Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-18
REPupLIoANs on TnE RuN.
Points Made by Anthony
Joseph Against CatrOn and the
Republican Party.

During tne recess IN Jno uemos
cratic convention which was held
here on the 9Th of this month, a
number of prominent democrats
of this Territory spoke on the is
sues of the day.
The first speaker introduced was
Hon. Anthony Joseph, delegate to
congress from this Territory. After
devoting some time to speaking Of
the convention and the importance
Of the coming election to the peo-
pie Of the Territory, he paid his
respects to Maj. Morrison, whom
he characterized as the tin plate
orator of New Mexico. He said
that a few days ago he met one Of
the owners of the Temescal tin
mine which is situated in southern
California. The gentleman was
on his way east with a large num-
Der of pieces of tin like this from
the mine, and the speaker held up
a tiny strip of tin, about half an
inch wide and two or three inches
long. The gentleman said that
these pieces of tin were for the use
of the republicans in the east in
this campaign to show what a
great benefit the Mckinley bill
was to producers of tin. This
gentleman informed me that they
had about 400 men at work in the
mine some four weeks since and
that block tin was costing them
81 200 per ton but that they could
not sell it for more than 5000 per
ton and the mine had been shut
down. This is the richest tin
mine in the United States, carry.
ing Z per cent. of tin. If this can
not be operated successfully what
must become of the Black Hills
mines which do not carry more
than 2b per cent. of tin?
Following up the tariff, he said
that the production of wool is a
very important industry il New
Mexico. Recent developments
have shown that New Mexico will
become a great producer of wool.
The census report shows that in
1880 we had twice as many sheep
as in 1890 and that the production
of wool was twice as much in 1880
as in 1880. Wool is cheaper IN
the United States and in New
Mexico today than it was in 1880.
In 1880, according to the report
of the United States Treasury de-
partment, there was not single
pound of shoddy imported or man
ufactured in the United States.
Now there are manufactured g.
100000 or 100000 pounds of
shoddy. Itenters largely into the
manufacture of wooden goods and
consumers are purchasing shoddy
goods.
He then took up the removal of
the tariff ON sugar and asked: If
the removal of the duty on sugar
has saved us sS7,OOO,OOO why not
we have free wool, free silver, free
schools and free speech? Blaine
said that the Mckinley tariff
would not secure a market for a
bushel of wheat or a barrel OF
pork and it has not increased the
wages of a single working man in
the United States, and he cited
the Homestead labor troubles as
one of che direct results of the
Mckinley bill.
He then reviewed his work in
congress since he had been a del
egate from this Territory and
showed that he had secured the
appropriation of large sums of
money for the benefit of the Ter
ritory as we'll as the passage OF
various important bills, among
which were the bill for the settle
ment of land grants, passed March
8, 1891, the bill Cor the settlement
of Indian depredations claims on
the same day and the passage ol
the bill for the admission of New
Mexico as q state. OF the bill fol
the settlement Of the Indian dep
relations claims he said that the
citizens of New Mexico had abou
100000 in claims but had no
received single cent. For A
years congress had NOT made
single appropriation for their pay
ment. The bill which / introduc
cd was finally adopted and used a
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