Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-30

U1O,OU0, with the control of seventy
pei. cent of tho output of steel in the
country. 1t bought out the smaller
companies and those who were bought
out took the money and built new fac
tories. going into competition with the
big concern. At Buffalo the Lacka-
wanna company is building plant
that Will have "a output one-fifth as
largo as that of the trust. Now the
demand is more than the supply. Wait
until the supply catches up with the
demand and the competition will kill
the trust. Competition is the strong
est force that can be found against
the trusts. favor taking care Of the
competitors, and whenever they need
a protective tariff to build themselves
up, favor giving it to them. We will
pass a law strengthening the Sher-
man law, and no citizen of the United
States can be found who can be so
fully trusted to work and execute the
law against trusts as can President
theodore Roosevel.
Hills Calamity Issue.
Our democratic friends are hunting
for an issue and whenever they hunt
for an issue they hunt for a calamity
Governor Hill, who created such an
uproar some years ago by arising and
declaring, y am a democrat thought
he had found a calamity. And the 9th
er day at Saratoga lie might as well
have said, L am New York democracy
for he was practically alone. He went
Ito Saratoga and held convention.
He met himself there and framed a
platform. He looked around for an is
sue and saw the strike Now everyone
in New York burns anthracite coal.
Here was great opportunity. He said.
When the frost gathers and the peo-
pie can't get coal they will be SILVER
ing with the cold. What a chance for
a plank in the democratic platform.
The Strike Plank.
He drew the plank, and proposed to
take possession of the coal lands un--
der the right of eminent domain Now
every lawyer who knows anything
about it will tell you that we have no
such right, that we could not take one
foot of land. But suppose congress
should see the matter the way Hill did.
We would have to wait until winter.
suppose conkress went after the lands.
There would be fight and the case
would be up before the United States
supreme court and the Lord knows
how long it would take. Before Cow
ernor Hill could get scuttleful of coal
he would have frozen to death. Ac-
cording to Hills idea of platform of a
party it is something like the platform
OF car-to get in on, not to stand up
on after one is in.
The Strike Settled.
What did the republican party do?
Our President was not too dignified to
hold conference with the parties rep
resenting the two opposing sides in
the coal strike. He sent out after
them and they came and he said to
one, You are the representative of the
operators and the others, You are the
representatives of the miners, but
represent S0,000000 of people, whose
prospects for the coming winter. I'M
less they can get COAL are dire. Some
thing must be done at once OF course
they grumbled some. Each side made
proposition, but they were not alike.
The President kept on, like the fear.
less, courageous, strenuous represen-
tative of the people that he is. He
worked for weeks and finally succeed
ed He appointed commissioners to
settle the matter, and on Thursday
last they opened the mines and the
people will not have to go cold this
winter because of Theodore Roose-
velt's tireless work in their behalf. ="
And when it was all over, who did
the miners thank? Governor Hill?
No. They gave their thanks to Theo!
tdore Roosevelt, to Governor Benja.
min Odell of my own state, to Senator
Hanna, to Platt, to Quay, all republi-.
cans, because they recognized the ear
nestness and the get-there principles
of the republican party which settled
the big strike.
Men struck in 1898 because their.
wages were reduced, but this year the
strike was on the grounds that the
workmen were not getting their pro
portionate share of the riches they
produced. They were getting more
wages than they ever had received
before. Contrast the difference be-
tween the democratic and republican
government.
and yet they ask you to vote
against a man who represents the
President in this district instead of
joining the miners of Pennsylvania
WHO voted thanks to President Roose-
welt, as you should by voting for
John F. Lacey for congress In the elec-
.tion on next Tuesday. And SO this
calamity, this issue has subsidized into
st ate of innocuous desuetude, and
Benjamin Odell. governor of New
York, will again take his seat in the
gubernatorial chair next January as
The best governor New York ever had,
for he will be elected by a big ma
jority."
Conclusion.
Congressman Payne concluded his
address with reference to the bene-
hts derived by Porto Rico and Cuba
through the efforts of the republican
party and touch d upon the Philippine
question, justifying the stand the re-
publican party takes in this connec-
ton His address was one of the
best political speeches ever delivered
in Ottumwa and every statement,
backed by record and experience, had
its effect upon his hearers.
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