Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-10-05

silver, and as long as they are for it it
makes no difference whether they shout
or whisper their allegiance. In either
case they would have to turn their words
into acts should they come into power,
and in both cases, therefore, the menace
to the prosperity of the country and the
welfare of it's citizens are equally great.
The salvation Of this country lies to no
small extent in the fact that while the
bulk of our people fully appreciate the
Importance of party, and the usefulness
Of party government, yet that they put
country above party.
Tariff ard Trusts.
Our opponents denounce trusts. But
they propose not one remedy that would
not make the situation ten times worse
than at it's worst it now is. | have read
through carefully the speeches of Mr..
Bryan and Of his fellows to find out what
they propose to do. have found plenty
of vague denunciation. / have not found
so much as an attempt to formulate ma
tional policy Of relief. In the Democratic
platform in Ohio just two measures of re-
lief are proposed: The first, that you
should change the tariff because it favors
coin silver in the ratio of 16 to 1 with
out regard to the action of any other ma
ton. They pretend that the tariff favors
trusts. They know that the greatest
trusts in this country, the Standard Oil
and the sugar trusts, are utterly unaffect-
ed by the tariff They know we'll that
the trust with which there is the most
widespread and deepest dissatisfaction,
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the tariff, and in my own State, one of
the largest trusts, the ice trust (Which is
said to have as it's most prominent mem
Der and promoter that ardent antitrust
champion and advocate Of Mr.. Bryan,
Richard Croker is also wholly unaffect-
ed by the tariff.
Six years ago you were under the kind
sof tariff to which they now ask you to
return. And you We're suffering from
the threat of free coinagethe trust
which they now revive. Are the people
of this country so short-sighted that they
forget the miseries Of six years ago? Do
they forget the bread riots, the poverty,
the squalid want, even Of those able and
anxious to work? Surely the country has
had enough of tariff tinkering by the OPP
ponents of protective tariff.
The second great remedy they propose
for trusts is the free coinage of silver at
16 to 1.-The coinage of Ascent dollar.
They actually propose to the people that
if the trusts deprive certain men of part
of their earnings, or throw certain body
of men out Of employment, this shall be
remedied by decreeing that the men who
still have employment shall be paid 4S
cents on the dollar for the work they do.
Dishonor OF American Arms.
Our opponents through the nation, and
in particular here in Ohio, propose as
method of attacking trusts to NEEDLE with
the tariff, which would mean economic
disaster to the masses, and to debase the
coinage, which in addition to even more
frightful economic disaster would mean
national dishonor. When they come to
the second plank in their platform, the
question of expansion, they advocate the
dishonor of the American arms, and the
trailing Of the American flag in the dust.
They place themselves outside the rank
of proper party opponents, and make
themselves merely the enemies of the
nation as a whole, as already by their
action on the currency they have shown
themselves to be the enemies of honesty
within the nation. The other day Ohio
sent to New York prophet of Mr.. Bry-
ans new dispensation in the shape of ex-
Congressman LentZ, who divided his time
between fervent hopes for the success of
Aguinaldo and, therefore, for the ruin of
the American army in the Philippines,
and the firmly expressed conviction that
the mantle of Washington and Of Lin
coin had fallen upon the shoulders of ex-
Gov Altgeld.
Make no mistake. In the Philippines
we are at open war with an enemy who
must be put down.. 1t is absolutely inn
possible to save our honor except through
victory; and it is equally impossible to
win peace, to restore order in the islands,
or to prepare the way for self-govern-
ment there, save through victory. Peo-
pie tell you that the Filipinos are fight
ing for independence. This was exactly
what the copperheads Of 1861 said of the
Confederates. Here in Ohio the Val
landigham ran on the issue that the
war was a failure, and that the indepen-
dence of the Southern Sssates should be
acknowledged The feeble Vallandig-
hams Of to-day take the same position,
and if Ohio is true to the great memories
Of her past she will give the same answer
now that she gave then. No man can
hesitate in This struggle and ever after
ward call himself true American and
true patriot He must stand by the flag.
He must uphold the honor and the inter-
est of the nation, and the only way in
which he can stand by the one and uphold
the other is to overwhelm the party that
assails both.
Must Put Down Armed Resistance.
Two facts must be emphasized. First,
that out of the present situation the only
honorable and humane way is to put
down armed resistance in the Philippines,
and to establish government Of orderly
justice; and, in the second place, that this
situation inevitably arose out Of the war,
and could not have been avoided save BY
shameful conduct on our part. You viii
meet short-sighted people who say that
Dewey, after sinking the Spanish feet,
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