Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-27

pie of the republic unanimously sec
onded the demand The President of
the United States threw the influence
of his great Office in favor of the de-
mand Of the press and the people.
but all without avail. The domin-
ant forces within the Republican par
ty had established in the lower house
of congress parliamentary condition
in the interests Of monopoly, under
which the sole power to determine
whether a measure should be allowed
to become a law or not was lodged in
the speaker of that body and his COM
mittee on rules, and by the fiat of that
one man the will of the press, the PEG.
pie and the President was set at
naught. Behold the spectacle! On one
side eighty millions of free people
demanding legislation to right an ad-
mitted wrong. On the other side
few men engaged in public plumber,
aided by the dominating power within
the Republican party, represented by
the presiding officer Of the
once popular branch of congress.
And the plunderers and those unfaith-
full public servants prevail over the
people Of this great republic. In this
instance did the people ruler"
Says People Do Not Rule.
Going into the matter further Mr..
Kern said that it must be apparent to
anyone, who has followed the course
of legislation during the past few years
that there is a power within the Re-
publican party determined that the
people shall not rule. He said:
That power has manifested itself
whenever effort has been made to
check the destructive work Of unlaw-
full combination, reduce the oppressive
tariff tax or enact any legislation look
ing towards the equalization of light
ening of the burdens resting upon the
people.
THAT dominant power which now
guides and directs the Republican
party, has on many occasions defied
the president in cases wheref he has,
sporadic efforts in their behalf In
some instances he has persuaded this
handful Of leaders to compromise on
their own terms with the eighty mil
lions of people whom he assumed to
represent, but in most cases he has
been absolutely powerless.
THAT dominant leadership elects the
speaker of the house. names the COM
mittees of the senate. and is in full
charge of the ingenious machinery
provided for the protection of in
trenched monopoly against the de-
mands of the people.
1T dictated the platform adopted by
that party in its national convention
this year, and after defying Mr.. Roose-
welt for three and half years, and
killing or Gripping nearly all his pro-
posed reform legislation, and having
received his unstinted denunciation
therefor proceeded with the finest
irony to endorse his administration,
after which it dictated a committee to
take charge of the campaign, and Is
Cow in full command of the party or
s;aniZaton.
This dominant leadership is now
circulating two kinds of, campaign lit
eratnre-one being designed for the
east and the other for the west-the
first being placed in the hands of
trust magnateS, tariff beneficiaries.
STOCK gamblers, and others who are
supposed to be enemies of the presi-
dent, declaring that Mr.. Taft is sane
and safe free firm the faults of
Roosevelt. while the second goes to
the business men, the farmers and
laborers who are presumed to be adj
mirers of the president and declares
that Taft is Roosevelt's double and
| may be safely counted on to insist up
on his policies and see that they are
carried out.
On The Tariff Question.
Turning his attention to the tariff
| Mr.. Kern egain confined his remarks
| to answering the statements made in
! the acceptance of Vice President Can
| didate Sherman. He said:
THE Republican candidate for vice
president in his recent speech of ac-
ceptance lauded the Dingley bill, anG
| declared that when enacted it was
well adapted to existing conditions. but
proceeded to add that the develop
ments of industrial prosperity in {
decade which, in volume and degree
have surpassed our most roseate ex-
pectations, have so altered conditions
that in certain details of schedules
| they no longer in every particular
mete out justice to all For these rea'
sons, he declared in favor of a read
| justment, based on the broad prin
interests, alike for labor and capital
! for products and consumers
The hundreds of thousands of Ameri
can workingmen, who are now vainl.
seeking employment were doubtless
delighted when they read about tina
industrial prosperity which so sur
passed our most rosctate expectations
In thousands of American homes, fam
| lilies will gather about dinner table
which for many months have not beel
encountered with breakfast and in
dulged in 'roSeate expectations o
| their own
Under this system the cost of liv
ing so increased as to absorb the earn
ings of the laborer after the mos
rigid economy and self denial on hi
part and that of his family. And it /
, o noteworthy fact when as an inevi
table result of the fiscal policy of tn
Republican party the panic of 100
| Is i
! American laborers who were throw
Z out of employment instead of bein
able to draw upon the fabulous saving
, bank accounts so exploited in politics
literature in recent campaigns foun
themselves and families in a state {