Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-31
%mREFUTABLE TRUTHS.
.ssps. MAGENNIS AND BIcKFoRD
rRENSH4W HALL List NIGHT.

.M The ~
with People Who Listen Eagerly and
.Uprovingly to the Plain and Simple
rruth About the Issues Now Before
Them.
rhs Democratic meeting at Rensbaw
5,n last night was a most unqualified sue
:. Long before the time set for the
~.tipg nearly every seat in the large room
~.s filed, and a majority of those who ar
.5rJ later in the evening were compelled to
',.nd. Hundreds tried to gain admission
,h we're unable and reluctantly left, to
r,,er near the doors in hopes that some of
@o,e inside would leave and give them an
.mOrtunity of getting in. The B. & M.
nd was in attendance and rendered
sne excellent music. w. r. KENYON
,Aad as chairman and that
ts first speaker would be
". NJ. BIcKFoRD.
The central idea Of Mr.. Bickford's re.
marks was the falsity OF the claim of the
Republican party to be the especia, friends
n labor. lie supported this by reference
to- the fact that the Republican party had
rspealed all the axe oppressive of the
y;ch, the income tax, the tax ON MANY
Injuries, the tax on Government bonds
and had favored capitalists in every way.
but had retained the tariff taxes on the
ueessaries OF life.
He referred to the arguments made by
Mr.. Carter that the Republican party is
the friend Of the wage-worker and laboring
people and showed that a
VERY SMALL
Othe workingmen Of the country are en-.
aged in the protected industries. He argued
that the question of wages is regulated by
the law of supply and demand and not by
tariff, showing the difference Of wages was
reat even in the several States OF the
Union, while the protective tariff over
shsdowed all alike.
Referring to the Mills bill the sneaker
said the question is not one OF free trade
or protective tariff but that it was simply
the question OF reducing the tariff tax from
an average OF AZ per cent to AZ per cent.
That this
REDUCTION is MADE NECESSARY
by the fact that the accumulation of money
in the treasury OF the United States was
largely in excess OF the needs of govern
ment, and that all the money collected
from the people in this manner was an un-
necessary burden upon them and their in
dustries. That the boarding of a surplus
in the Treasury was an evil that it was
unjust taxation, and that the people by
their votes should place their seal OF disap-
prevail upon any continuance OF the in
iquity. The records OF events since the
passage of the Morrill, bill showed to any
candid observer that the protective tariff
is not a protection to the laborers of Mon
tana for the reason hat at the close of the
civil war wages we're higher than ever since.
and since then they have gradually de-
creased, and the average has fallen lower
all the tim while the protective tariff had
remained stationary.
PANICs.
Mr.. Carter in adverting to the financial
panics that had befallen this country had
stated that they occurred while we had
NO protective tariff. As II matter Of fact
te panic of 1878, one of the s~everes5 ever
experienced in the history of the country
that Black Friday that would live in
history as long as we had auy-occurred at
atime when our protective tariff was as
high as at any time and that it would not
be reasonable TO suppose the tariff had
anything to 10 with financial crises OF that
kind, but that on the contrary q panic
should be attributed in a large measure TO
the contraction of the currency.
Mr., Carter in Missoula County had said
that during the time the Government WAS
under free trade the United States became
the object Of contempt to the world. The
speaker refuted the statement and said
that it made his American blood boil to
have any person even intimate that al any
time the United States had been
AN OBJECT OF
He said that at no time since ITS had
it ben so and not even then because it
was engaged in a war in which 1t after
wards defeated England. TIE people
should resent the insult and that if Mr..
Carter exported to go to Congress on such
m~isstatements he was greatly mistaken.
The people OF MissouIa County remember
these misstatements and will resent the in
suit.
The Democratic party was not compelled
10 resort to such arguments, as it had rea-
son and right on it's side. He then showed
up the anomalous position the Republican
party occupied. It's platform repudiated
free trade while it's Senate substitute bill
provided for a. lower tariff than even the
Democrats proposed. Arthur n other
Republican Presidents had expressed
themselves une~quivocally in favor of a
REDUCTION OF THE RPL
and had advanced many arguments in sup.
port of their advocacy of the reduction oil
the surplus, and that the Republican party
had at last virtually Endorsed the platform
on which Cleveland and Thurman stood,
by the proposed Senate act.
He then adverted to the subject OF ad-
mission of the Territory to Statehood. He
said the Territory is entitled to admission;
that it had the requisite wealth and popu-
iation, and in point of intelligence it
ranked anY of the States and that was all
1t needed. He said the people were deSlr-
GUS of being admitted and in order to gain
admission it is necessary that the Terri
tory should elect a Democratic Delegate TO
be in accord with the Administration. he
said that in order to
PRESERVE THE BALANCE OF POWER
in the Senate it was necessary that for
every Democratic Territory admitted there
should also be admitted a Republican one.
Dakota and Washington Territory are Re
publican and Montana and New Mexico are
Democratic, and if one is admitted all
must be.
He appealed to the people to elect w. A.
Clark, as it would be to their own interests,
as he was better qualified than Mr.. Garter;
He is better acquainted with the wants
resources of the Territory, and everything
that is conducive to his personal welfare Is
conducive to the welfare OF the entlre Ter
ritory.
In Mr.. Clark's Missoula County speeches.
be had satisfied the people OF the county OF
his thorough knowledge and understanding
1.-THE internal affairs OF the Territory and
the needed legislation to forward It's pes0
interests. He wound up by referring to Mr.
Clark as the best friend of the workingmen
Of the Territory anI that he RAD zone
more good for them than all the protective
tariff in the world could do.
Thu speaker was frequently cheered py
tie large audience who followed him closely
and seemed in sympathy with his line OF
reasoning from first to last. lie was Iol-
lowed by the Hon. Martin Maglnnls, VINO
was il, excellent spirits and whose natural
flow OF humor reused his hearers to IRE.
quent bursts OF laughter and applause a0
his witty ~Sal1ieS-