Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

shows the increase under the gold
standard.
More Money.
Our circulating medium has also
increased under the gold standard.
The democrats said that unless there
was the free and unlimited coinage of
silver that silver would be driven out
of circulation. | do not want to trou-
Bile you with statistics. but want to
prove the fallacy of this statement,
In 1896 we had about $1,500,000, 900 in
circulation; in 1902 it had risen to over
81, 500, 100000 and money instead of
becoming scarce has become more
plentiful
Reese Ignored Silver.
when Mr.. Reese selected his five
cardinal tenets of faith he did not put
/ in anything about free silver. In fact
he ignored it. Let us see what he is
saying: First there is the Fowler bill,
measure which is of no consequence.
In 1898, it will be remembered, Wea--
yer made his campaign on the Nc
Cleary bill. He said would vote for
lit if elected and he wanted to be sent
to Washington to cast his vote against
the measure. Did anyone ever hear of
| the bill? | voted against the bill and
made speech against it in the house
lof representatives. The Fowler bill
will meet withe the same fate l do
not like the bill, because it would is
sue paper money on assets, and the
bank holds the assets. And we know
the bank does not always hold it's as.
sets. Up in Prairie City few nights
ago some of the assets got away.
will not vote for the measure, and
am certain that nothing will ever be
heard of it. 1t is one of the many hun
dreds of measures without true merit.
1t is one of the many bills which are
buried in the house
Stands on Record.
! 81 have been in congress twelve
years and when | find an opponent
making in two of his speeches talk
about what | am going to do and not
what l have done, feel flattered.
am here to stand on the past. You
judge workman by his chips. and
| you judge a tree by it's fruit Let us
| look to the record of the past and not
| to prophetic vision of the future.
\ No Laughing Then.
You never saw such times as we
Experienced from 1898 to 1897. The
| democrats went INTO busy world, ev.
terybody was busy and the times were
never more prosperous But a change
was soon noticeable when the Wilson
| bill went on the statute books. Cox
ey's army marched across the coun-
try from Massilon, Ohio, to Washing
ton, and Kelly's army was formed at
Denver and went to Council Bluffs and
then to Des Moines My friend, Gen
eral Weaver. met the army at Des
Moines and the navy was built there
and launched on the Des Moines, going
down the river, passing Ottumwa and
on to Keokuk, and then to Washing
ton. You are laughing tonight, but
there was no laugh then. Tears were
in the voices during that time.
The Coal Strike.
Eve are just through with the coal
strike. and 100000 men have gone
back to work. thanks to a republican
President. One hundred and fifty
thousand men were out of work and the
country was torn from center to cir.
cumference. Samuel Gompers. presi
dent of the American Federation of
Labor made careful canvass in 1894
and he found that 100000 men were
out of employment. There was no
strike but there was nothing to do.
A Time of Sorrow.
President Mckinley was recalled in
1896. He was called from retirement
and took the helm. and he had the
pleasure of signing the bill he drew ur
himself. We had four years of pros
porous times which there is no use in
describing. 1t has impressed itself on
our memory as nothing else could
You We're led to believe that there was
no prosperity without Mckinley And
then the WORD came from the exposi
ton at Buffalo that the President had
been shot down by cowardly assas-
sin. Later reports. brought the glad
tidings that he was recovering, only
to be followed by the sad news that
the nations executive was dead. Dem
ocrats, republicans and populists were
sorrow stricken; this republican
name was dear to the people and we
like to talk of him and of Abraham
Lincoln. Tom Reed said in defining
a statesman that "A statesman is a
politician who is dead
Mckinley Universally Loved.
Mckinley won the confidence o.
the people as no one has in the last 1O(
years. Lincoln was hated in parts o.
the country because he fought a civil
war, but Mckinley was universally
loved and when he died all wept. Whe1
he wa buried every railroad train ant
street car was stopped five minutes
out of respect and 10000 900 American
people paused to think of the invalid
widow weeping beside her dead Al
Canton.
President Roosevelt.
"These thoughts soon passed by. al
though they were not forgotten, ant
the American people stopped thinkins
of the martyr president to think O
themselves. The thoughts of the PEG
pie then turned to Roosevelt; the,
were not sure they wanted his strenu
Gus methods. They did not recollec
that this country was one of laws. no
of party. President Roosevelt contin
ued to preserve the prosperity of tn,
country. He is notably a man of ac
4 ton as civil service commissioner hs
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