The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-09-03

as q permanent measure" As already
shown, this wal tax, instead Of being
reduced when the war had closed, was,
by successive republican congresses, in
creased to an average of forty-seven per
cent. The republican party responded
to the demand Of the people for reduced
taxation by the passage OF the Mckinley
tariff bill OF 1890, thus heavily increasing
war taxes upon the people twenty-five
years after the wal had closed. Are
your interests safe in the hands Of a
party controlled by the protected o
opolists of this country? This is the i'm
portant question for your determination
at the polls. The democratic party
wages no warfare on any business inter.
est. 1t favors no legislation hostile to
the true interests of any business enter
prise. We believe that the burdens of
taxation should be equally distributed.
We oppose all legislation that enriches
the few by taxing the many.
The contest upon which We have now
entered is of deep significance to the
American people. Shall high tariff, con
~tinually increasing with the demands of
the protected classes, be the settled
policy of u government, or shall there
be relief to the people from the burdens
of unjust taxation?
The Force Bill.
Another issue of great moment in the
pending contest is the force bill. The
magnitude of this issue cannot be over
stated. 1t may mean the control of the
election of representatives in congress
by the bayonet.
rhe republican party, by its act IN the
Fifty-frst congress, and by its platform,
in it's late national convention, stands
pledged to the passage of the force bill.
That it will pass this bill, when it has
the power, no sane man can doubt. To
all the people-all who desire the peace
ana prosperity of our common country
this question is important. To the peo-
pie OF. the southern states it is one of
t~ranscendent importance-Shall they
still have peace and the protection of
the law; or shall the horrors with which
they are menaced find their counterpart
only in those of the darkest hours of
the reconstruction period?
Fellow Citizens: ] firmly believe that
your interests, the interests of all the
people of these United States. are bound
up in the success of the party that came
in with Jefferson in the very infancy of
our republic; the party which for more
than half a century of our existence has
stood at the helm of state; the party
which in all periods of our history has
been the bulwark of Our constitution and
the faithful guardian of the rights Of all
the people; the party under whose broad
banner the men of all nationalities have
been welcomed to share with US this
God-given heritage; the party which
from the beginning has been
the foe of prescription, whether on
account of birthplace o. of religion; the
party which knows no privileged classes,
but Demands equal and exact justice for
all; the party which, under jefferson.
purchased the great valley of the Miss
isslppi, and extended our domain to the
gulf and to the ocean; the party which,
under Madison. bore our flag to victory
in our second struggle with Great Britain
and which, under his immediate success
sor, established firmly for all time the
rights of the American nation, by the
declaration and maintenance of the
Monroe doctrine; the party which, in the
early morning and in the noon of this
century, gloried in the leadership of
Jackson aid Douglas, the ~undaunted
foeP of special privileges and of unjust
taxation.
Under the matchless leadership of the
who gave you an honest admins
tration of the government; who wrested
the grasp of those who had robbed
you of your heritage eighty millions of
acres and restored it to the public
domain; whose principle in action is, "A
public Office is a public trust'-under
his leadership the democratic party con-
tidently submits the momentOus qucs-
tons at issue. and will abide by the de-
termination Of the final arbiters at the
polls.