Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-10-30
Nelson Draws Mammoth House
The largest Crowd That Has Been in Devils Lake for Some Time was Here
tuesday to Hear Senator Nelson .= 4*.**".
Noted Speaker Holds Hearers Close Attention or Nearly Two Hours

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for Nearly Two Hours
plank pledging asrevision of the tar
if, and our candidate is heartily In
favor, Of revision. tapplause). The
republicans believe in the revision Of
tariff but they insist that this revision
should be considered along the lines of
protection to the American industries.
The democrats are in favor of q tar
If for revenue only. :..< s. =
The home market of the United:
States consumes more than 90. per
cent, Of the products Of the farms of
the. country. During $Cleveland's adj:
ministration many were out of work
and the greater part Of the balance
were working at reduced wages. This:
caused a slump In the market, as men
had to economic, and did so on every
article that they bought. With the
change that came under Mckinley and
Roosevelt the :laboring people gained
employment, prices were advanced and
the consumption increased to such an
extent as to make the market better
and the price on farm produce also
advanced. The consumption In this
country is advancing faster than the
production in the line Of farm produce,
and at the present rate, it will be only
q few years before our entire product
In this line will be consumed at
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The. democratic idea of q, tariff for
revenue only destroys our industries
and makes It necessary to either shut
down the factories Of the country or
reduce the wages of the employees.
When this is done you are bound to-
destroy the home market. If you do
not want to overthrow the: present
prosperity YOU should vote for a con-
tinuance of the policies OF Roosevelt
and Kinley. :; - ;,s s.
| The speaker thlen" reviewed Mr.. Bry,-
ans cry Of Imperialism. In this re.
/ can war and stated that this war was
gard he referred to the spanfsh,Ameri-
forced upon us. The war was settled
quickly and with honor to our nation.
1t also served the purpose sof demon
fstrating to the Old world that our ma
]stion is q great world power that has
to be contended with. i He touched
upon the work done by the United
/ States in Cuba, Port Rica and the
philippine Islands: :s Cuba win soon be
running under an independen govern
ment, thanks to the assistance given
it by the United States. Porto Rica
| has in operation q free Legislative pol
Icy. The Philippine Islands was a
more difficult proposition. The inhab-
itants were made up OF several diff
ferent nationalities of people. The
4 work OF the Philip ppines was turned
over TO Mr.. AFT. When he went there
the land was all owned by religious
sects who would not sell the land out
I to the residents, but retained it ali
s themselves and had it worked BY the
4 natives at sVery low wages. Mr. Taft
4 recomme ended the purchase Of these
lands and the u. IS. through him made
the purchase. Now the land is being
sold tos the natives in small farms,
q giving them the opp portunity sof buy
& Ing re at the same price which the
government paid for It, 1t and they are
now working their own farms and are
fast growing into an industrious. hap
py farming country The natives OF
/ the country were also allowed TO en-
u act q small tariff law which furnishes
means for paving their own enxence1o of
4 1goVernments The work Thus accom-
plished Ii the Philippine Islands Il
!, one of the greatest works ever done
by any nat lon II ia Interesting 10
compare this superior work done nm
Il der the direction of Mr.. Taft for the
United States with sim liar work done
i BY other count les. ifa 5yoll VIII do so
i you VIII note i vast al ference III onr
+ ]. d great work III this re.
gard stamps him as one of tthe greatest
statesmen off modern times.
/ The panic of last brought
on py over spec,llat u Nhich caused
4 sa run oll &c few Of the large banks -
New ana the depo ositors over TIE
country became alarmed and mad ii
sinecessary for alI the banks 10 tighten
i IN I'd protect the from similar
runs guard againsl. a repeti of
such eircunast, t,sance recent con
|aaress passed egislation ia sevent its
eclrance rhe BID assed pro
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