Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-25

Democratic party maintained, THAI z
.-et;oraI government had no rignC 70
! '.,scs anv more taxes than ia needed 70
tha government; that any other taxar
s;nr was 4 burden on the people, ana Onee
sSs~ - citizens, could control Their mon
49, char. the gov. rnment oUOld.R InS
psrnblicau party has proclaimed throufn
ali time. whenever il was necessary Ul1
sacure an Office. that it was the admireE
md friend OF the laboring man. Inc n1e
italian hand OF James g. Blaine, JONI y.
Nav and others was seen in their proclaim
themselves in favor OF high tarin. IN
order that they might pay more wages 20
their friends, the work;ngmen. No sooner
had the telegraph FLASHED the message
across the continent that Benjamin Harrl-
son was elected president than these same
men who, . few days before had been
raady to receive the workingmen! 10 their
hnsoms. declared Q reduction Of 10 per
can't. IN their wages. and locked
ont their men until they accepted Q reduc-
tion. -
state of affairs amongst the coal miners oi
Penusylvania, where q forced suspension OF
the mines had occurred, simply through
the desire OF the corporations to enhance
the value OF their prodne0. .Not IN eieven
Years, old miners said, had there been SUCH
enforced dullness as at the present time.
For the past six months they q oeen
working quarter time, and the earnings OF
many of them had not exceeded $lbla
month. Rent amounted to IS Q month.
..Think of iti'I he said. mime dollars .
month at best with which to support them.
aeIvas and families. These are facts"
During the year 1889 there had been more
strikes. more lockouts, suspen.
sions than occurred during the iorr year OF
Grover Cleveland's administrator de
gave other instances OF the perndy OF tne
Republican party towards tne WorKing-
man. The pledges OF the epuhhcan parry
were always fair. They we're Y e maze
with a view to electing it's candidates 20
Office. They were no soonsr MADE, nov.
ever, than repudiateo. IL mao Deen
party that had never seer NJ 20 carry ouo
it's pledges to the workingman. IL WEE
known to be controlled Dy greao
corporations throughout the country.
legislation had been madeln their interests,
and he proposed to rail- tns a~Gsention OF
his audience 20 some OF 1ne hepuDncan
partys acts against iapor. Ourlns
the War ~ became neceSsary Ss, 'm 10
Kepupilran parry, winch VIZ onoh ~
change OF AFFAIRS, to levy an enormous ta1
on every substance, IN oroer 10 prosecu.s
successfully That great war. Inc 'arln
was raiseo' ano ~ was notnlns puI H.
from 10 per cent. 10 o4 per csnS. nc o :,
rili. who WA tne autnor OF bne SaIiM ~
1901, said lt ~ Mar measulo, .n"s 'I ;s
wouid reduce tng 1afln pac 1gain ~ l ns
normai state. Iney 'e1ieo Q FAX upon Sne
railroads, tney ievled aA
upon naeionai Da9ks, "p .1a,,. ~
surance ompanies and upon oeiegIapoo
companies, as tney levleo oa1 " .
per cent on the net proceeos OF manu-
lectures. Al Inese Ga4es prooucsu :
revenue OF $32o, oUo,oOo ove ana Deyono
sumcient TO run tne government anu ~
pay all It's expenses: bu1 as sOon US Sne
war was over, tne hepuDhcans oiu anoonsr
thing TO wnicn ne no1lo can tnslr a'tenCion
They issued $6,OOo.ooo worm OF Donds'
and these Donos were payaDie IN green,
backs, 80 they were pun on tne marcy ana
sold to the and caplGallsts ~
from bo to ~ Genus on 2 aoial: No
sooner was tne var over ano enings oega1
&c s Cents as, q y the sss do sIss io sa their ns bon rhS VENT vent
to the Republican congress, and said they
wanted to have those bonds, for which
they paid go cents, paid in gold. They
were told that they were payable in green
backs. 'sNo," they said, "we don't want
q eenba, ks, but gold" The Republican
party passed an act making these bonds
payable in gold, increasing the gold indebt.
edness $500, OOO. 600 at one dash. While
the Republicans were in power in congress
prior to 1877, they swept away, one BY
one, from those poor manufacturers, in
surance companies and express companies
who were not able to pay, ryou know"
those taxes. Thew repealed every one OF
those taxes, so that legislation ostensibly
in favor of the poor man was really in
favor of the rich monopolists and capital
ists. The moment those taxes were taken
off the rich man, they had to fall some.
where, and the tariff had gradually grown
un until TODAY IL had an average Of ~ per
cent: They had increased the tariff to
make up the revenues.
The speaker then touched upon the evils
OF Chinese immigration, and showed that
every attempt OF q Democratic house to
prohibit Chinese immigration had been
thwarted by a Republican senate. In 1885
Benjamin Harrison, now president of the
United States, voted fourteen times in ia
vor OF the Cinnamon. FInaTIy a Uemo-
cratic president signed what ID known as
tne scott Chlnese exclusion act, providing
mat the Ceiestiais should be prohibited
rom coming TO tDese shores, and immedi-
ately orders went out to the custom
houses in every port in this country. to
stop Chinese immigration at once. That
&c. went oeiore tne supreme court OF the
u 1a1 s'ates, ana 1t was pronounced
vald Rnd constltgtlonal During the en-.
tire Time OF Mf. Disveiand's administra-
up 70 tne tourth day OF March, 1882,
aIter the passage OF that act, not q
heathen Chinee set foot upon the Ameri-
eral, Mr.. II, q. Miller. had set sncb = CO.
s1fuction on ina act az to absolutely
connfrr n drowes M Mt Iocilne into TINS
told during the last campaign, had experi.
enced q change 81 heaFt upon this Chinese