Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-22

(applause). | get inspiration from
Harry every day. That hearty laugh
and joyous disposition of his braces us
up and I am glad to be among his
friends and people tonight. The para
mount issue is, what is for the best
interests of our people, each individ-
ual and the whole country. My life
has been spent as business man. I
am in public life because I felt it was
my duty. 1 left my business in 1895
because I thought / saw that unless
a change was effected in this country
we would go down hill even more
rapidly than we had been going
Nearly all of our great industries
were paralyzed. Everyone seemed to
have lost confidence in the future and
it wanted some man whose character,
whose ability, whose integrity of pur-
pose, and whose patriotism would
gather around him the support of all
loyal public spirited American cltl-
zens to save this country from COM
mercial ruin. Such a man was
William Mckinley.
HE was nominated and elected and
since then this republic has passed
| through four years, second in import
ance to none Of the four years preced-
| ing. He has served his country and
has placed it in the front rank of ma
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others, having risen from debtor to
| a creditor nation What better proof
| is there to show that we were right,
that Mckinley was right, when in
three and a half years we have resur-
rected the business of this country
from dependency and gloom, have
again lighted the fires of our furnaces
and have set in motion the wheels OF
industry in every city and today we
are loaning gold by millions to Europe
itself. In order to secure a continual
ton of these conditions we must secure
to the people their confidence in the
future. All business is conducted on
"a large scale through confidence.
Prosperity is the only issue in this
campaign today. Mr.. Bryan was OBJ
liged to relinquish the silver issue.
He was Told it would not do for him to
talk free silver in the east, and when
Mr.. Bryan came to New York-and
watch him next week-he was not to
talk free silver. The question of i'm
perialism was settled to the satisfac-
ton Of every intelligent man by Nc
Kinley's letter of acceptance; what
people wanted was facts. They did
not want wild statements.
Bryan talks about trusts. I have
been quoted as saying there are no
trusts. | did say there are no trusts
legally or commercially in existence in
this country. A trust is an organization
whose stockholders do not vote except
through trustees, who hold the stock
for that purpose. Such organizations
have been entirely wiped out by the
Sherman act, and the only monopoly in
this country today is that governed by
patent To show you that the demo
Gratis are not sincere in their talk
against trusts, I will remind you that
last winter in congress a resolution
was offered to amend the constitution
SO as to give power to the government
to lay it hands upon any perniciOus
organization and as far as was neceS-
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people, control it. That resolution was
ably discussed for two whole days,
and when the vote came every demo
crat in that house voted against it;
every republican save two voted for
it; and the necessary two-thirds vote
being lacking, it was defeated. Who
was responsible for that. The demo
cratic party under Mr.. Bryan's leader
ship and advice.
What does Mr.. Bryan know about
business? What has he ever done for
the working people of the United
States? AS you all know, he never
did thing to help a man who works
with his hands in his life. Did you
ever hear of organized labor when Mr..
Bryan was IN congress appealing to
him to aid them in the passage Of
law which would protect their daily
bread? Never Now in contrast from
the first day that William Mckinley
entered public life as a member of
congress from Ohio, he began to make
a study of this question and devoted
his whole life and energy to it, and
so far did he establish himself in the
confidence of the working people of
this country that no working man or
delegation of workingmen ever went
to Washington to get advice or aid
that did not go straight to William
Mckinley (applause), End the advice
that he got was the result of mature
judgment and honest purpose on the
part Of that congressman, until he
was admitted to be, of all others in
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