| Show COMMONSENSE AGTO What Republicans Have Done During Past Four Years MADE A DOLLAR A DOLLAR Did Not Put the Dollar Above the ilnn or the Man Ahead of the Dollar Dol-lar but Put Men in Beach of the Dollar and Making that Dollar Worth One Hundred Cents iu Gold When Ho Got Within Reach of it Point hIde by Roosevelt During His Speech I La Crosse Win Sept 10Time special train hearing Gov Roosevelt and his party left for Fargo and the West at 11 oclock tonight There were two meetings hero today ono beginning at 2 oclock for those outside out-side oC the city and one at 8 oclock for the Inhabitants of La Crosse and Immediate vicinity Special excursions were organized from distant parts of the State JBolh meetings were held In the Ttink an Immense building which was crowded The numbers outside exceeded ex-ceeded many times those able to get In At the afternoon meeting Senator Nelson of Minnesota spoke upon the issues is-sues of the day with great effect for three quarters of an hour He introduced intro-duced Coy Roosevelt who was received re-ceived with flattering cheers In the course of his speech Coy Roosevelt saidTWO TWO ISSUES CONFRONT G O P We are confronted in this campaign cam-paign with two issues of which they say one Is paramount and the other is Immediate The paramount Issue Is militarism and imperialism and the immediate issue is free silver They have insisted as little as possible upon the latter They have been for It but not sp much for It as to frighten time gold men away You cannot be halfheartedly half-heartedly for a depreciated dollar You may find difficulty In making up your mind At Kansas City they had great dIMlcully In determining what to do In regard to the financial plank of the national na-tional platform If you remember they were only able to decide what they thought of the currency by calling In the first fruits of Improvement In the shape of Hawaii to cast the deciding vote for them Yoirremember they stood about even until Hawaiis representatives repre-sentatives made up their minds for them and enabled them to declare that they had 52 per cent of faith In a 48 percent dollar WHAT REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE They have expressed much alarm as to whether the dollar should be put above the man or the man ahead of the dollar whatever that may mean During Dur-ing the past four years time Republican party has confined itself to the commonsense com-monsense action of putting men within with-in reach of the dollar and making the dollar worth 100 cents in gold when he got within reach of It and they left It to him to decide whether it shall be before or behind LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE It Is a good rule to let well enough alone You are now doing well If the hand of fortune Is heavy upon a man at least he can say that he is not to blame for It Dont let It be our own fault In destroying the prosperity that I we now have Hard times have shown upon each of you men but they are a good deal harder upon the wife and children of each man These are the people who suffer most but when hard limes come all suffer some more and some less and all suffer somewhat Now for the sake of yourself and for the sake of your wives and families and for the wellbeing of your power I appeal to you for the reelection of President McKInlcy I do not care whether that Is called an Immediate issue Is-sue or a paramount Issue it is certainly certain-ly Important TWIN PHANTOMS As for the Issues they raise in those twin phantoms of militarism and Imperialism Im-perialism about which we are asked to be so frightened as to forget civic good faith material prosperty and time honor of the flag I have a word to say 1 will talk about militarism first I am informed In-formed that I have exactrerted some what the relative proportion of time army to the people We now have regular soldiers In the army in the proportion pro-portion of Just eightysix ono hun drcdths of a regular soldier to each thousand people in the land and the amount of tyranny of which you arc In danger Is presented by that fractional fraction-al amount dt the population of the country WHAT WISCONSIN COULD DO You could raise in this State of Wisconsin over night enough men to overwhelm Instantly the entire regular regu-lar army of the United States Sometimes Some-times It Is difficult to argue a question ques-tion because the statement of It Is argument ar-gument enough We have no larger a proportion of soldiers to the population popula-tion now than we had one century ago during the Presidency of the older Adams We have less than we had thirty years ago when there were still Indians to fight on the plains In 1870 there was more militarism than now because militarism was caused by an outbreak of the Sioux the Comanches and the Arapahous There Is no more clanger from time soldiers now than there was then The army here In this Republic Is made up of men who serve perhaps two years at a time and then they come home to a clil life The regular army is the servant of the people peo-ple and Is no more a menace to your liberties than ls the police force In this city You arc In just as much danger of militarism from the present regular army as you are that your Mayor will set up as a dictator with his twenty nine policemen or whatever the number num-ber is GREAT CRISIS HERE You remember In 1SCI you were threatened with the defeat of Abraham Lincoln No victory of the Confederates Confeder-ates in the field could have struck such dismay to our armies at the front as would have resulted from the defeat of Lincoln It would have meant the undoing un-doing of the bloody work of four years of war It would have been better to have failed to elect him in 1SCO than to have failed In 1SG1 It Is time greatest crisis now that has been since then It would have been better to have elected Mr Bryan four1 yeari ngo and to have suffered the grinding mlsdcfea each and all of us would have suffered In the four years It would have been better bet-ter to have elected him then than now when we have wet our hands to the lank than to flinch and bring this misery mis-ery upon ourselves and leave such a I legacy of shatnu and dishonor for our I children who come after us BIG MEETING AT NIGHT The evening meeting was even of greater magnitude than the meeting In the afternoon Some of the points made by Gov Roosevelt were What the Republican party wishes is that the laws shall be so executed In this country and the rights of the people BO applied that no man and no combination combina-tion of men shall wrong or be wronged that the private Individual shall have the freest scope given to his own head and heart and hand that he may workout work-out his own fate as his forefathers worked It out It Is not possible for the wisest administration to secure favorable favor-able conditions under all clrcurn I stances It is possible for It to do as I has beon done under President MeKln lay to secure such conditions that the average man shall have the best chance to win success for himself ACQUIRING NEWT TERRITORY As to the Constitution following the flag lie said Whenever we have acquired ac-quired territory the Constitution must extend to it We get new territory as we got New Mexico and California and Alaska and as we got Hawaii recently and then Congress decided what laws shall apply in those territories At the close of the meeting cheers were given for the speaker and he entered en-tered his carriage and drove away |
