Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-05-10

nelght OF craftsmanship. For forty
years the iron, steel, sugar and oil
combinations of this country, with
their many ramifications, have as sure
ly controlled the legislation of this
country as the sun controls the sea-
sons. The great steel and sugar ill.,
dustries of this country today are mas
tiers and only of their own acts, but
compel the congress of the United
States, aye, the executive, to bend the
knee and then to follow, fawning.
"The starving Porto Rican asked for
bread and the sugar trust said: No,
unless you sweeten it with a tariff.
And the chief executive heartily con-
scented.
The trusts must go and there is but
one party that can and will accom-
plish it, and that is the democratic
party. You cannot hope the repub
lican party will crush the trust. DO
YOU expect a father TO chastise his
most obedieht SON? 1t is not u ques-
ton how to do il: the question is, will
you do it? The life blood of the COM
mon people cannot be sucked by this
refined larceny. by men who weave
not, neither do they spin. These gi-
gantic institutions must be controlled
il possible, eNtingushcd if necessary.
"'rhe constitution OF our lahais suf
ficient to control and does give,to the
congress of our country pleiiaFwpow-
er on this great question. Ehe man
who says the constitution fol3Iids Leg
islation along these lines is closely al
lied to the trusts and is not demo-
GRAFT. The democratic party must have
no faltering step on this ground; the
people look for nothing and therefore
expect nothing from the republican
party.
No Subsidies Wanted.
The tariff barons sec their day of sun.
shine about TO pass, and they meet ex=
vote subsidies for the erection of ships
and give as sr, q reason the extension of
our trade The democratic party is ops
posed To subsidies in every form.
In democratic days the flag Of our
country tioated into every known port,
bearing the products of our farm and
garden nnadea by public subsidies or
By American sailors. laden with Amer-
ican Industries and carrying the Amer
lean sa flag Today not 20 per cent. of the
carried i'm American ships floating the
stars and stripes at their masthead
say TO the subsidy srabbers, Bewarel
there is a day of reckoning; you will be
hurled from power an surely as the
eternal principles of justice are true.
= Trinity OF Evils.
imperialism, miltarism and trusts are
one They mean gigantic consolidation
are united. Imperialism cannot be a sue
cess without standing RAINY. The youth
OF inns country were not intended by man
or God to become soldiers at home or in
foreign land.
We have today standing army larger
than ever before. The tramp of the SOL
e eep for its dsen hns IN stadp aS
BODIES no good to a free people; If MAIN
tanned, it will lead but to one end. die
nv an ana Goa knaMs we are heeom
time, when single individual can pur-
chase l0,ooo,0oo human beings and the
transfer be made with the same case,
grace and consideration that you would
have In buying much pork on the Chi
cago board of trade.
- The imperialistic policy develcped by
the present administration is indeed q
wonder and amazemcnt. When war was
declared against Span by this govern
ment for humanity's sake all the world
am honest heart. We beheld upon our
border. struggling people, asking but
one thing-the. God-siven right to govern
people with one accord exclaimed that
they should have 1t. We sent the flower
of our nation, the volunteer soldier, to
battle, not for territory. but for liberty.
We expressly stated in our declaration
that we had no Interior designs but to
assist i'm liberating human beings. Was
Status IN tho Philippines.
We have 10000 soldiers in the Philip
pine islands shooting down a people who
only ask one thing-the right to govern
themselves. Have we any right to gov
ern. them against their will? The decla-
ration of Independence says not. The
trainers of our constitution say not. The
martyred president said not. a far-off
country, 10000 miles from the seat of
government, climate SO unsuitable to
say it exhausts the vitality and.life Of
regiment OF $50 soldiers every thirty days
year!
They say this is manifest destiny that
the mercful God threw these people upon
God never did vain or inglorious
thing. He never became pillar of cloud
by day and pillar of fire by night to
lead the chosen people out of bondage
and then gave to the republican party
the right to lead a Christian people into
Are we to have a colonial system? God
| forbid it,. God forbid that my govern
ment will ever control human being
in its inception that 1t has been the en-
ishtenment of the world wherever hui
manity rules. @, Father OF mankind
send 1t forth with the torch of civiliza.
ton as its guide: place the book of life
| in one hand, the constitution in the other
| and, thus armed, instruct all mankind
to obey.
Why do not we say to the Filipino that
We come as friends and will aid them to
| make their own laws, assist them to
have better schools, and that over their
government will float the American flag
eign invasion. Did we ever say to the
Filipino we would let him make his own
laws?
We are almost ready to destroy the
contract that we made with Cuba, and
as to Puerto Rico. we have already
turned its starving people over to the
kind mercy of the sugar trust.
Constitution and the Flag.
and give them life and liberty, and where
that flag goes to protect, the constitution
goes to insure. The constitution of the
where one cannot float the other cannot
dwell they. are INTERCHANGEABLE con-
ne &c, and indissolub!y united:
The congress of the United States does
not possess any power or right except
what is given it by the constitution, and
II II. has no more right to tax sugar comma
1t would have If 1t came from California.
The supreme court of the United States
has depeatedly decided that the power of
! ton. and thai. its right to legislate is
under and by the constitution. Then will
it be possible that we can tax the starv-
ing Puerto Rican who appeals to us for
bread where our flag and our army
| dwells. because. forsooth, things that he
may raise come in competition with some
OF the trust products and still claim that
we do this by virtue of the constitution
of the United States2
The people OF Puerto Rico are simply
asking for justice. The great party of the
common people will not hesitate for a
single instant to raise it's voice for this
people and against this legislation. Not
a moment believed that the Puerto Rican
it outside the pale of the influence of the