Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-10-10

The democrats needed firecracker
The one he had used before had been
a "sizzer." He had none left, but his
little baby brother had a good one, so
he went into the playhouse, stole the
firecracker, put democratic label on
it and called it his own.
Even Up.
The populists didn't like this, but
they succeeded in getting even. They
went over, stole the playhouse and all,
and all became populistic. Some of
the republicans did the same way
Now | don't blame you for it at all,
but wouldn't it be well to come back?
Wed like to have you come. We
have already killed the fatted calf,
and never have you Jared so we'll as
in the last five years. You can come
back, the doors are open. We won't
ask any questions as to where you
ing.
1900 Issue.
You didn't win in 1896, did you?
The issue failed you. So in 1900 you
couldn't use tax for revenue only. It's
failure was too fresh in the minds of
the people. You couldn't use free sill
yer. The weather was against it
times were too good. So you went to
Kansas City, declared for them in the
platform, and put them in cold stor-
age, to be kept until some future time
when they may be used.
Trusts.
Then you tried trusts. I don't
blame you. You have something to
fight the campaign on. You had to
have an issue, and you seized upon
the trust question. Now let me tell
you the history of the trust. Suppose
we make these four men manufacture
ers, (pointing out four of the men in
the audience) and suppose four other
men engage in another business. One
group manufactures starch, the 9TH
er, feeds cattle. The starch men pay
as little as they can for their corn,
but the beef men pay good prices for
the corn they use to fatten their cat.
tie. Finally, the starch manufacture
ers want to combine. They go to Cap
tain Harper, for instance, and he tells
them to form a trust. He becomes
trustee, and takes charge of the out
put of the four factories. He sells all
the starch and at the end of the year
he divides the profit among the four
men, each man being paid according
| to schedule agreed upon. Finally
the little mills turn out the starch
| faster than the trustee can sell it, and
he tells one mill to shut down. Still
| that mill draws the profits in the
same proportion as before.
This is the original plan of the
trust, and it was called trust because
it had a trustee.
Trust Commission.
| Thelower house in 1884 was democrat
ic. This body appointed commission
to investigate the matter of trusts,ant
that commissioners report was filed
March 2 1889, two days before the al
ready elected republican congress wa.
to go into office, along with Benjamin
Harrison, the newly elected republican
President. This report stated tina
the commission found that there wer,
formed and forming many trusts, bu
gave no list because the conditions
were constantly changing and tn,
number was getting larger all tn
time. Further, the report stated, tina
owing to differences in the opinion
of some of the members of the con,
mission, the report was submitted TO
the consideration of subsequent con
crosses.
!. They were to die day after tomol
row. They recommended the matte
to the congress just coming into OF
fee. Suppose you rent farm of me
and, two days before you get ready t
give it up you come to me and tell m
that cuckleburrs are growing all owe
it. Afterwards, do you suppose yo
would get that farm again? No. VIII
did you not suggest some means Q
getting rid of those burrs? Why di
not that commission recommend som
remedy for these trusts?
, First Antitrust Platform.
Meantime we had elected a repul
lican President on an antitrust pla
form. Do you know who was chai
) man of the committee on resolution
in the convention that adopted tha
platform? | do. He was no other tina
the man whose death we ali mourn. TIL
l first man who ever penned an ant
/ trust platform, was our martyre
: President William Mckinley.
The Sherman Bill.
/ The first bill introduced before thu
l new senate was the one prepared b
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