The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1888-10-17

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he historic Nancy Jane, that
Glove an sot, an hove an sot,
And high her rudder flung:
And every time she hove or sot,
bigger leak she sprung.
Give our secretary OF war chance ana +
le will give us ships and guns that will
,ut our sailors on an equal footing with
my maritime power in the world. With
more liberal laws we will have a COM
nerce for that navy to protect and then
We will assume the tone Of good, old dem I
,cratic days. when no enemy could land /
upon our shores save as our prey or our I
and we can say:
columbia needs no buIwarks,
No towers along the ste p,
Her march is on the ocean wave, /
Her home is on the deep.
The eloquent gentleman referred to the
Indian service and told what had been
done in former years; how the public
moneys had been squandered by the IN
terror department under republican ad-
ministrations.an spoke of the noble stand
taken by one of Benton's prominent bust
ness men-the Hon. L. G. Power-to pro-
cure relief when our frontier was Grim
soned with the blood of the pioneer. He
told how Choteau county had been made
an Indian reservation by the only repub-
lican delegate Montana ever sent to con-
gress, and how it took Ia years of hard Ia
Dor in and out of Congress to restore the
100000 acres of land to our people
again which every republican secretary OF.
the interior and every commissioner tried
to hold as ground upon which they hoped
to carry on peculations unseen by the
outside world. And now, asked the
speaker: "Do you wish to repeat the ex-
pertinent of sending another republican
delegate to congress?"' (Cries of no, no!D
But, added the major, it might have been
given to some railroad corporation by
republican administration had it not been
locked up in reservation.
Speaking of Mr. Cleveland's foreign pol
icy, the major said the rights OF American
citizens abroad have been maintained
and peace preserved with every power
upon the globe. The president had sign
ed the Chinese exclusion bill, thus lnsur-
ing the country against further inroads
by the semi-clvilized hordes of Asia. He re-
ferred to the present apparently strained
relations with Canada and held with Gen
eral Wolselly that as long as Canada had
an unprotected border reaching from the
Atlantic to the Pacific England
WOULD NOT ENGAGE IN WAR
with the United States Why, said the
speaker, Capt.Todd could, d,with the Benton
contingent, cut Canada in two and both
ends of that country would drop into the
lap of our union like ripe plum. In
case of war with that power Canada
would come under the banner of the
United States. Cleveland would be elect
ed president without opposition had one
issue been. eliminated from the campaign
His policy has been wise and conciliatory
He had incurred no enmities. But he
saw
A DANGEROUS SURPLUS
accommodating. He would not see it re-
duced by extravaganza. Bonds not yet
due commanded premium OF e cents
He would not reduce the surplus by pur-
chasing them at that ruinous price. lie
saw that the only way to reduce the sur
plus was by reducing the taxation that
created it. Unnecessary taxation was un
Just taxation. So, Mr.. Cleveland recon
mended reduction of taxation, and the
Mills bill was prepared to meet the
emergency and in response to the demand
of the people. Cleveland had looked over
the road travelled by the crumbled dynas
ties of the past and did not want TO sex
this fair republic engulfed in the ruin
which had overtaken them. He would
stick to the motto Of our fathers ano
have
AN HONEST GOVERNMENT.
Foreigners came to our country te
avoid being taxed to death to support {
monied aristocrocy-an aristocracy oi
gold, the meanest and most oppressive
aristocracy that ever cursed the world
They have come here and what do they
see? They find the tax sn manufacturers
taken off; they find the tax on incomes
taken off a blessed thing. They see The
tax on perfumeries and gloves taken off
articles that their hard worked and self
denying wives habitually use; they fine
the 2-cent tax on every bank check ha'
been wiped away-a great relief to them
as they are constantly filling out banl
checks. They see all these things done
of course, for the workingmen of thu
country. And now, Mr.. Cleveland pro
poses that something shall be done fo
the capitalist in the shape Of taking of
the taxes on the necessaries of life. Th'
poor capitalist needed such relief.
He once knew soldier, kind and gen
tie as woman, but as daring as a hurri
cane. He was once q candidate for tht
presidency. but was defeated because hi