The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1888-11-02

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that it would imperil the commercial in
terests of some of his Massachusetts con-
stituents. A few years later Mr.. Webster
became the champion and leader of the
protection hosts of the country, and Mr..
Calhoun became
AN ENEMY OF PROTECTION,
because the South had no labor to pro-
tect, they themselves being the absolute
owners of the laborers. Cotton was the
southern king, and the product of the
cotton fields gathered by the hands of
slaves, was deported to the factories and
looms of Leeds and Manchester to be
made into fabrics for market. The
ebonied menial serfs who ''roiled in the
cotton and the cane," received for their
compensation only the meager rations of
uoE-CAKE AND HOG
sufficient for their subsistence. The
white laborer, who came into competi-
tion with the Southern slave was the
veriest mudsill. The slave occupied even
a higher social plane than the
FREE-BORN WHITE AMERICAN
in the South. The foundation of their
wealth was in human slavery, and their
social fabric rested upon an oligarcha
chivalry. [Applause.]
From the inception of slavery at the
South, protection was eliminated from
their politics,] and Stree trade" became
the motto on the standards of the South.
In 1882 this condition of affairs became
so pronounced that John G. Calhoun,
standing in his place in the United
States senate, declared that South Caro-
lima stood in battle array to resist the ini-
quitous tariff laws of the government.
General Andrew Jackson, who was presi-
dent at the time, immortalized himself
by his prompt suppression Of
THIS IMMATURE REBELLION,
and told Mr.. Calhoun, in unmistakeable
terms that if he persisted in his mutinous
measures, he would hang him on the
sour apple tree, "by the Eternal!'' Zap
plause.]
Gen. Jackson did not have so much
sympathy for the southern secessionists
as President Lincoln at q later period.
Mr.. Lincoln was disposed to temporize
with the despotic slave-masters, hoping
that they would retrace their steps. He
did not know them, probable, quite as
we'll as did Old Hickory, who was a
Southerner himself.
The panic of 1887 came upon us as a
free-trade simeon, paralyzing the indus
tries and wrecking the fortunes Of the
country. CONSERVATION spread its plight,
ing breath over the land and commerce
and trade, with enterprise and agricul-
ture languished and were ready to
perish Allhearts were faint, and
TREMBLING AND TERROR STARED
every one in the face. The end Of all
things seemed approaching.
For relief the people again turned their
eyes towards protection, and demanded
a revision of the tariff laws, u repeal
: of the free trade enactments and return
to protective duties; which resulted in
the most overwhelming triumph of pro
, tective principles and the almost unani.
nous election of
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
under the battle cry of "Tippecanoe and
: Tyler too," Us president. Thereupon, In
) 1912, another protective tariff act was
/ passed. This had scarcely been in oper
r alton two years when James X. Polk, {
} democrat, on strong protective plat
form, was elected president. With Polk's
) Inauguration came the Mexican war, ane
} in 1S48 the democratic party, then il
f power, passed the famous tariff act $50
revenue only"-that act from which dem
ocratic statesmen and orators, even IL
this territory,
DRAW THEIR INSPIRATION.
[Applause.] Fellow citizens, if you will
20 tomorrow night and hear the Hon
. Robert Buncombe Smith, United State
- attorney for Montana, you'll hear hin
: quote that act of 1916 and tell you tina
), under that act the country prospered a
it had never done before. Let us not b.
delnded, however, by his sophistries; bu
look at the facts. We labored alonl
). - under that act until 1857, when we wer
found drifting again upon the
n SHOALS OF NATIONAL INSOLVENCY.
IL Our country was flooded, as Judge Wad
$ told you, with the worthless paper
state banks in Indiana, called wildcat
J. because it was here to-day and to-mo1
h row gone to flinders. Some Of the olde
d men before me will remember the shin
plaster currency OF that day. ln ker
If lucky. where there was more chivalr
s. and no rowdyism, they called the tras
fs skunk tails. In Illinois they called
red-dog. This was the best money thu
the democratic party could produce.
was not current from state to state, an
a" even in the state where it was issued. Il
= man could tell, from day to day, when
- would not be worth the paper II WI;
. printed on. If you was going so trav'
out of the state, Il disc cunt OF trom
:. TEN To FIFTY PER CENT.
was always calculated upon, even II
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