The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-09-21
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or were brought IN from every territory i
the union showing up the evasions G
the law, and when Mr. Window becam
aware of the fraud on the government
and the labor of this country he issue,
an order to prevent it. and in conse
le quence OF that little ruling you have OBJ
u served IN the last few weeks, that leat
l. has gone up from $3.50 to $40 per hun
l. dred, and as consequence your little
II smelter up at Castle is getting ;
profit yielding figures for it's lead and the
o owners have resumed operations of the
9 Wlckes, Butte and other places in Mon
u tana. The Poorman mine In Cnur d
! Alene country is now being worked, and
the Mexican mines are beginning to close
a down.
: Mr.. Cleveland said it was fact that
the tariff on wool was a detriment to the
, WoolgroWers of the west, and that they
: would be better off and more prosperous
o with wool on the free list The demo-
= cratic party affirmed this doctrine at St.
Louis, and afterward the little demo-
cratic party of Montana got together
6 6 and ratified the action of the st. Louis
! convention, the message of President
) Cleveland and the Mills bill as we'll.
: Then our friends Toole and Maginnis
got upon the stand and told the people
, that the tariff had nothing to do with
the price OF wool, lead or copper As
consequence Of this impending ruin to
our sheep industry wool only brought on
the mere threat Of free trade 16l5 cents
pound last year in Montana, The
! people having repudiated the free trade
system at the polls, you observe this
year that the woolgroWers OF Montana
are receiving about % cents instead of
l61a cents pound for their clips. Now
these little things are of some practical
Importance to us. On the mere item of
wool alone there is coming into Montana
this year about one million dollars in
excess Of last years income. Upon lead
there is large increase also.
Another peculiar feature of the demo-
cratic party was made manifest in the
malicious manner in which the land laws
relating to the settlement of the public
domain were executed. Mr.. Cleveland
picked out OF the Jack oak brush of
southern Illinois one of the most hide
bound and vicious men to be found any
where to act as commissioner of the CEN
eral land Office. He was man who had
never had any experience west of the
Mississippi river. Mr.. Sparks had con
c.uded IN his own mighty mind that
every settler was land -grabber and
thief and ought to be watched, first, last
and all the time. With this conception
OF our people you will observe we re-
celved an average OF about six hundred
patents per year from the Cleveland ad.
mlnlstration in the vast territory of
Montana. Mark the change, if YOU
please. have here a report of Acting
Commissioner Stone, dated the 9th day
OF July, when the administration of
President Harrison had been installed
but brief time We find from this re-
port they are issuing patents to the peo-
pie OF the United States at the rate of |
ooo per day now. The prorata for Mon
tana will be about six thousand per an
mum. Go over the history of the demo |
cratic party in it's dealings with Montana |
and you will find that it's rule was
marked by either ignorance or malice |
hnoWlhs these things our people repu-
dated that party at the polls last fall
by an unprecedented majority, and our
democratic friends come forward this
year and say we are now in favor of pro-
lection ourselves and our party is sorry
fer it's mistakes.
ton party, the speaker riG procceeaeae6 cceaeae6 IT tie
plode the democratic claim for the credit
of having voluntarily admitted Montana
into the union in the following words:
Four years ago bill was introduced
in the senate to admit South Dakota
into the union. The new state had a
population of about three hundred
thousand, with public schools. great
wealth and an abundance of all the es
sentials necessary to statehood. The re-
publican senate passed the bill to admit
it. That bill went over to the democratic
house They could not see how to keep
South Dakota out Of the union, and for
a time pushed the bill along until some
wise democrat looked up the election re-
turns of the preceding year and found
in one county 1,O6O votes had been cast,
of which there were republican votes
l.O56, democratic votes 4, then he struck
another county election. $40 votes cast,
1923 republican, votes, II democratic
votes. This was enough. The demo-
cratic majority in the house at once said
f.those people are not fit to be admitted
into the union," and they let the bill
slumber. You know that Dakota was
kept out for four long years solely be-
cause it was republican country. You
further know that while we had rep
resentative supported by democratic
president and democratic house, Mon
lana did not move an inch in the t,irec-
ton of admission until the people had
arisen en- masse and repudiated the
democratic party after four years trial
Then it was that few of the democrat
ic leaders got together to caucus on adj
mission.
It was well known that President Har-
rison while in the senate had given ex-
nression to fervid friendliness for this
great northwest. 1t was believed that
he would in all human probability call
an extra session of congress for the pur
pose Of giving to these territories the
: full measure of long deferred justice. In
short the democrats could no longer
f keen the territories out of the union and
from motives Of policy, it undoubtedly
q seems. the party leaders determined to
make n virtue of necessity, admit the
! new states and then undertake at the
. f;rst election to deceive the people by
p making them understand that the new
o CONFERENCE.-The we're indebted to the
! democratic party for their very exist
ence. For over two months the party
/ caucused. The party lash was cracked
, over the heads of refractory democrats
who would not consent to our admission
1 under any circumstance; but finally the
; Omnibus bill was prepared and attached
q as an amendment to the bill which Pres
!, ;dent Harrison had introduced in the
: senate four years prior, for the admis
:. sion of South Dakota. Numerous votes
i were taken on preliminary matters relat
t ing to the bill and it finally passed tht
$ house of representatives in January, in
n a form confessedly Objectionable. or
n arriving at Washington few days aftel
i the bill had passed the house OF repre-
- sentatives. in conversation with Mr.
g Toole. called the attention OF that gen
# tleman to the absence of any provision
q in the bill as it had passed providing 10
y the establishment of any court to whicf
s eases pending on the United States sid
d Of our territorial courts could be trans
ar ferred before those courts ceased to eX
O. list. Mr.. Toole readily conceded tina
al this was serious defect in the bill AM
le should be supplied. This defect to
" gether with others was corrected IN tn
4 r.