The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-10-11

ana can do With silver lust what Jney
want to do with it, instead of giving to the
country what in many of the states the
leaders ~ the Democratic party said would
| be done, they have given to silver the
worst blow it ever received.
Wen, could you expect, my fellow citi-
zens, any other result? Are you disap-
pointedy Why, who elected Mr.. Cleve-
land and Democratic congressg Every
body who was dissatisfied voted for him,
and everybody who voted for him has been
, dissatisfied ever since.
soldiers Arc Worthy of National Care.
Not only, my fellow citizens has this
administration interrupted the prosperity
OF the country, but it has to some extent
interrupted the patriotism of the country.
1t has been cutting off and suspending
the pensions of the soldiers. / never have
advocated eAces i've PENSIONS; but be-
lieye every man who served in our war
and was disabled is entitled to have pen
sion from the government of the United
States. And 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 fCdlest Investigation, in open,
broad daylight, permitting the pensioner
to meet face to face his accusers and the
witnesses against him, and then if he is
unworthy to be ON that roll, every patri-
otlc citizen and every patriotic soldier
would approve. But there must be no
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 We're 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 l 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 unselfish army was ever as
sembled than ours. And no army was
ever engaged in a nObler cause than the
one which engaged the volunteer army of
the republic.
And 100000 or more of men, when Alb
raham Lincoln said, 'Come and helm save
the republic" more than 1000, 200 men
answered, Yes" And to say that those
men went in to loot the treasury! Stretched
across the great marble capitol at Wash
ington in 1855, when that splendid review
of that magnificent army occurred at the
close of the war, stretched across that
great capitol was ALI inscription in letters
large enough to be read by every return
ing soldier, in these words.
There is one debt that this governments
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 timo, and it is just as true
today. And the voice of this country saws
that sentiment must not be abridged.
My fellow citizens, no party can long
stand in the way of the prosperity of this
matehless country. With our splendid
resources, with the genius and enterprise
and skill of our people no party can long
obstTuct the pathway of our prosperity
and progress. They may retard it, they
may check it, as they have done and are
now doing, but the party that interferes
with the prosperity of the country must
get out OF the way of its prosperity. That
is the work we are engaged on tonight.
That is the work we are engaged upon at
this hour. And every Republican victory
means a step nearer to that business con-
Edence and that restoration of prosperity
which we left in 1892.
Major Mckinley closed his address by
appealing to Minnesota to re-elect Gov
erupr Nelson and roll up the old-fashioned
Minnesota majority for all Republican
candidates.