Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-09
IE FREE TRADE PEST.
ATTEMPT TO
BREAk DOWN PROTECTION AS
2 MERCILESS AS PLAGUE,

Xrusts-Facts of History Relating to tho
emocratic Party - The Situation as
flowed by the New York Tribune-The
Ellicago Herald Prophet - The
&inguiar Prevarication of the Demo-
&ratic President Republican Plat
e Iorms and the Silver Question.
s#Powerful Argument Against Demo-
cratic Attempts to Break Down
Protection.
III n fleet of foreign ironclads should at
fempt to lombard a great American city
nd destroy the lives and property of
american citizens the whole nation would
8&mand that the enemy should be re-
zfsted by all the resources of modern
"a rfare. If great pestilence like the
ok death that has been devastating
Ehinese cities should sweep over the sea
nd threaten this country with desola
lion. public sentiment would unanimously
1Isist that the gates of our harbors should
4 ~ barred against ships from infected
nprts and that all the appliances of medi-
ell science should be used to keep the
rim intruder at bay. Yet the destruc-
Ion of property caused by the Democrat
Aaic attempt to strike down protection has
ek ceeded not merely the loss that would
|5Be inflicted by the bOmbardment of a sin
Il lie city, but the loss brought about by
#fhe greatest civil war in history. The
fnongrel tariff bill is the black death of
american industry 1t has smitten and
DrOstrat great interests from Boston to
IAN Francisco. 1t has impoverished mill
4 ions of American citizens, destroyed the
4 Happiness of multitudes of American
ZONES, driven hundreds of men to despair
Ind suicide, and imposed a burden of
PROSTITUTION and disaster from which this
republic cannot recover in years Such
An infamy must be fought as mercilessly
a
enemy.
# If obstruction in the Senate becomes
necessary in order to defeat the wreckers'
& Bill, Republican senator's should use it
fearlessiy and to the utmost. The rules
of the Senate were expressly framed in
order to give the minority power to pre-
vent arbitrary action on the part of the
ma jorty. The Republicans are justified
by law and precedent in obstructing the
infamous tariff bill. They are required
by every dictate of patriotism, every con-
sideration of humanity and every princi-
#plc of Repub1icanism to fight the odious
#and ruuous measure with all the weapons
at their disposal. 1t is a fundamental
*principle of Republicanism that Ameri-
Ncan labor shall be protected. that the
y United States shall be ndustrially indie
pendent. and that American wages shall
II be maintained at Il level which makes
Intelligent and sef-respecting citizenship
q possible. 1t is a fundamental Republican
principle that the majority shall rule.
u The American people have pronounced
Y overwhelmingly against the Democratic
q scheme of ruin. They have condemned
it by unprecedented puralities at the
u polls; they have commanded their repre-
Sentatives through the ballot boxes of
every Northern state to oppose it and kill
it; they have demanded in tones that can
not be mistaken, with an emphasis un>
paraileIed in this generation, that the Nc
u inJn llI hJfh,
and prosperity, shall be maintained upon
the statute books.
All the considerations which govern the
course of patriotic legislators impose upon
the Republicans the duty of obstructing
the Bourbon bill senatorial courtesy"
the people are at stake When the eX-
IStence of vast national industries is en-
dangCred, when the integrity of American
citizenship is threatened when in every
commonwealth from the pines Of Maine
to the rcdwood% Of Oregon, the people are
demanding the death Of the Bourbon bill
with mighty voice-then for Republic
ans to finch would be cowardice and to
retreat would be dishonor. For a third
0t Il century cOWardice and retreat have
been unknown in the lexicon of Repub
llcanism. Do not mar that glorious rec
ord now! The enactment of the Bour-
bon bill would be IN unspea kable calam-
lty, filling the land with poverty and
misery. with ruin and despair. The duty
of Republicans to resist it by obstruction
If obstruction is needed is as clear and
us imperative as was the duty of the sol
diers of Meade to face and roll back the
iegiOns of Lee and the Confederacy at
Gettysburg.-New York Press.
Maj. Upham's Shoes.
The Inter Ocean warmly indorses the
Republican nominee for governor of Wis
ronsin, and in editorial form it prints the
following "reminiscences:
Maj. w. III. Upham. the Republican
candidate for governor of Wisconsin. has
recaptured his political shoes, as the
Inter Ocean predicted he would two
months ago. A staff correspondent trav-
cling i'll Wisconsin two months ago sent
Il letter from MarShfed giving story
of Maj. Upham's army life. and suggest
ing that it might find Il parallel in this
campaign. A young man Is years old
enlisted in the Belle City Rifles. organ
lied at Racine in 1861. and this was the
only Wisconsin regiment in the battle
of Bull Run. The young fellow was
shot through and through in that battle
and left on the field for dead by his COM
rades. His death was reported in the
records of his regiment and at home, and
there was Il big funeral for William II.
tpham at Racine.
But he was not dead. He surprised
his friends and his officers by reporting
for duty when relieved from Libby prison
some months later but the night of the
battle he gave Il greater surprise to Il
rebel soldier who had appropriated his
shoes. When the shoes were pulled off
his feet the soldier left for dead regained
consciousness, and with some profanity
and much emphasis demanded his shoes.
The rebel startled by Il dead mans com
ing to life to rebuIe his theft, dropped the
shoes and ran for life.
when President Lincoln heard the
story of the shoes and that of the funeral
he sent the hero of both to West Point,
with the remark that the country could
ask no further service of Il man who had
fought bled and died for it. If this
young man wanted to continue the life
of Il soldier it should be us an educated
military officer.
Maj. Upham was one of the first Re-
publicans mentioned for governor last
spring. but the discussion in favor of Il
Milwaukee German, for. the place
changed the drift of public sentiment.
and when Mayor Koch withdrew from
the contest others stepped in to secure
the nomination. The correspondent of
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