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

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wo states of the union. Like Montana
and Washington, her population is in
telligent, wealthy, patriotic and loyal.
Tens of thousands of the veterans of the
war have cast their lot and made their
homes there. The representatives of
THIS MIGHTY PEOPLE
b ave gone to Washington and have pros
trated themselves at the foot of the throne
of King Grover humbly importuning for
the admission of their great territory,
$4,000 square miles, as two
sovereign states. Was this an unreason-
able request? A republican senate
promptly acted upon the peoples request,
and passed two bills providing for the
admission of South Dakota as a state and
creating territory out of the north half.
These bills have gone over to the demo-
cratic house and,
TRUE TO THE TRADITIONS
of the party, there they have remained,
and there they are likely to remain for
ever. Why should the good and loyal
people Of Dakota he thus treated like
dogs and be by Grover spurned from the
foot of his throne? l will tell you the
whole secret: 1t is because Dakota on
election day, would roll up
REPUBLICAN MAJORITY
of $1,000 votes. CTumultuous Applause
1t is because there is no earthly hope that
the British free trade, democratic party
could ever get United States senator
from Dakota. Prolonged shouts.
As I gaze upon the intelligent coun-
tenances before me, cannot restrain my
righteous indignation against a party that
would deny to you your constitutional
rights of citizenship. l cannot contem
plate the atrocious action Of this, so-styl
ed democratic faction, in denying to more
than 1000 900 freemen, in the three great
territories of Dakota, Montana and
Washington, their constitutional rights
without a deep and intense determine
ton yelling up within me to exert my
self to the utmost to throw off from oul
shoulders this incubus, and clear oul
coasts of
THIS DEADLY JJPAS
that would drag us down to hopeless dis
pair and ruin, paralyze our grand sys
tenn of free government and poison thu
fountains of life, liberty and the pursui
of happiness among the sons of thu
patriotic founders of our glorious Union
Tremendous cheering.] Mr.. Burleigl
conscious of the lateness Of the hour, i
being then near midnight, was about tt
close, when shouts of "Go on! go on!'
arose from all parts of the house.
Fellow citizens, true to its ancien
British antecedents and proclivities
this presumptuous, arrogant and aggres
sive
SELF-STYLED DEMOCRACY
(but which should be designated dema
loguery, or groggery strait, without th'
dem.) upon it's restoration to politica
ascendency, raised its old free-trade bat
tle-cry of tariff for revenue only, under
plausible disguise of tariff reform. Gu
democratic friends are somewhat sensi
tive over the term free trade. At this lat
day in our history, they don't like to b.
openly labeled free-traders. 1t is decid
edly unpopular. 1t savors too much o
the toryism of the revolution. Grea
cheering.] They think that, if called b.
some other name, it will not smell s.
bad, so they would charity ...
| CALL IT REVENUE TARIFF.
Now let us see what there is in this tari1
matter. A protective tariff is simpl
that amount of duty levied upon import
which is equal to the difference betwee
the cost Of commodity produced q
manufactured abroad and the cost of tn
same produced or manufactured at home
The republicans of the country believ
in maintaining such protective duty a
will place our industries upon basis {
SUCCESSFUL. COMPETITION WITH
foreign productions, while maintainin
the higher rates for American labor. Th
democrats want to reduce these duties
a mere source of revenue, without r.
gard to the principles of protection, tn
amount of this revenue being only whit
may be necessary to defray the expense
of the government. This amount the
would raise by laying duty only upo
those
COMMODITIES NOT PRODUCED
in the United States and allowing a
commodities produced here to come
free; whilst the whole theory of the r
publican tariff policy is the very rever:
; of this, to-wit, to lay its imports upe
those foreign products and commoditi'
that are also produced i'll the Unite
States, admitting free such as are not pr
: duced he1e-thlls at once atfOrding bot
, revenue for support of government al
, protection to our industries.
In common with the whole people
the United States. my fellow citizen
YOU are now called upon by your hallo
to either approve or condemn
2 THIS DEMOCRATIC HEEEsi.