The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-10-27

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umphant election for all of them. H
then said that owing to s.an unwarrantet
attack as he believed it was, upon tn,
, candidate for assessor, Mr. Emmons, th,
speaker thought the circumstances were
such that he would call especial attention
to the good qualities of the candidate be
fore the public, and then stated that the
county commissioners assessed the rail
road property and not the assessor, ano
that Mr.. Emmons was entitled to the
hearty support of the republicans and all
fair minded democrats.
Maj. Eaton then sat down amid a hearty
round of applause. The Livingston Brass
band then played selection. Chairman
Henry then introduced the next speaker,
the Hon. Thomas H. Carter, who spoke to
the following effect. Public meetings
are schools of instruction, and he who
would use such meetings for the abuse of
the opposition party or the yillitication of
neighbors has Lut poor conception OF
the purposes OF such meetings. That
party lines were formed for the better ex-
preston of political views. Party politics
had been formerly contest of prejudice
and lawlessness Or set opinions. But that
the contest of this year was one of thought
and that every thinking man would cast
his vote according to the result of his
thinking. He called upon the people to
lay aside all questions but that Of the is.
sue of to-day-the tariff question. That
it was vital question, one Of what we
should wear and what we should eat. He
then reviewed the continual legislation of
England against any industrial progress
in America, when it was numbered
among her colonies And that a protec
tive tariff law was the second law passed
by the first congress Of the United States
and signed by George Washington. It
remained for the slave holding power of
the south to inaugurate free tariff leeisla-
tion becaus it needed no protection for
ITSELF And that this Oriental method
Of labor was the origin of free trade. John
G. Calhoun was the first to propose free
trade in the United States, he being
backed by few hot-headed slave holders.
And to save the Union from disunion and
rebellion, Henry Clay was the originator
of a compromise tariff law. The speaker
then followed out the development of the
country under a protective policy and
ehnNe,' .~.u everv reduction initariff had
had direct influence for the worse Upon
the industries of the country. He reviewed
the history of protection and mentioned
especially the time when Tippecanoe
Harrison led the protection phalanx
against the free trade theorists and swept
the representatives of democracy from
government. The speaker then took up
the apparent good times between 1916
and 1860 which was under a comparative
free trade rule. He showed that they
were hard times instead of good and that
the apparent good times were caused by
the Mexican war and the gold excitement
in California. The theory of the republican
party is to import free of duty every ar
ticle that we cannot produce and tax ev
erything that VIC do produce so as encour-
age our industries. The policy of the
democratic party Is just the reverse. The
tariff question is one of the utmost i'm
portance to eyerv Montanian Lead min
ing, copper mining, sheep, cattle and hors-
es are among the resources of our terri
tory so that the failure of one will not kill
US, but thus failing ont by one, the result
will be the failure of the whole eventually.
The two most important and most
threatened by free trade are the wool and
lead industries. The speaker then took
up the wool question. Demonstrated its
great Importance to our territory and
showed how the competition of South
America, Australia and other countries.
would act disastrously upon our sheep
industry and thus directly upon this ter
rltory, Mr.. CLARK tells the sheep grow.
ers that if the tariff was taken off of wool,
wool would go up and tells the lead
miners that the wages would go
down but clothes would be cheaper.
How does he figure that the mater
ial out Of which they are made will
be dearer and clothes cheaper. Mr.. Car
ter then spoke Of the slight reduction of
the tariff on wool in 1883 caused de-
crease of 100000 sheep in the United
States, what would result if the whole tar
if was taken Off He then said that the
question before the people of Montana
was whether they wanted to send mes
sage to congress to the effect that they
wanted low wool and low wages or high
prices for their wool and good wages for
the miners. If they wanted the first they
would vote for his worthy opponent Clark
and if in favor of the latter to vote for
him (Carter).
He then spoke Of the many easy and
legitimate ways of reducing the so-called