Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-09-03

express its sentiments or did not care
enough about the interests Of our wool
growers to say one word about them in its
platform, that the Republican territorial
platform denounces the Springer free wool
bill in vigorous tones and that the national
! Democratic platform denounces all protec-
ers are robbers, there is little more which
can be said to show which party is our
friend and which is our enemy.
LEAD.
No class Of citizens are more deeply
interested in the defeat OF Democratic
principles than the lead miners Of New
Mexico. We are 80 close to the lead
mines Of Old Mexico as to be continually
threatened with their competition. 1t can
not have escaped the memory OF any one OF
our lead miuers that a very few years since
under the rulings of Messrs. Cleveland
and Fairchild leai ore WAS admitted free
of duty and that at once the market was
Rlutted with Mexican lead ore produced
at about 40 cents per day and that our
miners were expected to compete with
the poems of Mexico. To this degraded
condition were American citizens brought
by the Democratic party. Bat rather
than to submit to such humiliation the
brave true men abandoned their legit,
mate occupation and nearly every lead
mine VAS closed. How these miners
eked ont living white this brutal Dem
ocrs'ic policy lasted they and their fami-
lies know best. But at last relief came in
! , ,n M..R ,.,ln al, ~ l,,t
silver ore and all other ores containing
lead shall pay duty OF Y cents per
pound on the lead contained therein.
This WAS sufficient to stop the importa
ton Of Mexican ore. Our mines were
re-opened, our men returned to work and
prosperity was Immediately restored. But
it may be said this was sometime since
aud the Democrats having seen the evil
const qnence of their policy have changed
their ideas. Not so, gentlemen, not so.
The Democratic house Of representatives.
has passed bill abolshing all duty on
lead ore, thus showing YOU that they are
far more interested IN the poems of Mex.
leo than they are in you, and yon owe it
to President Harrison and the Repnbli-
can senate that you are not again flung
out of employment by the free trade
Democracy. Mr.. Joseph failed to protest
in your name against the infamous meas.
ure which he knew was go injurious to
your interests. 1t would be All insult to
your intelligence to doubt that you will
vote for the party which stands between
you and Democratic free trade, and that
you will tell Mr.. Joseph or any other
Democratic candidate for congress that
you know your own interests too well to
trust the party which has 90 repeatedly
and 30 recently betrayed yourselves and
your families.
About 100000 men are engaged in
coal mining and its allied branches in
America, on whom further 1000, 900
souls depend for subsistence. Every
branch of industry and every household
in the land is more or less dependent on
this great body of ekillfuI, hard working
men, and with great propriety the Re-
publican party has protected them by a
duty OF 10 cents per ton on al kinds of
bituminous coal. A single instance will
show low this great industry was affect
GU Wy pIolCtlloh. lICNipuo w viz
position of duty on foreign coal We i'm
ported from Canada alone 404 ,252 tons
per annum. Immediately after the above
duty was imposed the imports fell to
go, 1856 tons. But new competitor has
sprung up to the westward; Australian
coal is now brought over the Pacific and
after paying the duty undersells US This
simply shows that the duty is not high
enough, and the Republican policy would
be to increase it and keep the foreign
article out, while the Democratic party
which is eternally demanding free raw
material would abolish the duty alto
gether, and permit the coal market to be
flooded with coal from Europe, from
Canada and Australia. 1t is said that
some OF cur mine owners profess to he in
favor Of free coal. This may be 40, but
such men would depend on their ability
to lower the wages of their employees to
the level OF foreign miners, and this the
Republican party Is unchangeably OPP
posed to and ever will remain 60
SILVER.
On the question of silver it is only nee
essary to say that the Democratic party in
congress has acted with the most glaring
Inconsistency. While it dominates the