Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-11-01
SAYS SOME ARE BOUND TO GET
MORE THAN OTHERS IN GEN
ERAL PROSPERITY
LIKENs SOME TO HOGS
Says They Crowd the Little Fellows
Away From the swilI--Does Not Be.
lleve In Democratic Idea of Cutting
Off the Supply in the Trough.

Denton, Md, Oct. Secretary
Bonaparte spoke here today at a meet
ing in the interest of William H. Jack
son, republican nominee for congress
in the first district of Maryland. Bona
parties speech was plea for the con-
tinuation of the next house Of repre-
sentatives in republican hands. He
quoted figures showing an Increase
In the for eign commerce of the coun-
try since 1896, when the republicans
came into power, in support of his con-
tention that the national prosperity
was due to republican administration.
individuals Grow Rich.
But this very prosperity" he con-
tinued, "is "a source of some serious
embarrassment When the nation
grows rich, individuals who make up
that nation grow rich also, and In such
cases some of these individuals always
grow far richer than others. We have
developed crop of Croesuses without
precedent in history and moreover, a
long distance telephone, the ocean ca
Bile and the development of corporate
agencies enable these multi-million-
aires to unite their wealth In huge
combinations which threaten the COM
mercial liberties of their fellow citi-
zens and even bid defiance to our
laws"
Pigs in Pen.
Bonaparte likened the trust to pen
of pegs in which the big, strong, over
fed hog crowded little ones away from
their feed and got far more than its
share. He continued, "Our big, strong
greedy, over-prosperous trusts are AMI
mails of the like order. They crowd
the smaller and weaker fellows from
the feeding trough SO that they don't
get their fair share of our national
prosperity. The problem is how to
fence OF the great beasts so as to give
the little ones show. The democrats
propose to cut off the supply of swill
or, in other words, to destroy ouI
prosperity by unsettling all our bust
ness relations. No doubt this process
would soon make big hogs thin as IA
zorbacks, but would the small ones
fare any better? Remember, we don'1
complain of the former because they
are themselves big and fat, but be
,ause others are small and thin. Fat
ter big pigs become better for theil
owner and the more money trusts
make, the better for the American
people, provided in the one case all the
little pigs get fat too, or at all events
as fat as these can, and in the other
that all dealers outside the trust.
have fair field and trusts have nj
favor
President for Square Deal.
"Our President wants and has al
ways wanted a square deal for ever.
one, whether pig, lion or man ant
under his leadership, the republican
party has tried to put and keep eacl
of our trusts in it's own proper pen
where 1t cannot crowd any of the littl'
fellows around it.. To this end he ha
asked the aid of congress and of tn
courts to keep the corporate and in
dividual wealth of the country in du
subjection to law, not to make the ricl
men poor, for to do this would onl
make poor men poorer but to make tn
rich men law abiding SO the poor me-
may become rich if they will And tn
two houses of congress as well as tn
courts have responded to his appeal