The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-09-04

branch banks to make loans upon loans;
which proposes to make silver dollars re-
ldeemable in gold, thereby converting
sig hundred millions assets into six
hundred millions OF liabilities? On! yes,
but Senator Dolliver will say they did
not pass the Fowler bill and that a re-
4 publican house caucus refused to endorse
Int. All true enough. But the reason
| they did not pass it is because they
were afraid to pass it on the eve of an
election. They will pass it as sure as
grass grows or water runs. A few days
after the republican caucus refused to
consider it, l met Mr.. Fowler, its daddy,
in the speakers lobby, l said: "Mr.
Fowler, they knocked your bill out. I"
20, yes," he replied with broad grin,
'but we will pass it at the short session
next winter" and so they will. Nearly
all the republican devilment ever done
by congress is at the short session-just
after the election.
Nobody in Missouri or in the west
favors the Fowler bill-but republican
congress will pass it at the short session.
| The Bankers Association of Missouri,
Kansas and Oklahoma have passed res
ou,ions against the Fowler bill-but
the republicans intend to pass it this
winter unless they are thrashed out Of
their boots at the coming November
election.
I am not afraid to discuss the financial
question. The prosperity which now
blesses the land and of which both SEN
ator Dolliyer and myself are so proud, 1,
tention in 1896 was true-that the pros
perity Of country depends upon the
per capita circulation of basic money,
whether gold or silver. What are the
facts? We now have five hundred mil
lions more of gold than we had in 1896
and the country is more prosperous =
which, proves our theory beyond all
cavil.
will make perfectly fair proposition
: and that is this: If the republicans did
those things which brought that extra
! five hundred millions into the country,
they created the prosperity and should
> have the glory. But did they do it?
Where did it come from? Two hundred
millions came from Alaska. Did God OF
Mark Hanna plant that gold in Alaska?
Did repup1dbel do it any more thar
ldemocratsAls ofGod belongs the praise
but the rep.,I Iicans claim tfor Mark
Where did the other three hundred
millions come from? From Europe. II
so happened that in 1897, 1898, 1895
:. and 1900, there was failure OF crops il
Europe and abundant crops in America
. Our farmers had food to sell and the
!. hungry Europeans had 10 buy from
them and pay their own prices and tina
= fact, fortunate for us, brought the three
hundred millions to us-commonly
called the balance of trade. If it cal
be demonstrated that Hanna, Dollive
l. Go. caused the drought abroad ant
J abundant crops here, then they shoult
= have the glory. The Savior said: ''Ren
. der unto Caesar the things that ar,
y Csesar's, and unto God the things tha
are God's,'' and the republicans b,
y claiming that they made the good crops
= in America and caused the failure O
: crops abroad undertake to rob God o
. his glory thereby coelmit rank bias
. phemy.
9 Query: IT Hanna, Dolliver T. Co
u caused it to rain In America abundantly
= in 1897, 1898, 1899. and 1902, why il
Heavens name did they not send us
+ few refreshing shoysrs in 1901? Do the,
8 propose to make it raj n only in election
n years?
a From finance the senator hoppet
l. nimbly to the tariff Did he tell yo,
!, what he and his party would do? Oh
0 MOI lie simply made the evasive decla
II ration that he would not say tariff ra te
e should not be modified-when neces
9 sarv!-only think Of that-wheu neces
J. sary, Whole families are in that fix
3 we can stand on that. say it is neces
8 sary to modify the rates now. This il
] the accepted time. This is the day O
9 salvation. The senator would modify
. them in the sweet bye and bye. H.
9 should remember that hope deferred
0 maketh the heart sick. He wants tn,
tariff rates modified by friendly hands
that is to say by the republcans-bu
the trouble is that they always revise
s the rates up instead of down. That!
o the way friendly hands" modify the
g tariff. The Mckinley bill levied al
: average tariff of Al per cent on 1000 arti
f cles OF every day consumption by the
! American people. This vas passed il
= 1890; but the blessed Dingley bill made
t Into law in 1895 levied an average tariff
0 tax of 81 per cent on the same 1000 arli
: cles of every day consumption-a raise
! Of 10 per cent. Friendly hands" will