Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-22

leaders that if they wish to enjoy the
prosperity they now have, they must
vote the Republican ticket. In other
words, they must vote to continue
their deprivation and hunger and
idleness.
"According to the testimony of the
New York Independent Council OF
World Workers, an organization OF
laboring men, who investigated con-
ditions in New York city last winter,
there were more than SOC, 900 unem-
ployed in that city,
"And every city in the country has
for the last year been confronted with
this terrible problem of unemployed
men. Railroad development ana
building has practically ceased, and
one-fourth of the men working On our
railroads have been laid off. At the
end of last April, the United States
treasury showed a deficit of over Soo,
OOO. 900 as compared with the surplus
of over $50 100000 the year before.
Mr.. TaH ney, chairman OF the mouse
appropriations committee, Repub-
Iicau. estimated that the deficit for the
year ending July l, 1908, would reach
$50 900 900 as contrasted with sur
plus of S87 10000 on June L, 1907,
and Mr.. Tawney declares that there
will be an almost certain deficit OF not
less than $50, 600, 900 at the end OF the
present fiscal year, July l, 10Y. Inl5
is another fruit of the intensely prac-
tical Republican leadership.
of al
for the year ending Oct. /, l9Oo' mas
not been less than $3.50 ,OOO,OOO, al
though [ have not the exact figures
before me, Still another proof or
Republican practicalness.
with all the facts of treasury de-
felt, of panic and business depres-
sion, of the millions Of idle laborlng
men. of arrested railroad construc-
ton. and immense fortunes piled up
by the privileged classes, the party
leaders gaily prance into the puollc
arena, shouting, None are practlcal
but US. Trust no others; we alone
can restore to the American people
that prosperity, which, owing to our
practical system, has never yet de-
parted from there"
"Our ships, which in 1860, little
after the Republican party was porn,
carried 90 per cent of all our foreign
commerce, and our shipyards were
making our own ships. Today, after
nearly fifty years of almost unlnter-
rupted Republican rule, our shlpyards
are building no ships for the interna-
tiOnal carrying trade. Our ships carry
now less than per cent of our entire
foreign commerce. All this work or
destruction has been accomplished by
the constructive policies of this great
practical party.
"Mr. w. H. Wheeler, a prominent
manufacturer and Republican OF
Beloit, Wis, PUBLICLY stated recently
that the industries of the city of Belolt
paid the steel trust, because Of the
tariff, in exorbitant prices, for their
raw materials in iron and steel, a
tribute of 81 200 per day.
"And what Mr.. Wheeler says of the
industries of Beloit applies practically
to every industry in the manufacture
ing cities in Wisconsin.
81 suppose in his own eyes the feud-
al baron of the middle ages, who lived
upon the toll of his peasantry, argued
to them if he argued at all, that he
was a practical man, and that if it
were not for his bene6cent presence In
society the peasantry, although starry
ing, would starve a little more.
Thank God there are some dreamers
left in this world. Thank God society
is not made up entirely of Standpat-
tiers. reactionaries and human immov-
ables, who never desire any change
of existing conditions. Thank God
there are some men in the mill
tant standpat and reactiOnary Repub-
lican party who are not practical men,
if to be practical one must sanction
this prostitution of protection. And
because the Democratic party stands
for the rights of man, stands for human
equality, and because all it's hopes
and aspirations are that it may do
something to correct these crying in
justices, the fruit of Republican prac-
teal politics, we make appeal to the
people in this campaign"
Mr.. Brown asserted that Taft vas
making old bunker protection speech
es everywhere, much to the disgust of
every Democrat and every Progress
sive Republican. He said Taft talks
about the panic of 1893, which he at
tributes to the Democratic party, but
fails to mention the panic of 1873, nor
the panic of 1907. Out in Nebraska he
said Taft told the farmers that wheat
was only 80 cents a bushel under
the last Democratic administration.
THAT sort of preachment, said Mr..
Brown, sis about as statement-like as
the mOuthings of any cheap ward
heller"
The speaker said Republican figures
showed that in the third year of Har-
risOn's administration wheat in Ne
braska was 80 cents bushel. Three
years after the passage of the Demo
cratic Wilson bill wheat in Nebraska
was 50 cents a bushel. He said 1t was
easy to compile figures in this way and
prove almost anything, but the fact |
remained that thousand things may
determine the price of wheat or other |
farm products outside of tariff laws. |
A shortage of grain in the Argentine |
republic, India or Europe would ad- |
vance prices here. He said Taft's ar
guments are an insult to the intelli- |
gence of even the most unintelligent, |
and that no Progressive Republican |
has ever initiated this method.
In referring to the guarantee of |
bank deposits Mr.. Brown says the |
proposition had been approved by the
highest Republican authorities, among !
whom were Senator knute Nelson, |