The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-10-25

Mr.. Loring called for Senate Doll1-
yer and that gentleman responded
in a talk that occupied about an hour
and three-quarters.
In his unique way Mr.. Dolliver put
everybody in good humor and made
some pleasing local references. He
then pitched into the issues of the
campaign and made sledge hammer
blows at Organism and populistic fall
licies. Among other things he said:
"The issues which the Democratic party
are making in this campaign, are, to my
mind, not issues at all. They are merely
noises. The first noise that l have heard is
that we are to be swallowed up by militar-
ism. Now, l have read the history Of the
United States army very carefully, and I
defy any living man to put his finger on a
page of that history which records an act
of hostility by the army of the United
States against the liberties or the welfare
Of the people. / heard Mr.. Bryan say that
he was sore at heart when he talks of so
many Of our poor boys dying under the
strange skies on the other side of the world,
but he did not say why he, a man of such
tender sensibilities, should keep on giving
aid and comfort to the armed enemies of
our soldiers"
The speaker then quoted from General
Lawton's letter, written five days before he
was shot, in which he said that If he was
shot by a Filipino bullet, it might as well
be by one of his own men, because he knew
by observation, confirmed by captured pris-
oners, that the continuance of the fighting
| in fba Dhilinnfnaq ia abiaHu dina fn rannrfd
that are sent from America. He continued
For myself, / believe in the American
soldier. He Is only an American school boy
with a gun, and, if | have got the history of
this country right, he does American insti-
tutions far less injury than some of our boy
orators who are armed only with an una
bridged dictionary. / find in my heart a
sentiment to the soldiers of the United
States army, God bless them tonight wher-
ever they are
THE United States was the only nation
on earth which ayalled itself of the pro-
vision of the treaty of The Hague, author
izlnig any nation to offer itself as a medi-
ator between contending forces in the in.
terest of peace, with regard to the Boer
war"
The speaker then referred to the recep-
ton in Washington Of the ENJOYS Of the
Boer republics, when, under the lead Of Mr..
Sulzer, representative in congress from the
Tenderloin district in New York city, a re-
ceptfon was rendered them and a collection
maze in the interest Of the Boer republics.
He said:
"At that time there was collected for this
purpose $500. OF this amount it was
finally found that there was spent for wine
$240, which was probably INDUCED in by
the sympathizers rather than the ENJOYS.
Then came other bills until all that remain
ed of the $500 collected for the good of
the Beers was just $14.
"Mr. Bryan said that the gold standard
would destroy the wages of the w~orklngman.
Is this true? Carroll D.. Wright, the most
famous living labor statistican, said the
other day in a public address that the pres
ent level Of American wages has never been
equalled in the whole Industrial life of the
American people. But, it is asked, do we
not have strikes? Certainly. We will al
ways have strikes under a Republican ad-
mlnistratlon. You rarely hear of strikes in
Democratic times. 1t is the nice problem,
no. to get more, but to hold on to the mis-
cradle remnant of what is left.
9Th sympathies Of the Republican party
are with the men who are seeking to In
!, crease their wages, but l do not believe that
these men desire to have their wages paid
them In a deprecated coin. / sympathize
in the efforts for shorter hours, for 1 believe
the future of civilization Is wrapped up In
/ tn success of organized labor in shorten,
! ing the hours of toll in order that a larger
z leisure may be given for intellectual and
moral culture"
Tit speaker then referred to the trusts
U and called attention to a resolution intro
duced by the Democratic leader, Richard
/ son, in the house, providing for the enter
ing free Of all sugar and everything per
tanning to the manufacture Of sugar from
I Cuba and Porto Rico, and said that thu
effect of this resolution would have beef
: to remit $14, 100000 of duties paid into tn,
!, treasury by the sugar trust last year. II,
said the Democratic plan seemed to be t
. put everything on the free list. He had n,
doubt but that absolute free trade woult
kill every trust in the United States an,
every other Industrial enterprise, big an,
little.
He then spoke at some length in regar
to Imperialism, and how Grant and Lincol
J. had been denounced as imperialists, an
a how Mckinley is now being denounced 1
the same way and by the same element, an
, he believed that this furry would have jus
y as little impression upon our own times q
1t did on the generation just behind us. II
SAID that II by imperialism it is meant tbs
, we propose to build the Nicaragua canal, {
that we propose to hold on to eyerythln
that we got out of our trouble with Spail
n the speaker, for one, was in favor of exactl
"A In this connection the speaker said Thu
" that sort of imperialism.
W the Democrats had boosted on the floor
lie the house of representatives that their pa
le ty took the Republican party "by the scru
of the neck and dragged 1t into war vii
Spain. This point he would not debate, b,
50 he certainly felt that If he had been gull
10 of doing a thing like that. he would at lea
n have wanted his party to stand up to 1t I
le about fifteen minutes, and yet he was sor
to say they couldn't get the democrats
stand up to 1t for one day. When war W
10 declared they were confronted with the 4
1T cessity Of raising money to gay for 1t.
Id When Mr.. Dingley, of Maine, now de-
ce and gone and become a part Of our repu
llcan Inheritance, believing that IL we we
to fight we must have money to pay
he penses, wrote a bill to raise the money. b
a. the Democrats opposed 1t. They wanted
or have their way about II, and they had abo
as many ways as there were Democrat
members. The upshot of it was that, VIII
IL we went into war with Spain with eve
Is Democrat voting to declare II, We got j.
hn seven votes out OF the Democrats Of I
house for the law that raised money to .
expenses. 1, for one, have not been s.
NY prlsed that these fellows have been kick