Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-11-01
ADDRES SIS TO VOTERS.
BY THE REPUBLICAN STATE CENT Raj
COMMITTEE.

fyoters will be afforded another. oppor-
tunity tn give expression to their poll
teal convictions through the ballot
| box. The election to be held Noven-
Der 9th is one OF paramount import
ance, and will register the sentiments
Of the voters upon the great financial
and industrial questions that are in
controversy between the parties.
There never has occurred in the same
period of time So great change in
business conditions as has been wit
messed since the election OF 1902. For
many years previous to the election OF
1892 there had been such growth in
! wealth. developments and numbers in
this country as had no precedent in the
advance OF individual prosperity or in
| the building of nations. The genius of
the people, stimulated to prodigious
activity by our wise protective laws,
had given to business an impetus that
brought reward alike to capital and
labor, and every man. woman and
child beneath the flag could easily pro-
cure all of the articles of lie necessary
to make them comforta BILE. There
never was q time in this, or any other
country, when investments brought
surer return, or the dollar earned by
the laboring man would buy SO much
of everything essential for the welfare
,,f I, II fo
wheel was running, every loom sing
ing, and everybody was receiving
good wages.
With the incoming Of the Democ-
ratio administration on the fatal fourth
of March, 1893, everything was
changed. Prosperity yielded to ad-
versity, gain to loss, labor to iCleness,
plenty 10 pinching want. In the last
twenty mouths the history OF every
day has been Il story Of panic, loss and
suffering. Fortunes have been wrecked,
business crippled, Investments rendered
Improbable and labor driven into
idencss. The Democratic promises of
better times, larger profits, higher
wages, cheaper living, more OF every
thing desirable and less OF every thing
hurtful, have all remained unfulfilled
Industry has been paralyzed by delay
aud uncertainty. The cause of the
disastrous depression is found in the
attempt to wipe out protective lGgis-
lation, and to substitute for it The doc
trine OF revenue tariff. It is the
doubt as to the future that has in
trenched itself into every mans bust
ness. closed the mines, put out the
fires in the mills and factories, reduced
the wages and filled the timos with TN
rest, apprehension and disaster.
The Democratic party has been in
full control Of the government for
almost half & presidential term, and
during that time has abuudantly de-
monstrated that it lacks both the in
fair and wise government. Neither in
the presidency or in congress has there
been found courage or competency.
The promises Of the Democrats have
proved decisions and their theories
dangerous. We judge them not by
their professions, but by their prac
tees; 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 mao
tlvlty and misrule, they seem to pro-
tract the uncertainty that has blighted
every business interest and brought
loss, if not suffering, to every indiv
iuual.
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 dis
PRESSING Democratic times. To bring
them out of disaster into prosperity:
out OF Iawlessness into peace. This
can be done only by enacting an intel
ligent aud equitable tar1T law, shut
ting the gates against the cargoes Of
manufactured goods that are intended
TO displace those made here, and there
by turn into the streets American
Workinen who should be employed to
supply the home market. Republic
cans if given the power, will restore
wages to the former standard, and
give to business the life and profit
which it enjoyed in 1892 Republicans
will legislate for the United States, not
for England, France or Germany.
They will give the people free sugar
instead of free diamonds; free necessa-
ries instead of free luxuries. They
will restore the gold reserve and put a
stop to the increase of the public debt.
They will adopt foreign policy that
will command respect instead of eXclt
inc ridicule. In short, they will re-
store the CT nditions that existed before
the country was visited by the Gala