, 1888-11-01
The Democratic Hosts Rally at
Rock Springs.
Stirring Addresses Delivered BY
Well Known Speakers.
The Tariff and Its Effects Consid-
cred BY Mr.. Baird.
Mills Famous Bill Will Not Affect
Wyoming's Industries.
Special Dispatch to The Leader.

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Rock SPRINGS, Wyo., Oct. 3l-A
rousing meeting was held here to night at
which there was the largest a~ssemblage
ever seen together in this great coal min.
ing center.
The first speaker of the evening was
j. G. Baird, of Cheyenne. A rollicking
address was made by Col. Luke Murrin
who has a large number of friends here.
Gen. John Chas. Thompson made a speech
that captured the audience from the word
go. 1t was 2eplete with facts. presented
in his own inimitable manner, and with a
force that carried conviction with every
word.
The meeting throughout was an enthu-
siastic one.
Mr. Baird's Address.
Mr.. Baird began by saying that he be-
lieved in the principle and practice OF
protection. Said he: Il would haye
the article of home manufacture put upon
exactly the same level as the imported
article. My measure of protection would
be to add Just as much tariff duty as was
necessary to keep the foreign article up to
the same cost as the American article.
For example, if it cost $50 per ton to lay
home rails in the New York market, and
foreign rails could be laid down for $40
per ton, | would put a tariff of $40 per
ton on all imported rails. Then our
manufacturers and workingmen would be
protected; at the same time the consumers
would be protected-they would be pre-
tected from extortion, which can be prac-
tIoaA np1vNr,n1ar n b,rh -rotat,ro .,..r
Whenever the tariff is so high as to shut
out foreign competition hopelessly, the
manufacturer ordinarily pockets the diff
ference in profits. The workingmen does
not share 10 the increased profits, but he
is always called upon to stand his share of
the losses by way of a reduction of wages.
But experience has demonstrated that
the needs of the government are not so
great as to absorb the increase. There is
a surplus of $780, 00, 900 in the national
treasury which ought to be in circulation.
If this amount of money were set free it
would add more than two dollars per head
per capita to the circulation of money in
the country,
Fellow citizens, have you any correct
idea OF the extent of this surplus? OF
the vast amount of money that is tied up?
If the surplus we're piled up in silver dol
lars 1t would reach nearly two miles high.
If they were to be transported by rail
they would require ten trains OF cars, each
train comprising nineteen cars, each car
containing twenty tons.
Such Is the surplus gathered in the ma
tional treasury, and which it is desired to
get rid of. 1t must be done, and the best
way in the Judgment of the Democratic
party is to reform the tariff. This does
not 30 tol-a &c tbo toz,T o-l xxa-.lo
for free trade, but to equalize the exor
bitant features of the present tariff sched-
ule. Hence the Mills bill was introduced.
The average rate of the present duty is
47.l0; the average rate proposed by the
Mills bill is 42.6S per cent. a reduction of
less than 5 per cent. Yet the reduc-
ton recommended by the Republican
tariff commission Of 1872 was 25 per
cent
Suppose we now consider
THE MILLS BILL.
A man or a party is to be Judged by
acts, rather than by utterances. The
leaders of the Democratic party say that
their party is not in favor of free trade.
The test can be found in the Mills bill,
which is the embodiment of tie tariff re-
form views of that party. Naturally,
every person scans that bill to see how it
effects his own interests, if at all. For
the same reason let us examine this bill
and see how Wyoming is affected.
In running over the list of Wyoming
productions, we find it to embrace, ami.
mails, coal, window glass, glassware, iron
ores, copper ores, soda and wool.
ANIMALS.
On live animals the Mills bill leaves
the tariff lust where it is, $4,000 on each
500 worth imported.
1t cannot be truthfully said, therefore.
that the cattlemen and those dependent
upon the range industry, are at all affect
ed. 1t the maintenance of the tariff on
live animals means anything, it is that
the trainers of the Mills bill are alive to
the welfare of range interests.
COAL.
Nor does the Mills bill affect coal. The
tariff on coal is left Just as Mr.. Mills
found it-$39.S6 on coal slack, and S24. 81
on bituminous and shale. The rate is
per 800 worth imported.
So that whenever the assertion is made
that the Democratic party will work hard
ships on the miners of Wyoming by re-
ducing the tariff on coal, it can be truth
fully said, in reply, that coal is not
touched by the Mills bill.
WINDOW GLASS.
Much stress has been lain on the state
ment by persons who ought to know bet
ter, that the passage of the Mills bill
would rum the window glass factory at
Laramie. Let us examine the facts.