Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-09
ANSWERS ROOSEVELT
Ex.-Gov. Altgeld Replies to the
Charges of Republican Hero.
Refutes Charge of Cowardfce OF MEM
bers of Democratic Party and
Portrays Character of New
York Governor.

bers of Democratic Party and
Portrays Character of New
York
In an address delivered before h Ohio
Association of Democratic. Clubs at To
iedo on the evening of August l, ex-Gov.
John P. AItgeld, Of Illinois, replied effect
lively to the speech delivered by GOV.
Roosevelt at Minneapolis, in which the
republican vice presidential candidate ac'-
cused the men of the democratic party Of
being couards. Gov. Altgeld, in openinS
his address. said:
There are only two principles or sys-
TENS of government known to
eminent by brute force and government
by consent of the governed. The one il
applied from without and Is repressive.
and. in the end. destructive. because II
arrests growth; while the other works
from within. is evolutionary and pro-
Government by force has existed for
everywhere the same. 1t has checked
growth, arrested development, cowed the
nobler aspiration of men, stunted the In
tellect and covered the earth with suf-
fering and misery. h constant tend
ency of such a government is toward a
measures become more and more severe
until finally conditions are created which
result in dissolution and death
Formation of Our Republic.
me principle or governing Dy consent
Of the governed was first applied in ITS
broades sense in the formation of our
republic, and it worked a revolution in
human society. 1t has given the world
achieved in the 50 or 90 centuries of re-
corded time. By freeing the intellect. by
encouraging the higher aspirations. man
leaped into an activity in all lines of hu-
man effort that had been impossible in the
tons, in the industries, in agriculture,
in art, in literature. in and
in education. To this we are largely in
debted for our shops, our railroads. our
cities, our agriculture and everything that
Moving along the lines of peace and
progress, along the lines of evolution and
development. it is mastering matter, 1T
is annihilating space. it is uniting man
race to its God. All of the nations of
the earth have been affected by the prin-
ciples of our declaration of independence.
Incredible as ii may seem. at the close
of this marvellous century, which is the
child of the declaration of independence,
we are asked to go back to those, prin-
thousands of years. and which. II again
given sway. will bring back the. dark
whence comes the Influences that make
this astounding proposition. They are the
people who represent greed, rapacity and
people and they are the same influences
that have arrested human progress and
human development in all lands and in all
have decreed that greed should be short
sighted and should hold the penny of
immediate advantage so close to its eye
as to shut out the sun.
1t is a noticeable fact. verified by all
human experience. that in no case does a
policy that is dictated solely by greed
prove successful in the end. On the con-
trary. it always destroys the very interest
IT was intended to serve and build up
The successive steps toward destruc-
tion are always concentration of wealth
IN the hands of a few. universal corrup-
st. haeso
of government, oligarchical control. steady
lowering of the conditions of the masses.
degradation. d~ebauchery, dissolution and
death
emOcra and the Trusts.
The subject of trusts was given an eI-
haustive hearing and the history of re-
publican legislation in their behalf thor
recalled: the distress of 1888 is shown to
have come before the democratic party
had had an opportunity to remedy exist
ing evils. before the democratic president
had taken his seat: and the signs of dis
tress that are becoming apparent again
were shown to be from the effect of trusts.
OF the democratic party's connection with
trusts the speaker said:
lea IS fighting the Democratic platform.
Even the alleged democratic stockholders
of the republican ice trust of New York.
ing our platform. Why? If they thought
we would not overthrow the trusts they
would not fight us Trusts do not fight
AOE IOIlllDSs we lafC dCGldAC gu lIId Pr
vate monopoly is indefensible and shall
not exist in America They know that
men who are in earnest will find a way to
The trusts know their friends. Even a
casual glance shows you that there is a
as regards trusts. The trusts constitute
the head. the shoulders. the spine. the
limbs and the soul OF the republican party
of to-day. They own. control and direct
it. They have erased every great motto
from its banners and have substituted a
day speak fer the republican party as a
rule are mere trust creatures. who have
to change their song every moon in de-
Tense of their masters and secret en-
"on the other hand, the trusts are only
a speck on the tail of the democratic
party, and IT is doing its best to lash
them off. In order to perpetuate their
power the trusts are now raising millions
the American elections. VIII you help
them. or will you stand for your own in
happpiness Of Your children?HH LIN
a careful history of the events leading up
to the war with Spain was given. in which
it was conclusively shown that the demo-
cratic members of congress were leaders in
the demand for interference in Cuba. but
these leaders did not anticipate the pres
ent policy Of imperialism that has grown
out of that war because of the policy of
the present administration Referring to
the war in the Philippines and the subject
of expansion, Gov Altgeld said:
War in Philippines.
Long before we declared war against
Spain in behalf of Cuba the people of the
Philippine islands had been waging war
for their own independence. They contin-
ued this warfare and finally drove the
Spaniards off the islands. And we are
now engaged in a war to rob the islanders
of their independence and make the people
subjects, not citizens, of this republic.
There is to-day no question of expan-
sion before the American people, and all
the talk about expansion is simply an eff
fort to conceal the facts and to rnfsiead
the public The sole question is whether
we shall go into the colonial business with
England and the despotic nations of Eu-
cratic party has been the party of ex-
pansio1. 1t gave to our republic the eoun-
try west of the Mississippi and Florida,
democratic party believes that, moving
along the line of natural growth and de-
veIopment and without violating the prin-
cipIes of freedom. that the time will come
the north and the West Indian islands on
the south will rap FOR admission to this
republic; It believes that the time will
come when, from the frozen skies of the
north to the warm waters of the south,
there viii be one people. one flag, one civ
llization, one great brotherhood of man.
But no such question is now before US.
"What do the defenders of the admins
tration say?
At this point the speech made by Gov.
Roosevelt at Minneapolis is taken up. and
the arraignment given 1t Is a scathing one-
OF it the speaker said:
Speech without an Argument.
Recently q gentleman in New York,
who has become famous for having been
alone in CUBA gentleman who has adopt
ed as his life motto or coat of arms two
'P's' and a double s. which four letters
signify 'pompous posing and strenuous
s~trutting-left the capital of New York and
went to St Paul and delivered a speech to
an association of republican clubs. The
speech has not, from beginning to end, a