Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-09-04


execute quit claim deed to the
splendid heritage given us by our
ancestors and benefcient Creator
and hand it over to an outfit of 'rich
criminals?" Will we be equal to the
task of maintaining throughout this
vast territorial empire the ascend
ency of liberty, the equality of oppor-
tnnity, the enjoyment of equal rights.
the distinctive blessing of Industrial
freedom or will we acquiesce in the
bold proposal to abdicate our position
and hand our sovereignty over to the
captain of industry" that he may be
able to Grown himself Lord of all"?
Let me ask you In all seriousness. has
the prospect Of industrial and com
mercial slavery no terrors for you?
Do you not know that the concentra-
ton of wealth and consequent power
have already circumscribed the field
of yonr individual activity and use
! fulness, have limited the equality OF
opportunity even In some directions
have destroyed it altogether?
The Evidence.
To be convinced of the truth Of
what state try to get into the lum-
| Der manufacturing business. You will
find that you can buy no timber ad.
yantageously situated. This is all
owned by few lumber companies.
by the lumber trusts. This condition
was clearly foreseen and vigorously
pointed out by economic students
many years ago but the Iowa repub.
lican gave no heed to the impending
calamity of lumber famine. While
he owned not tree of quality to
make commercial lumber, for the
sake Of party harmony" and party
discipline, he annually voted for a
tariff policy that had the direct dis
astrous effect of fastening the de
struction Oh our forests. Our forests
are now largely exhausted, the stand
ing timber is owned by the few. lum
Der is soaring in price. all of which
convicts us of being the victims of re
publican folly. Form a company witt
moderate amount of capital and tr,
to engage in the iron and steel bust
ness and you will be unable to bu.
any ore or coal beds in any favorabl,
locality, these have all been pre-
emptied by the United States stee
, trust under the sanction of q divin
trusteeship. Go into the meat packing
| industry and the Armour syndicat
: will treat you as an interloper an
; not leave grease spot of you. TT
2 the sugar refining business and you
experience will be vastly more bite
1 than sweet. Rockefeller may tOlel
J. ate you in some capacity as men
q Der of one of his subsidiary oil con
), panies where you would enjoy In
q munity from the payment of any fin
: for breaking the law. While man
= small bankers imagine their partic
= lar field is free of monopoly, tn
= truth is the small banker exists mer
ly by sufferance. Experts are a
: justing the machinery that will
= time effectually eliminate even him
n The Danger Ahead.
l. The frenzied financiers now have
v in their power to produce panic
e neatly and expeditiously as tail,
n, can cut out a garment and Aldrich
IS emergency currency law enables the
r. to turn the panic into rich harve
% for themselves. During the pan
If last fall the eastern banks were give
,e free of any charge two hundred al
$ fifty millions of dollars of governme
n. money. Instead of being patriot
If enough to send some of this to the
r. western creditors, which world ha'
Y the--aanAsjkaesa
ID refused to send dollar. They Floa
arI ed out his vast sum to spectators
i'd a clear gain to themselves of six
H. millions of dollars. This is the out
lie of undesirable citizens" who. re a
" told, several weeks before the CT
cago Convention of the republic;
at press. would be "loyal to Taft.
S do not question this loyalty, but I
IS member to say that Wall Street W
ir be loyal to Taft" is only anoth
At way of saying Taft will be loyal
IS Wall Street" I pity the innocence
il. the poor mortal who should imagi
wi that Wall Streets loyalty will ev
r. be gratuitously rendered to any OF
ty or to any cause. That a permanent
nj inferior Industrial standard is in sto
is for the mass of our working people
is present tendencies are not check
n is to my mind perfectly clear. If t
tol concentration of wealth is not
Mt rested 1t will continue to conce
d. trate at an ever increasing ratio T.
ne possession of immense wealth cs
ne ries along with 1t corresponding DC
Ie- teal power; this power is used to
.ir celerate the speed with which mo
Sc wealth is gathered and thus mo
e power is acquired, the two pushi
IS. each other along automatically. A
or the people to remain blind until t
m curse of the relationship OF mast
is. and slave once more acquires the d
Of nifty and prestige of a national ms
IN tuition? A relationship not betwe
es whites and blacks but between t
be lucky white man and his unfortuna
III brother? Do you tell me We are
lie no such danger? Is it not true tn
a. the dark shadow Of this unspeakat
It. calamity is falling upon us ey
II now? Are we not within our RICH
al when we plead with all patriotic eli
mi zens to join with us and thus forey
is avert his supreme danger? RENEE
ne Der it required four years of devs
IL tating war to abolish black SLAYER
til white slavery will be so much mo
OF odious. SO much more intolerable,
IN victims will be SO many more. tn
~ 1t becomes the solemn duty of eve
ee patriot to help strengthen the mo,
in ment for the suppression of this 6
r. vSncing white plague.
" Do Not Be Deceived.
It'll Do not delude yourselves, my
H. publican friends, with the soothi
" explanation that Taft is Roosevelt
~ chosen instrument to carry to a S,
cessful conclusion the Roosevelt po
~ cies. Temperamentally Mr.. Taft
n. entirely unequal to this tremendo
th task. Nature has not equipped N
AZ Taft with those militant qualities
s.. conspicuous In the make up of The
n dore Roosevelt, and when with all