Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-03

the Mills Bill by the House Of Representa- "a
5ives. lApplause.] This was fought ste
Dy step by the Republican party, notwitt
standing the TACT that it had declared fo
tariH reform in it's platformaof 1884. w
have the utterances OF General Grant, Gal
Held, Arthur. Logan, Sherman, Allison
and other great lights OF the party whic
committed them to the same, policy
lSheers.] But when it was found that th
Democratic party was the first to espous
the cause OF tariff reform actively, an,
feeling that such prestige would surel
continue it in power, they set about {,
thwart the movement il possible, and a1
rayed the party in the attitude Of advo
eating absolute protection, and announces
IN the Chicago platform the startling de
ciaration that rather than yield any par
OF the protective system they would re
move all internal revenue and maxi
whisky and tobacco free. Now it happen
tions aud the respective positions of th
parties have been discussed by the people
the
REPUBLICANS HAVE BECOME ALARMED
at the popular clamor for tariff reform
and the Republican Senators have mad,
hot haste to propagate bill with a view
OF satisfying the dis-affection. This bill
now being read, is said to contemplate q
reduction OF sixty ii illion dollars. and tht
press dispatches inform us that the frs
eighty-seven pages just finished reading arr
the same as the Mills Bill, and yet they
seem to entertain holy horror for ''fret
trade" The entire bill would no doubt
have suited them very we'll il they had only
produced it themselves, on the same prinei
pie that General Grant is said to have ex
planned MIR. Summers infidelity becanse
he did not write the Bible himself
[Laughter.l But the issue has already
been made up, absolute and unconditiona
protection for the sake of protection, a
theory
IN VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION
and in conflict with the spirit OF American
institutions, on the one side, and revi
sion and moderate reduction on the other
The issues are now joined and the question
will be submitted to the intelligence and
judgment OF the American people, who will
render their verdict in November. It is q
question which will probably involve the
fate OF one or the other OF the great parties.
II the people repudiate. as doubtless they
will, the theory OF absolute protection, the
Republican party will have no tenable DO.
sition left and will 90 down like it's prede.
cessors into oblivion. [Cheers.] As stated
before, their principal reliance for success
is in being able to
HOLD UP THE BUGBEAR
OF wages reduction to the laboring people.
They have certainly little hope for success
in the agricultural districts, particularly
those OF the West. It is fact that the
nine large manufacturing states produce
more agricultural products than they con-
sumo, hence they provide no home mar
kets for the products OF the West. Farms
in Illinois, Iowa and all the Western states
are mortgaged to the extent OF from one
hundred and forty millions to seven hum
dred million dollars in each state, and the
state OF Missouri has mortgages plastered
upon it's farms to the extent OF over two
thousand seven hundred million dollars.
These mortgages are principally held by
trust companies in the New England man
states. The farmer, not being
able to find a market for his surplus pro-
duce at home is obliged to send it. abroad,
and
SELL 1T IN COMPETITION
with the production OF the peasant labor
Of Russia, Hungary and India. He cannot
purchase abroad what he -noada for hor,aa
because the high tariff will
not permit him to do this, but is obliged to
make these purchases in the protected
markets OF the United States, paying
therefor largely increased prices above
what he would have to pay where he sells
his produce. The only consolation left for
kim liz the privilege of borrowing back the
amount paid in the way of premiums to
protection Ifrom the New England man.
ufacturer who gets the benefit OF it, anG
gives mortgage on his farm. ls it any
wonder that the farmers of the West are
crying out loudly against the
INJUSTICE OF THIS SYSTEM?
TCheers.1 Is 1t any wonder that the hith'
erto overwhelming Republican states oil
the Northwest are now classed among the
doubtful states and liable to 60 over to
the Democratic party? Now how is ii
with the laborer? Divested OF all romance
it is a self evident truth that it is to his
interest to sell all that he has to sell, his
labor, at the best possible price and buy
the necessaries OF life at the cheapest store
This is natural and proper. Now We find
that almost everything he eats and wears
is taxed by the tariff and costs him from
40 to 100 per cent. higher than he woulo
have to pay otherwise. We find, however
be- has no protection against cheaper labor
from Europe. Now il be could reverse thit
state of things and pay
NO DUTY AT ALL
ON the necessaries OF life and have his labol
protected, in other words, il he could turl
this proposition upside down, he would b.
the gamer by it. But, says the Republican
party to him, you must pay this impor
DUTY i'm order to maintain wages. Nov
don't you know that OF the twenty milliol
wage workers in. this country there ar
only about z per cent. or little more thai
a million engaged in industries that ar
protected? Don't you know that wages Il
the protected are much lower then in tn
unprotected industries? Go to Pennsylvania
the most highly protected OF all the State
and we find men working in the coal mine
at 65 cents per day. Ask them who the.
are? They will give no response in tn
English language. They are usually Hun
earians or Poles, thousands Of whom hav
been imported by Mr.. Carnegie and othe
iron and coal magnates who have ther
guarded when necessary with Pinkertol
detectives against the
ExCUsABLE INDIGNATION
OF the American workman whose chldre
may be crying for bread. [Applause.
This is the kind OF protection the lahore
derives from the high protective system
the Republican party. Go to the iron an
steel works and you win find that class 9
work paid for at $1.25 per day, while th
village carpenter who is in no wise pre-
tected receives from 50 to $3.50 per day
The American laborer has been Obliged t
move out of the iron and coal district
and give place to imported free Labor
Inst 80 long as Europe is permitted t
dump her pauper and criminal classes upo
nur shores there is little hope ior the in
movement of the condition of the Amer
| can workmen. His only hope lies in hl
snnerior skill and the versatility OF h
Character, whereby he is enabled to ava
b;meelf of the opportunities which are pr
sented by a rich and yet only partially Sc
tied country.
THE POSITION OF MONTANA