River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-10-18

that being an article OF necessity. but they
must pay tariff sugar. which is an article
Of luxury. ON pearl buttons. sa2foo0; plain
saoo ooo and on isgefy' si5ooo w What o cheer
That VIII bring % the masses Of our country.
or laces silks and yelyets. paintings ostrich
feathers and opium Tor smoking. tIaughterl
practically 70 prohibit h. tApplauseJ We
thought that was a good thing to do We put
produce aud did not propose TO produce. We
fairfield everything that did produce and pro-
pp essa 70 rHy % a heP me Si
p $4,000 ~ We have Set free IL, Of slle
sls,uoJuOo Of IL Is on the farmers wool: nearly
s5,o00.000 more of II upon the farmers agri-
the lumber Of the lumberman. and 81. o00. 900
aud more OF Ii on manufactured products. The
Is their Wanted free list; "a what have read
you Is a portion Of their toasted reduction Of
duty upon foreign products
some People thought the trouble in the
country day was the money In the country
to-day Is good. whether gold, silver or paper
money; and the banks full of money. Money
was never less employed than IL Is to-day,
Our embarrassment Is not with the charac-
Ter OF money we have, the volume Of money
we have got, hut how 70 get it ont into eiFcu-
latinn among the people To get IL into circu-
latiun among the people must have some
thing 70 sell which somebody wants. ana which
that somebody Is able 70 pay for: and no mat.
ter what We have got to sell, If we can hnd
nobody who wants II who can pay for it. we
have got 70 keep 1t; and II We keep IL over
and on hand we lose in whole or in part what
II costs us to produce IT; and soon we
have got great quantity hand won't
make any of the same thing: and IL
don't make any more of 1t. We won't employ
don't employ Labor to help US make It. we
won't pay wages; and II we don't pay wages,
wages will be stopped and great factor in
tie distribution is stopped; and If we had twice
as much money as We have got to-day We
would have 10 get 1t out by the same process.
Must Restore Confidence.
Now anybody who teaches any other doctrine
Is false teacher tApplause.l We have got 30
have something 70 fetch 1t out, and the only way
Is 10 restore confidence. The only way 10 get
that confidence back is To 1sfeat the party that
destroyed that confidence. tApplausel No party
IN TINS country can permanently stand ~ INC
pathway OF our prosperity IL may retafd our
with II, a. II las done and is now doing. but
no party ean permanently stand in the way If
the prospelty of this magnineent country WITH
our splendid resources, and the mate bless energy
of our people; and the party that gets in the
way OF that will get out of the way Just as
soon as the people can assert themselves IN q
constitutional way and change The policy of the
government tApplause.l
hcered. is the most remarkable party in history.
nvs y t or a9Ithng deb a a she an
teri IL was for the free and unlimited coinage
TO 20 through the idle ceremony Of passing a free
coinage bil in the house when the Republicans
had the senate and presiden., and then 90 back
In favor of free silver, but the Republican sen
ate and the Republican president would not per,
power in the Federal government; power
every branch OF congress- they have had that
power for nineteen months. and you haven't
heard about the free and unlimited coinage II
silver. They have given to silver the hardest
Tools of the Worst Trusts.
''They posed in the campaign OF 1892 as the
enemies Of the trusts. unon their own confess
trusts in the United States They declared in
1922 that they were the greatest friends labor
by their Industrial policy they have dealt TO
labor the deadliest blow 1t ever received. TAP
s.But my fellow citizens. what else could you
have eApeeted from a party put IN power by
Mr.. Cleveland and a Democratic congress.
aYom won't do it any more. why. who
voted for him? The free silver voted for
him The single standard men voted for him;
the goldbugs-as they are sometimes called
Wall street-yoted for him. TIL men who were
opposed to IL. and those who believed that the
government should issue all the currencv of the
country, voted for him. The single tax man.
the disciple Of Henry George, voted for him:
and the peoi!c opposed to all such Nsgaries
voted for him. The Democratic protectionsts
voted for him, because he didn't believe that
country. and the Demoe ratic free trader voted
for him because he believed the party would
demolish all tie custom houses of the country:
The Democratic pensioner voted for him. and
those who don't believe much in pensions voted
for him. Ever! body who was dissatisfied voted
for him and for Democratic congress, and
everybody who thus voted has been dissatisfied
ever since. daughter and applause)
Word for the Old Soldier.
"And now my fellow citizens tired as / am.
! want TO call your attention Just for moment
OF the soldit rs Of this country by this adj
ministration | never have advocated excessive
served his country and disabled in its
ice. is entitled TO receive pension rom the
applause.) / dc no. believe either. that when
the soldier has once been put upon the pension
roll Of the government that he should be sus-
pended from That roll until he has had the
fullest lnves igation, taken in open broad day
light, with The pensioner having the privilege
nesses who appear against him; and then If,
upon full hearing, IL turns out that that
soldier Is unworthy to lie on that roll then the
patriotic sentiment of the people, and the
patriotic sentiment of every loyal soldier,
would he and he ought 10 be displaced from
that roll Of honor. tAppause1 But my ohJec-
tion is TO having the presumption Of fraud
put upon these brave men Let the government
prove that they unworthy. and not simply
put them or upon n presumption that they
that sentiment which is sometimes indulged in
that the soldiers Of the republic enlisted for
before me tonight who. when he enlisted, ever
thought z yoics Of !. l pension.
MANY Of them didn't know anything about
pensions and they didn't care Their great care
was for the preservation of tle freest govern.
ment on earth. and keeping sacred The honor OF
from the Turest and highest motives Of patriot
ism. not for the paltry pttance paid them; not
Tor fame n"r nqPmaF apause Tor men sfLp
abroad. They entered the service moved by the
highest sense Of love of country that no harm
might come 20 the country remember N 1860,
when that splendid army. that great volunteer
army. the giHndest that ever trod the earth.
that fought IN cause as noble as any for which
mankind ever engaged
A Debt That Can Never BE Paid.
81 remember when that splendid army Of Grant,
OF sherman OF sheridan Thomas and Logan
great appausel passed down PENNSYLVANIA av.
enue Stretched across the great marble capitol
Rad by every passing soldier, anu these We're ne
words Of the inscription: There is one dent
is the debt il owes the men who saved this
nation. (ApplauseD That was true then; Il Is
be amended abridged. Talk about the soldiers
Of the republic footing the treasury! Why. we
or nag IL il hadn't been for them. Great
applause1 You know the STUFF of which the
of which my comrades made. | recall that
which typidcs the volunteer soldier Of the re-
necticut regiment when the colonel one day con-
vened the regiment AT his headquartrs, and IN
its presence delivered to the color-hearer of the
regiment the colors be was thereafter 10 carry,
this starry banner Of the free and as he de-
him: 'Color-hearer. take this flag. Fight for it;
yes. die for it, but never surrender 1t into the
young color-.earer. only Is years Of age. With
the red wine Of early manhood mantling his
Colonel, I'll bring this flag back TO you IN
honor or will report to God the reason why
into battle. That young c0lor-bearer fell, stricken
with death; but he fell with the Tag at9nt
It back. lie couldn't bring it back. But he gave
Ii the best he had. the best which any man has,
has life's blood, 10 save II tapplausel and
the God above him knew the reason why.
ESQ nigh 10 grandeur is our dust.
So to God is man.
When duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies. i can.
.swben Abraham Lincoln tapplausel. that mag
niheent representative Of American citizenship,
one of the grandest men I'm human history. he
who spoke the words that proclaimed liberty.
he who issued the slecree that all men should he
free-AhraIam Lincoln snatehed as he was ~
a bravo from tile theater Of fame-when he said
s,otna men RESPONDED 4 Iu md | WILL and