Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-10-04

lzation of authority, the subservienca
to the money power, the building up
OF favored interests by class legisla,
ton. had nowhere a more earnest OPP
poncnt than the Times, and the demo-
Gratis of Pennsylvania learned to look
to ii as their representative newsptl-
per.
The Times has been unfailingly
hostile to those measures with which
William Mckinley particularly was
identified, such as the monopoly
breeding, producing tariff that
bore his name. Yet four years ago, in
the sudden crisis that divided the
councils of the democratic party and
for the time being seemed to have
checked it's great career, it seemed
better 10 the Times, as to many other
leading democratic papers, to sustain
Mr.. Mckinley's election as president,
rather than that of Mr. Bryan. The
decision was made in good faith. Tic
result has shown it TO be wrong. 1t
has rcpented and recanted.
"All of the evils and perils of the
so-called republican policy have re-
turned seven fold, developed and cx-
tended till the very foundations of the
government seem threatened. a false
economic system has resulted i'm vast
combinations of capital that throttle
individual industry and hold control
over all the functions of government,
and the spokesman of the adminstra-
ton, Il representative of one of these
great trusts, is calling upon his fell
low capitalists for contributions to
buy another four years license TO rob,
another four years life for their in-
fated and false prosperity.
The government thus controlled
has found its tittest expression in
schemes of military conquest and the
blood and treasure of the nation are
poured out to subduc II distant pco-
Pile and rob them of those rights of
liberty and Independence which Amer-
lea has always claimed for all MAN.
kind
imperialism, militarism, are the
| NATURAL outgrowth of commercialism
I, IN politics, of the power of the few
over the many, the elevation of money
above manhood, with ALL the system
of special privileges and corrupt con-
troll that the republican party since
the civil war has increasingly fos-
tered. The upholders of this system
Are themselves aware of its llollowness
and are calling for aid from the
money power to bolster it up for II
time longer. The condition is one that
the country must meet and meet now
he democrats of PENNSYLVANIA
have right to expect this of the
| Times and they shall not be disap-
| pointed. We mean this paper TO be
recognized as democratic newspa-
per, honest. fearless and truthful. but
| always sincerely and loyalty devoted
| TO the interests and to The success of
the democratic party, its measures
and its men. We know that the
Times has not filled this place in the
| past four wears, but we intend that it
| shall fill it hereafter, and that it shall
| help 10 rally the Pennsylvania democ-
| racy once more to a hopeful battle for
| the constitution and the laws and the
rights OF men, i'm the campaign for
| Bryan and Stevenson"
Over his signature Colonel Mcclure
| has this 10 say cditorially:
"We are now engaged i'm Il bloody
| struggle in the Philippines that could
| and should have been avoided by rec
ogllixing The right of the people to
rule themselves; and under the inn
| perial policy. now for he first time
4 proclaimed to the country and to the
world. the president inangurates war
i'm he far distant east, without the
Authority of congress and in defiance
of The supreme law of he nation; and
| has made ana prosecuted war, and
| proposes to make peace, with all the
authority of the car of Russia.
",Ihe nation is thus in peril from
| threatened slbversion of the sover-
ei2n power of the land that is sup
| porting the concentration of capital
against the interests of labor; that is
debauching our political system by
the open collection of millions OF
money from protected trusts to eN-
pend in the national political contest
and that has inauguratcd reign OF
reckless prohigacy and extravaganza
unexampled in the history of the ma
ton. 1t must be halted by the people
if they would preserve their own gov.
eminent of the people. by he people
and for the people, and it can he
| done only by the election of William
y. Bryan as the next president"