Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-01

ZenS OF Milwaukee,: The moment the minis
OF the United States are known to be
opened to the coinage of the silver of the
world, that moment will come upon this
people panic in the magnitude and hor-
ror OF which all other panics in the world
will be forgotten. You drive suddenly
$500, 10000 out of circulation, contract to
that extent the currency, reduce to that ex-
| tent the per capita circulation, and what
| is OF infinitely more consequence than
| that, you destroy the confidence in the
honor and credit Of the United States and
| its people, and what will became of us?
Every man who has money out will want
1t; every bank will call in its loans; every
factory will be closed; every mine will
| shut down; every rolling mill will stop
and every furnace fire will be put out.
Most OF our business is carried on with
borrowed money. Ruin, gentlemen, ap-
palling in it's magnitude, would come to
every business circle. The men who are
| OF value in your community are not the
men who sit on the curb stone trying to
| loan their money at usurious rates of in
terest; they are not the men who sit at
home and clip the coupons from invested
| funds. They are the men who borrow
| money; they are the men of enterprise;
they are the men of energy; they are the
| men who are applying constantly new in
ventions. They are the men who are in
creasing the size of the factories, who are
bringing new industries into existence and
ucNelOpiuS Ola ones.
Have you any doubt, can you have any
doubt, that the business of the United
Staets would be paralyzed? Why, gentle
men, the very threat of it, the very sug-
gestion Of it, the very fear that it might
be possible that we should go onto silver
basis, in 1888 brought ruin to thousands in
Milwaukee,; turned out from the factories
OF the United States and the industries,
thousands and thousands and thousands of
laborers, and set them adrift in the coun-
try. And what then? England and the
countries of the continent would flood the
United States with the product of their
cheap labor. They would keep our indus
tries down. They have tried it once and
succeeded. Shall we give them such
splendid opportunity to do it again? [Cries
Of mo, no."] I tell you the trouble is not
more money; the trouble is lack Of conf
dence.
"You elect William Mckinley of Ohio
[great applause], man who in the morn
ing of his life went out to battle for your
home and mine, man as clean and pure
and patriotic as any who ever marched IN
der our flag or entered the public service.
man, gentlemen. whose highest inspira-
ton is not for his own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
but for the elevation and prosperity Of our
people and the dignity and independence of
our government. [Applause.1 While Mr..
Bryan has been travelling over this coun-
try, going like a splutocrat' in special
cars, attempting to set our people by the
ears, the laborers, the old soldiers, citizens
from every staet in the community have
been flocking to the modest home of Will
liam Mckinley. [Applause.] No man can
which has pervaded his every utterance.
Has he sought to set one class Of our peo-
pie against another? He wants the mills
opened; not the minis. [Applause.]
Gentlemen, there is another principle
involved in this campaign about which I
yich fn II ic Ia ~
to my heart. Upon this subject we part
company, for the time being, with the
larger portion of our sound money Demo-
cratic allies. That is the pledge of the
Republican platform to restore a tariff law
which shall afford adequate protection to
American workmen. Our platform says,
as Gov. Mckinley says, it is not question
of schedules, it is a question of principle
The Democratic platform declares against
contract labor. 1t is opposed, as we are,
to allowing men to be employed under con-
tract for a long time and unfair terms and
brought into the United States to be
brought in competition with our own labor.
We are just as much opposed to bringing
the men in boxes, in the shape of manu-
featured products, to compete with our
people. The Republican party plants it
self on this platform, and on this platform
it will stand and by this sign we will con-
quer: That we will permit no competitive
product of the labor across the sea to
come into our market to compete with
similar products of our own labor, with
out making them pay for the privilege
duty which shall cover the difference in
the wages paid over there and the wages
paid over here. Mr.. Bryan is very much
afraid of England. He wants us to be
Independent of England in financial way,
but to be entirely dependent upon England
in an Industrial way. He says We don't
want to talk about the tariff; I won't dis
cuss the tariff; elect me president of the
United States, and let me put the country
on a silver basis and then I will talk to
you about the tariff No you won't, Mr..
William Jennings Bryan; it will be too
late. We would have then a free trade
president. wouldn't we? Well, we won't.
Republican Success and Prosperity.
Now ladies and gentlemen, I want to say
in conclusion simply this: If we show by
our action on election day that this govern
ment is an honest government, that it's peO-
pie are honest, that we propose to keep
our money good; if we declare for the
election of a president and the Inaugural
ton of a policy which shall encourage
money to come out of hiding and shall
stimulate new industries, and lead to the
opening of old ones, it will not be long
until our country will be in the condition
it was in 1892, one of the highest pros
perity All we want is confidence protec-
will come again and this splendid ship Of
ours freighted with a rich cargo, loaded
down with all our hopes and happiness,
will sail for many a year to come in
summer seas and under summer skies. If
you want to bring that about you must
Lot only see to it that William J. Bryan,
Arthur Sewall and Thomas Watson are
beaten, but that they are beaten almost to
death Another thing you want to do:
You want to vote for Maj. Scofield for
governor of the state of Wisconsin. He is
a brave soldier, an honest man, has had
experience in public affairs, is modest,
faithful and true, and will give the people
of this state a splendid administration as
the men have during the past two years
who stand with him on the ticket. An
other thing you must not forget is to vote
for Often and Barney Of West Bend. They
are good men, able men, strong men,
honest men, who will vote for reasonable
tariff, and who will vote against the free
coinage of silver. [Applause.] Another
thing you want to recollect is that the next
legislature will elect a United States sem
ator from Wisconsin. [Cries of ''Spooner,
Spooner.'I
ST am not making any speech for my
self tonight, gentlemen: am making a
speech for you. What I want to say is we
must send to the United States senate from