stiusgle for existence as against the
gross expressions and brutal efforts at
went down in defeat when he sought to
prevent the establishment of our own lib
esrty-loving republic. They thus permit
publican institutions to perish from the
earth. lest by one word of sympathy aud
comfort they might offend the delicate
Great Britain
War Taxes.
Fifteenth: An important chapter is the
oft-repeated promise made to be broken
that when the war ceased the oppressive,
many articles of prime necessity should
be repealed, or reduced.
Though the war closed two years ago
and Notwithstanding there is a large and
growing surplus in the treasury. not one
dollar of reduction in these taxes has
been made.
CATION of citizens, suffering from these
burdens, crowded the committee rooms
at Washington and literally begged for
who constitute the minority of congress
joined in that appeal and declared our
readiness u support any and all meas
these burdens of taxation. But a deaf
ear was turned by the republicans to all
such efforts for relief. and none came.
III is we'll known. also. that no relief
will be given by the party in power, and
il is vain for overburdened people to look
to t them while present, policies are at
tempted to be enforced.
The only hope for relief lies in hurting
from power the republican party and the
restoration of the party which believes
IN simple and economical government.
What il Costs.
Sixteenth and lastly: The cost of re-
publicansm and its twin monster imper
ialism.
This is neither the time nor the &C.
n In nfaf fto inn cad
appropriations made necessary by the re-
publican policy of Imperialism.
Briefly, however, l will mention that
the average of appropriations per year
for all purposes of government for the
two Years Immediately preceding the
Spanish..American war was about $780,
mum for each of the three years since
that war, including the fiscal year upon
which we have just entered. shows an in
crease TOR the three years will be nearly
SSO0,0OO,00O. And in like proportion it will
go ON.
This shows the difference in cost of the
empire as against the republic These
figures refer alone to the money cost of
the change s e, and md do not include the ex-
the price of which is far beyond computa-
ton. In the republican congress just
closed. not one dollar could be had for
the country at home, but many millions
We're promptly voted to prosecute war
IN the far-aWay Philippine islands. Not
a dollar for necessary improvements of
our rivers and harbors at home, but mill
lions to be stolen and squandered in Cuba
and our new insular possessions. Moth
ing for an isthmian canal and many other
enterprises and Objects, but more than
two hundred millions were freely given
for the army and navy, for Imperialism
and milttarism, for gold and glory.
The "SlAteen" and the .OnS.''
said atsthe outset the issue this wear
was again sixteen to one. The foregoing
are, briefly, the sixteen parts of the is
sue. What is the one part?
We have seen that platform pledges are
made and broken; that good intentions of
men are sometimes set at naught: that
plain duty, clearly set forth and UNDER
stood is disregarded; that some men are
weak and vacillating and may change
their solemn opinions in a day 1t is APP
parent, therefore to all that in this SUI
preme eNigency of the republic Il demand
goes forth not for Il faint-hearted decla-
ration of platform platitudes, but for il
man. Yes. a man who stands like a
mighty rock in the desert: n man who,
knowing the right. will dare do the right:
man who, rather than follow Il multi
tude to do evil, will stand like Pompeys
pillar conspicuous by himself and single
In Integrity" Such a man as the one
part. this convention will tender to the
nation as their candidate for president
A man who is unsurpassed as n citizen,
unequalled as an orator. courageous as n
soldier. conspicuous in every element
that constitutes the typical and the true,