Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-06-26
HARRISON MORTON.
THE RATIFICATION MEETING LAST
EVENING.


sures National Prosperity, the Other
10 Treason TO American Homes and
American Industries History Of
tho Tariff in this Countrywide.
The platform adopted and the
ticket nominated at Chicago proved
so acceptable to the Republicans of
HALEY that an impromptu meeting
was gotten up to ratify the work of
the Convention. The HALEY Band
having kindly turned out on Main
street, about & o'clock, and marched
to the Courthouse, was followed by
quite . large crowd of Republicans
and Democrats, each being seemingly
equally interested in the demonstra-
ton.
Judge Beatty was selected chair.
man. He said in substance that the
Democrats got into power after "a
years Of Republican rule, and al.
though they have not been in four
years the country already wants them
out. They have endeavored to force
upon the country a bill that seems
expressly intended to benefit foreign
manufacturers and their pauper la
borers.
}. H. Harris of Bellevue was call
ed to tie stand. Mr.. Harris is a very
sarcastic, and sometimes violent
speaker; but he asks no odds OF any.
body, and while ready enough to
wound political opponents is willing
to receive as we'll as inAict blows.
He, therefore, did not spare his op-
ponents last night. He charged that
the administration had proven false
to its pledges. Its free trade plat
form, he said, meant treason. Thrice
before, in the history of this country,
had we had actual free trade or a
tariff so low that it practically
amounted to the same thing; and
thrice had this country been reduced
to the verge of poverty by ito a
condition similar to that of Ireland
to day. The Democrats were fond of
quoting Thomas Jefferson and Gen
eral Jackson. Well, Jefferson fran
cd or helped to pass the first protect
i've tariff that this country ever had,
and President Jackson threaten
ed to hang Jim G. Calhoun
and other South Carolinians
who sought to nul!ify the protecti e
tariff of 1928. To endeavor to fasten
free trade upon this country was
simply treason-treason for the bene-
fit of the English and other foreign
manufacturers; treason to the Am.
erican Union; treason to our Ameri
can industries; treason to our Am.
erican workingmen; treason to our
wives; treason to oVr children; trea-
son to our homes. This policy was
pursued at the instigation of the
English Golden Free Trade Club
whose motto is: "Gcod fellowship
among nations; prosperity to British
manufactures; free trade; and God
save the Queen!"
P. NJ. Bruner was then called for.
He also arraigned the administration
for its false pretenses, and its treach-
cry to home interests; challenged a
comparison of the condition of the
country under successive Republican
and Democratic administrations, and
caused considerable merriment b,
comparing Cleveland's treatment Of
his party with the manner in which
the Mikado rules his subjects. The
adoption of free trade in this country
would be the signal for the shutting
down of many manufactures, the
throwing of hundreds of thousands
! OF we'll paid workingmen out of en-
ployment, and the reduction to a star
walton basis of the wages of all the
others. The effect which an ex-
ceedingly low or free trade tariff
would have on our productions was
we'll exempli6ed by the recent be.
havior of lead in the United States
markets. Since the discussion Of the
Mills bill began the price Of lead had
gone down, do WIN, from about IS to
50. 70 per 100 pounds. Last Friday
it sold for s4.10-a jump Of 40 cents
per 100 in two days. What caused
that? Why. tho adoption of the
protection plank OF the Republican
platform! Aud If the Democrats