River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-20
Elkins, Sept. %.


Elkins, Sept. %.
Dear SoEEy:
doEt know whats the matter with
me. ] can't Sd IN to recollect anything
that mas happened since / made my pro-
tcctioD speech in the Senate in 1885
That vas the greatest effort Of my--or
my stenocra pher's-life.
When ! went upstairs last night /
forgot What 1 had gone for and had
10 cal ny boy, Steve Elkins, up to tell
me Quicker'n shootin' he pointed to
the bed and began helpin me off with
my Congress CATERS. That's jest like
Hcpubican, thinkin' of what we ought
to think e first and dom what we amt
got git-oI~and-sit enough to do for our
selves.
And DOW few words about your let
ter Ct acceptance. Don't git hot under
the collar if an old man of 80 takes
the privilege Of speakin' his mind.
You begin by talkin' about centraliza-
ton. where i've you been living the
last forty years? Don't you know that
the principle that the Union is bigger
thar nGy Of its parts was settled by the
war. wkeH l laid the foundations of
my fOrtaue sellin horses to the Federal
army?
Don't fash Yourself about some youth
FIJI! Napoleon usurpin' any dangerous au-
thorsty over the SO,OOO0O0 American
sovcrcigbe They all know their rights
as well rs Dave Hill, and KNOWN, dare
maintain them, without the consent of
any other nation, as your friend of 80
and 1900, Billy Bryan, would say.
What's this thing imperialism you
talk 80 much about? In my opinion it's
all tommyrot. There's no more impe-
rial,Sjn in tie United States than in
the knoLolcl stuffed with the clay of
imperial Caeaar.
YOa makcIme weary when you talk
about the Pr sident of the United States
developing s il tremendous power from
year to yeaIM lntil it almost equals that
Of many mo- rchs." What sort of small
potatoes dol ou take the President of
this republ1 for? You may think he
is If no M account than the King
OF Greece the AkoOnd of Swat but
ut my age / not runnin' for the remote
chance of s ,cedin' to an office-no big
ger than Sc e hop o my thumb might
get by acci t.
Don't yoi4 now that if we follow "the
footsteps fl II fathers we must march
toward thG# asst? Following the foot
steps Of al stors can only lead to the
cradle or tomb. And though they
say that u N in my second childhood
and have u foot in the grave, prefer
staGdin' in footsteps of the liyin' to
following )tsteps of the dead.
Act-a The living present!
Heart in, and God o'erhead!
Y has Away cen the motto of your as
pirin' UnC iaSsaWay. ~
Talk Of of power What are we
in this IA r? | never lusted for any
thing as lust after the presidency
of the Sc, with Il reversionary inter
est in IL Presidency of the United
States.
Your ii on the tariff are as, ,hazy as
the vision six-day-old steer! Here's
what | $ n 1888 and it's good doc
trine yet
aln fc lrih that will yield sufficient
revenue T g economical and proper
peudituT6 he government, and in that
tariff | b, incidental protection to our
industries ght and proper.
IL y for protection is robbery,
to the pc tiary with the whole outfit.
We can n the people by denouncin'
The Grin lie supportin' the govern
meut oIs wag.
see ave lugged in the old chest
nut abe election building up 1.-The
bushes property of the few at the
txpens@ many" Don't you know
that N and wealth in the United
States 'ver as widely distributed
as too at in all industries more
than cent of the gross income
goes L ~age-earners, and that the
wages are our only true imperial
lists?
n ;th qualification that you
gideStC gard to trusts.
I w; affected by your reference
@'to q tyred President, William
McEit t4et me recommend his care
fully & out policies to your study
ana Otherwise this apprec-
alton lead leader will rebound to
the Il, id glory of his young sue
cessOr White House, who has not
swerv IRIS breadth from the chart
laid 2 II him by William McKin
ley.
WI you mean by celebrating
tyrau5 the Philippines Who's
playi5 Jackson over there?
Dc Nv the record of our Dem
ocraF 'esSmeu on the subject of
civil how they have persistent
ly vt withhold the appropriations
nece. the administration of the
Statl ON, if we can't be elected,9
letr est.
Y bout ;'the Executive acquir-
ing ma route and rights" Don't
you at these We're acquired by
the mt, and not by the execu-
tive 4nate ratified the treaty and
Con lropriated the money to
clil lportunity to do what you
say 1g been the hope of our
sta wit, dig the canal%' If you
are about the right to dig hav-
in ngfully obtained, why don't
yor remuneration? There are
still ,onists on the isthmus who
VIC ne return to the good old
da5 volutions on the half Shell
VIII ;at."
know that american bot
tor such contemptibly small
fraS our exports and imports,
bed ign bottoms carry them at
sue Iptibly cheap rates that our
pe >etter afford to pay the rate
ih NV their funds from better
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