New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-04-20

ture had endowed it, yet the more had
q pushed forward to whatever success he
had attained by the very fact that nature
a had done SO much. Let us look at let
us take drive to it; we see some evi-
dences of cultivation; we see in its half
attended crops nature attempting to do
all that of what man should do his part
5, we find the manager in debt; we find him
growing deeper and deeper in debt every
year; we find his credit impaired; we find
him sore and discontented; we find ruin
threatening him. At this time change
in the management of the farm takes
/ place; another assumes control, he APP
preciates the opportunities which nature
! has offered; he takes advantage of the
/ circumstances that surround him; he is
industrious; he studies carefully the
principles which, if properly applied, make
successful the business of his life; he
takes up that burden of debt; he rebuilds
the structures that are going to ruin; he
lifts the mortgage; he lowers the indebt-
edness; he sows; he plants; he reaps and
he gathers; and year after year he is add
ing continually to the material value of
his possessions; he grows in the respect
of his neighbors; his example is an inn
petus; he is known and recognized as a
man of influence, of ability, of industry
and of property. In other words, he has
made a success "a complete success of
/ his undertaking. Of these two men,
each had the same opportunities. The
first allowed his to go to waste; the sec
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man in this audience who would not
agree with me in saying that the man
who made the success is the man to re-
main in control of that farm, and is the
man whose example can be followed with
profit by his neighbors Now the history
of this nation, my friends, is not unlike
the history of that farm. | have said
that it was given all material advantages
which go to make up a great, powerful
and successful country. It had been
farmed with varying success and failure
for many years prior to the birth of the
Republican Party. We took hold of it
at the end of a long and disastrous per-
iod of failure. The most cursory glance
at its condition at that time ought to
satisfy every reasonable man of the truth
of this statement. We were buying from
| foreign nations more than we produced
and sold to them; the balance of trade
every year was going against us. This
one thing of itself means, in the manage
ment of the farm, ultimate failure, and it
means in the management of a nation ul-
innate failure. Our Indebtedness was
increasing from year to year, our credit
was growing less from year to year; we
had to borrow the money from foreign
nations to pay the expenses of the admin
| istration of our affairs we were compelled
to pay interest for it at the rate of from
to IL per cent, and were not sought
after as debtors, even at this high rate.
Internal dissension was threatening to
engulf it in ruin; the finger of scorn was
being pointed to it as an example in fail
ure of popular government. At this i'm
| portant crisis, the Republican Party was
born. In its earliest childhood there was
thrust upon it the responsibilities of ma
ture manhood; guided by patriotic lead
ers, applying proper principles, it brave
/ " took up the duty of the day and the
/ hour and carried it on the face of every
opposition. What has been the results
/ No other nation on the face of the earth
has made such wonderful progress. We
started out with the principle that every
man should have an equal opportunity
with every other man. The Republican
party has never turned its back upon that
principle; and while the nation has pro-
gressed as a whole, the individuals of
that nation have progressed also; so that
to-day the people of our country are in
better condition than the people of any
other country on the face of the globe
The Republican Party believes in the
education of the people. The free school
has ever had its unqualified support; it
has encouraged education in every
possible way; realizing that in order to
insure the permanent success of any ma
ton, intelligence must guide the arm of
strength; so that to-day there is none so
poor, there is none so lowly in the walks
of life, who do not have chance through
. this medium to rise to the plane of the
| highest
We have advanced and protected every
material industry and crippled none.
We have opened the door of opportunity
to every man, and in all things which 90
to make a great and powerful and sue
cessful nation, this country has pro-
gressed more in the past thirty years than
was dreamed of by the most sanguine
spirit, that took up in 1860 the great re-
sponsibility that then developed upon
the party. Now the doubter may scoff
at this and may say it is easy enough for
/ you to make these statements; but are
they true2 I don't ask you my friend to
believe what I have said, because / have
said it, I ask you simply to examine in
to these questions and matters for your
Eself. You are qualified to do it. You
certainly have enough interest, as citii-
zen of this country, to do it. Your du-
i ty to yourself, your family and your fell
lowmen command you to do it; and /
appeal to you to take up the history OF
the development of this csnntry and to
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