, 1890-10-30
UPON LIVING ISSUES
Concordia Hall the Scene of an
Enthusiastic Political Meeting
Saturday Night
Hon. John B. Allen Eloquently Dis
courses on the Political Issues
Of the Day.
He Reviews the Great Services Of
the Republican Party-Col,
Winston's Speooh.

Concordia was filled with the
most enthusiastic gathering of the
season to listen to the eloquent
words Of Hon. John b. Allen. The
speaker was greeted with applause
and spoke rs follows.
They held II was no bu rden to tax for.
eign products. The position Is this,
that ifany product does not compete
with articles in the United States it
should be ad nitted Tree. But when the
realm was entered where the products
of other nations come in com petition
with the American, then equality must
be given by the tariff. Such d barrier
shall be erected that American labor
and American enterprise shall not be
placed at q disadvantage In the race.
No people In the world consume so
much sugar rs the people of the United
States. Accepting this fact the republi-
can party said sugar was a non-com-
petitiyc article, and struck tho duty
from 1t. IL removed a burden of $50, {.
100000 from the American table.
In but thirty counties in the
United States is wool not
produced. 1t was found the country
had the capacity to produce every pound
OF wool and mutton consumed in the
United States. OF the 800, 00o, 900 pounds
of wool consumed in this county, but
240, 200, 600 was produced in the United
states. The Argentine Republic and
. Australia, and the continent of Africa,
were competing with the American
farmer. So the republican party said It
was their duty TO put up such barrier
that would protect the American sheep
.raiscr against tho worlds competition.
lie had heard complaint of the duty
on tin. The people of the United States
consume half the production of the
world In tin. Not single pound Is pro-
duced In the United States. OF the tin
plate, from % To 81 per cent. is of iron
or steel plate. Within the limits Of this
country are mountains Of tin. Going
back to Wales, IL Is found that for l50
years the Welshman monopolized the
tin market of Great Britain.
In 1861 the first attempt TO establish q
tin plate factory was made. 1t failed
when tho Welch reduced tin from Sl2 to
81. In 1879 another attempt was made,
and tin went down to S4.60. When the
American factory had been crushed the
price advanced to Sl0.5O.
All the national republican party say
that II will put up such a protection as
Will equGliZe the American workman
with The Chinaman, the Malay, the East
Indian in the manufacture of tin.
American workmen and American skill
will then produce all the TIN plate for
American people.
Ii there Is one people who should be
more grateful to the tariff law than
another 1t should be the people of Wash
ington. lie spoke of the benefits of the
duty on barley and the duty on hemp
and tiax. The republican party had
again interposed for the benefit of
the farmer. lie spoke of Eastern
Washington rs the Arabia of
America and Of what the re-
Nartp hnI n
raiser in giving him protection against
the world. He told OF the benefits to be
derived from the duty on coal and hops.
IL was found that Germany and Hun
gary could lay hops down in New York
ut cents pound. A barrier Of 10 cents
had been thrown up around the hop
raiser OF Washington. Applause.
"My fellow citizens, II you want cheap
things, you can have them as cheap as
any nation can have them under the
sun. but you must have them under the
same hard conditions as exist in the
other nations of the earth"
He then spoke Of the wonderful re-
sources and diversified elements or
wealth, and said that II nations complied
with the conditiont 1t could not be ex-
ccllcd In cheapncss.
When IL comes to producing rs cheaply
they must face the same life, the hope
less future of those people. God for
give us If we can ever produce rs cheaply
as the Cinnamon. [Applausc.l When
the miner came down to the standard in
the Mexican mine, he can produce lead
us cheaply as the Mexican; clad as he is
fed as he is, with such provisions as he
makes for his children, lead can be
mined for 90 cents q day, but God
forbid such cheap lead. Applause.
IL cheap shoes and cheap coats were
wanted, the life of the European work
man give them to us. Look upon that
life and then say II you want as cheap
clothes, cheap hots. as these people can
make. What difference is 1t, what if
things are cheap, If there is not employ
ment to give money to buy them2 APP
plausc.
Senator Allen said It is great pleas
uro to be in Spokane Tonight" Chair
man Feighan's Introduction took him
back to other times. He could not help
comparing the city OF to-day to what it
was twenty years ago. Then. the entire
territory had not so many people by
o. 900 us this city now contains. In no
place was this growth shown more
strikingly than here.
Twenty years ago not foot OF land
was owned within ten miles from
this city. Ten years ago Spokane Falls
was just beginning to be known in the
territory. Had any man said TO him
twenty years ago that ten years would
see the developement he saw mere ut that
time lie would have been considered
dreamer, Ifany man lad forecast a
city of 5000 people in 1890 lie would
have been called visionary and wild.
The senator drew then - picture of
Spokane Falls of to day with its mngnif-
fcent thea,cr, its great buildings, its eS-
position building.
"That ten years from tonight" he
said. Spokane will have 100, 600 people,
is more reasonable than prediction ten
years back that 25,0o0 people would be
here to-day" [Applause,l
Yet, he continued, this was but the
index of what was TO be seen all over the
new state.
II feel that / have the right to con-
gra,uate you," he continued, that this
great state has ut last been admitted into
tho sistcrhood of states. The republican
party had the right to congratulate itself
upon the wisdom 1t had shown In found
Ing the state government under the wise
administration of Governor Ferry"
tArplause.
He said he should say little In regard
TO the work done in congress. The dele
cation labored to fulfill the duties inn
posed upon its members faithfully and
industriously.
In naming John l.. Wilson, the sena-
tors words were greeted with hearty
applause. Hc spoke eloquently of the
Washington congressman's career in
congress, and said 1t deserved: "Well
done. thou true and faithful servant"
The republicans of Washington did
the right and proper thing in placing
him at their head In this campaign. As
he had done his duty in the past so
will he do his duty again. As they had
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