Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-08

his; if he can't pay his, the manufac-
turer can't pay wages. Your prosperi-
ty and theirs is as closely interknit as
are the veins and arteries of your body
and one cannot exist without the 9TH
er.
Can any sane man believe that
bankers and capitalists are interested
in producing hard times. The banker
makes no loans in hard times and his
living depends upon loans. The CAPT
talist. which is only another name for
manufacturer, makes and sells few or
no goods in hard times and his money
is bringing him no returns.
These nefarious agitators received a
fitting rebuke in Illinois the other day.
AS is their custom, they charged that
the railroad corporations were coerc-
ing their employees into forming Nc
Kinley clubs. The club in Freeport,
composed almost exclusive OF railroad
men, passed resolutions, denouncing
this charge, not as an attack upon
their employers, but as base and
cowardly assault upon their honor
and manhood, branding them as syco-
plants who would sell their principles
for gain, Let all laboring men, | say,
stand upon their honor in this valcri-
GUS fashion. and we will hear less of
coercion, when, under our ballot law,
there can be no coercion. Let it be
known that when DISCONTINUED agi-
tator asserts that the laboring man is
coerced, it must be first assumed that
the laboringman is poltroon.
When you are told by curbstone
spouters that there is @ corner On gold
ask them who cornered it, and have
them explain to you how such a corner
will benefit the rich, who are property
holders. Ask them kindly to explain
to you, poor peasant, I quote
from Bryan. how the rich can be in
terested in depressing their own prop
erty. Ask them how man who
makes goods can be interested in de-
pressing the price of goods by raising
the value of dollar. Ask them how
bankers, who live by making loans,
can be interested in bringing about a
crisis where loans are impossible.
They will tell you that England wants
to keep us in debt and then they will
assert that the very men who are tie
deepest in debt to England, the rail-
road corporations, are the man who
are trying to aid England in this in
iquitious scheme. What a clash OF
ideas have we here! What damnable
nonsense!
No, when free silver orator APP
proaches you, politely request him to
sci. aside calumny, vituperation, dirt
throwing and villifying, and to confne
himself to facts and figures. Don't let
him tell you about the evils that gold
and protection has brought about. You
know all about that. You know what
burdens these two things pressed upon
your broad shoulders in 1892 plenty
OF work at good wages, a cheapening
of everything and a bringing of luxur-
les to every door of industry. You
know by experience what protection
and gold have done and don't let any
blatherskite orator euchre you out of
your common sense. Simply ask him
to enumerate a few of the good things
which will result from free silver.
Then you will have him on the hip.
The thorne of free trade was thrust
in our side in 1893 and our body indus
trial has been fostering ever since.
Will you take dose of free silver
from the hand that stabbed you then,
Or will you let the protectors of indus
try remove the hurtful thing? Will
you believe that an industrial policy of
thirty years standing, eliminating in
the unparalleled prosperity of 1892 is
responsible for our wrongs, or will you
believe that the tariff tinkering OF 1893
did the harm? Will you believe that
G currency system of twenty years
standing, eliminating in the high wa
ges of '92, is responsible for our pres
ent ills, Or that the free silver agita-
ton beginning in 1898 has been the
blighting spell. Don't go back thirty
years for a cause when you can find it
three years back. Such gigantic oc-
topus as the gold standard is alleged
to be could never have kept it's NAV
shut that ly-g.
Let the free trade doctor prescribe
liberal dose Of free silver and all that
you will need after that will be free
hearse. The man that could not give
you an ounce of prevention will have
to scratch pretty hard to find you
pound of cure. Free trade was an ex-
pertinent in a great country. with I'M
limited natural resources, and 100000
600 of inhabitants. 1t has proved
disastrous experiment, and the men
who made it ought now to have the