Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-24

owe at the rate of TO cents on the
traction for those who are laboring
under debt.
GIN that campaign Mr. Bryan
prophesied that the continuation Of
the gold standard meant uncertainty
in employment Of labor and hardship
to the wage Garner; that it would
send down the price of farm products
wheat below so cents, corn below 80
cents and oats to cents. He did
not have to live two years to see ev-
cry prophecy that he made in that
campaign refuted by tue fact.
Silver furnished, New Issue.
"Then thece cnne on the campaign
of 1900. In that campaign he still ad-
hered to his free silver fallacy and
still went about the country trying to
explain why it was that the continual
ton of the gold standard had not re-
suited in the disasters which he had
prophesied.
"But lest the issue of free silver
had become a little shopworn, he
brought out as paramount issue that
of anti-imperialism. He announced
that if he were not elected in the next
election patriotism would have ceased
to be in this country, the celebration
of the Fourth of July would become
but a memory, and that liberty would
die.
His agitation of this question con-
tinued the war in the Philippines
against the authority Of the United
States for nearly two years longer.
and many a poor fellow who lost mis-
life in the service of his county, in
those far distant lands, owes 1t d.
rectly to the inspiration which the
opposition of the Democracy under
Mr.. Bryan made to the policy of Mr.
Mckinley in the Philippines He was
beaten on these issues, Ind we con
tinue to celebrate the Fourth of July
with fervor
"At the end Of the next four years
Mr.. Parker was nominated. Mr. Bry-
an still insisted on inserting in The
platform a clause in favor Of free sill
yer, but it was left out. He then join
ed with Mr.. Parker in making the
issue The tyranny Of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, executive nsurpation
and militarism He denounced Mr..
Roosevelt as completely subiect to
corporate interests, and held up to the
country the dangers Of war 10 which
1t would be Subject Under 4 Roosevelt
administration. Although the same
policy was being pursued In the Phil
ippines as before, imperialism had
ceased to be then a paramount issue.
"The prophecy which lIr. Bryan
made with reference to the war,ike
tendencies of Mr.. Roosevelt and to his
to corporate influence he
had only to wa t, rs he had to wait in
previous instances when he made
prophecy, some two years to find Ut
terly refuted. 20" rever in the .lis1ory
Of the world has any oh: oxemtive
had such a trlurrL in making peace
as Theodore Roosevelt in the Russian
Japanese war, IN Central Am.rica in
Santo Domingo and in Cuba. and new
er in the history of the country has
there been such complete triumph
over corporate influence as that which
the courage, the honesty and the per-
sistence of Theodore Roosevelt has
wrought during the present admins
tration
''In the campaign of 1904 and in
previous campaigns, Mr.. Bryan had
denounced militarism and imperial
ism, but this year the visit of our navy
to the Pacific coast has arous al such
an interest in the navy, has made if
so popular on that coast, that his Pa.
cific friends persuaded him to approve
a plank for an adequate navy for the
protection of the Pacific coast. JUS.
what he means by this is little lifIi-
cult to tell. What the Republican party
means by it is clear, 1t means an ii
crease in the forces of the navy and
yet with characteristic inconsistence,
Mr. Rrrnn as alrond~ eaid a4fa olrs