Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-23
Judge the Party by TIA Fruit..


Judge the Party by It's Fruits.
In whose service has the late session
of the Republican Congress been act
Ing since it met in December? Has it
served the people or those who exploit
the people? Has it sought to advance
the welfare of the business man who
stands on his own feet outside of n
trust? Has it sought to help the man
at the pillow, the man at the bench, the
salaried man at the desk, the man at
the shovel-the plain people?
Everybody knows that it has not.
This Republican Congress has served
the protected interests" the trusts,
the predatory wealth Of the country.
Cuba and the national honor have been
sacrificed to the sugar beet and the
sugar trust.
The food trust, emptying the dinner
pail Of meat and taxing exorbitantly
for private profit the American table,
has had Congress for an assisting part
ner. Though the price of meats has
scared, the bills to subject the food
trust to competition by removing the
duties on foreign meats have been
smothered in committee. Every bill in.
troduced for the purpose of Interfering
In the slightest degree with the priv.
lege of the trusts to tax the public has
been resolutely sidetracked.
The Republican party as 1t now ex.
lists Is under the absolute control and
direction Of the organized wealth of the
Union-the kind Of wealth that is
founded on monopoly and makes large
campaign contributions in return for
special privileges. Congress has legis-
lated for the Captains of Industry
who, through the Republican party,
govern the United States for their own
benefit. Whatever the trusts have
asked for from this Congress the trusts
have got
Against, the party whose true spirit
this trust-serving Congress represents
the Democracy appeals to the people
And this truth is to be kept in mind
by every man who is opposed to the
Kind of government the Republican
party Is giving us-government by the
trusts, for the trusts. If the people
won't help themselves, no one can heir
the people, The people are being cx
plotted. Will the people stand by the
party which stands by the exploiters:
The Democratic minority in Congress
has made record on which the party
can so to the country with pride and O
clear conscience. That record consti
tutes a sound Democratic platform
The Democratic minority in this Re
publican and trust-serving Congress
has stood for: First, justice to Cuba
second, removal of the tariff duties
which foster and protect monopolists
who sell their products abroad cheaper
than they do at home; third, for expan.
sion as against imperialism-for home
rule as against despotfsm in the Philip.
pines. The American believes that our
sovereignty must be maintained in
those islands, but it also believes that
the people of the Philippines should be
given voice In their government and
not surrendered as prey to the exploit
ers who have mortgage on the Re
publican party; fourth, for the honor
of the American army. To denounct
acts of cruelty, to insist upon cbserv
ance of the rules Of civilized warfare
is to uphold the honor of the army, moi
to assail it. There is nothing sacred
about the army. Any man In 1t who
behaves like a savage disgraces 1t and
should be held responsible for his
crimes. The Republican conception of
the army's honor-that it is unpatriotic
to criticisS anything any member of
1t may d.-is the same as that which
gave to France the Dreyfus horror
fifth. eor such amendment of the navi
gatfon laws as would take our mer.
chant marine out of the grip of bounty.
begging monopolsts; sixth, for control
Of the trusts by the government.
What do the American people want
H,rnment by themselves or govern
ment by the business interests,
which are without public spirit and
think only of their own pockets? This
Congress has served these interests ex
clusively, regardless of national honor
and the peoples welfare. 1t is the kind
of government We must have from the
Republican party. Nothing else cay
be expected from It, Will the people
go to the polls and indorse n party
which on system ignores the interests
Of the people?-Chicago American.