Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-02

vohilOns Ia adopted a constitution. lei
had the honor to represent Montana a
that time. He submitted that constitu
ton to the President OF the United States
70 connection with Hon. w. A. Clark. i
Dill was introduced in the house OF repre-
sentatives and also in the senate for Mon
tanaas admission as q state. But it wa
known and understood that Montana wa
and always had been a Democratic terri
tory, and the Republicans opposed the bill
Tor hat reason only. Mr. Harrison was
senator from Indiana at that time an,
chairman OF q COMMITTEES on territories
and in thatcapacity he had resolutely or
posed the admission OF Montana. mn
Clark, said the speaker. comes befor
the people of this country and tells then
that the Democrats are entitled to no cred
it in his matter. He was in Washington
only three days and yet he states that b
got the votes of tie whole Republican
party, whereas | was there for four year
n coHid only get twenty-three Demo
cratic votes" Mr.. Toole then gave tn,
well known facts about the admission o
Montana by the sacrifice OF New Mexico
He woula give all possible or dit to Majol
Maginnis, who al in Washington, at hi
own expense, giving his counsel and assist
ance to securing Aontana's admission into
the Union. / he speaker said he loved tt
do his duty as well as any man, and b.
loved, too. to get the credit of it, but there
never vas a time when he Was unwilling to
share that credit with any man, and he de
clared that to Martin M 4ginnis was dut
the most credit for that admission. Major
Maginnis, after all his years of pub
lie service, had come out OF it poor
and, Ike Coriolanus, lonned the
white robe OF purity. and asked the suf
frages of his fellow citisens. Investigate
him, and If you find a single spot on his
record. then vote for Carter"
Mr.. Toole riddled the claim that the BE.
publican party was a friend Of labor. by
showing that nhen in power they had re.
pealsd the taxes on all the great corpora.
tions, including the inc ,me tar. which they
found in force when they came into power
in 1861. One by one they all went, and
those axes fell on the other industries oil
the country. The Democratic party had
given the vast domain OF the public lands
to the people, but the Republican party
had given it away in vast areas to various
railroad companies as a bonus for the con-
struction OF roads across this continent,
and yet that party came before the people
as a friend of the laboring man.
Benjamin Harrison, the speaker raid.
was nominated in 1883 at Chicago. The
Pacific Coast delegation declared they
would stay there forever if they could pre-
vent the nomination of O man who had
voted during bis term fourteen times in
iavor OF The admission Of Chinese into this
country to compete with American labor.
The Chinese exclusion bill was passed in
the hast month of Grover Clsveland's adj
mihistration, which forever excluded the
Chinese from this country. But Mr.. Har-
rison's attorney general had put a new
Specification on the terms Of this bill, and
the Chinese we're coming into this country
faster than ever. That was the way the
keep their promises to the
American people. The Democratic party,
had always been the friend OF the
people. 1t had invited the oppressed of
every nation to come to these shores, pro-
yided they cameh here to stay, but If they
here only for gain, with no respect
for the laws, like the Chinese, the Demo-
Gratis said, and said to-day: I'VE don't
want you and will not have you."8 (
The speaker gave figures to show the
evils OF the Capitalization OF wealth which.
had been the cause of the downfall of the
great nations oil history. In the United
States twenty years ago 81 per cent. of tae
was in the hands OF the capitalists.
Now, 80 per cent. OF the entire wealth OF
the country was ia the hands OF men who
were using this immense power to make
the rich richer aud the poor poorer.
Trusts and combinations were the fruit of
Republican legislation.
Mr.. Toole concluded with an eloquent
picturing the time when all the
OF the earth having one language,
one liberty and one god, should march to
meet the breaking OF the millennium.