Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-31

ter. If the republican party is proud
of its history it is no less proud of all
It's great men by whom the history has
been made. 1t is proud of all it's chief
executives of the nation from Abraham
Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt, and
proud of all its chief executives of
the state from John W. Grimes to
Albert B. Cummins.
Never Really in Power.
From 1861 to 1893 the democratic
party was never in any true sense in
power. True it had presidency from
1885 to 1889 but during no portion of
that time was it is control of the SEN
ate, and SO it was unable to enact any
of its favorite doctrines into law. In
the thirty-two years from the time the
democratic party went out of power in
1861 until it came back to power in
1893 a new generation of voters had
been born and grown to manhood, who
knew not the baleful effects of demo-
cratic national administration In 1892,
in the language of Iowa's distinguished
junior senator, the administration of
James Buchanan was as distinctly a
part OF ancient history as the Babylon
ish captivity. And because we forget
the democratic party was placed in
control of the executive and legislative
departments of the government. Words
of mine cannot depict the horrors of
those years, from 1893 to 1897, the
longest and weariest four years within
the memory of men now living.
Accepted Gladly Republican Rule.
impoverished chastened and re-
pentant people turned with
supreme confidence to the repub,
lican party for relief, and il knowing
the great task before it called to it's
leadership that able, honest, clean,
high-minded Christian statesman, Will
| liam Mckinley of Ohio. He was elect
ed to the presidency and with a re-
publican congress set about the re-
demption of the people from that con-
dition into which they had been cast
by four years of democratic statesman
ship. The republican party recognized
the fact that there can be no steady
prosperity without stable standard
and it by law declared the gold dollar
to be the standard and gave to the
country the most abundant circulating
medium in all its history, composed of
gold, silver and paper but every dollar
as good as gold. While realizing that
sound currency is essential to COM
mercial courage, the republican party
also realized that above all things the
prosperity Of people is dependent up
on the amount of work they have to
do. All work may be roughly classified
into that which is incident to the pro-
duction of things of current consump-
ton, such as food, clothing, fuel and
lights; and that which is incident to
the production of permanent works,
such as buildings, railways and high
ways. No country ever enjoyed even
fair measure OF prosperity when its
people had no work to do except that
i necessary to the production of things
of current consumption for them
selves. To enjoy prosperity a people
should SO far as possible produce those
j things, but they must in addition there
to nave either the labor incident tc
great works of internal and permanent
development or that which is incident
i to the production of things of current
end that as much labor as possible
may be performed at home by Ameri
can workmen the republican party has
always believed in a protective tariff
and when it returned to power enacted
the Dingley law, which at it's date was
wisely adapted to the purposes sought
and has aided more than all else il
bringing about the boundless prosper
ity we now enjoy. We have by the
restoration of hope and confidence in
duced the greatest development of in
ternal improvem ents of permanent
character in our history, and thus add
ed to the supply of worl
furnished the American peopl,
: to do. Under the impetus thu.
given to American industry we have
: pushed our export trade until las
year we sold abroad nearly 81 100000
900 worth of American merchandise
; and all the labor incident to the pro
t duction of this vast quantity of goods
3 was added to the supply of work fur
| nished the American people to do. B,
l these three means an abundant suppl,
E of work has been given to all, ant
i prosperity has blessed the rich an,
t poor. The balance of trade last yea
r in our favor was nearly $500,000,0
e The magnitude of this balance will
n perhaps be better appreciated when
a say that the balance in favor of tn
l. United States exceeds the combine,
e balance in favor of all the other ma
n lions of the earth. Happily, prosper
i ity has not hardened the hearts of GU
f people. A few weeks ago rumo
s reached this country one Friday morn
il ing that the second greatest volcanic
/ disturbance in the worlds history ha
t befallen the people of the French is
: land of Martinique, and that thos
S who survived were homeless, make,
d and starving. On Saturday the senat
j. passed bill appropriating money TO