Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-02
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government occupying an enviable pos
ition before the world with reference
to its imperialistic policy?
We claim to be a democracy, and
yet are acting as a monarchy. We claim
to be the home of free men, and yet
are governing people without their con-
sent. The great Lincoln declared in
one of his debates with Stephen A.
Douglas that no man was good enough
to govern another man without that
mans consent. Forcibly this principle
comes home to us today, and If seek
the government of a people without
their consent how soon will the same
forces attempt to govern us without
our consent? If vested rights can
reach human beings across the Pacific
ocean and tax them for its benefit, how
soon will the same vested interests
tax us without our consent, and for
their benefit?
The question is not an idle one. 1t
goes to every hearthstone in the United
parted from the cornerstone erected by
our fathers? Is vested rights SC
strong, property rights so secure that
they are going to control the individual
at home and abroad? The sons and
daughters of America, ninety millions
in number. pay tribute today to the
few. and il independence of thought
on political propositions is suggested,
then, sir, member of the American
government. high in the counsels of
protected industries. will declare that
such a man Fought not be shot, but
hanged"
Is it not time for those who love the
American republic to speak? Is it
a time to split hair with those who
are almost united with us on the ques-
tion of human rights and equal oppor-
tunities? Should we not grasp the
hand of every individual of this land
and place human rights above prop
erty, and with the thought of the
fathers of our nation as our guiding
star, march in unity to victory?
have thought in the past that the
day has gone by when a man possess
ing the qualities of Jefferson or Lin
coin will ever again occupy the presi-
Dental chair. All. that may be pessa'
mistic. Let us spurn the idea, arise
In our strength and majesty, unite with
those who believe in democratic prin.
ciples. and with the star Of jefferson
as our guide go forth battling for in
dividual rights, placing home and fire.
side above interest. putting patriotism
above tribute, and then this magnifi-
cent government of ours will again be-
come the beacon light to the oppressed
of all nations, the hope and inspira'
ton of our own people.
The party in power has gone farther
in the closing moments of the last SEES.
sion of congress than ever before in
the history of our government in de-
claring that the system Of interests
and vested rights should control. Both
parties in the campaign of 1908 de-
clared that the depositors in banks
should be protected, the democratic
party declaring that the bank ITSELF
should guarantee its deposits, and il
that failed, that postal savings bank
law be enacted in which the United
States government should guarantee
the funds of the little depositor in the
community in which he resided. The
republican platform in but a single lin(
declared in favor Of postal savings
bank law.
The Issues.
The last session of congress enacted
such a law, and if there ever has been
and is a stupendous fraud in whfcf
the American people were buncoed, In
which the banking system of the Unit
ed States is supreme, it is the Law
just enacted. On the 9TH day Of March