The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-11-19
Republican Principles In
dorSed.

HAMILTON, Mo. Especial Tele.
gram Chicago InterO cean-Chauncey
l. Filley spoke to q full house at
Anderson's hall on the general issues
of the republican party. From start
to finish he had the undivided atten-
ton of his audience.
He started out by saying that the
British had captured New York in
1864, and took it again on Nov. 8;
that the Americans and American
policy had reasserted itself and won
Ohio, the first free child of the ordi-
nance of 1887, and that it was the
grandest victory of the year and pre-
saged the continuation of the policy
of the fathers and the legislation of
the republican congress and the re-
publican success of '92.
Contrasting the policy Of the
British in colonial times and the at.
tempt of the British government to
make a commercial as we'll as govern.
mental vassal of the American peo-
pie, he explained the difference be.
tween the impositions of that period
and the free-trade demands of Great
Britain now.
Great Britain then made it 3 crime,
punishable by fine and imprison-
ment, for the colonists to manufac.
ture and exchange between the COL
onies OIL export to other countries
any manufactured cotton, wooden,
iron, or fur fabrics, ever beaver
hats, demanding that the raw mater
ial be shipped to Great Britain and
fabricated by English artisans and
reshipped to America.
He cited the acts, and also the i'm.
position of the stamp act, and the
navigation laws commanding that i'm
ports and exports be made in British
bottoms and under command of
British seamen. Then he drew the
contrast with that condition of things
and today. The
RISE OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE,
territorially. commercially and in
manufactures the growth of tho
canal, steam, and deep water trans
%portation the free homestead act of
the republican party and the vetoes
Of that and river and harbor i'm.
.provements by the democracy and
the free-trade tendencies of the dem.
ocrats, who have thus become the
allies Of the British, and are quite as
unreasonable today in the desire for
the interests of the British manufac-
and industries and success as
were the Tories of the revolution.
He claimed and adduced the proof
that the farmers were the best pro-
tected people of the country, and
showed how a high tariff encouraged
production and lessened prices of all
fabrics made at home, and competed
with, all materially lessened the
prices from those secused by Great
Britain before American competition
reduced prices and gave better
citing n manufactured ar
Licle after another, and particularly
those of which Missouri so fully
abounds in the raw material.
The meeting vas held under the
auspices of the Knights of Reciproc
.ty, which is organizing throughout
Missouri. He treated upon the re-
,iprocity of common sense and the
of getting what you do
lot produce, for what you do pro-
luce.
He then alluded to the fact that
he Mississippi Valley convention,
leld at New Orleans, and over which
he presided, in May, 1869, unani-
adopted resolutions covering
his kind of reciprocity and asking
congress to authorize the making OF
,reaties and amending treaties al.
'eady made, so as to enable the
.reaty-making powers to cover the
reciprocity question.