The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-10-24
l STORY OF PROGRESS
Is the History of Republicanism as Told
by Senator Nelson and Hon.
W. H. EuStiS.
A Big Audience Enjoyed Rare Treat
at the Court House Last Sat-
urddy Night.

It's an i'll wind blows no one good.
Senator Knute Nelson, speaking in
a draft in a warm hall one evening
last week, contracted severe cold,
and word came to Chairman Laudon
from state headquarters that he
would probably be unable to speak
here, tho he would try and put in
an appearance and not entirely dis
appoint his friends. An offer was
made to send some other good
speaker and Mr.. Laudon sent re-
quest for William Henry Eustis,
who has always been a strong favor
ite with Redwood Falls audiences.
By good fortune, William Henry
had not engaged himself for that
date, and thus was insured double
benefit for the rally. Senator Mel
son had recovered the use of his
voice sufficiently to be able to give
most instructive account of the
progress of legislation at the ma
tons capitol, so far as it affected
the regulation of trusts and railroad
rates, and his colleague put the au-
dience in pleasant mental condition
at the opening of the meeting, with
witty and scholarly sketch of the
causes which had made the Republi-
can party the main reliance of the
nation during forty wonderful years
of it's development.
Chairman Laudon introduced Mr..
Eustis, with the observation that, as
the arguments of the supporters of
Gov. Johnson had been presented a
few evenings before from the same
platform, he hoped the audience
would find it worth while to hear
the other side of the story. And
they certainly did.
William H. is a master hand to
say things that appeal to local pride
and Redwood Falls ought to be COW
! cred with modest bushes over his
tribute to its culture, it's little
Niagara" its high school building
and its beautiful new church, which
the speaker said was an indication
that the disciples who were first
called Christians at Autroch were in
evidence here.
There were two great forces, the
] speaker said, that really dignified
human life-the moral and the in.
tellectual. 1t was these forces that
made real progress possible. Man
4 kind had progressed from the fam.
lily or clan to the tribe, and by
successive steps to the nation, with
\ king or emperor to rule. America
s was unique in having evolved {
4 higher form of government in which
s. every intelligent citizen has an equa
share. Touching upon various phase:
i in the evolution of our government
= he introduced the tariff question by
the homely illustration of Lincoln
that if America sold its raw pro
ducts abroad we would have thu
money and the foreigner the goods
while if we manufactured our raw
products, we would have both tn,
goods and the money. Eustis tolt
his "evener" story, to show how thu
tariff had contributed to the won
derful development of America
commerce, and accumulated bal
ance of trade in our favor amount
ing to over six billions, more thar
five billions of which had beel
gained during the past fifteen year
of Republican rule. The Homestead
law referred to as a Republican
measure had been ridiculed by tn
opposition but had proven boon t,
the nation. Another step upwart
: was the Inauguration of stabl
| currency, good as gold everywhere
Mr.. Eustis touched upon the mat
tiers of state development an
railroad rate legislation and of MI
Il Coles relation to them, but lief
these issues to be more defnitel
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