Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23


country and they began the organiza
ton of national associations for the
conducting of business. They got to
| gether and formed trusts.
No CureaI.
"Who can cure this? AS President
Roosevelt says, there is no patent
cureall for trusts. But the fact re
mains that always when the country
has been confronted by evil conditions
when there were great questions to
solve, the republicans have always
solved them and done it successfully.
! We have every reason to believe,
therefore, that with such men in the
lead as Roosevelt, and his advisers,
| this question can be solved, too.
The Right Man.
John F. Lacey, the present repre-
sentative of the sixth district in con-
| gress, has been through all this expe-
rience. He has been tested at serious
times and found to be right always.
Are you, my friends, going to turn
down this man of experience and
craftsmanship and elect in his place
a young and inexperienced man--put
him into office with the task of solv-
ing those questions which tax the abil-
ity of even old statesmen?
THE democratic party has never
been reliable. A look at their prophe-
cies. Bryan Swat a minute. know
this is cruel | probably shouldn't do
it, but here is the First Book of Pro-
phecies,' by William Jennings Bryan
Here's one: If you have gold stan
dard prices are as sure to fall as
stone thrown into the air. This is
another: Gold standard means dear
er money, dearer money means cheap
err property, cheaper property means
harder times; harder times means
more people out of work; more peo-
pie out of work means more people
destitute; more people destitute means
more people desperate; more people
desperate means more crime"
The Cure.
But enough of this cruel torture.
You say, how are we going to cure the
evils that exist. That is indeed the
problem. The democrats say to take
off the tariff. but that is, on the face of
it, not practicable. We want to free
the country of the commercial slavery
which threatens. That is what the re-
publican party wants to do, and | say
that with such a man as Theodore
Roosevelt in the lead, and with such
statesmen as have been developed in
the republican party during the past
thirty years, it would be suicide to tie
their hands by electing a democratic
congress. If the republican statesmen
and politicians con solve the problem
they ought to be allowed to do it. The
American people have confidence in
President Roosevelt to do as he says
he will if allowed.
The opposition says that we take
goods made here to Europe and sell
them cheaper than we do here in this
country. because of the tariff Eng
land has been doing this for years.
English merchants have actually sold
below cost in order to gain control of
new foreign market. They worked
us that way on tin plate I'll tell you,
my fellow countrymen, that so long as
the manufacturers here pay the Amer,
lean standard of wages | don't care il
they take their goods away to foreign
countries and make presents to the
people.
A Comparison.
Good conditions make good wages.
and poor conditions make poor wages.
What has tariff to do with the finan-
ces? We didn't change the financial
system in 1896, but we furnished
money with the tariff. The tariff
cured both ev.4s. We opposed the
democratic silver doctorine Let mo
show you. During the Cleveland adj
ministration there was something
over 1896, 100000 of trade balance in
four years. During the last three
years under our policy, the trade bal
ance has amounted to $2,2l T. 401 900.
That is we have sold that much more
to foreign countries than we have
bought
During Cleveland's administration
the foreign nations took out of this
country the $700,000,G00 of gold that
came into America and with it 201,-
100000 of cur own gold. Is it any
wonder the democrats had to issue
gold bonds. Could they have built the
Nicaragua canal when they had to
borrow money to pay Growers salary?
The more we study this question the
greater will be the republican major
ity on next election day.
Take that thought home with you
and think over it, and think wou will
be as loyal to Hon. John F. Lacey
as you have ever been. Mr. Reese
stands for 16 to 1. | have nothing
against him personally.
A Shame.
81 hear that he has had good sue
cess with the miners of Iowa. But
now that he has good record, it
would be shame to spoil good
labor leader for a poor statesman. |
am told that he stands on that fallacy,
the ST. Louis platform, the GREATEST
trust combine ever undertaken. Are
you ready to have the government
undermined? No. If changes are neces-
cary, they should be made by tried
and true friends of good government
rather than by those who have
record of ruin and disaster.
Government by Injunction.
"The democrats would kick, no mat
ter what is given them. Mr.. Reese
will tell you that the laboripg men
are opposed to government by in
junction This is the same as saying
the republican party is in favor of it.
| am an old labor man. | have been
up against the propositions that con-
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