The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-08-30

elected or not he became president of
the United States We were told that
then prosperity would come. Is it
here? | will illustrate. The Dingley bill
was passed after he became president. 1t
is the highest priced tariff law that was
ever passed, more monstrous than the
Mckinley bill. And yet June 30 last
twelve months after it had been in oper-
alton, the revenues of the government
were $4O000000 short of the expendi
lures and that after certain railroads
bad paid into the United States treasury
500, 000C COO, receipts that will not accrue
next year nor hereafter. What is the
significance of this? 1t is that prosperity
has not come yet. Mckinley and the
Republican party have not brought pros
perity to the people as was promised.
Famine abroad scarcity of the crop
in Europe, gave q stimulus to the price
of wheat, and the Republicans claim that
they did it. and jealousy refuse to give
credit to Divine Providence that alone
brought 1t about and poured millions of
dollars into the pockets of the farmers
of this country.
Failing prices continua. The weight of
evil is felt in every home in the country.
he masses have not felt the coming Of
prosperity. Who has. then? | will tell
You. Look back over the stock market.
You will see that when tie Dingley bill
became law sugar stock was at s.. Now
it is at 40 and has renamed there ever
since. 1t is the capitalists that are feel
ing prosperity; the rich are getting richer
and the poor are growing poorer and this
is the prosperity that was promised us
in 1886; that was proclaimed from every
stump in the country. / 10 not believe
that this is the kind of prosperity that
the people of this country want or viii
ever be satisfied with
The power to correct this evil lies in
the hands of the people, and when the
republican party shows that it has failed
the people, sitting as a jury on it's past
mlsdeeos, will rise in their might and
cast their ballo. for the party of the
peopie-tne Democratic party of 1866
Senator Jones Continued his mastery
arguments for half an hour or more
He Insisted That the
intelligent people favor the Democratic
party's issue and that thousands of ignor-
ant foreigners were compelled to vote the
Republican ticket for fear of losing their
positions. But, as sure as God rules
Senator Jones continued, 1.-The cause of
right ard justice will triumph in the end
with the ascendancy of the Democratic
party under the leadership of it's truest
advocate, William Jennings Bryan and
we will then, and only then, come into
that prosperity that has been promised
Senator Jones paid his respects to the war
with Spain and said that the Democratic
party forced it on the Republicans, who
are now trying to claim the credit. He
said that he honored the Republicans who
had stood shoulder to shoulder in con-
gress in advocacy of the war to relieve
suffering Cuba from Spanish oppression
Never was there q time said Senator
Jones in closing, when l had so much
confidence in the future of this country
as now. The election of John Lind as
governor of Minnesota will carry the glad
tidngs from here to every state in the
Union, and when we elect William Jen-
nings Bryan president of the United
A1,ft
ness the greatest revival of prosperity
that has ever come to us.
In the address of welcome to Senator
Jones, Chairman Rosing, of the Demo-
cratic state central committee, said that
he did not think it necessary to formally
tell him of the warm place that he oc-
cupies in the hearts of Minnesota Demo
Gratis Every breath of Minnesota ozone
that he has taken in during the past two
weeks, Mr.. Rosing said, has welcomed
him to the state. I'm behalf of the state
organization we extend to you most
cordial welcome here. Silver REPUBLICAN
Democrats, Populist-Democrats are all
welcome to this table"
TOastmasteP O'Brien.
POSTMASTER O. Brien said in part: eve
recognize in Senator Jones the head of
our party He made a gallant fight under
most adverse circumstances. The Dem
ocrats of Minnesota are heart and soul
with the Democrats of the nation. We
are still against the corporations and
money power. For forty years the Re
publican party has been in power-has
been the trustee of railroads and corpora
tons" Mr. O'Brien commended the SUI
preme court and Attorney General Childs
for the decision in the Stevenson grain
rate case, which, he said, eliminated
watered railroad stocks, and asserted that
the Republican party in its recent state
convention turned down three members
nj ATTORNEY
eral Childs because of this stand against
the railroads and sent them to mourn
with A. Y. Merrill the "hero of the An
derson bill" to reflect how much better
off they would have been had not their
names appeared in behalf of the people.
Charles A. Towne, in response to the
toast John Lind" paid a glowing com
pliment to the Democratic candidate for
governor, whom he considered to be hon
est not in the sense of being differentia-
ted from other men less honest, but VINO
is honest from principle. Lind, the
speaker said, will win, no matter who
runs against him. He has worn his opin-
ion in regard to the silver question upon
his sleeve that every one might know
what it is. The silver question is the
ISSUE now that the war is over, and
Linds position on the money question
will secure to him the silver vote. ~
All the notable silver Democrats in Min
nesota were present at the meeting, but
1t was noticeable that none of the old
wheelhorses such as Judge Flandrau,
Michael Doran and the others that have
labored earnestly for the party in the
past were present 1t is truly new
party. At the speakers table were T. d.
O'Bren, Judge John w. Willis, Dr. b.
II. Whtcomb John L. Townley, T. R.
Kahn of ST. Paul; A. T. Ankeny, James
Gray, P. B. Winston and Matt Walsh of
Minneapolis; L. A. Rosing of Cannon