The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-06-25
THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE
MIR. CARTER SPEAKS.
June q. 1872.

10 near MIN. Inc former went IN INT
discharge of a supposed duty; the lattel
went out of curiosity. 1t was "A rather
tame show. Mr.. Carter was not at his
best. He lacked the inspiration of q
just cause. He made a rambling. illogi
cal, unconvincing talk, and then rang
the curtain down on a disappointed audi.
ence. He had dived down in the dusty,
mouldy archives of past ages and resur
rected some forgotten lore which he
dealt out in heroic doses to his hearers.
He sickened them with the garbage of
the past and left them with the smell of
cast. off rot in their n~ostrils.
Once he created IA ripple of laughter
among his republican auditors by a lit
tie figuring. lie told them that a demo-
cratic house had been in session eight
months during which time it had passed
Il bill or two providing for putting one or
two articles on the free list. At this rate,
the honorable gentleman commended, it
would take about 1000 years for the
democrats to put all the articles taxed
by the Mckinley tariff. upon the free list
That was such Il "~clincher upon demo-
cratic presumption that Mr.. Carter took
Il drink Of water and his republican
friends wiped their mouths. Breaking
away from the present he skipped to
Buchanan's time and rehashcd that
stale old canard about the government
not being able to sell bonds sufficient to
pay the presidents salary. That was a
sumner and the audience wondered at
the depravity of the times when a great
country like the United States couldn't
raise $4,000. That was during the four
years following the Matching ofithe repub-
lican egg in 1876. which was laid at the
Buffalo free soil convention in
lS4S. Mr.. Carter forgot to tell
his listeners, however, that within
ten years after the incubation
of his party it succeeded in running the
country in debt nearly two thousand
million dollars; that his party is now
controlled and run by the beneticiarIes
of that enormous Indebtedness the
bondholders: that they propose to hold
that debt over the people as a club to
force them into making such tariff laws
AS they want; that they nodded the Nc
Kinley act under which a constant
stream of gold. gathered from the sweat
ing brows Of the laboring men of the
&c rnnnInr into fhnir n1pnDIN- 7
full Golfers, and that these same pluto
crats-the money power Of the east
propose to elect Harrison. if gold can DO
it. and thus continue a regime under
which they can take their ease and grow
fat at the expense of the people.
Mr.. Carter forgot to tell his audience
these plain unyarnished truths. He for
got to tell it that at no time during the
of the government have the peo-
pie been so heavily taxed for the nee
of life as they are now under
rule and after nearly thirty
years of profound peace. He forget to
-cll it that under Buchanan's and under
other previous democratic admin
a labor strike in this country
was unknown. He forgot to tell it that
the policy Of his party has made 1000.
MO tramps and 5000 millionaires where
"A tramp was before unknown and nil.
could be counted apo ones
He forgot to tell it that over
million people of these United
are forced by a republican
tariff policy to work day and
night for the great trusts. combines
and manufacturing ~monopolies created
and fostered by that same iniquitous
policy. He forgot to tell it that the tariff
policy Of his party has created a money
power which threatens the stability of
our government. and that unless checked
at the polls It will direct every depart
nent of the government in the direction
their interests. He forgot to tell it
that that same same policy has throwna
Chinese wall about our country and
nemming us in from the free markets
II the world, it compels us
20 consume our manufactured
products or leave them to rot
N the warehouses Of the country. He
to tell it that what few articles
we are permitted to sell abroad are I'M
to the foreigner. while our own
must pay a heavy tribute to the
manufacture to get them. He forgot
tell it that this same policy has driven
american shipping from the high seas
and transferred our ocean carrying trade
foreign bottoms. He forgot to tell it
hat il the tariff policy of the republican
be continued another decade or
the scenes depicted in Donnelly's
Column" will become painfully
realistic before the present generation
# men shall have passed away.
Yes, Mr.. Carter forgot to tell his audi
,ncp any M thaaa trufha for Mr. Carter