Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-10-19
a CONVINCING AND TRUTHFUL ARGUMENT.
About Five Hundred Present, and Many
Democrats Who Heard Him are
Now Republicans.


Wednesday evening one Uf the
largest and most enthusiastic Repub-
lican meetings ever held In the county
was held at Gross opera house, fully
five hundred people being in attend
ance. Il was the first visit of Hon.
G.. A. Towne, Republican candidate
for congress-, and the people gave
him Il hearty welcome. Long before
the hour for the meeting to open
nearly every seat was taken, and
after the arrival of the speaker peo-
pie continued to pour in until all the
seats were filed and many were
obliged to stand.
After a selection by the band and
Il vocal selection by the glee club, G.
A. Lindbergh arose and introduced
the speaker Of the evening. Hon.
Chas. a. TOwne.
The speaker regarded such mag
nificent audience as an encouraging
sign that people were beginning to
think and seek for information on
the issues of the campaign. 1t was
Il refutation of the fears expressed
for the safety of American free in
stitutions. by Mr.. Wilson, over
the hospitable board of his
English host in London. SO long as
we see such assemblies as this, so
long will the free institution OF our
land be safe. Liberty is a solemn
thing. We govern the country once
in two years, for at that time we
elect certain agents and commit to
their hands the government. Men
should vote as they think, if not, our
free government rests only upon the
promises of man, and then we are
in danger. We have political parties,
therefore, to that end. They should
not stand upon questions not alive,
or too many propositions, but one
at Il time. Political tparties should
come before us with clear platform
and men to stand on it, go that we
can cast aside all false matter and
register our Judgment. If Demo-
crat thinks the Republican principles
are right he should connect himself
with that party regardless OF what
he was before. Men are doing it.
This was his thirty-fifth speech and
ut every one from one to a dozen
who were before Democrats had be-
come Republicans.
The speaker then spoke ON the in
dustrial policy Of the United States.
When we gather to discuss what we
do to govern we enquire what we
have done in the past wo years;
what we did two years ago; why we
did it and what the result has been,
and should it not cause us to do diff
ferent in the coming election. The
Republican party was responsible
for the laws for a generation. He
spoke of the great prosperity OF that
time yet greater progress was
made in 1892. The Nc
Kinley tariff law was passed.
a complete revision of industrial
legislation, embracing all the sched-
ules, it reached every one, yet there
was no clash. 1t effected the labor
ing man, the farmer, miner and man
fncturer upon the same principle, but
it was made by the friends Of Ameri
can industry and not the enemies.
He then spoke OF the work of the
committees in framing the bill, and
how all classes had been consulted.
The result OF the bill was that four
and a half millions of dollars We're
put into new industries. giving EN-
ployment and good wages to all. 1t
gave American producers the best
market in the world, and 1892 was,
the most prosperous year in the his
tory OF the United States. If 1892
was the most prosperous certainly
1893 was the most disastrous.
Other men will argue that other
things except the Democratic party
are to blame. We look for that
something and find that in 1892 the
Republican party was in power,
while in the wear succeeding,
the Democrats are in power. He
then went on to show that never
before had the Democrats been in
control of both houses of congress.
1t was the change of policy, their
threat to break down protection that
had caused the disaster and he gave
figures to prove it. In tifty-five of
the largest cities business fell off in
that disastrous year fourteen bill