The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-11-07
rIark's Progress 10 congress

Clark's Progress 10 congress
Last SATURDAY, nirIIi witnessed one
most enthusiastic D.in,~r,ti meeting
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audience
Mr. Clark MAS warmly n rcived, an
after the applause subsidized he expresse,
his qualification at being among us, h
was impressed with the signs of progres
aud Prosperity So conspicuous in Living
sion. One OF the comp, nsatng ahvant
ages in this campaign was the fllle
information he obtained every day re
garding the various sections of this crca
territory and greater familiarity will
its geography. As all old resident of the
territory lie was gratilied in finding II
Livingston, as well as in other places
old-time friends, who in the early days
had worked with or for him.
The speaker expressed his conviction
that the great need of this county was a
railroad to Cooke City. He said that it
was disgrace to Congress that it How.
ed unfounded and romantic whims to
interfere with the granting of right of
way to Cooke through small slice Of
the National Park, which COZ tanned
nothing of interest. There were hun
dreds of claims in Cooke owned by hun.
dreds of hard.working miners and pros
pectors, which would all become valuable
could railroad once get to them. and he
was strongly in favor of measure which
would make a railroad to Cooke possible.
Referring to the tariff he said it was
absurd for the Republican party to claim
that the tax was paid by the importer,
and not by the consumer. Every dollar
Of tariff paid by the importer was added
10 the cost of the goods and the profit
was based on the sum resulting from this
addition. The high tariff was caused ;Ly
the war, and to insure revenues su icient
to carry it on. When the war was over
the reduction in taxes first made by
Congress. were those on banks, incomes,
telegraph companies and other corpora.
tions. but the tariff on articles of naces
sity such as were used by the mass of
the people has remained unchanged .
Conse quently. the present campaign is a
fight between millionaires and working
men.
President Cleveland tells the Senate
you have dallied too icng with the
tariff, something must be done at once to
relieve the people Of their burdens"
This produced the Mills bill, which in
turn caused the Senate to prepare what
is known as the Senate bill The speak
er quoted some ofthe articles OIL the free
list as contemplated by the Senate bull,
such as acorns. beeswsx, sand, eggs.
opium crude and Chinese mating.
Books in foreign languages are also to
be admitted free, so that our students
can study the Koran ofthe Muhamme.
dams or the Vedas in the Sanskrit.
chearlv and with profit, while the Eng
lisl Bible, Shakespeare and Milton are
still protected bv tariff.
The Mills Bill proposed to reduc, .',e
tariff on such articles as enter into the
everyday use Of the workinglnan and
enable him to provide for his family at
less expense.
Regarding the reduction of the duty
on lead as providel by the Mills Bill,
he did not think it would affect us in
juriously. That lead has been for a
number ofy yesrs imported from Mexico
In large quantities, and through aOloop
hole in the law. has come in free of duty.
We have nothing to fear from competi-
tion with cheap labor in foreign lead
mines. Experience shows that cheap
labor is worthless labor and the cigarette
rolling Mexican miner who works for ~
or 80 cents day is not worth more in
the results of his labor.
The time is not far distant when Mon
tana, owing to scarcity of lead ores for
fuxing purposes must obtain them from
Idaho and Kootenai
Mr.. Clark did not believe that putting
wool OH the free list would be injurious
to our wool growers. Montana produces
a fleece which is known as clothing OF
cardiAg wool. and of itself cannot be used
in the manufacture of high grade wool
ems, but must be mixed with the finer
imported wools. 1t is impossible from
climatic and other natural causes to
grow the same character of wool as the
Australian, consequently duty OH Aus
tralian wool protects nobody and is q
barrier to the increase oft manufacture
in 6ne woolen goods in the United
States. We import annually s44 900 ,OO(
in manufactured wool products. Make
foreign wool free and our manufacturer
will supply this amount themselves
which they cannot do AZ oheaplY al
foreign manufacturers now, because they
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