The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-10-23
The Mckinley Bill Thus Character
lied by Gov. D. B. Hill, of
New York.
And the Corrupt and Desperate
Republican Party It's Very
Fit Exponent
A Vivid Resume of the Startling and APP
pallins Record and Tendency Of
That Party.


a crowd of 5000 people at the rink. Many
Hill said an important political campaign
is that upon which the country has entered.
The question presented to our voters is NOT
whether the next house of representa- ives
shall be republican or democratic. but
whether the nature of our fed-
eral government is to be rad
ically modified and the integrity of
our institutions successfully threatened.
The great issue is the record of the repub-
lican party in its brief control of congress
No party has more reckless!y deded prece-
dents, more fagrantly disregarded princi-
pies, mora seriously invaded private rights,
more arbitrarily encroached upon the pre-
negatives of states, or more tyrannically
used the power Of partisan majority. The
animating motive of it's acts seems to have
been only the perpetuation of its own pow
or. That party has increased it's majority
in the house of representatives by arbitrar-
ily ejecting democrats from seats; stolen
ate; admitted to the union states whose
only claim to admission is that they will
swell the republican majority; denied
representation to democratic territories
much better qualified for statehood
in point of population and resources, ig-
nored the rights Of the minority by the
tyrannical methods and ruling of the
speaker of the house; squandered the treas
ury surplus by extravagant appropriations
to conciliate party interests; enacted
tariff bill which will supply corruption
funds for elections; conducted census,
denounced everywhere as worthless. and
manipulated for counting republican popu-
latlons up and democratic populations
down; and has threatened the enactment of
q force bill which will put an end to state
authority in the certiication of federal
elections, and make congress not represent
tative Of the people, but the creature of
whatever men federal officials may choose
to count in.
This is the record that confronts the peo-
pie. Long practice in hypocrisy has ena-
bled republican leaders to disguise parti-
sanship in patriotic language, but their ap-
peal after all is one to cupidity and selfish
ness. Frightened by the disapproval which
their headstrong and revolutionary course
has aroused in their own party, they are en-
deavoring to bolster up their shaky position
by appeals to sectionalism and party pride.
If our institutions are to be preserved pure
and intact every patriotic citizen must do
his duty in rebuking this grasplng and ty-
rannical oligarchy.
After discussing the tariff so far as it re-
lates to the interests OF farmers, the gov
ernor continued: But not only has the re-
publican congress stopped to the sharper's
trick to hoedwink the American farmer in
the matter Of tariffs on his products, but it
has made his living even more expensive
than it has hitherto been. His woolens pay
30 per cent. more duty, while the rich mans
broad cloth pays duty of 10 per cent. more.
The duty on seal skin sacks has been re-
sacques WHOA the poor woman wears is in
creased 10 per cent. The duty on worsted
shawls, which the farmers wife wears, is
raised from 81 to 80 per cent, and on
wooden shawls the increase varies from 16
cheap dress goods the increase is very
heavy. For his flannels the consumer must
pay an increase Of at least SO per cent in
duty. On ready-made clothing the in
Grease of taxation is from 81 per cent. to
81. The governor mentioned several other
articles and added that on milk pans, tin
articles of tinware people are to be taxed
CSC, 100000 for three years in order that q
few manufacturers may experiment with
the tin-plate industry.
+ lyon think this is a partizan statement,
says about it in recent advertisement:
"Tinwareis advancing in cost and very
soon manufacturers will have their way and
you andI will have to pay very much more.
In view Of this state of things We made some
time since q large purchase of kitchen tin
ware at what was low price then and
would be far lower now, in the face Of two
advances in makers price lists.
(6igned) John WANAMAKER."
All over the country the effect of such
legislation has been to increase the prioesof
dry goods and other household necessities.
The Mckinley. bill has been defined
sharply, the issue upon which the two par
ties are divided. In its enactment the re-
publican party has demonstrated more
clearly than ever that tho Sympathies Of it,
leaders are not with the mass Of the people,
but with certain favored GLASSES. The eco
nomic doctrine which that party now sup
ports il one II would have repudiated ten
years ago, and which some Of it's great men,
like Blaine, are evidently desiring 10 repu.
diate now. At q time when our Industries
are lanQuishinR for tho lack of wider
markets, We shrink within ourselves and
declare the policy of non-inteEcourse With
the demands Of our so and n pso
ducers are for wider markets, markets not
limited to the bordezs Of our own country
world: Our foreign trade last year was
valued at 3, 500, 10000 Can We afford to
ieopardize that immense source Of
national wealth BY erecting Legislative
barriers to oommercei I want to $50 the
American people busy supplying the mar
kets of the world with food and clothing. I
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