Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-31
ADDRESS TO VOTERS.
BY the Republican State Central Com
mittee.

opportunity to lVeGXpreSSlOn to their
political convictions through the bal
lot-box, The election to be held No
vember Us one of paramount i'm
portance, and will register the senti-
merits of the voters upon the great
financial and industrial questions that
are in controversy between the par
ties. There never has occurred in the
same period of time SO great a change
In business conditions as has been
witnessed since the election of 1892.
For many years previous to the cleo
tiOn Of 1892 there had been such
growth in wealth, development and
numbers IN this country as had no pre-
,cedent in the advance of Individual
prosperity in the building of nations.
The genius of the people, stimulated
1to prodigious activity bysour wise pro-
section laws, had given to business an
Impetus that brought award alike to
capital and labor and every man,
woman and child beneath the flag
could easily procure all of the articles
of life necessary to make them COM
Portable. There never was a time be-
! fore IN this, or amy other country,
when investments brought surer re
} turn, or the dollar earned by the la
/ boring man would buy so much of
everything essential for the welfare
! OF himself and his family. Every
wheel was running, every loom sing
ing, and everybody was receiving
good wages,
/ With the incoming OF the Democrat
ic administration on the fatal fourth
! of March, 1898, everything was
/ changed. Prosperity yielded to adj
versity, gain to loss, labor to idleness.
4 plenty to pinching want. In the last
twenty months the history OF every
! day has been a story of panIc, loss
and suffering. Fortunes have been
wrecked, business crippled, invest
ments rendered Improbable and labor
| driven into fidleness. The Democrat
! lie promises of better times, larger
! profits, higher wages, cheaper living,
more of everything desirable and less
Of everything hurtful, have all re-
| manned unfulflled. Industry has
| been paralyzed by delay and uncer-
tainty. The cause of the disastrous
| depression is found in the attempt to
wipe out protective legislation, and to
substitute for it the doctrine of aTeve-
nue. tariff 1t is the doubt as to the
| future that has intrenched itself into
every mans business, closed the
mines, put out the fires in the mills
and factories, reducedwages and filled
the times with unrest, apprehension
and disaster
The Democratic party has been in
full control of the government for al
most half a presidential term, and
| during that time has aDundantly de-
monstrated that it lacks both the in
tention and ability to give the country
| fair and wise government. Neither
in the presidency or in congress has
| there been found courage or cOmpe-
| tency. The promises ofThe Democrats
have proved delusions and their the
cries dangerous. We Judge them not by
! their professions, but by their prac-
tlces; not what they promise to do,
| but What they have done. They now
/ ask support for the future that
they may rectify the mistakes OF the
past. Not satisfied with twenty
months of inactivity and misrule, they
seek to prOtract the uncertainty that
has blighted every business interest and
| brought loss, ifnUt suffering, to every
individual
The people must look TO the Repub-
lican party, that has brought them so
much prosperity IN the past, to bring
them relief from these perilous and
distressing Democratic times. To
bring them out OF disaster into pros
perity; out a3f lawlessness into peace.
This can be done only by enacting an
Intelligent ard equitable tariff law.
shutting the gates againstthe cargoes
of manufactured goods that are in
tended TO dis15lace those made here,
and thereby turn into the streets
American WOYkmen who should be
employed to supply the home market.
Republicans, if given the power, Will
restore wages TO the former standard,
and give to business the life and pro-
fit which it enjoyed in 1892. Repub-
licans will legislate for the United
States, not for England, France or
Germany. They will give the people
free sugar instead of free diamonds:
free necessaries instead of free luxur-
les. They will restore the gold re-
serve and put a stop to the increase
Of the public debt. They Will adopt
a foreign policy that will command
respect instead of exciting ridicule.
Ia short they will restore the condi-
tions that existed before the country
was visited by the calamities of a
Democratic administration, and bring
the country back again to the prosper
ity that it enjoyed under thirty years
of Republican rule. The experience
Of the past twenty months should be
sufficient to make plain to the iudg-
ments and consciences of candid and
Intelligent men that it is to a wise
protective policy that the people must
Look for their highest prosperity. En-
lightened protection is the hope and
stay Of the toiling millions, whether
of the fo,.na in tho flo