The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-10-12
re, and that IS the trouble now But


cratic revenue free trade tariff prior to the
war. The old men had the experience,
and the young men have to have it; and
are now enjoying it. And experience, my
| fellow citizens, after all, is form of in
struction the most efficient and enduring.
| Sometimes we have to go through the
| school of adversely. We have been at
| tending that school for the past Is months
! The tuition has been free but the ultimate
cost has been very great. 1t has been
sort of compulsory education. But l be-
| lieve its lessons will be practical and
permanent
Necessities Taxed, Luxuries Free.
Governor Mckinley then showed that
the new Democratic tariff law reduced du-
ties on whiskey, leaf tobacco and HAVANA
cigars, which were sarcasticallY referred
to as prime necessities" The duty on
statuary paintings, pearl buttons, opium
! for smoking and other necessities" had
| been reduced
Well, now, of what does their free list
consist? They put on the free list articles
which, according to the importatIons of
the preceding year. would amount to SAL,
100000, and $1S,000,0 900 of this was the
farmers wool, or nearly one half; $9,0O0,-
600 of it was lumber; 50, 100000 or more of
1T were manufactured articles and 81 ,00O,-
OOO or more OF it was paintings and statu-
airy. Your statuary is now free. An
article of necessity! But your sugar, an
article of luxury, is taxed.
This is not all, my fellow citizens. They
have destroyed the splendid commercial
treaties made by the administration of
President Harrison with the Southern and
Central states made under the provisions
of the law of 1890, which opened up that
market to the -four, and the bacon and the
hams of the farmers of the United States;
a trade with Cuba that increased S14,000,-
600 in single year, principally agricul-
tural products; and with Brazil that in
creased 100000 in single year, prin-
cipally agricultural products
Lost Confidence Must Be Restored.
My fellow citizens, our chief trouble now
is to get confidence back to the people.
Our chief embarrassment comes from this
lack of confidence, and not from the
money of the country. Some people think
our trouble is the money. All the money
we have got is good. Our trouble is to get
it out in circulation among the people.
The banks are full of money. Money was
never less employed than it is today, and
what we want is something to fetch it out.
The way to get the money is to create a
demand for the labor and the products of
the people. For when labor is stopped
wages are stopped, and wages are one of
the chief factors in the distribution of
money.
The Democratic party is the most re-
markable party in history. 1t is for any
thing to get power, and then it is never
for anything which got it power. 1t was
for free silver in 1892 in some of the states;
and when it used to have the house of rep
resentatives, and we had the senate and
the presidency, they used to go through
the idle ceremony of passing free silver
bill, out since they have got into power
and can do with silver just what they
want to do with it, instead of giving to the
country what in many of the states the
leaders of the Democratic party said would
be done, they have given to silver the
, worst blow it ever received.
Well, could you expect, my fellow citi-
zens, any other result? Are you disap-
: pointed? Why, who elected Mr.. Cleve-
land and Democratic congress? Every
body who was dissatisfied voted for him,
and everybody who voted for him has been
dissatisfied ever since.
Soldiers Are Worthy of National Care.
3 Not only, my fellow citizens, has this
2 administration interrupted the prosperity
7 of the country, but it has to some extent
7 interrupted the patriotism of the country.
1t has been cutting off and suspending
5 the pensions of the soldiers. 1 never have
advocated eXces i've PENSIONS; but 1 be-
f lieve every man who served in our war
f and was disabled is entitled to have pen
sion from the government of the United
States. And l believe that when a soldier
has once been put on the pension roll of
the government-put there by competent
authority-he must not be put off until
after the fullest investigation, in open,
f broad daylight, permitting the pensioner
to meet face to face his accusers and the
witnesses against him, and then if he is
f unworthy to be on that roll, every patri-
otto citizen and every patriotic soldier
would approve. But there must be no
q presumption of fraud against him. Why,
, they sometimes talk about our soldiers as
though they enlisted in the service of
their country for greed and gain; as
though they entered the army for the pay
and pensions that were in it. Why, there
is not an old soldier before me tonight
who, when he took an oath to serve his
, country in war, ever thought of pension.
And certainly he didn't enlist for the
paltry pittance that was paid him. He
enlisted from the purest and the highest
motives of patriotism-that no harm
might come to the republic. And indig-
nantly resent, with all the earnestness of
my nature, any attempt to put the faint
of dishonor upon the men who preserved
the Union and saved the flag. No drawer
or more unselfsh army was ever as
sembled than ours. And no army was
ever engaged in nobler cause than the
one which engaged the volunteer army of
the republic.
, And 2,000,0 900 or more of men, when Alb
raham Lincoln said, "Come and help save
the republic" more than 100000 men
answered, Eyes" And to say that those
men went in to loot the treasury Stretched
, across the great marble capitol at Wash
, ington in 1865, when that splendid review
Of that magnificent army occurred at the
close of the war, stretched across that
great capitol was an inscription in letters
, large enough to be read by every return
ing soldier, in these words.
, "There is one debt that this government
, can never pay, and that is the debt it owes
to the men who saved the nation"
That was the true patriotic sentiment
at that time, and it is just as true
today. And the voice of this country SAYS
that sentiment must not be abridged