Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-26

| facts as to Gov. HaskelPs' conduct the
Outlook article concludes as follows:
| On this state OF affairs we have
| two comments to make and two ques-
tons to ask.
The people of Oklahoma are taxed to
support their educational institutions
from the primary school to the univer-
sity. They pay their money to have
their children educated. When the
politicians use this money to promote
the interest of a political machine or d
church sect they are guilty of breach
OF trust. What do the taxpayers OF
Oklahoma think of the use which their
public servants are making of the
public funds? What do they think
about this financial policy--the taking
of the money due their sons and
daughters and diverting it for the ben
/ eft of politicians, ecclesiastical and
civil?
Peril in Haskell Methods
Gov. Haskell was one of Mr.. Bryan's
right hand men in the democratic con-
vention, and at Mr.. Bryan's instance,
has been made treasurer of the demo-
cratic national committee. 1t is APP
palling to think what would be the re-
suit in the educational systems of the
Philippines and Porto Rico, in the dig
ging of the Panama canal in the work
of irrigation and reformation, in the
administration of the postoffice, the
in the appointments of foreign min
listers and consuls. if the spirit which
| has actuated the democratic authori-
be permitted to take control of the
ties in the state of Oklahoma should
| federal government at Washington.
Gov. Haskell, by actions, which speak
| louder than words has declared his
disbelief in Grover Cleveland's motto,
"A public office is a public trust And
Mr. Haskell is a representative leader
| in the Bryan democracy. What does
Mr.. Bryan think of Mr.. Clevelands
principle? What do the American peo-
pie think of Mr.. HaskelIs con-
temptuous reversal of it?'
You close your telegram by saying
| that you expect and will demand fair
and honorable treatment from those
who are in charge of the Republican
campaign. l am not in charge of the
campaign, but am greatly interested
in it. | have shown you above fairly
and honorably that Gov. Haskell is a
man who on every account I have
ramed, Is unworthy of any position in
our public life. No further investiga-
ton of these facts is required They
are spread on the record before you,
and they We're available before Mr.
Haskell was chosen for his position as
treasurer.
Condemn Bryan and Policies.
You also say that you will not permit
any responsible member of the Repub-
licar organization to misrepresent the
attitude of your party in the present
campaign You will have no diff
Guilty in getting me to represent it
Alright, for my sole anxiety is that the
people Of the country shall understand
this attitude clearly. and shall then
condemn it as it should be condemned.
You say that you have advocated
more radical measures against private
monopoies than either l or my party
associates have been willing to under
take. You have indeed advocated
measures that sound more radical, but
they have the prime defect that in
practice they would not work should
not in this letter to you discuss your
attitude on this question if you did not
yourself bring it up; but as you have
| brought 1T up, | answer you that in
my judgment the measures you advo-
| cate would be wholly ineffective in cur
ing single evil, and so far as they
had any effect at all would merely
throw the entire business of the
country into hopeless and utter con-
fusion.
I put Mr.. Tafts deeds against your
words.
| ask that Mr.. Taft be judged by all
his deeds for he wishes none of them
forgotten. ask that YOU be judged both
by the words you wish remembered
and by the words that seemingly you
and your party now desire to have
forgotten.
DIGGING Up Skeletons.
! ask that your present plan for regu
lating the trusts be Judged in connec-
| ton with your past utterances that
you did not believe N their regulation,
but in their destruction and again in
connection with your past utterances
to the effect that only government
ownership by the complicated national
and state system rr railroads would
avail; and again by your past utter
ances when you proposed to remedy
all the sufferings OF our people by a
deprecated currency. For several
years now I have been steadfastly
fighting to secure thorough going and
farreaching control IN the interest of
the public over the great business
combinations which do an interstate
| business. In this effort I have been as
much hampered by the extremists, well
meaning or otherwise. who demanded
visionary and impracticable radicalism
as by those other extremists, no less
dangerous, who stand for the reaction
cry refusal to remedy any grievance.
Nothing to Fear in Bryan.
One side, the side on which 1 am
obliged to say you have pleaced your
self, has shown itself to be just as
much the enemy of progress as the
ether. ] hold it entirely natural for
any great law defylng corporation to
wish to see you placed in the presi-
dency rather than Mr.. Taft. Your plans
to put stop to the abuses of these
corporations are wholly chmerical;
how chimerical your last plan is you
will yourself see if you read Gov.
| Hughes speech at Youngstown, o. To
recall to your mind What Gov. Hughes
| said | quote as follows:
When we consider those (nroposed)
remedies (of Mr.. Bryan against the
trusts . we find ourselves Journey
ing in land of dreams. Again the
magician of 1896 ro--o~ his wand. At
stroke difficulties disappear and the
complex problems Of modern business
are forgotten in the fascination of the
| simple panacea.
THE most important proposal of Mr.
Bryan is that any manufacturing or
trading corporation engaged in inter
state commerce shall be required to
| take out federal license before it
shall be permitted to control as much
as 25 per cent of the product in which