Evening star., 1898-10-19
RoosEVELTsUP-STATE ToUF
He is Greeted by Large Crowds at All
Points.
The Gallant Rough Rider Boldly
Tackles Both State and Ma
tfonal Issues.

dispatch from Ogdensburg, N. Y, last
night says: Colonel Roosevelt's special
train left Glens Falls at Q o'clock this
morning. At Whitehall there was a large
gathering Of people and several houses in
the vicinity were gaiiy decorated with
bunting. Colonel Roosevelt was introduced
by Rough Rider. For the first time since
the trip began Colonel Roosevelt attacked
the democratic party policy. He said, in
part:
THE senator and the congressman chosen,
if the democrats carry this state, will give
what aid they have in support of the worst
financial heresies-these same heresies
which we smashed two years ago when
we gave the country for the first time the
chance to tread again the path of pros
perity. Do you wish to turn back from
that path? They tell you that this cam
paign is to be run on state issues-issues
that affect the state only. Call to mind
last spring. Do you remember the election
in Oregon? The republicans stood then as
New York stands now, for honest money.
And the republicans won
DO you find our friends here who are
now clamoring about this campaign being
kept to state issues? Did you find them
saying that the Oregon election was con-
Quoted on state issues? They said that
the victory in Oregon was a victory for
sound money, not in Oregon alone but
from the Pacific to the Atlantic. So 1t
was. 1t strengthened the cause of honest
finance. 1t strengthened the cause of hon.
est government, of honest money every
where throughout the country, and what
oregon did New York can do with all the
difference of it's size, Its wealth and its
population behind it.
Where Oregon struck a blow for the
cause OF honest money last spring New
YORK can strike a tenfold heavier blow for
the cause of sound money this fall And
if New York goes against sound money
TINS Iaii the very people, the coWardly
friends OF sound money. will be busy ex-
planning that the votes did not mean what
they did mean and will be panic-struck
to find this election did count as a victory
for honest finance .c
At Port Henry there. was found a gath
ering OF about 300 people. AT Port Henry
and Westport thee stops were very hrief
because the train Has date. The receptions
at Plattsburg and Rouses Point were very
enthusiastic. great number of people be-
ing out at each place. nAt Moores junction
there was goodly gathering.
The largest and most enthusiastic out
door meeting of the two days trip was AT
Malone Fully 5000 persons surrounded a
grand stand, and public buildings and
houses were gailyr decorated. A band of
Rough Riders was a feature of the crowd
Col. Roosevelt was greeted with much en-
tLusiasm and spoke briefly.
At several places between Malone and
oadensburg short stops had to be made so
that assembled crowds could be greeted
and itHwas Z o'clock before OgdaJsshury
was reached. --z mr.
At OgdensbuIg- Col. Roosevelt took up the
excise question, saying:
1T is all very we'll for our onnonents to
denounce the present law, but what they
propose to put in it's place is so bad as to
De pfeposterous. On the whole, the present
law is infinitely better than any we have
n ha tot fttta
democratic law which it superseded repre-
sented not much more than legalized black
mailing. 1t encouraged drunkenness, it
promoted corruption among the police and
excise officials, saloon keepers and political
leaders alike, and it brought no adequate
revenue to the state or the counties.
The present law has done completely
away with corruption by excise boards and
mas minlm1zed the corruption of the police.
1t has reduced drunkenness and il has
given US an enormous revenue from the
very traffic which can best afford to pay
that revenue. Nearly s13,O00,OOO are yearly
by the present law. Between four and five
millions of dollars go to the state, the re-
mainder to the counties.
Would Repeal the Law.
Now, If the democrats keep their prom
Use, they will, If they elect their governor
and the legislature, repeal this law and at
one stroke take away some $5OOO,OOO from
the revenues of the state and about as
nany more from the revenues of the
counties, for the present law turns into the
public treasury, I am told, $1,000, 600 more
than the old law did. In other words, they
Will make 1t necessary for the state, if ii
is to continue its experience, to increase
the tax rate by from a quarter to a half.
Moreover, they will make it necessary for
the counties to raise just about as much
more in addition.
TT is easy enough to denounce any law,
but when our opponents denounce the pres
ent excise law l ask you to carefully con-
sder what they propose to put in it's place,
and to realize the harm they would do to
decent government and thu intolerable ad-
ditions to our burdens of taxation which
would follow If they actually succeed in
doing what they threaten to do.'
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