Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-11-05

give 10 business the life and profit
which 1t enjoyed in 1892. Republicans
will legislate for the United States, not
for England, France or Germany.
They will give the people free sugar
instead u free diamonds: free nacessa-
RES instead OF free luxul.ies. They
will restore the gold reserve and pat u
stop to the Increase CT the public debt.
They will adopt q foreign policy that
Will command respect instead of exclt
ing rldicule. In short, they vii re-
store thee. nlitions that existed before
the country WAS visited by tha Gala
mites CT y Dem9cratic administration
and brIn., the country back again to
the prosl GRITTY that ii Ell we'd under
thirty years OF Republican rale. The
experience OF the past twenty months
should BE- sufficient to make plain to
the judgments and con sciences of can
did and intelligent men that it is to a
wise protective policy that the people
must look for til liz highest prosperity.
Enlightened protection is the hope
and stay OF the toiling millions,
whether working at the forge, in the
factory or on the farm. Wherever Il
hammer is lifted, plow held a shuttle
thrown, there is one whose direct in.
forest is that labor be elfactraliy pro-
tected, to the end that there may come
independence, JOY and comfort to the
dwelll 9 alike OF the fa mer, the oper-
ative and the artisan.
The taxpayers Ct Wisconsin are ia
vited to scrutinize the facts as to the
management Of state affairs by the
present officers. They came into
power under the promise that they
would reform the management and
reduced the expenses OF the state gov
ernment: they have fail d to do this,
Instead Of reducing expenses they have
greatly increased them 4 compare
son of the figures taken from the Off
cial rec Drds show that the cXpc nses
during the three wears uf Democratic
rule, 1923, are largely in excess CT
the expenses for the last three years Of
Republican rale, l9S2-9-93. That the
state tax is to be reduced this year is
Wholly due to the fact that there is &
large amount OF money in the treasury
derived from unusual sources. 1t is
owing entirely to this extraordinary
income that the taxes are reduced
The records, instead cfshowing econ
only oE good business management,
show the most was;eful extravaganza
and reckless methods Had the pres
ent state officers bean Is economical
rs their Republican predecessors,
taere would have been no state tax
this year, and there would have been
Il handsome sum left in the treasury
Any taxpayer can satisfy himself Of
the correctness OF this statement by an
examination OF tho reports Ct the Sec
retary OF States Our opponents seek
by the use Of Irrelevant figures, and
statements OF expenditures over which
the state officers can exercise no con-
troll, to establish the fact Of their econ
omy. They have rs yet presented no
comparative statements containing
only such items of items Of expense as
are under the control Of the state Off
Ger Nor will they DO this Such
statements, which are the only fair
ones to make, in all cases, show in
creased expenses during the past three
wears
The extra money received by the
present admins tration amounts to over
100000 il excess of the amount re-
ported as on hand This 1901 COZ re-
presents what has been expended in
the last three Years in what was eX-
pended in the previous three years for
precisely the same purposes. There
has been collected from the ex-treas-
urers and applied to the reduction Of
the state tax for this year $321 ,972 So.
The Democrats claim much credit for
this, and it might be accorded them il
it We're not for the fact that they have
squandered in extravagant expenai-
lures the entire amount, SO that the
tax payers have not had the benefit Of
q dollar Of it, 1t has been asserted and
proved beyond controversy. that the
present state officers have in no direc-,
ton shown good business management
Oh practiccd economical methods On
the contrary, the undisputed figures Of
the public records show that their ad-
ministration has been characterize by
extravaganza and waste.
It is with the deepest chaolin that
we discharge the duty Of calling the
attention of the citizens OF our state to
the attempt to rob the treasury
through the unlawful letting Of the