Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-30

I ICtGDlG duultA0A 10 OuI IGW navy dEU
may she be ever ready to protect
Americans in person and property,
wherever they may journey in all the
wide circuit of the globe. 1t is an
American duty, and not a partisan
duty, to protect our people in all parts
of the world. Capt. Ingraham of the
old navy wrote a glorious chapter of
u naval history in defense of Martin
kosta, a naturalized American citizen.
The national pride is stirred and the
fires of patriotism kindle anew when
we read the story of the hercisni of
that splendid laval officer in uphold
ing the national honor and the
rights of that humble adopted citizen
of the republic. May the flag forever
float upon and and sea as The emblem
of freedom, and may it never become
the symbol of despolism or of the
spirit of mere commercialisln.
NATIONAL ISSUES.
Mr.. Chairman and fellow-citizens, I
have already occupied mere time in the
discussion of state affairs than / had
intended, and / can therefore dc but
little more than refer briefly to is
sues of national scope and importance,
without attempting to amplify or
elaborate. I am in accord with the
Kansas City platform III its demand
for an amendment to the federal con
stitution providing for the election of
United States senator's by direct vote
of the people. During my congress
sional service I repeatedly voted for
such an amendment, but they all
failed to receive the approval of the
senate. / favor the erection of a de-
rartment of labor, believing that it
will aid in uplifting labor. and in
bringing prosperity to our people at
home, and increasing commerce
abroad. During my public life / have
voted for all measures demanded by
organized labor reported by the COM
mittee on labor.
Labor has the God-given right to or
ganiZe for it's own defense and its
own welfare. The men who earn their
bread in the sweat of their faces
should be the beneficiaries of wise
and generous legislation, both state
and national. Legislation should bind
labor and capital together in the
bonds of friendly union. These inter-
ests are mutual and should never be
estranged or divorced. The object of
the law-making power and of those
in charge of great industrial enter
prises should be to uplift labor and
bring happiness to the homes of that
worthy class who create wealth. In
this spirit, and in this spirit alone,
will capital secure its greatest re-
wards. The wisdom of the Almighty
contemplated the union of labor and
capital by the ties of mutual interests,
mutual aspirations and a common
destiny, and let not the greed of men
or the mistakes of legislators put
them asunder.
STANDARD.
] am opposed to a single gold stand
ard for the reasons I have so repeated
ly given. and in much detail, both on
the hustings and in the rational house
of representatives. The i-ntrenchment
of the single gold standard, under The
law passed by the last republican con-
gress, is detrimental to the best in
terests Of the people. The limited
measure of prosperity which the trusts
bave permitted the people to enjoy
during this administration is a vindi-
cation of the cumulative theory of
money advocated by the democratic
party. If the relatively meager in
crease in the output of gold, due to
the. discovery of new gold mines, has
given the country a degree of pros
perity, how much greater would It
nave been had the mints of the United
States been opened to the free and un-
limited coinage of both gold and sill
yer at the old ratio of &c TO ], the gov
ernment experimenting this output
with the issue of legal tender notes
rather than national bank currency?
The currency Legislation of the last
congress has still further enlarged and
fortified the powers of the Money
Trust, already a dangerous menace to
all our interests.
MILITARISM AND STANDING
ARMY.
] am opposed to the spirit of mill
tarism which dominates and controls
the republican party, and yet l admit
that if we are to have a colonial en-
! pre- it can be maintained only by a
large standing army and a great alb
normal navy. But fellow-citizens, mil
itarism is a costly lcxury. The five
| great powers of Russia, Great Britain,
Germany, France and the United
States appropriated during the last fis-
cal year $685. 23 ,S62.22 to maintain
| stupndous military and naval estab-
lishments. The appropriations of u
own government reached the stagger-
ing total of $1.9,297. 506.21, a little
more tt IAN one-ffth of the entire out
lay. / may also adj that since the
declaration of war with Spain the
United States has appropriated $685.
~SO9,238.79 to meet Spanish war
expenses, to subjugate the Fill
ipinos and to uphold the
republican colonial policy of conquest
and criminal aggression" The actual
war expenditures during the last fiscal
year were SITS for each one of our
population.
Already the regular army has
grown under this administration
from $4,000 to 100000 men, and yet
the demand is for still further in
crease. That accomplished soldier,
Gen. Lawton, whom 1 personally
knew and loved, yielded up his life
at the front of our lines fighting the
Filipinos, in far-away Luzon. Before
this intrepid soldier fell up
on the field of battle, he left upon
our official records the opinion that at
least 100, 600 soldiers were necessary
to subjugate the Filipinos. It is said
that the wal in the Philippine Archi-
pelago is practically ended. That is
to say, the censored dispatches SO de-
clare, and yet, my fellow-citizens, in
the presence of that appalling danger
to our minister and our missionaries
at Pekin, with thousands of semi-bar-
barians clamoring for their blood, the
government was unable to send only
ea<- 4ha-Saad soldiors from Manila