Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-03

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THAT there is $134, O00, 900 surplns tau !
year collected from the people. and this Il
u1telly wrong. II is collected in excess 81
Snv nesus o. the Governments, and the
metnod OF disposing Of it proposed nv tha
Democratic party gives the greatest rel;ef
20 tne iaboring classes, which showed il ~
have. ns GLASSES
Inc speaker then showed how by con-
OF this surplus taxation the cir
cuiating medium OF the country-its pold
q siiver-must ultimately be locked m
u the yanlts Of the Government treasury.
ne showed how the constant contraction
OF the currency by this process was affect
!ng gne Industries OF the country, and how
It's effect is felt by the wage.worker more
than by any other class OF the Community.
he said that any law tina enables the
retention OF this annual drain
"a the pockets OF the people can only be in
AID OF the people Of the United States.
he quoted the untrue statement OF the
question by Republican orators in this
campaign as a question between free trade
q protective tariff. This is
c~oNrRADIcTED ALPHABETICALLY
by the fact that the reduction proposed by
the Mills bill is on an average s per cent
a reduction from an average of At per cent.
to 40 per cent.
1t was just as reasonable for the Repub-
lican party to stigmatize this reduction as
free trade as it would be for a man who
had been in the habit of taking forty-seyen
drinks of whisky a day to drop down to
forty-two drinks a day and then call him
self a teetotaller.
The Mills bill turns back into the chan
nels OF trade 1874, OO0, 900 OF dollars, to be
used in the development of the business of
the country.
Ii his hearers were willing to continue to
pay their share OF this unnecessary taxa
tion-if they were willing to continue to de-
plete their pocketbooks unnecessarily in
this way-the speaker said, let them cast
their votes for Mr.. Carter. III on the con-
trary they desired to show that they were
in favor of doing away with the unnecessary
taxation and wanted il reduced, let them
vote for w. A. Clark.
The speaker then showed how little effect
protection had in the maintenance of high
wages. In 1862, 1858, 1854 and 1866, he
said, wages in all branches OF trade were
higher than they had ever been before in
the history OF the country. From then to
the present time
WAGES HAD FALLEN,
the wage-worker had received less and less
all the time, while the protective tariff had
remained the same. The protective tariff,
then, he said, had not enabled the people
to receive high wages.
The only people it protected, said the
speaker, were the manufacturers. He
showed how it even protected the manu-
facturer in what he paid his laborer, there
being no protective taxo on labor, which lis
open to competition from all the world.
The protective tariff protects every one
but the American laboring people. The
protected manufacturers are growing richer
every year while the laborer in the East is
growing poorer every year.
The speaker showed how the men OF
nearly every trade had been compelled to
band themselves together TO a w them
selves from the encroachments of the
manufacturers by labor unions and yet
WAGES HAVE BEEN
all the time.
The speaker then showed the record OF
the Republican party on the subject oil
silver, by demonetizing which it added 10
per cent. to the purchasing power of gold
and took that much from the value of the
wage workers labor. He showed how the
manufacturer gets the benefit OF the tariff
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the price of the American article is nd
vanced to the cost OF the imported article,
which increased cost the consumer pays.
1t is the consumer b pays the tax, and
that to the manufacturer and not to the
Government. He showed how the superior
ingenuity of American mechanics enables
them to turn out q better class OF ma
chinery and tools Of all descriptions which
can be sold in the European market
against those of European manufacture,
and at prices greatly less than the Ameri.
can consunur has TO pay. He said the
voice Of the people of Montana is silent,
having
NO VOICE In NATIONAL AFFAIR
except a moral voice, which they should
raise in favor OF reduction of taxation to
the needs OF the Government.
He then took up the question of State
hood, and said the admission of Montana
at the next session Of Congress depends up
on her going Democratic. He showed how
the Territory will expand materially, how
all it's resources will receive fresh impetus
when this is attained. He pointed GU the
necessity for the Territory goint
| democratic on the 9Th OF Novem
Der by the necessity OF preserving
| the equilibrium OF parties in the Sen
ate. The next House would be Demo
cratic, and would not admit Republican
Territory unless a Democratic Territory bt
admitted also. The Senate, being Republl
can, would not admit a Democratic Terri
tory unless q Republican Territory wer'
also admitted. Thus the two Democratic
Territories. New Mexico and Montana
would offset the Republican Territories
Dakota and Washington Territories. Fol
this reason he urged the election OF W. A
Clark il for no other. -.
There were other reasons. however; whicl
he proceeded to addgee. He then recalled
Mr.. Clark's patriotism in the Nez Percet
raid Of 1877 in raising troops for the de
! Tense of the settlers. This single fact, he
said. showed that the mans heart wal
true to tue people whom he seeks to repre-
sent in Congress. The speaker closed witt
, a brilliant eulogy OF the merits OF MI
CLARK, whose ability as well as past service
I to the Territory deserved his election b.
a majority such as no other candidate eve
J received. Loud cheers greeted the speake
. frequently through his speech and at 1t
conclusion.
:. JOIN F. FoRBIs
> > was then introduced and his remarks wer
: brief, excusing himself from an extende
: speech by referring to the TACT that ne MAJ
! addressed the same audience recently an
! could therefore nave nothing new to Ole
them. Besides, Mr., Bickford's speech wa
exhaustive and left little to be said.
He defended Cleveland's veto record an
9 said that in spite OF the efforts oil the He
/ nublicans to make capital out oil theI
thew had been unable to adduce a sing
. instance where they were not thorough
9 inst and done in the interest OF the homes
Y and deserving soldiers OF the war.
r He maintained the President had pee
Q true to every promise he made in regard :
/ the civil service and everything else. y
v Monday night a gentleman on the Repubi
J. can ticket had seen ft to characterize tn
statement as false. He said he could onl
y give his hearers Cleveland's record. Ii
o Them read it for themselves. 1t is
. THE BEST ANswER
q tn all insinuations concerning it. 1t Ws
t nossible he had made appointments OF me
to office who had been criminals, u IL !
q had the fault was in the man who recon
mended that criminal for appointment
The President in the multiplicity OF a
"a duties could not examine every case OF q