Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-01-28

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| the judge she said:
Judge, he finally suggesed that |
sell myself for his support; he pressed
me too far, Judge ,and killed him.
Predicts War in Ten Years.
"Ah, the money power of this gov
ernment is treading upon dangerous
ground. They do not know, or else
| they do not care, that the people are
already ground down with taxation
and the weight of government until
their backs are almost broken beneath
its load. They do not seem to ap-
preciate the fact that in his power
and strength old Man People may
rise and smite them. l would not be
an alarmist, sir, but l predict here
and now that unless conditions
change, that unless the congress of
the United States turns listening ear
to the lamentations of an outraged
public, that within ten years there
may be another Shenandoah Valley.
there may be another Gettysburg;
the red broom of war may sweep this
government as it has never been
swept before. and when that day shall
break in all its fury, woe to the crowd
working the field of legislation that
have laid these grievous burdens up,
on the backs Of the crowd working the
field of human endeavor.'
Congress Fiddes as Rome Burns.
Speaking of the "oligarchy of wealth
builded by legislation and legislation
alone having reduced to almost serf-
dom the laborers of portions of the
country the senator continued:
We stand today face to face with
a deficit in our public treasury Of
S150,O00,000. Our government is bank
rupt, yet we are appropriating the
money of the people at the rate of
perhaps million dollars an hour. The
majority In congress seem to be drunk
on the wine of success. They fiddle
and dance and make merry while Rome
burns. | say to you, Mr.. President,
that 1t is time we were calling halt,
and that the congress of the United
States legislate for little while in
the interest of old Man People, He Is
a good old man, bowed and bent with
years; venerable, with long, flowing
beard. You have each met him. Sim
pie and confiding, trustful and hope
full, he looks to this congress for some
relief, and ask the senators here to
lend an attentive ear to his demands
before 1t is everlastingly too late"
He declared that the panic Of 1907
was organized on less than three
acres of ground in New York, where
these two gigantic stock gambling in
stitutions ply their wicked vocations."
n I,N re
tive tariff he pictured New York City
as scene of poverty as proof that
this tariff does not bring prosperity
even to those who work in the shops
of the protected interests.
Hits Cotton Gambling.
The tram action on the New York
exchange, he said, involve speculation
on ten times as much cotton as it ac-
tually produced in the south.
The whole transaction" he said, 'is
a pure gambling bucket shop transac-
tion of the worst kind and no ex-
change should be lawfully empowered
to continue this gambling game" This
he added, is gambling not only in the
products Of the soil, "but 1t is gamb-
ling in the flesh, in the blood and in
the bones Of women and children Of
the south who are forced by the rob-
berry and spoilation of these gamblers
to toll from daylight until dark to pro-
duce the subject matter of this gamb-
ling transaction"
These exchanged, he insisted, so
completely fix the price of cotton that
the smallest farmer when he carries
his product to market Is told that the
purchaser must consult the exchange
before he buys it. When gambling in
cotton is destroyed he said, better
price could be obtained for the cotton
Of the south
The one hundred names of members
of the New York stock exchange was
included in Mr.. Davis remarks. These
men, he said, represent wealth aggre-
eating $15,00O,0 100000, or about one
seventh of the wealth owned by the
9O,O0O,OOO people of the United States
and in addition to that personal owner
ship, he added, they represent vast
railway and commercial systems that
add to their influence in the financial
world.