The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-10-22
Governor Hill Tells Some Unpleasant
Truths About RepublicaniSm.
BECOMING MUCH TOO BOLD
How the PartIsan Majority In Con-
gress Hoodwlnks People-A
Policy of Trickery
and Spollatlon.

clubs, he spoke 10 crowd Of 1900 people
at the rink. Many were unable 10 obtain
admission.
Governor Hill said. in part: "An i'm
portant political campaign is that upon
which the country he's now entered. The
question presented 10 our voters is not
whether the next house Of representatives
be republican or democratic, but whether
the natIre OF our federal government is TO
be radically modified and the integrity Of
our institutions successfully threatened.
The great issue is the record Of the repub-
llcan party in its brief control Of congress.
No party has more recklessly delled prece-
dents, more flagrantly disregauled prnci
Piles, more boastfully overturned tradi-
tions, more seriously invaded private
rights, n.ore arbitrarily encroached upon
the pierogatives OF the states OF more
tyrannically used the power Of partisan
majority.
| ."The motive OF Il seems 10 have been
only the perpetuation of its own power.
The party has increased its majority in
| house of representatives by arbitrarily
| ejecting the democrats from their seats
stolen the representation OF one state in
the senate; ignored the rights of the ma
jority by tyrannical methods and the
rulings Of the speaker OF the house;
squandered the treasury surplus by ex-
trayagant appropriations 10 conciliate par
ticular interests; enacted a tariff bill
which will supply corruption funds for
the election; conducted the census-de-
nounced everywhere as sworthless-for the
counting OF the republican populations
up and the democratic populations down;
and has threatened the enactment Of a
force bill which will put an end To state
authority in the certiication OF federal
elections and make congress not repre-
sentative Of the people but the creature OF
! whatever men the federal officials may
choose TO count in.
"This is the record that confronts the
people. Long practice in Hypocrisy has
enabled the republican leaders 10 disguise
partisanship in patriotic language. But
their appeal after all is one 10 cupidity
and sellishness. Frightened by the disap-
proval which their headstrong and revo-
lutionary course has aroused In their own
party, they are endeavoring to bolsterup
their shaky position by appeals TO see
tionalism and party pride. II our institu-
tions are TO be preserved pure and intact,
every patriotic citizen must do his duty in
rebuking this grasping and tyrannical
political oligarchy.n
| After discussing the tariff so far as il
relates 10 the interests of the farmers, the
| governor continued: "But not only has
the republican congress stopped TO a sharp
trick 10 hoodwink the American farmer
in the matter of tariffs on his products,
but il has made his living even more ex-
pensive than il hitherto had been. His
woolens pay 30 per cent. more duty,
while the rich mans broadeloth pays a
duty OF 10 per cent. more. The duty on
seal skin saques has been reduced to 10
per cent, while that on plush saques,
which the poor woman wears, is increased
60 per cent. Aut the duty on worsted
shawls, which the farmers wife wears, is
raised from 62 10 80 per cent, and on
woolen shawls the increase varies from IL
TO 30 per cent On woolens aud cheap
dress goods the increase Is much less.
For his iannels the consumer must pay
an increase Of at least 90 per cent. in duty
on his ready made clothing.
"The increase Of taxation is from 81 to
81 per cent?
The governor mentioned several other
articles and added; "On milk pans, tin
pals, tin cans, coffee pots, kettles, cups
and other articles of tinware people are
to be taxed SG0,0O0,0OO for three years in
order that few manufacturers may ex.
pertinent with the tinplate industry.
"If you think this is q partisan state
ment read what member OF Harrison's
cabinet says about in recent advertise.
ment:
"Tinwarc Is advancing in cost and very soon
| manufacturers Will have their way and You and
| will have 10 pay very much more. In view Uf
This state Of things we made some time since
| large purchase Of nwaro at what was low
! price then, and would be far lower now, IN the
lace Of two advances In the makers price lists.
| lSguedl JoHN WANANAKIE'
All over the country the effect Of such
legislation has been 10 increase the prices
Of dry goods and other household uecossi-
ties. Not all of this increase Is perhaps
justilable, but sharp merchants have been
quick to take advantage of the opportu.
nifty which Mckinley offered them, and
the poor consumer is the victim whether
justly or not
The Mckinley bill has defined sharply
the issue upon which the two parties are
divided. In its enactment the republican
party has demonstrated more clearly than
ever that the sympathies of its leaders are
not with the great mass OF the people but
with certain favored classes. The econo-
mic doctrine which that party now sup
ports is one il would have repudi-
ated ten years ago, and which
some Of its great men like
Blaine are evidently desiring TO repudiate
now. At time when our industries are
languishing and our agricultural products
are finding composition in foreign mar
kets. we shrink within ourselves and de.
clare the policy Of non-intercourse with
other nations. The time has come when
the demands Of the manufacturers and
producers are for wider markets, markets
not limited 10 the borders Of our own
country or our own continent. but as wide
as the world. Our foreign trade
last year was valued at Sl5O.OOOOOO.
Can we afford to jeopardisc
that immense source Of national wealth
by erecting legislative barriers to our com.
merce? ] want to see the American peo-
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