Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-04
DEMOCRATS IGNORE SILVER.
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South Africa our government, by per.
hitting the use of one of it's ports for
the collection of horses and mules, the
most essential to the English army of
all the munitions of war, and the con-
slant and open shipment therefrom by
English agents and officers to the seat
OF war of such supplies, made us for
every practical purpose allies of the
British empire, in its wanton and final
ly consummated purpose to blot from
that continent every vestige of demo-
cratic government and to subject to
monarchlal rule as brave and deter
mined people as ever welded weap-
on in defense of human liberty.
We assert that the commencement
of the Philippine war was the fragrant
abuse of the most noble sentiment of
the American people that led them to
voluntarily assume the onerous bur-
dens of foreign war in aid of a strg
Cling race for freedom. That it's 'un-
justifable prosecution has loaded our
people with a financial burden of hun
dreds of millions of dollars, sacrificed
the lives of thousands upon tens of
thousands of the bravest and best of
our young men, the very flower and
glory OF American manhood, and pre-
pared our pension rolls for long list
of names of these with broken and
shattered constitutions, whom the hon
or of the nation requires shall hereaf-
ter be supported at public expense.
In behalf of the honor of the Ameri-
can people, in the name of justice to a
race we have wronged, in defense of
the American doctrines of government
by consent of the governed, in support
of the most sacred of the institutions
of our country, bequeathed us by the
fathers of the republic, and in obedi-
ence to all the traditions of all our PEG.
pie from the foundation of the govern
ment to the present time, we demand
that this wrong of the nation shall, SO
far as possible, be atoned for
To accomplish this, we insist that
our steadfast aim should be to prepare
the Philippine people for self govern
ment in the broadcast sense that term
implies. with a pledge OF the honor of
the nation that they shall not be per-
manently held in subsection by mill
tafy force, and that within a reasona-
bic time they shall be permitted to de-
termine for themselves whether they
will remain an integral part of the
American republic or become sepa-
rate and Independent nation by them
selves.
We denounce the Fowler bill now
pending in congress, and referred to
by the republican majority in the
house to the committee of the whole
that it may be put on it's passage at
once, as a deliberate attempt to con-
vert the banking interests of the Unit
ed States into one huge financial trust
backed by the apparent credit of the
government that would place the
whole banking business of the country
under a single management of three
individuals, clothed with all important
governmental function of controlling
the currency of the people, and
fraught with every danger to the
masses that was threatened by the old
United States bank which Jackson
throttled in it's infancy three-fourths
of a century ago.
We declare our unqualified opposi-
tion to the principle of government by
Injunction.
We renew our demand for election
of United States senators by direct
vote of the people.
The fundamental principles of dem
ocracy equal rights to all and special
privileges to none" applies in full
force to the subject Of taxation. The
democratic party believes that the bur
dens of taxation should be borne
equally by taxable property. We
pledge our members of the general as
sembly to formulate and urge the
adoption of such law as will compel
the burdens of taxation to rest on cor,
porate and individual property alike,
without favor to exemption Of any in
terests.
We demand economy in the admin
istration of state affairs, the repeal OF
the mulct law and the enactment of a
local option law.
We demand the contracting for sup