Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-29
NATIONAL ISSUES
A MONSTER MEETING AND A GRAND
OVATION.
Ex-senator Spooner Opens the Campaign
in Milwaukee by II Magnificent
Speech.

Turner hall. The audience which greeted
the distinguished candidate tor governor,
was one of the largest and most enthusi-
aStic ever seen in Milwaukee. Hundreds
who went to the hall hoping to hear the
eloquent orator, were forced to leave, not
being able to gain admission on account OF
the vast thrOng.
The following are the remarks of Col
onel Spooner On national issues:
MR.. sPoONERs SPEECH.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen
in my short and not very eventful public
life YOU have made me we'll accustomed to
warm and generous Milwaukee welcomes,
but upon my word the one which you ac-
cord me tonight abashes me. do not
take it as compliment to me, but take
II as compliment to the Republican party,
whose standard-bearer for the state L
happen at this time TO be; and for the
party and for myself as its representative,
] make graceful acknowledgment / re-
gret to come before you tonight IN an
environment which has rendered 1t impos-
sible for me to prepare in an orderly way
what ought to be sad to such an audience;
but as am to come again to Milwaukee
before this campaign ends, l am told,
shall talk to you tonight in quiet, fair
way, if | can, upon issues which divide
the parties in this Campaign. | say shall
talk to you in a fair way, because long,
long ago ceased to talk either OF issues or
men in an unfair way. Applause.
When Garfield was despatched with mud,
when in 1884 the null of SANDER was set
up on the grave of James q. Blalne'S
child applause | vowed that whatever
the future might have tor me in the way of
campaign service, personal politics L was
forever done with IGreat applause L
leave that to the tumble bugs of politics.
Laughter and applause.l
THE ISSUE WELL DEFINED.
To my mind this is crisis in the history
of this country, in the history of its people :;
il is not the first, of course, and doubtless
not the most important. 1t was crisis
when our fathers won its independence ; it
was a crisis when they ordained the Union
and formed the constitution il was a
crisis when Andrew Jackson crushed dis
sention in South Carolina it was Il crisis
when under the leadership of Lincoln and
Grant and Logan and Sherman and their
compatriOtS. including Ben amin Harrison
Of Indiana great applause, the Union was
preserved, purified and made perpetual.
To-day the conflict is no less bitter. The
issue is no less marked. and the result, 1t
seems to me, is of infinite Importance to
this people.
The protective system of the United
States is challenged by the Democratic
party of the country to mortal combat.
Under which lag You must take sides ;
you must MAJ shall under the flag of Wash
ington. of jefferson, of Adams, of Monroe
of Jackson of Lincoln and the long line of
protection presidents. or you must take
your place under the tree trade flag which
is now flung to the breeze, undlSguiSed by
the National Democratic party as it calls
itself. [Applause.l
You cannot remember any great item Of
public policy inaugurated and carried for
ward since 1860 tending to the upbuildlng
of our people, to the preservation of the
Union. to the restoration of the state, to
the maintenance of our credit, that has not
been considered and denounced as uncon-
stitutlonal by the Democratic party. tAp-
plause.1 They thought, You remember,
that it was unconstitutional to coerce q
state. They were mistaken ABOUT that
They thought il was unconstitutional to is
sue greenbackS, they were mistaken about
that. They thought it was rnconStituti-
Onal to suspend the writ of habeaS corpus :;
they were mistaken about that. They
thought it was unconstitutional for Abra-
ham Lincoln. God bless his memory for
ever great applause, to issue the emanci-
patton proclamation. They were mistaken
about that. Great applause They
thought the reconstruction acts were I'M
constitutional. and they were mistaken
about that. They thought Tom Reed was
unconstitutional. but they were mistaken
about that. Laughter and applauSe.l He
has Just been reelected. TAppauSeI
They thought the sugar bounty was uncon
stitutional, and they were mistaken about
that. They thought Reciprocity was I'M
constitutional, and they were mistaken
about that. (Applausel They thought
the gerrymander was constitutional. and
they were mistaken about that. Great
appiauSe.l so | have sort OF lost faith in
the Democratic party as a constitutional
eNpounder Laughter and applauSe.l
might If had time. and you the pa
tience, read what Thomas Jefferson said in
favor of the protective system. Again,
again. and again he declared it, in terms
that come ringing down the years as the
0tteranceS of Il man who was a patriot.
The Democrats OF to-day never weary OF
talking of their atty to Thomas .Ietfer-
son. AS rode along from the Planklnton
house to this hail | saw banner and upon
il was Inscribed Jefferson club" Well,
the Democratic party on this question of
protection Is loyal to jefferson, but it is
loyalty TO Jefferson Davis, not to Thomas
Jefferson. Applause.
4 Eoice-"lhat is right"
HAS INDICATED ITSELF.
Now dare say here tonight that if ever
a piece of legislation enacted by the con-
greSS of the United States has indicated
itself. 1t is the Mckinley law. Applause.
You were told in 1890 that it would check
imports You were told IN 1890 that it
raised the average duty to 90 per cent. / on
were told II raised the duty tar above the
average duty during the days and years of
the war; You were told that il would
check our export trade. for people would
not buy of us II we didn't buy of them.
All these statements We're made in 1890
about the Mckinley law. Let me give you
only little statistical information upon
that subject as ii comes to us to-day from
the Treasury department:
The balance OF trade IN our favor, that
is. the amount of money other nations paid
to us over and above what we paid to them.
was S16o225 ,92l as against So6, S41 ,922 the
previous year. The free imports that came
IN under this law were Si6l. 37S, 52S the
0uuahle imports, the taxed imports, $685.
bS5 O62. FiIty-tire per cent. OF all the I'M
portationS INTO the United States this year
came IN tree of duty. and IL per cent. and
S1-l0o came in dutiable. Mr.. Carlisle eStl-
matcd-and have no doubt he was honest
IN ii, for he is Il Ialr man IN debate, and a
very able man-that the average duty
unoer the Mckinley law would be 90 per