, 1890-10-30
The Western Record of the
Democratic Party.
IT WAS AGAINST STATEHOOD
In Favor of Free Lead and Cheap
Wheat and Wool-Facts
and Figures.
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elect Congressman Wilson and q ropub-
| lican legislature. Nowhere in the Union
do stronger reasons tor republican sue
cess exist than in the nowly admitted
states. No citizen of Washington can
vote the democratic ticket without gross
/ ly betraying his own interest. Such an
action would be equivalent to saying;
~ am opposed to the development of
the West.
II am in favor of the party that
strained every nerve to defeat the just
aspirations of Washington for self-gov-
ernment
"l am in favor Of free wool.
! ~ want Mexican lead ores admitted
| free.
II want silver coinage to cease en-
tirely.
81 do not want the hop-growers of the
Pacific slope protected against foreign
competition.
~ want to place the miners of the
Cmur d Alenes. of the Cascades and the
cattle and sheep-growers Of the Palouse
country and the hop-growers of the
Puyallup valley on level with the
poems of Mexico, the half civilized In
dians of South America and the peas
antry Of Bavaria and Saaz.
| II don't wish to have the land laws
administered in the interest OF settlers.
81 prefer that the gallant and adven-
turous people who have come out here
to mako garden Of desert and an en-
pire of forest should should be embar-
rassed with all matter OF frivolous and
! oppressive regulations"
| This Is what every democratic vote
cast IN the state of Washington on No
vcmber 4 will mean. 1t can not mean
anything else, for the democratic
party, in its executive and legislative
capacities, has labored for all these
things.
The Mills bill put wool on the free
list
1t reduced the duty on lead so per cent.
and provided for the free admission of
/ the Mexican silver lead ores.
You saw the price of wool go down to
l3 cents and you saw the miners with
their picks on their backs deserting the
! Cnur d Alenes.
The Mills bill left an utterly inadequate
duty on foreign hops, and the produc-
ton of the Pacific slope declined.
OF what avail was 1t to you that the
consumption of hops in this country eK-
cceded the domestic production by l5,-
000, 900 pounds, when the market for
that great demand was occupied by for.
eign hop-growers2 OF what avail was it
to you that with your splendid soil, you
can produce 1900 pounds to the acre
when there was no demand for your
production. because the market had
been taken up by class of bargain
farmers, who were willing to live on
food that an Indian would reject2
The Mckinley bill retains the old duty
on lead, and requires that the Mexican
mine owner shall pay into the United
States treasury the difference between
his cheap labor and our dear labor be-
fore he can sell single pound of his
product in competition with American
ore.
The Mckinley bill increases the duty
on wool and on all agricultural products,
and that means that your farmers along
the coast and in these superb valleys
north and south OF your great city OF
Spokane shall have fair chance to sell
their wool and their wheat, their horses
and cattle, their barley and oats, and
eggs and fruit, unembarrassed by Cana
dian and Bcrmudian competition, which
have, you know, reduced the income of
the state Of Washington last year by at
least three million dollars.
Your wheat is selling to-day In the Chi.
cago market for AZ cents more per bushel
than it sold tor on the day of Grover
rIeveland's departure from tho White