Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-09-25

hHu mat thal twenty has magnlned
into majority Of the house Of repre.
sentatives numbering S25 members,
IN accordance with the constitution Of
the United States. loud and contin.
ued cheering,l My friends is it posi-
BILE to do anything more, is 1t possible
to 90 into any discussion Ot tli.?I
There the vote stands. They are on
the question whether these territories
should be admitted at once, or whelh.
er they should be dpggled over to
another congress. When twenty
democrats voted with US. and one
hundred and twenty.Eeven republi
cans, the republicans voting solid not
one scattering; one hundred and two
democrats voted the othor way. l. il
possible to discuss that question? Did
you ever undertake to prove TO m,n
that two and two make four, ard IL
you did, did you encourage him in he
belief tha' il did not. by Undertaking
to convirce him that it did. After
thus having criticised the democratic
party | feel bound also as a stranger 10
cIitiCise In SOME light mensars Tire
harshness with which the re0ub-
lican campai n in this territory
Las been conducted. ! find tlaf
the Helera Journal hls actually
bean attacking the democratic Plat,
form bscluseitl~ not true. [Applau.e. ]
How cuuli Nj. Topls come out and
say: Ny friends, 10 Is trua thrt two
ysars ago ! said there should he no
rarif' on Wool He could not afford
to 0CkunwIrd"' Il, I 90 not
think 4 you DO not ca'l stlogtlon 10
these things ypp will ever find q rrl
ou. Now / think your interest
are very plain. There have
been times iu the history o-
the repnblican psrry when We
could appeal 10 you with the uobi st
OF lives aud records, when we could
touch your sentiments. when We could
stir your heats, hut al these brilliant
days Of oratoty are psst, and we have
got down TO calculation of interests. I
think II is more for the concern of the
country to carefully look at these in
terests; that they have more effect on
gnur happlnes. than sll the brlllisnt
days gone by. I believe that the in-
terests of your territory, soon 10 be a
state, are identical with the interests
which are supported and sustained by
by protection. 1 believe that il il your
duty to go with the party that T. in
favor Of protection and against the
party that Is in favor of free trade. The
attitude Of the two parties is perfectly
understood; In each case II is the result
of their past his tory. A great major
ity Of the democratic party is to-day in
the southern states Every party il
controlled by its majority. 1t does not
matter what individuals or the minor
ity thinks of II. The majority con-
trolls just AZ much in a party as IT does
in a country. Now, years ago. the
men Of the south said, we have only a
coarse kind Of labor that has only
Drawn and muscle, and II Is for our in
terest to produce goods and protect raw
material, to send them abroad and to
receive In return manufactured goods.
Now do not say these men were
wrong, but there lived in the north a
different set Of people, who declared
that we had not only Drawn and
muscle, but intelligence, skill, brains
and manhood, and that we believed
In o system Of industr rial pursuits that
would bring out the intellectal power,
that would utilize the skill. that would
make productive the manhood Of the
country, and therefore they were In
favor Of protection to American indus.
tries, Of the establishment of work
shops and factories, whereby every
thing this country nee led could he
produced within its borders \,bat
has been the result? The resul, IL that
that great strip of territory which
stretches from New England across 10
the Pacific is today peopled bv the
noblest and richest and most in,slll-
gent race Of men that there ia snv.