The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-22

league of republican clubs. In the latter
mart OF October, 1889, whom he saw ~ was
necessary TO raise a larger sum = confiden.
tial letter was sent to the manufacturers o.
the eGpSIn nGS. Of ealing Kssns.., ''f char aSass,
lied az frying the fat cut of them.
and Eoster told them he would have to DO
tbat IL they did not put up again, Inc
manufactured are q generous patrlotlc sot
OF men. They arc gentlcn'en who como
forward and pay three-fourtha OF tho cam
paign funds OF the national republican
COMMITTEES. You don hear Of them doing
anything like that for tho democratic party.
The idea Of one class of men In . coMmn-
nifty paying thrse-fourths of all the funds
that have been ~squanderod since 1860 up to
the present time. il that patriotism? Quay
won't to Wanamaker for aid in carrying
New York.
This senator told how innocent he was OF
the ways of legislation at the national
capital until he was elected to the senate.
The tariff bill was in process of formulation
by the committee on ways and means. Here
he saw tho lobbyists with their silk hats and
diamond studs. He wondered II they were
an ordinary people OF the country on q via
it to the capital. Another senator, onlight-
ened him. He pointed ont n VINO repre-
sented the steel trust, another the Emo
trust, and so on. They were there to see
that the committee did not put anything in
the bill which would hurt the ~monopolies.
All were paid men of tho great blontod mo
nopolist.,, getting from 5000 to Slo;ooo a
was done. Tho senator gave a very
graphic description of the cool reoep-
ton given to n man from Chicago who WAS
not a manufacturer by Maj. Mckinley in
the committee room. and the warm and
cordial reception given to another whose
fat had been pretty we'll fried.
The senator, in reviewing the iniqu itous
tariff legislation of the republican party
and its disastrous effects upon the people,
said every man who voted for such meas
ures was directly responsible for them.
In illustrating that the high tariff could
not raise wages, but that It all depended
upon the law of supply and demand, and
why genius and invention had done so
to increase production, he quoted as
an instance the experience of w. A. Clarke,
of Butte, who had to pay $74 a carload in
shipping ore to New York. To-day he pays
$13. Yet men come forward and say the
tariff reduced the price of the article.
Senator Faulkner had q good word to say
for Blaine, and said whenever the republic
party got into q hole it went to the
tor also used Blaine's u%tterances against
the Mckinley bill with telling effect.
An amusing story was related il
Illustrating the tariff system. Italy
and France after terminating their free
intercourse of trade made tariff regulations.
A G6ntlenlau living III TTENC5 ulE6CtSu III
his will that when he died his remains
should be taken to Milan and cremated.
When the executor arrived at the bound airy
line he was compelled to pay $40 IN the
corpse. He then went to the cre-
matory and carried out the wishes
Of his dead friend. The
ashes were placed in an urn and the exc
cutor started for France. At the boundary
inc he was again stopped by the same
official who demanded $40 on the ashes.
This was retaliation, and is practically
what Germany has done in allowing the
hog to enter that country, and
more than even ON the sugar sent
this country.
Considerable attention was also given
TO the force bill. 1t WAS a scheme
D the republican party to perpetuate it.
self in power. An impression had gotten
out hat the measure was only intended for
The Southern states. but the senator very
showed that 1t was national in its
1t covered Montana as we'll as
South Carolina; 1t covered California as
we'll as Louisiana. In order to make it
plain, how such a law might be enforced, he
showed that under its provisions the
machinery of elections would have been
taken away from the people and lodged en-
tirely in the hands of federal officials, whose
only interest it would be to keep themselves
in power. He was glad that the obnoxious
measure had been crushed, and shat he had
had a hand in its death. Such a law was
odious to hat inherent sense of liberty in
the breast OF every true American.