Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-10-13

Bryan? He's statesman who never
framed law, a lawyer who never
wrote a brief. a soldier who never
fought a fight, a farmer who never
plowed field, a printer who never
set a stick Of type, a politician who
never led in the same direction twice,
the sometimes, or rather many times
candidate for president on the Demo
Peerless One the .Matchless Orator.
and the Great Commoner'-- and he's
getting commoner every day. He was
asked the same question, what will
you do with the unemployed? Well,
Bryan had to take some time to think
about it. While he was thinking the
unemployed went on starving. When
| he did answer his reply was a half
column long. Like the Platte river
which Bryan once said was 500 miles
! long and a foot deep-his reply was
Ia half column long and not half inch
deep. 1t went everywhere, meandered
| in and out, but reached no definite
point. Have you been able to discov-
er anything in the Democratic plat
form looked like square meal?
THE prohibitionists will tell you
that the unemployed should quit
drinking. Now don't misunderstood
me- I'm not arguing against tenn
pcrance. Liquor is a curse that should
be eradicated. Have the prohibitions
lists ever stopped the saIe Of liquor?
They have succeeded in driving
good pure whiskey at twenty-five
! cents a quart from the corner grocer
les to the fashionable saloons where
YOU pay fifteen cents for thimblefuI
of rotgut. They have driven it on
from the saloons to joints, dives, re.
sorts and roOming houses; and every
time the police bust up a dive they
make forty bootleggers. The socialists
and we alone, can alleviate this cure
How? BY fixing the state statutes sc
that there is no profit in the sale Of
the stuff and it won't be for sale
then"
Offers to Debate
Haywood then invited any Repub
lican or Democrat in the room who
, thought his party had a principle
worth arguing for to come on the plat
form and debate it.
: IF any of you think that your party
has single principle worth defending
come up here" he stated III any o
you be ministers or lawyers who are
!, in the habit Of getting paid for scat
tering your hot air, come up here ant
We'll pay you for your time" No on,
accepted the invitation and he pro
ceeded along the same trend
'The truth is you have no princi
pies. You are made UP Of lot of OF
II1h i- "a
get an Office and the graft on the 9th
! er end of it. With the success of sc
cialism we will do away with man,
! of the existing Offices. There will b.
no parasitical set Of lawyers in tn
: upper houses who have no aims high
er than to frame up sets Of laws. TIL
socialists say that no man shall ca
E in another mans sweat Every maj
3 under socialism would either work O
C die, even Bill Taft.
No Divvying Up.
v preachers, campaign orators an
r others who don't know what they'r
V talking about, say that the socialist
e believe in dividing up. Take it fror
+ me = I'm a socialist and know = W
!, do not believe in dividing up View
e been divying UP too long and fror
r now on we're going to keep all. w
@ don't ask for much just the worl
h with good fence around it."
q Haywood then stated that the pol
: ticians in the country today say tina
a the standard Of living is too high. I
n refutation of this, he 1rew pitifr
: word pictures of the impoverishe
|, conditions of the farmers and labo
y ing men in Texas. southern factorie
= and in the big cities.
:, "And yet they tell us that th
:. standard of living is too high
y went on again 'Taft said in Colun
, bus, O., the other day that confit
1 between capital and labor could ne
. be averted much longer. Three day
4 later he implied what the remedy fc
this trouble would be by recommen,
IS ing that the army be increased WHY