The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-09-20

caring was granted us. Proofs were
rOught in from every territory in tho
Jnion showing up the evasiOns Of the law
nd when Mr.. Window became aware OF
he fraud on the government and the labor
+ this country he issued an order to pre-
ent It and In consequence OF that little
uling YOU have observed in the last few
weeks, that lead has gone up from $500
q 81. 10 per hun.lreh, aud rs c".re-
!, ence yonr little sInelter tap Al :.stle Is
yctting profit yielding figure FORTS lead
md the owners have resumed operation
VI the idle mines at Wickes. h;t!c lad
,ther places in Montana. The Poor Man
mine In the CHur d Alene country is now
being worked aud the Mexican mines are
heginning to close down. Mr.. Cleveland
said 1t was fact that the tariff on wool
WAS dctriMent to the wool-growers OF
the west and that they would be better
of and more prosperous on the tree list.
The democratic platform affirmed this
doctrine at St. Louis aud afterwards tho
little democrat party of Montana got to-
gether and ratified the action of the st.
Louis convention, the message of Presi-
dent Cleveland and the Mills bill rs 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 a CON
sequence of this impending ruin to our
sheep industry wool only brought, on the |
mere threat Of free trade, an average of
sixteen and one-half cents q pound last
year in Montana. The people having re-
pudiated the free-trade system at the
polls, you observe this year that the wool
growers of Montana are receiving about
% cents instead of 1873 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 $1,OO,OOO
III excess of last years income. Upon
lead there is large increase also. An
other peculiar feature of the democratic
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 oEe of the most hideOus and
vicious men to be found anywhere to act
as Commissioner of the General Land
Office. He was man who had never
had any experience west Of the Missis-
sippi river. Mr.. Sparks had concluded
in his own mighty mind that every settler
was lauQl -grabber and thief, and ought
to be watched first, last and all the time.
| With this conception Of our people you
about six hundred patents per year from
the Cleveland administration in the vast
territory of Montana. Mark the change,
If you please. have here report Of
Acting Commissioner Stone, dated the
9th day of July. when the administra
tion of President Harrison had been in
stalled but brief time. We find from
this report they are issuing patents to
the people of the United States at tho
rate Of 500 per day now. The pro rata
for Montana will be 5000 per annum. Go
over the history of the democratic party
in its dealings with Montana and you will
find that its rule was marked by either
ignorance or malice. Knowing these
things our people repudiated that party
at the polls last fall by an unprecedented
majority. and our democratic friends
come forward this year and say, 1--WE ore
in favor of protection ourselves and our
party is sorry for its mistake"
Having exposed the futility Of the
claim Of the democratic party to support
them this year because a few of them
for the sole purpose of catching votes
now assert that it is really protection
party, Mr.. Carter proceeded:
Four years ago bill was introduced
into the Senate to admit South Dakota In
to the union. The new state had pop
ulation Of about 100000, with public
schools, great wealth and an abundance
of all the essentials necessary to state
. hood. The republican senate passed thu
bill to admit it. That bill went over t.
the democratic house. They could no
see how to keep South Dakota out Of tn,
union and foe time pushed the bill
along until some wise democrat loOket
up the election returns Of the proceeding
year and found in one county 1,O60 vote
had been cast, of which there were re
publican votes 1866, democratic votes
Then he struck another county election
1,G4O votes cast, 1923 republican votes,
democratic votes. This was enough
\ The democratic majority in the House a
, once said, ''Ihese people are not fit to b
admitted into the union," and they Il
= the bill slumber You know that DakOt
q was kept out fl + ur long years solely bt
cause it was a republican country. 70
L further know that while we had a reprt
e sentative supported by democratic pre-
c ident and democratic House, Montan
.. did not move an inch in the direction {
t. admission until the people had arisen e
= massc and had repudiated the democrat
il party after four years trial. Then 1t WI
a that q few of the democratic leaders g
# together to caucus on admission.
ID It is we'll known that President Harr
n son while in the Senate had given G!
d preston to fervid friendliness for tn
Is great northwest. 1t was believed that |
y would in all human probability call q
l. extra session of congress for the purpo
e. of giving to these territories the fu
le measure of long deferred justice.
" short the democrats could no longer ket
u. the territories out Of union and from m
1t tives of policy, it undoubtedly seems,
b. make virtue of necessity, the party lea
" ers determined to admit the new stat
n, aud then undertake ut the first electit
IN to deceive the people by making the
le understand that the new commonwealth
H. were indebted to the democratic party +
~ their very existence. For over tv
d. months the party caucussed. The par
IT. lash was cracked over the heads OF l
DE- fractory members Of the democratic par
It who would not consent to our admissi
Ia under any circumstances. Finally I
se omnibus bill was prepared and attach
US az an amendment to the bill which Pre-
We dent Harrison had introduced In
Ir. Senate four years prior for the admissi
IL of South Dakota. Numerous votes We
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