The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-10-02


as your representative in congress
have voted for many measures that
many of the people of the district be-
lieved were not for the best Expert
ence has demonstrated that every pol
icy adopted by the republican party
has proven for the best interests of
all the people. Mckinley found the
flag Of our prosperity lying in the dust
in 1896; he picked it up and carried
it in triumph He has gone to his re-
ward, wept and honored, not only by
his own friends, but by his former
foes. A worthy successor has taken
up McKinley's life work. He has
demonstrated that this country is gov
erned by law not merely by men, 1t
was not the man Mckinley that
brought this country prosperity 1t
was the policies for which he stood.
Those policies carried out by his sue
cessor have brought the same results
and will continue to do so; let us
therefore try no dangerous expert
ments. Prove all things and hold
fast to that which is good" Any
changes that may appear necessary
by reasons of new conditions should be
made in our tariff law with the utmost
care, and with absolute recognition of
the necessity for protection to our in
dustrics. republican congress has
already removed all the war taxes that
were levied to carry on our great war
with Spain. Should further modifica-
lions be found necessary they will be
made along the same lines upon which
Dingley framed the most successful
tariff bill that ever has been spread
upon our statute books. ..,. ID
My opponent stands upon the Kan
sas City platform, for he accepted the
nomination upon the platform formed
by his district convention. Let me
exhibit the wonderful word painting
by which that district convention en-.
dorsed the Kansas City free coinage
and free trade platform.
THAT platforms and candidates
shall mean something; that party
may not always have majority of the
vote, but it can always have the ma
jority of the right; that democracy
stands for the protection of the great
common people; that its face is now
turned squarely to the great white
sunlight of truth, human rights and
| higher civilization; to the end that
this grand republic, the last great hope
of the ages, shall be and continue to
be government Of the people, by the
people and for the people; and we
therefore reaffirm our faith in the
principles of the last democratic plat
| form" ~
1t will be observed, however, that
| the best part of what / have just read
is quotation from the greatest of all
republicans, Abraham Lincoln It
was the republican party that created
the bureau of labor; it framed the
contract labor law; it enacted the law
abolishing coolie trade. Republicans
voted for and helped to pass the Chin
ese exclusion act and it was a repub-
| lican congress that re-enacted the
same. The homestead law was a re-
publican measure, and was passed at
|
James Buchanan. The laborers of this
country have had the experience of
both policies, they should beware of
the free trade and the free silver
schemes, The scalded child looks
with suspicion even on cold water. The
miners and working men helped elect
Mr.. Cleveland in 1892. They soon
realized their mistake.
The Trusts.
The trust question has been brought
to the front by the enormous aggrega-
lions of capital which have combined
in the recent years. But the trusts
are not new. The republican party in
1890 passed the Sherman antitrust
law. These great. combinations OF
capital originally assumed the form
of working. agreements between sep
tarate corporations. These combina-
tons were called trusts In order to
evade the state and national laws re-
Gently the same results have been OBJ
tanned by organizing gigantic cor
porations and actually purchasing all
the stock or property of competing Or
CARNATIONS. 1t has been a favorite
doctrine of our democratic opponents
that "the tariff is the mother of the
trusts" that free trade would care
the trust evil" but two of the great
est trusts in this country are the coal
oil trust and the anthracite coal trust
Anthracite coal is on the free list and
so is petroleum, so these organizations
show that there is no necessary con
nection between the trusts and the
tariff. Take the great Addison Pipe
and Steel company case decided by
the supreme court in 1899; it was held
that the Sherman law was operative
and the trust was permanently enjoin-
ed by the supreme court of the United
States That was one injunction that
everybody was in favor of excepting
the trust My democratic friends may
be surprised to learn that that trust
was organized December 2S, 1894,
while the Wilson law was in opera
ton Was the Wilson law the mother