The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-08-13
A REPUBLICAN, MEETING.
George A. Sheridan Talks tn the Party %
tho Opera House.


tho Opera House.
There was fairly largo audience A.
Ming's opora house last night TO hear
George A. Hhsriden talk. The stage was
decorated with crayon portrait Of Prssi-
dent Harrison, and among those occupying
seats near II we're Col. A. G. Botkin. Com
,nodors +. G. Power, A, 8. SeliRmap. i. II.
Hershfield, r. r. Sterling. Joseph Davis.
G. g. Newman and Ffancis Adkinson. Mr.
Sheridan ID pleasant talker and illustrates
his speech with comparative figures which
he says he obtained himself relative to
wages in the United States and England:
He started of with the tariff subject and
declared that the democratio party had
always held q tariff unconstitutional. u
have an idea" he said, that the Mckinley
bill 10 constitutional" He further declared
that the tariff was not tax on tho people
of Montana. Coming down to comparisons
claimed to have been based on figures OBJ.
tained by himself, he called attention TO
tho wages paid to the unprotected indus
tries here and in England. He took for bis
examples bricklayers. policemen, letter car
!iers and railway engineers. The latter:
he said, should save $720 a year ont of
what he made on the Northern Pacific,
"previded he did not keep filled up on beer
or play draw poker" An engineer in Eng
land, he claimed. could not save more than
$297 . year. Mr.. sheridan asserted shat
foo6 In England was not cheaper than here;
and later on said he hoped that the Ameri-
can people would never have to live
~ cheaply. On the subject of free wool he
said the policy Of the demooratic party was
to raise the price of that article by taking
Of the duty and letting in all the wool Of
the world in order to overstock
the last subject touched on. He said he
knew ths people Of Montana were not sat
lsfied with tho positions of the two parties
on that subject. At the same time he
knew that either Cleveland or Harrison
would be elected to deal with the silver
chance to solve it for 1000 years. He said
Harrison's first act after going into office
showed his friendliness to silver by taking
as his secretary OF the treasury William
Window. from the northwestern state of
Minnesota. The secretary OF the treasury
WAS also known to be friend OF silver, he
said, and his first act WAS to advocate the
coinage of the entire American product.
He accomplished something, when he gave
| a market for silver at some price or other
where no market existed before. Secretary
Foster, the successor to Secretary Window,
was also known to be friend of silver.
You people have your ideas Of what you
want" continued the speaker. "There
is no agency through which you can
get just what you want. President
Harrison does not believe as you do. He
thinks the only way to remonetize silver ID
by concurrent action Of the nations Of the
world. He has shown his friendliness ia
silver in the appointment of the represent
atives to the monetary conference. I be-
lieve the result of the conference will be
that parity of gold and silver will be
agreed on and the mines of the world open
to the coinage of silver.'' In conclusion be
,eferred to the duty on lead and said it wat
due to Tom Carter more than to any othel
man that the duty Yves not reduced from &
cent and half a pound to one-half that.