The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-10-30
REPUBLICAN RALLY.
II. ~. Byrnes' Rattling speech at j esmer,s
Hall, Monday Event IN 9.

Is
u. u. Byrnes' Rattling Speech at .Jesmer,s I
Hall. Monday Evening.
II was the best political speech ever
delivered in Princeton, 4 is the unani-
NOUS verdict of every impartial man
and woman who listened to Z. 3. Byrnes
at Jesmer's Hall, last Monday evening.
And SO it was. Tt was rattling, rous-
ing speech-o one that braced up the
Weak-kneed Republicans and set fair
minded Democrats who were seeking
the truth to thinking. The speaker
was very courteous and temperate in
his laneguage, and he extended an invi-
tatlon to any one present to interrupt
him with questions if he made a mis-
statement. He commenced his address
| by reviewing the history Of the Repub-
llcan party. Then he carried his audi
ence along with him up to the last
lpresid election, and pointed with
pride to the record Of the fifty-tirst con-
gress under the leadership Of Thomas
3. Reed. He referred to the silver bill,
which the Democratic New York Sun.
the ablest journal in the United States.
truly asserts has added OO,OOO,OOO to
! the wealth OF the producing classes.
He then launched into the tariff. He
expressed his surprise at the large
number Of people who were thoroughly
1 posted upon the Mckinley bill and its
effects, yet a great many of these peo-
i pie, he had discovered, were men in
whose heads an idea would feel lonely
4 1t it ever succeeded in breaking in. He
did not propose to discuss the tariff, but
he pointed out that it was an actual fact
i that whether the government was Re
publican or Democratic, it required
4 about the same amount of money to
carry on it's business. But the Demo-
Gratis did not protect our home manu-
facturers and SO build up our Industries.
while the Republicans did. It was the
same thing in the end, but different
I method of arriving at it. There were
the same natural advantages in America
before protective policy was adopted,
but they were not developed, and there
was no possibility of developing them.
The efforts of the Democrats appeared
to be to give the farmer the blues. and
then they hoped he would vote the
4 Democratic ticket Democrats talked
cheapness, but cheapness meant cheap
wages and cheap men, and cheap men
meant slavery. Americans did not
want any such thing. They want things
as they are. They want every avenue
to greatness and wealth, for every
American citizen, whether he be high
or low, rich or poor, and so it is, and
every man can win by perseverance and
enterprise and industry.
Mr.. Byrnes then illustrated the beau
ties OF free trrde by pointing to the
downfall OF Irish industries under
blighting English misrule. He said
that the bed of the Atlantic ocean was
Whltened with the bones of Irish emil
grants fleeing from tyranny and desti-
tuition in the land of their birth, and
spoke, for his own father and mother
first saw the light Of day in the Emerald
Isle. How any Irishman could in this
land Of the free, this broad asylum for
the oppressed Of all nations. vote to
strengthen the hands Of their Cypress
ors, by voting for free trade, was past
his apprehension.
MT. Byrnes concluded the ablest DO
/ lltlcals address ever delivered in Prince
ton by predicting that the much abused
NICK lSinley bill would prove the most
beneficial measure ever enacted by con-
gress, and two years hence when he
came to Princeton to advocate the cleo
ton OF the grandest living American to
the presidency, James Blaine, if his
prediction was not verified he hoped he
would be greeted with an array of
empty benches. The meeting was
brought to a close with cheers for the
speaker and the Republican ticket.