The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-10-30
NELSON IN MINNEAPOLIS.
Speech Of the Little Norwegian at
Minneapolis.

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At the start he corrected an impression
that had got abroad that he had attacked
ex-Goy. McGill in a speech in his district.
This was all wrong. he said. He had been
wrong. y quoted on that OCCASION McGiu
was all right, and he hoped that at some
.uture date he would be leading the state
host again. As tor himself hesupposed the
audience looked upon him as a backslider
brought back 10 repentance, and he
thought that explained his hearty ovation.
I've are all proud to be Republicans" said
ne, 'and we have reason to be. party has
conscience or not, lust as the individual has"
With this Tor preface he plunged into q
comparison OF the record OF the two great
parties. The grand achievements OF the
Republican party he recited with his
homely eloquence and with marked effect.
and then turned TO a consideration o. Dem
ocracy's deeds. 1t came into power in '84
loaded to the muzzle with promises of re-
form. They made just two in the whole
TOUR wears. Dan Manning changed the sys-
tenn Of bookkeeping in the treasury, and
old A. j. Sparks, an honest but misguided
old soul from way back, made some tinan-
cial REFORMS in the land department. They
let him go on till he ran up against land
him back to his home i'll lower Egypt.
The issue OF the present campaign, the
tariff, he next touched on and the audience.
pricked up their ears. The Mckinley bill
like the individual was picture of 1railty.
1t was an awlully difficult subject to- make
a tariff bal. Democrats had tried it and
now Republicans, but he was prepared to
state that the Mckinley bill, while not per-
feet, was a better bill than the Mills bill.
and it was better than free trade.
II don't like the wooden andworsted clauses
said he. 'They should not have been raised
But on the other hand look at the benefits
the sugar provisions
At this i1,pctI1ra G Puo1l'e 1,-,,
heard from the rear calling loudly, Mr..
Ne:son.' 1t took five minutes to suppress
the gentleman. but in the end it was accom-
plisfed, end the speaker went on to state
his case, expressing his willingness to an
sWer Mr.. Buell. later. When later came
the wool and sugar provisions in the two
bills, he showed that there was balance
in avor Of the Mckinley bill o. over $50
OOO OOO. What was lost on the wool sched-
ule was gained eight times over on the
sugar schedule. And at the same time it
wiped out the Claus Spreckels monopoly
ana the Hawaiian islands, which had peck
eted cool S., 100000 a year under the old
regime
You may rightly ask why voted for the
NILS Dill, SAID he II voted for it. first OF all.
not because considered it good bill, but as all
expression of my opinion for reduction of our
tarlff knew, too, that that bill could not go
through as it was. l knew it would be correceed
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did. And this Mckinley bin. 1t receives my
endorsement to-day as it never did before I
never recognized its merits till to-day for the
reason that never fully understood it. have
lately studied it up, and find that my own lit
tie bill and my little speech in congress that
SUBJECT are practically endorsed save i'll the one
little instance of tobacco We can say to you
IN concluson that the Mckinley bill is not per
iect. as there is nothing this side of the grave
mat is, but it is infinitely superior to the Mills
bill This is all that is necessary to reply to the
Democrats i'll this campaign"
In conclusion he made an eloquent plea
to his fellow Republicans, and especially
his Scandinavian friends, to stand together
IN support OF the party in the present issue.
A battery in battle could do nothing with
out in antry support. Without it it would
be destroyed; ana so in this issue no forlorn
Alliance battery could hope to accomplish
anything without support OF Republican
in.antry. The Republican party could be
relied upon to meet every issue that could
come up. 1t had always done this, it would
continue to do so, and when the people
went to chasing alter false gods they made
great mistake.