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, contingent fund of the house."
ton have been to Camp Alger and urged
They Stiller!
whether the charges are true or false,
and if we were to Investigate them dur-
ing the session it would take the whole
session. I believe that we ought to in-
Dcmocrats Objected to Cohgres—
slonal Inquiry Into Army of them, so that the people of the Unit—
ed States can know it.
(findmom' MR. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker-,1 think
______ I can save some time of the house if the
gentlemen will allow me.
MR. MOODY. Will my friend from
Kansas allow me to say a word and
then I will yield to him? I want to
say to the gentleman from Texas and
the gentleman from Kansas that I vis-
Congressman Hulllroposed Army “ed a brigade at Chickamaugflfi com,
lnquiryby Committee on Mili- sisting of a. regiment oi New York,
.. ‘ troops, a regiment of Massachusetts
tary Afial‘sl but Democrats troops and a Kansas regiment, and I
Prevented It to Make found the jvolunteer surgeons 05 this
, . regiment w thdrlawn from their uty—
Pontlcal Capita" withdrawn from the care of these men
who had just come from civil life—and
I found that officers of at least one
Before congress adjourned the re- regiment were paying for the medicine
publicans tried to provide for close su- that the men needed.
pervision of the armyby the commit- MR. BAILEY. Mr. Speakerd desire to
tee on military affairs, so that there say to the gentleman fr )m Iowa that
it
could be no chance for serious mis- there is any real nece: sity for this,
I
takes; so that whenever anything went am not only willing'to flee the
commit-
Wrong it would speedin be discovered tee aul‘horized to Sit. but I would
be
and remedied. The plan was for the Willing to see the reasmable exoenses
committee on military affairs to act of the committee incurred in travel
as a. check upon the bureaus of the war Dam. but inasmuch as: the committee
department, so that if any mismanage- draws a $2006 salary. it seems to me
if the sessions are to be here the amend-
. a w t
merit occurred in the great h ste l h mam is not necessary_
which preparations for the war with
Spain were carried on, it would be cor- mgifigggfigiMfféliegiealetgdgfl
rooted and stopped With the least pos- barrass the MU.
sible injury. _, ,
During the civil war a resolution pro- MR' SIMPSOI“ Mr‘ Speaker, I
want
, , to say to the gentleman from Iowa that
viding for such supervision and inquiry we have with,“ the last month
passed
Was offered and the committee was au- bm after bill providing for a. thorou
h
thorizcd to go into all the details. organization of the “my inspector
'tion in the ’
B“ the democrauc 0mm?“ generals Without number, and we have
lower house Of congress d‘d “0t want all these ofllcergto look after
the mat-
E‘mh 9' safeguard PrPVided- They tors in connection with the army. 1
do
hoped that in the unavaidable extreme not see any gmd meome out of a com-
haste of getting ready for a War they mittcc'IOf civilians to
investigate it, and
had been trying to force the president I want the party m power that ap_
into before he was ready, many mis- pointed the men to assume the responsi-
takes would be made. which could be bility, and therefore 1 object to the
exaggerated and multiplied. and they consideration of this bill.
Would hold the republican party re- Mr. Bailey is the democratic leader
sponslble for it all. So they objected of the house. Mr. Simpson is the no-
to the resolution for an investigation torious “Sockless” Simpson of
Kansas.
though it was to be without expense. Mr. Richardson is a. democrat from
The whole story lsbest told by the Tennessee. Mr. Moody is a republican
Congressional Record of July 8, when from Massachusetts.
Mr: Hull, chairman of the house com- This record shows that the democrats
mittec on military affairs, introduced Prevented this Proposefl
investigation
the following resolution and asked its by objecting to its conSlderation on
the
immediate consideration: , closing dayiof congress. For it could
Resolved, That the committee on not be conSidered on that day without
unanimous consent. and one member
3,2“33 :fit’finfig’; “$23,322,; ‘3, could therefore kill it;
It was killed
make such investigation as to the or- by Simpson! under the leadership of
ganization and equipment of the army Bane“ SI; was done-133 fine
language
as it may deem advisable and report to ‘21 .mr' mps‘m 0133“ y :
owsgmmmy
the next session of congress. 0 allow the democrats 0 make DOM-
, V tical capital out of the alleged condi-
The following verbatim extract from “om! of the army' which they
refused
the Congressional Record July 8, 1893, .
shows what happened to this resolu— to allow to be remed‘ed'
tion and who did it:
with Editinl§t$i$i°€tiiitnlik The Fallacy of
bér of the committee; and I will say .
E the Argument
to the house tbpit the complaints that
—....__.
have come to the committeehs. e been
or such character that I think 'would
be well for the committee to have the
right to sit during the adjournment of,
congress to investigate the equipment
of t e army, so that we can answer
those charges made against the differ-
out departments of the army from our '” I...—
own knowledge, and not be compelled .
to depend entirely on information fur- In his book on “Monem Wages and
nlshed us by the departments involved. Prices" Mr. George E. Roberts.
the dis-
~MR. RICHARDSON. What power is tinsuished writer on financial ques-
‘rfven the committee? I could no: un- 12102151003316.91‘9 thfi
fallacieso! tho._ar~
dentand. ‘ guments of the free silver people based
MR HULL. Simply to sit during the on what they can "appreciated
finer."
adjournment of congress and make He say!!! “The GGmDhflnt is thattlre
such investigations as they desire of debtor is Tequila:l t0 S‘Wfia
continu-
these different departments, such as ally increasing amount of his products
the commissary department, the altar- to pay his obligationstthat, the pro-
termaster’s department. the ordnance ducer, and trader are doing business
on
department and the hospital corps. .3 constantly falling market, and that
MR. RICHARDSON, Where. is the the property owner is subject to steady,
Gommlttee to sit? , ' shrinkage of values. In this country
MR. HULL. In Washington with the advocates of free silver also claim,
power or a. subcommittee possibly to .tO be the 81289181 Chalfipiom
"01‘ 531.37)
go to any place where it is necessary. wage earner, and even the
defenda‘otr
MR. RICHARDSON. That means the wage earnercsmnstibis emplowrl’
anywhere in the United States? ‘
MR. HULL. I think that that would carefully considers the question of the,
be .the construction to put upon it. relation of wage earners to the. pur-
MR. RICHARDSON. Is this resolu- chasing power oftheir wages. On this
tlon recommended by the committee 0:: line of the argument he says:
"It the
'milltary emails? . money is depreciating, the salary of
MR. HULL. Yes. only by conference the wage earner, although nominally
with the two democratic members and the same, buys less from year to year.
several republican members. 'I will say He is an unconscious loser from
WEEK
to the gentleman ‘that this resolutionito week. He gets the some pay in
his
doesnot provide for the payment of the envelope, but month by month he must
expense 01! the committed and they cut off some comfort which he has
will have to pay their own expenses hitherto enjoyed. The drift is against
where they traVel. I did not want. it, lhim. He is rowing up stream,
instead
for myself at least, to be thought that ‘Of dorm. and must tight. not
only, for
we wanted to fix up a job. but I do be— every gain, but: to keep from
being our-
lieve that the house should pass a res- ried back. . .
olution of this kind so that the mom-i Mr. Roberlh‘aays that the
grievance
bars of the committee, or a part of the of the free silver advocates in
their
committee, should be able to go to Fort fight against falling prices is a
griev-
Alger. Tampa. and Chattanooga with since against progress; In other Words,
power to make the proper investigation that they Wish the people to pay so
of theydirferent camps. r much for goods that the old way of
MR, MOODY. I desire to one: an manufacturing will still be profitable.
amendment. _, _‘ They do not take into consideratibn the
MR. HULL. I yield to the gentleman question of improved machinery which
for that purpose; but I‘ first ask Junan- gives a larger 5 here or life
to hillllons’
lmous consent. of people y o . re released thereby
THE SPEAKER. Is there objection, ,rroym thed dgery of unskilled labor.
to the present consideratlourof the res-' He s ms up the question as
follows:
olution? ' r 2: “The true parity, instead of being as
MR. HOPKINS. It‘thcgre is to be an Senator Stewart says, betWeen money
amendment I would like'to have that and property, is between money and
read, reserving the right to object to labor; When property, whichformeriy
the ariginalpropositicn'and the amend- cost $100 Worth of labor can be
pro-
ment. , duced for $50 worth of labor, its price
MR. MOODY. lell say tothe gsn- should fall accordingly. Labor is the
tleman from Illinois that I would not greatipurchaser as well as the great
hnperll the passage of the resolution producer of property. As a rulelt
does
by an amendment. but I think he will not own what it produces, but is
agcon-
and no objection to it. . stsnt buyer of it. How can it buy an
The clerk read the amondment. as increasing volume of products unless
tOlIOWS- ' their price falls to correspond with the
Add at th: end of the resolution the reduced amount of labor in them?"
following: The expenses actually in- Concerning the effect'ot advancing
curred by the members of the commit- prices, Mr. Roberts says: “A. steady
tee. not to exceed in the aggregate five or advancing scale or prices
would
hundred dollars shall be paid from the doubtless be a, pleasant relief to
a. bus—
. I mess man after the pressure of the past
MR' BAILEY: Mr‘ Speak“? I 599“? four years. if it came about by
the
to ask, if there was any request to the natural influence of increasing
con-
gentleman from Massachusettsthat he sumption. Every one looks eagerly for
Chililgd offer this amendment? the rising prices which slgnlfya reac-
. MOODY. Iwiil say that. haying (ion from the period of enforced econ-
in mind the samesubjcct-matter which omy ,and pinched living. but it is not
the gentleman fmm Iowa called to my natural or consistent with progress
that
attention a short time before he intro- as a permanent condition it shall
cost
duced it. I suggested to him that it was more to make transport or
distribute
aninjustice to the members of the com- goods this year than last, or that a
mfttee to pay their personal expenses; mew house or a new machine shall
cost
and it was my proposition to provide
for a larger sum than was put in the $33,201} as one did When bum years
amendment. but the gentleman from “To de
preciate the value of money in
{)‘zfizgflgnthat he thought that W‘mm order to offset the natural
fall or prices
‘ ‘ ' is s mply an attempt by legislative, ho-
geféiéngfinggh Ifiggzhamghtgg cue poems to defeat or evade the results
‘ ’ of progress. They cannot be defeated;
mposmg this Without conference With they may be diverted. The losses may
thr- commitltee. ,
MR. M00131 NO; this is not in pm“ be thrown from where they belong over
, to the shoulders of others but fail
giaaischeme entered into with mfnewhere they/Win" , ‘
MR. BAILEY, I did not suggest that There ‘5 30mlth 1“ the cheap
but I think the amendment had better money argument from the Standpmm
be withdrawn, of the property owner and employer.
MR, HULL, Mr. Speaker,” juguce to It is a captivating story to hear of
gen-
myself and the gentleman; f-mm,Masm_ tly rising prices. but the practical
man
cfiusetts' I want to say that he just ought to know that in this world
some~
bow has returned from Chickamauga ‘ thing does 11°C long keep coming for
and my colleague (Mr. Lacey) has been nothing, There are the germs of spec~
mvestilenz the matter, but could only ,ulation and disaster in such
conditions.
vestlga'te the camps where the charges
come from and find the truth or falsity
[dealing With misdirection?
In answer to this Mr. ‘Rc'lbem very
look on. The good women of Washing- gThey encourage debt and over-trading
’and unsafe and wasteful methods, and
that something be done. I do not know bring the people at last to the
reaction
Ethat follows a boom. Whenever a. man
,loses sight of the essential truth that
the right way to obtain wealth is to
(create it—to make two blades of grass
{grow where before was but one—and
iseeks wealth by speculation he is out
of the path of usefulness, which alone
leads to comfort and peace.
“A man who borrowed the equivalent
of 1,000 bushels of wheat twenty—five
years ago received the product of more
toil than it costs today. He is not
wronged if he is required to pay the
equivalent in labor of what he bor-
rowed then.” v
Governor Shaw, in one of his recent
speeches, expressed the situation very
clearly when he said that the A, B. C
of the money question was simply this:
The value of the standard dollar is
the value of the material in that dollar,
and in order to have bi—metallism it
would be necessary not only that the
value of the material in the two dol-
lars should be exactly the same at the
time they are coined, but that they
should remain the same during the life
of those coins. Experience has taught
us the impossibility of keeping the val-
us of the two metals together, by any
inflexible ratio, hence there never can
be two standards of money existing in
the same country at the same time and
both monies kept circulating (Jo-exten—
sively.
Mr. Bynum of Indiana, the distin-
guished democratic statesman who has
left his party on account of its position
on the money question and is support-
ing the republican party, well says that
the democratic craters seek to befog
their hearers at the outset. They de—
pend for the efficiency of their argu-
ment upon thus muddllng their hear-
ers and so their sophistry passes un-
noticed. They say that the advocates
of the single gold standard would com-
pel the government to make all money
of gold and then they say there is not
gold enough in the world to meet. the
demands of a. gold currency. Hence
they declare there would be a. tre-
mendous contraction of the currency
with its attendant ruinous effect. Now
the truth, says Mr. Bynum, is that the
gold standard does not mean that the
circulating medium of the noun-try shall
be gold, but. simply means that every
dollar of the circulating medium, be it
coin or paper, shall have the purchas—
lng’ power of the gold in the gold dol-
lar. When this fact is kept clearly in
mind much of the argument of the sil-
ver people fails. The adoption of the
gold standard does not mean that the
amount of paper money or other media.
of exchange shall be curtailed. but that
it shall all be kept at an equal pur-
chasing power with gold.
The voters of Iowa. should remember
that while there are many days on
which to transact business, to husk
corn, to plow the fields or make other
preparations for future harvests, there
is only one day on which they will have
an opportunity to vote to sustain the
hands of President McKinley in the
critical times which are now before the
country. The failure to vote on Novem—
ber 8, and the failure to see that your
vote is cast for the republican, ticket,
is an unpardonable disregard of the
duties of a citizen.
“Who Wfll‘mn the councils of the
nation in this hOur '2” was the important
question asked by President McKinley
‘ in. his speech at Omaha the other day.
He realizes, (as perhapsno one else, the
grave importance of the questions to be
settled by the next congress. The ad-
ministration must meet probipms such
as has confronted no otherladminis-
oration in the history ofthis country;
and upon the settlement or these prob-
lems. depends, in, a great measure the
glory and prosperity of the tion. Do
the laconic ofrIowa desire 't hamper
the administration in its splendid rec-
ord with a. congress in which quibbilng
and jealous bickering shall take the
place of high—minded. statesmamhip in
voters of Iowa ghouid rcmemberr
that, the nation is larger than the. ter—
ritory contiguouu, to any;,postofll_ce;
thou-the future of this comm; is or
more importance; than acidification as
to who shall sell stamps-or pass out
letters through the delivery window of
the postofllce all: the crossroads." ,They
should also remember that itthey‘ im-
agine that they have been slighted and
their advice disregarded in the, selection
of their local postmaster. this is not,
a. time for them to use their kniVes.
When the great problems of the war
With Spain are being‘settled, it should
certainly make but little difference With
any citizen of Iowa. whether John Jones
or John Smith is appointed postmas-
ter. If you vote for the democratic
candidate for congress, you give notice
that You are so angry because the right
man, as you consider him, was not ap-
pointed postmaster that you are ready
to. oppose President McKinley in all his
,plansxor the future, and to brand, with
a. lack of confidence, all the glorious re-
sults of the war. Are you angry enough
for this? I .
Abraham Lincoln once said, "Never
swap horses while crossing a. stream."
That homely expression of “Old Abe"
was never more pertinent than at the
present time. President McKinley and
the republican party have conducted
the country well on Its way to the
haven beyond the turbulent Waves of
war audit is neither common sense nor
patriotism to transfer the conductmf,
affairs of the country to the party of
opposition at this time. Remember the
words of “Old Abe" and “don’t swapi"
MAKING A FOOT BALL OF THE
, CONSTITUTION.
One part of the democratic platform
to which possibly too. little attention
has been paid is that plank which pro-
poses to make a foot ball of the consti-
tution of the United States. The Mar-
shalltown "convention, in its excess of
wisdom and patriotiSm, pledged the
democratic party of Iowa to the pix-opo-
sition that the constitution of the Unit-
ed States is a. document of no more
value than the constitution of some
crossroads lyceum and that it should
be susceptible of being amended in as
easy a manner. The epublican party
believes that the must ution of this
country cast too much in blood and
treasure, both in the. formation and
preservation, torremove from it all the
safeguards which those who originally
framed it believed necessary for its
protection~ The republican party does
not believe that this precious document
should be subject to every outburst of
political agitation that may happen to
possess a bare" majority of the people.
It is reported that English machine
builders have contracts for the equip-
ment of many cotton mills in India, in-
cluding eleven mills being established
in Ahmedabad, where six more may be
in progress of construction. ' ‘4 ‘
After an idleness of four years? the
Illa-inch mill of the Glasgow Iron com-
pany of Pottstown, Pa, has been put in
operation. as was also a,‘sixty~nve—inch
mill of the same company, giving em-
ployment to nearly Swamp.
.,.
‘The March
of the Flag”
Beginning of Greater America—-
Endorsement of the War Ad-'
ministration the Issue.
.———._
AmericanVoters to Stand by Their
Government — Effect of This
Election on Other Nations.
___.
Speech by Hon. Albert J. Bever-
idge at Indianapolis on
September 16, 1898.
Fellow Citizens: It is a noble land
that God has given us; a land that can
feed and clothe the world; a land whose
coast lines would enclose half the coun-
tries of Europe; a land set like a. sen-
tinel between the two imperial oceans
of the globe a. greater England with a.
nobler destiny. (Applause). It is a.
mighty people that He has planted on
this soil; at people sprung from the most
masterful blood of history; a people
perpetually vitailzed by the virlle, man—
produclng Worklngfolk of the earth.
(applause); a people imperial by virtue
of their power, by right of their institu-
tions, by authority of their heaven-di-
rected purposes—the propagandists and
not the misers of liberty. (Great cheer—
ing). It is a glorious history our God
has bestowed upon His chesen people;
a history whose keynote was struck by
Liberty Bell. (applause); a. history
heroic with faith in our mission and our
future; a. history of statesmen who
flung the boundaries of 'the republic out
into unexplored landarond savage wil-
dernessest a. history of soldiers who
carried the flag across the blazing des-
erts and through the ranks of hostile
mountains, even to the gates of sunset,
(cheers); 3. history of . a multiplying
people who overran a. continent in half
a century; a. history of3 prophets who
saw the consequences of evils inherited
from the past and of martyrs who died
to save us from them; arhlstory divine-
ly logical, in the process of whose tre-
mendous reasoning we find, ourSelves
today. (Cheers). "
THE ISSUE NOT PARTISAN BUT
AMERICAN.
Therefore, in this campaign, the
question is larger than a party Ques-
tion. It is an American question. It is
a. world question. (Great applause).
Shall the American people continue
their resistless march toward the com-
mercial supremacy of the world? Shall
free institutions broaden their blessed
reign as the' children of liberty wax in
strength, until the empire of our prin-
ciples is established over the hearts of
all mankind? (Applause). Have we no
mission to perform, no duty to dis—
charge to our fellow~man2 Has the
Almighty Father endowed “as with gifts
beyond our deserts and marked us as
the people of His peculiar favor. merely
to rot in our own selfishness. as men
and nations must who take cowardice
for their companion and self for their
Deity—eds Chine has, as India has, as
Egypt has? (Applause). Shall we be
as the man who had one talent and hid
it. m- as he who had ten talents and
used them until they grew to riches?
And mellowed-map the reward that
waits on ,oMschal‘ge other high duty
as [the sovereign power of earth; shall
we occupyifne‘w markets for what our
farmers rides; new‘niarksts for what
our factories (makeinew. markets for
what our rm‘e‘rchants sells-Jaye”, and,
please God; new markets for what our
ships: shall carry? (Prolonged cheer-
ing). Shall weravall ourselves of new
sources of supply of what we do not
raise or make. so that what our tux»
uries today will be necessities tomor-
row? Shall our commerce be encour-
aged untilwith Oqeanicaé. the Orient
and the mrldnAmél-ican trade shall be
the imperial trade of the entire globe?
(Cheers). »,, Shall we conduct the might—
iest commerce of history with the best
money known to man“ or, shallwe use
the pa, ,7 maney of Mexico. or China.
and of to Chicago platform? (Great
applause). p is, ‘ l ‘
In mafi‘tcnw, shall Ziithe American
peoplerieifdbrse at the polls the Ameri-’
can administration of President Wil-
liam McKinley. (great and prolonged
cheering; which. under the guidance
of Diving, Providence, has started the
republiciion its noblest career of pros-
perity,;ihty and gimme. yr shall the
American people rehuko‘ that adminis-
tration, inverse the wheels of history,
halt thef‘career of the flag and turn to
that putposeless horde of criticism and
carping. (apple e), phat.“ .assailing
the government tWai'flhingtoiii? Shall it
be McKinley, sound mbnoy and a world
conquering commerce, or‘Brysn, Bailey,
Bland and Blackburn, a bastard cur-
rency and a policy of commercial re—
treat? (Prolonged cheering). In the
only foreign war this nation has had in
two generations will you. the voters of
this republic and the guardians of its
good repute, give the other nations of
the world to understand that the Amer-
ican people do not approve and endorse
the administration that conducted it.
(Applause). ,
In both peace and war, for we rely
on the new blrth of prosperity as well
as on the new birth of national glory.
Think of both! Thin]; of our country
twri years ago and think of it today!
FOREIGN NATIONS AND THIS
. ELECTION.
There is an issue in the war which
affects ourselVes. Shall we endorse the
administration on the conduct of the
war? (Cheers). What of the conduct of
the war? In the first place the men
who are now detaining American sol-
diers before the world; the men who are
assailing the government at Washing—
ton for not sufficiently preparing, are
the very same menwho tried to plunge
the nation into war. before we had pre-
pared at all. (Tremendous cheering
lasting several minutes). Men de-
clared that McKinley was too slow; he
waited still. Politicians, willing to buy
votes with some other man’s blood, (ap-
plause). called him coward; unmoved,
the president plead with Spain to let
the oppressed go. Bass-drum orators
and bowie-knife editors (great ap-
plause) denounced him as spostate to
liberty; he Silently held his course. A
great party's unwise leaders lifted the
slogan of. “Onto Havana;" the chief
magistrate pursued the policies of
peace. But while, in and out of his par—
ty, men, powder-brained and politics-
mad (applause) stormed; while a solid
opposition denounced; while the world
looked on with inquiry, William Mc-
Kinley silently prepared. '1’ (Great
cheering). He had been to war himself,
(cheers). and he knew thit you must
have powder before you can fires. gun.
(prolonged applause), you mugiq': have
provisions before you can feed soldiers,
you must have a cause before you can
fling the flags of battle out before the
eyes of men, (applause), and you must
let time and events ripen your cause
before you make your declaration on it.
William McKinley meant it to be a war
(Great applause).
McKinley meant that the record should
be made up before the grim judgment
was pronounced; and then—then, when
the day was full; then, when counting
house and farm stood
shoulder
when ships were manned and coasts
defended and powder purchased, and
lall was ready for battle—then, our sol—
dier president hurled the navy and ar-
my of the republic upon the hosts of
Spain, and smote them west and east
like the avenging hand of fate.
cheering).
tell our children the result, (applause)
Manila. S’antiago,
Wheeler,
of victory. William
shoulder
issue; then,
the
(Tre~
mendous History will
Sampson,
Shaffer
Dewey,
Roosevelt,
(applause) and peace~peoples freed,
new lands acquired ,the geography of
the earth remade Liberty,
map-maker of the world. (Great cheer-
ing).
And. yet. have we peace? Does not
the cloud of war linger on the horizon?
If it does not—if only the tremendous
problems of peace now under solution
remain, ought not the administration
be supported in its fateful work by the
endorsement of the American people?
Think of England aban-
doning its ministry at the moment it
was securing the fruits of a. successful
Think of Germany
rebukng Bismarck at the moment he
was dictating peace to France!
plause).
Schley,
the master
(Applause).
war! (Applause).
(AD-
VVhat would America. say of
them if they should do such a deed of
mingled insanity, perfldity and folly?
What would the world say to America
if, in the very midst of peace negotia-
tions upon which the nations are look-
ing with jealousy, fear and hatred, the
American people should rebuke the ad-
ministration in charge of those peace
negotiations and place a. hostile house
and senate in Washington? (Applause).
God forbid! (Applause).
pie show such inconstancy, such child-
ish fickleness as that their career as a.
power among nations is a. memory.
(Applause).
THE SLANDERS OF THE SOLDIERS
All! theheroes of Vicksburg and Peach
Tree Creek. Atlanta, Mission Ridge,
the Wilderness and all those fields of
of suffering and of death!
Soldiers of 1861!
tlon has passed and you have reared
a. race of heroes worthy of your blood.
(Prolonged applause and cheers).
mesa: E1 Caney, San Juan and Cavlte,
of Santiago and Manila—aye! and two
hundred thousand more as brave as
they, who waited in camp with agony
of impatience the call to battle. ready
to count the hellish hardship of the
trenches the very sweets of fate, if they
could only fight for the flag.
and renewed cheering). For every tent-
ed field was full of Hobsons, of Roose-
velts, of Wheelers, and their men; full
of the kind of soldiers that in regiments
of rags, starving, with barefeer. in the
snows of winter, made Valley Forge
immortal, (applause); full of the same
endured
the
When a peo-
81 017.
(Cheers). A genera-
11e—
(Great
the
civil
from filthy
they marched
of death. ate food
alive with weevils and even corn picked
from the‘ horses' camp, slept in the
blankets of “the blast with sheets of»
sleet flair. loweringpbreakfasted with
danger“, ddmuwnn death, and came
* Whoedld come back—mini
a. laugh and» a. shout and a. song of joy,
fl loan soldiers, pride of their
the world.
kind
hideous
war,
roadside .
through swamps
boys’ that
hardships
(applause), drank
pools
back-«t
true ,_ A
country»- ‘nd envy of
(Cheers)? 331‘ instill» meander boys
the soldier” j 1! £398 are: W"
repeated"(31191151411~ ), ,
slanders of polit clone
of a leprous press that try
world believe our soldiers are suckling
babes andeomanlsh weaklings,
our government, in war, a corrupt ma—
chine. fattening on the suffering of our
In the name of the sturdy sol-
diary of America, I denounce the hiss-
ing lies of politicians out 0111: issue,
(applause), who are trying to disgrace
American manhood in the eyes of the
In the name of patriotism, I
arraign these maligncrs of the soldier-
hood of our nation before the bar of the
present and the past.
call to the witness stand that Bayard of
our armies, General Joe Wheeler.
I call th
south, Fitzhuxh
call the 200,000 men themselves who
went to the war. for the business of
applause and
And I put all these against the vandal
of politics who are blackening their
fame as soldiers andxas men.
I call history to the, wit
stand. In the Mexican war the
from every cause was 25 per cent and
this is on incomplete returns; in the
present war the loss from every cause
is only 3 per cent.
In the Mexican war the sick lay naked
on the ground with only blankets over
them, and were buried with only a
blanket around them. Of the volunteer
force 5,423 were discharged for disa-
bility and 3.229 died from disease. When
Scott marched to Mexico only ninety-
six men were left. out of one regiment
The average of a. Mississippi
company was reduced from ninety to
From Vera Cruz to Mexi-
co 9. line of sick and dying marked his
line of march. General Taylor public-
ly declared that, in his army, five men
died from sickness for every man killed.
in battle. Scott demanded surgeons.
The government refused to give them.
The three months men lost nearly 9 per
cent; the six months men lost 14 per
the twelvs months men 29 per
cent; the men enlisted for the war lost
37 per cent; 31,914 soldiers enlisted for
the war, and 11,914 of these were lost,
of whom 7,369 are unaccounted for. In
the war for the union—no, there is no
need for figures there.
of Gettysburg and ask. Go ask that
old veteran how fever’s fetid breath
breathed on them and disease rotted
their blood. 'And in the present war,
thank God, the loss and suffering is less
than in any war in all the history of
(Great applause).
y needless suffering there has been,
if any deaths from criminal neglect, if
any hard conditions not a usual inci-
dent of sudden War by a peaceful people
has been permitted, William McKin-
ley will see that the responsibles ones
(Tremendous applause).
NEW LANDS AND MARKETS FOR
THE REPUBLIC.
No! they shall not be robbed of the
honor due them, nor Shall the republic
be robbed of what they won for their
(Applause, renewed and pro-
For William McKinley is con-
tinuing the policy that Jefferson began,
(applause). Monroe continued, Seward
advanced. Grant promoted, Harrison
championed, (cheers), and the growth
of the republic has commanded.
Hawaii is ours; Eorto Rico is
to be ours; at the-prayer of its people
Cuba. will finally be ours/(gr
plause): in the islands of t 9 east, even
to the gates of Asia, coaling stations
are to be ours; at the ve
of a liberal government is to float over
the Philippines. and I pray God it may
be the banner that Taylor unfurled in
Texas and Fremont carried to the coast
(cheers)——the stars and stripes of glory.
And the burning
question of this campaign is, whether
E
to make the
and
armies.
nations.
(Applause). I
(AD-
hotspur of the
(Applause).
plause).
war. (Great cheers).
(Ape
piause) . essv
(Great applause).
of 1,000.
thirty men.
cent;
Go to the field
the world. And if
are punished.
countr)’.
longed)-
(Al)-
plause).
eat ap-
.least the flag
(Great applause).
the American people will accept the
gifts of events, (applause); whether
they will rise as lifts their soaring des-
tlnY: Whether they will proceed upon
the lines of national development sur-
veyed by the statesmen of our past; or
Whether. for the first time, the Ameri—
can people doubt their mission, question
fate, prove apostate to the spirit of
their race. and halt the ceaseless march
of free institutions.
THE MARCH OF THE FLAG.
The march of the flag. (Cheers). In
1789 the flag of the republic waved over
4,000,000 souls in thirteen states, and
this a savage territory which stretched
to the Mississippi, to Canada, to the
Floridas. The timid minds of that day
said that no new territory was needed,
and, for the hour, they were right. But
Jefferson, through whose intellect the
Centuries marched; Jefferson, whose
blood was Saxon but Whose schooling
was French, and therefore whose deeds
negatived his Words; Jefferson, who
dreamed of Cuba as a state of the un—
ion; Jefferson, the first imperialist of
the reliublicmei‘ferson acquired that
imperial territory which swept from
the Mississippi to the mountains, from
Texas to the British possessions, and
the march of the flag began! (Ap-
plause). The iniidels to the gospel of
liberty raved, but the flag swept on!
(Cheers). The title to that noble land
out of which Oregon, W’ashington, Ida-
ho and Montana have been carved was
uncertain; Jefferson, strict construc-
tionist of constitutional power though
he was, obeyed the Anglo-Saxon im-
pulse within him, whose watchwoi‘d
then and whose watchword throughout
the world today is, “Forward,” (cheers)
another empire was added to the repub-
lic, and the march of the flag went on!
(Applause), Those who deny the power
of free institutions to expand urged ev-
ery argument, and more, that we hear,
today; but the people‘s judgment ap—
proved the command of their blood, and
the march of the flag went on. (Ap-
plause). A screen of land from New
Orleans to Florida shut us from the
gulf, and over this and the Everglade
Peninsula. waved the saffron flag of
Spain; Andrew Jackson seized both,
the American people stood at his back,
and, under Monroe, the Floridas came
under the dominion of the republic, and
the -march of the flag went on! (Ap-
plause). The Cassandras prophesied
every prophesy of despair we hear, to—
day, but the march of the flag went on!
Then Texas responded to the bugle calls
of liberty, and the march of the flag
went on! (Cheers). And at last we
-waged war with Mexico, and the flag
swept over the southwest, over peerless
California, past the Gate of Gold to
Oregon on the north. and, from ocean
to ocean. its folds of glory blazed.
(Great. cheering). And now, obeying
the same voice that Jefferson heard and
obeyed, that Jackson heard and obeyed,
that Monroe heard and obeyed. that
Seward heard and obeyed, that Ulysses
S. Grant heard and obeyed, that Benja-
min Harrison heard and obeyed,
'(cheers), William McKinley plants the
flag over the islands of the seas, out-
posts of commerce, citadels of national
security, and the march of the flag
goes on! (Long continued cheering).
Bryan. Bailey, Bland and Blackburn
command it to stand still. but the
march of the flag goes on! (Renewed
cheering). And the question you will
answer at the polls is, whether you
stand with this quartet of disbelief in
the American people, or whether you
are marching onward with the flag.
(Tremendous cheering).
Distance and oceans are no argu«
ment. The fact that all the territory
our fathers bought and seized is contig—
court: 1819 Florida.
.w’ao urther from New York than H
Porto Rico is from Chicago today, (apa
plause); Texas further from Washing-
ton in 1845 than Hawaii is from Bos-
ton 1898, (applause); California. more
inaccessible in 1847 than the Philippines
are now.’ (Great applause). Gibraltar
is further from London than Havana.
is from Washington. Melbourne is fur-
ther from Liverpool than Manila in
from San Francisco. The ocean does
not separate us from the lands of our
duty and desire—the oceans join us, a
river never to be dredged, a canal never
to be repaired. (Applause). Steam
joins us; electricity joins its—the very
elements are in league with our destiny.
(Continued applause and cheers). Cuba.
not contiguous! Porto Rico not contig-
uous! Hawaii and the Philippines not
contiguous! Our navy will make them
contiguous.‘ (Great cheering, renewed
again and again). Dewey and Samp-
son and Schley have made them con-
tiguous, and American speeduAmei‘i-
can guns, American heart and brain
and nerve will keep them contiguous
forever. (Renewed cheering).
But the opposition is right—there is
a. difference. We did not need the
wé’stern Mississippi valley when we ac-
quired it, nor Florida. nor Texas, nor
California, nor the royal provinces of
the far northwest. We had no emi-
grants to people this imperial wilder-
ness, no money to develop it, even no
highways to cover it. No trade await-
ed us in its savage fastness. Our pro-
ductions were not greater than our
trade. There was not one reason for
the landlust of our statesmen from Jef-
ferson to Grant, other than the prophet
and the Saxon within them. (Ap-
plause). But today we are raising more
than we can consume. Today we are
making more than we can use. Today
our industrial society is congested;
there are more workers than there is
work; there is more capital than there
is investment. We do not need more
money—we need more circulation. more
employment. (Applause). Therefore
We must find new markets for our pro-
duce, new occupation for our capital,
new work for our labor. (Great ap-
plause). And so, while we did not need
the territory taken during the past cen-
tury at the time it was acquired, we
do need what was taken in 1898, and
we need it now. (Long continued ap—
plause). Think of the thousands of
Americans who will pour into Hawaii
and Porto Rico when the republic‘s
laws cover those islands with justice
and safety! (Applause). Think of the
tens of thousands of Americans who
will invade mine and field and forest
in the Philippines when a liberal gov—
ernment, protected and controlled by
this republic, if not the government of
the republic itself, shall establish or-
der and equity there! (Great applause
and cheers). Think of the hundreds of
thousands of Americans who will build
a soap—and~water, common—school civ-
ilization of energy and industry in Cu-
ba when a government of law replaces
the double reign of anarchy and tyran-
ny! (applause)-—think of the prosperous
millions' that empress of islands will
support when, obedient to the law of
political gravitation, her people ask for
the highest honor liberty can bestow.
the sacred order of the stars and
stripes, the citizenship of the great re-
public! (Cheers).
According to the verdict of the jury
in a. case in New York, a rich woman
cannot alienate the affections of an-
other woman's husband, if he is poor,
for. being poor, he will try to win the
affections of the rich woman, and she
should not suffer pecuniarily if she re-
ciprocates the poor man’s lova, real or
pretended. J
fiot One 3
Is Pie i
Gen. Weaver’s Great Coy '
Fades Away in the Lig_ _‘
Stubborn Facts.
,_..__
Letter From Chairman "
Hanna Which Spoils .
Gi eat and Awful 1’1
_—
Not a Single Congressman ‘,
to Support the 50-
Walker BilL
..——
Spikes the Only Gun the
lets Have Been Able t.
in the Campaig
Interesting Correspond;
Which the Position of.
Congressmen Is Dc .
(Ottumwa Courier, Octo
The Newton Journal
searchlight on
paign issue—i. e., the so-call
llill~aiicl brings
facts.
has .
General Wea'
out some
Ottumwa people, and
regrets there weren't more 0
heard General W'eaver's add
Turner opera house, will re
be ex licltly and
that t era was but one issue
ent campaign, and that was t
And he took a great (1
for his own shrewd discover!
sue. proclaiming that Major
criminally careful to keep ll
He emphatically declared tha
my and every
was committed to the bill.
General Weaver did not dev
bill was given
written by H. H. Hanna, of t
commission, which he prete
that every republican and
money democrat was pledged
the said bill.
General Weaver made the A
at Newton that he made ll
talked no other subject at.
meetings in the present 0
says there is but one issue
Lacey will vote for the M
which the general assures
will, when enacted, take out‘
tlon every bit of
silver dollars,
dimes and 3-cent pieces.
without going into the merit
of the bill, said in his Eidor
Friday that heswas commit
Congressman Hull, of the :
district, recently said that 11
Iowa congressman 1)
That disposes of ‘
But the gene
with his "issue" just the so. '
The Newton Journal took
al’s issue, and in its paper
effectually punctures the w
another point of view, with
dispatch. A'fter reciting v
"issue" and recalling his t <_
of the printed so—called Me
the platform where he was
lumping upon it with both,
cute his hatred o‘fdt, the J
twa letters, and ask
their own conclusions.
as followa:
, JEN
rcpeatedl
bill.
republican
“McClcary”
aper mone
ialf dollar
is any
support.
yer’s issue.
5 its re
Till
Iowa, Sept. 2: .
. Indianapolis,
1 note in your circular or ‘
all the republican and soon
Ourat members of the pre
are pledged to support a b
‘comprehenslve
Would like to know whethe
Major Lacey, sl ned the p
or in your circu ar, and i
be relied upon to su
in: measure. An early repl
requested. Yours respectf
"FRANK
"Indianapolis. Ind, Sept. 30
Wilson. Esq.,
In reply to your courteous i
tember 20th, I have to say ’*
certainly misread the circul
the committee, on July 16,
say that you note from it
republican and sound mon,
membe s of the present
to sup ort of the
for comprehens ve monetary ‘
3.11118.
monetary.
bee
Newton, 10 l'
only currency reform bill re
present congress during the”
was that reported by the :v
currency committee, known " i
No. 10.290, and that, I take .
you refer to as the pending -' '-
MEMBER OI“ CONGRESS
MITTED TO THIS BILL, e
members of the banking
committee signing the fav
What I said upon this sub
cuiar of July 16th was this V
petition to the
rules signed by 150 membe ~
ii .The
republican and sound man
or the house, was one of l.
ingly signed petitions ever
congress. Each congressm
sign in response to direct
constituents. upon whose
good faith he relied. It is :5
able that more than twen
would have signed such a»
months earlier. Had the bill ’
slderati’on during the sense
able that all or nearly all
voted favorably for legisla L, ‘
“The petition to the Comic ,
oken of WAS NOT A PE f.
IE PASSAGE OF THIS.
PETITION T
BROUGHT UP FOR CONS
It was sign
house, but NEITHER THE»
NOR THE INTENT OF T .
committed them to vote to ,
fact, ONE FREE SILVER 1
SIGNED THE PETITION ‘
the subject might be brous
house.
BUT
ed by 150 me
“MAJOR LACEY DID NO ’~
PETITION. Whether he is
tails of the bill as reported,
I do not know. but certain .
IS NOT COMMITTED TO'
however, committed to the ‘
maintenance of the gold at ‘
ing it the permanent form
language of the Iowa sta
imagine that whether or
vote for a measure of
would depend very much u
judgment as to the proprie
of the details of such a. bi
be asked to vote for. v
“You understandof cour .
tire of such general impo. ;
likely to be passed in ca .
being made a party cauc .
have no doubt that whens?
llcan caucus of the house 5
a reasonable currency mes!
jor Lacey will vote for it; ’
such caucus agreement has
AND THE PARTY DOES '=
COMMITTED TO THE '.
ANY CURRENCY MEAS.
me very troll;
0U
11. HANNA. ,
At Kokomo, Ind, last '
period of three minutes,
had two wives and was
At 11 o'clock he was tht
Mrs. Lida. Lang Huskins, ‘
moment later. he was gra
Waiting in the clerk’s 0
Mrs. Mary Croussore, a
ink had dried on the
Huskins and Mrs. Crouss
to wed. A magistrate
house door performer
The matrimonial
pushed in a little less t
The newly wedded
in Liberty township.
sixth huaband for the La ‘
is No. 8 for his present
utes.
Hi1,