The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-06-16

therefore vote for cheap goods inn
ported from abroad. But these farm
ers are enterprising and studious.
The free rural delivery with its daily
papers and a general telephone sys-
tenn keeps them in touch with the
whole world. They know that 95 per
cent of their market is at nome and
they are not willing to throw away
substance for shadow. Our party had
it's first contest in maintaining the
union of the states in the bloodiest
war of ancient or modern times, and
during the darkest hour Mr.. Lincoln
and his government never despaired
of the republic.
When Hannibal was besieging
Rome, the grim patriots in the city
sold his camp at auction in the open
market and the title deeds were pass
ed in spite of hostile occupation.
In 1862 in the darkest days of the
republic, one of the greatest acts of
the patriot congress was to provide
for and commence the construction OF
a railway to the Pacific ocean.
Such confidence in the future was
worthy of success. And about the
same time Galusha A. Grow secured
the final passage of the free home
stead law, which had been vetoed by
the timid and conservative James
Buchanan not long before.
The struggle for the restoration
and preservation of the public credit
followed hard upon the restoration o.
the union, and the battle for resump
tion Of specie payment was a fit pre-
lude to the later contest in which tnt
money of the country was put upoI
the secure foundation Of the golf
standard.
The recent irrigation and the for
estry laws have been excellent supple
mentary legislation to the grea
homestead law Of Mr.. Grow.
/ The Spanish-American war was thu
united work of the American peopl
without regard to party and Presiden
Mckinley gave to the ex-Confederate
.
ton and opportunity to show hoy
! fully and freely they again yielde,
their allegiance to the old flag. Gu
I opponents, even if not ready to ad
! nit that we were in the right from
| 1861 to 1865, are at least willing t
concede that it is better for all cor
cerned that the cause Of the Confed
/ eracy was lost.
Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield
Arthur, Harrison and Mckinley hav
passed over to the silent majority an
must be judged by results accom-
| plished.
| A restored American navy is one Q
| the fruits Of the present policy an
the rebuilding of a merchant marin
| is one of the problems of the future
The republican policy has neve
been sectional. Provincialism is NO
patriotism.
Under the sway of national republ
! canism the South is enjoying prosper
] ity unequalIed in her history. Sh
! has reaped the benefit OF wise law
and yet has steadily and persistent
voted against her own best interest
on the great national issues of SCUM
money and protection. She has YIELD
ed to race prejudice. She has accep
ed and appropriated the forty repre-
sentatives in congress and forty elet
toral presidential votes that hav
been given by the amended constitl
tion On account of ner eight million
of colored citizens, but she has III
justly suppressed the votes of tn
freedmen and their descendants.
This unfair advantage we hav
been compelled to meet in the pas
and must overcome it again this yea
in order to give to the American PEI
pie, black and white, the benefits {
four years more Of the wise, safe an
honest administration of Theodor
Roosevelt.
And now, my fellow citizens, 1 wi
not detain you longer on this plea.
ant osSesion, but will hope to NEE
you in 4 parts of the district as
have done in the past and discus
with our people the living issues {
the hour. Again l thank you.