Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-10-19


price Of tho raw material will increase,
the price of the manufactured article will
be materially decreased. Wool was never
less in New Mexico than following the
passage of the Mckinley bill. The Wool
buyers disappeared after the passage OF
that act and now the producers Of wool
in this territory are compelled to hunt
market. Protection on wool has been
proved fallacy. The Republicans claim
that the higher the tariff the higher the
price has been proved only subterfnge
to catch unsuspecting voters. Since the
Mckinley act became law the number of
sheep in the United States has decreased
80 per cent. This proves that protection
has been extremely
DISASTROUS TO THE WOOL INDUSTRY
of every state and territory in the union.
Since the passage of the Democratic
tariff bill, placing wool on the free list,
that product has increased in price at
least 4 cents per pound. On the other
hand the price of the manufactured arti-
Gle has decreased fully 80 per cent. A
suit of clothes that was worth $40 under
the Mckinley act can now be bought for
IS. This is because factories in the
United States are again able to resume
operations and can compete with foreign
manufacturers. Thus Is it shown that
the Democratic tariff bill saves to the
consumer from so to 60 per cent on
almost everything he purchases. 1t is
the masses who receive the benefit. This
is an illustration of Democratic principle
of the greatest good to the greatest num-
ber."
The speaker critically Analysed the
sugar frauds practiced by the Republi-
cans and scored that degenerate party
for robbing the taxpayers of the country
in order to pay enormous sums of money
to the sugar barons of Louisiana in the
shape of bounties. He told of how, under
the Mckinley act, the raisers of sugar re-
ceived bounty of 2 cents pound on all
the sugar they produced, but Mckinley
ism failed to pay any bounty or give any
encouragement to the raisers of wheat,
corn, oats, etc. That, the speaker said,
would have been equal rights to all, and
the Republicans are violently
OPPOSED TO THIS PRINCIPLE.
He cited the sugar bounty clause in the
Mckinley act as one instance of class
legislation and characterized it as a
damnable discrimination in favor of the
Louisiana sugar growers.
He continued: "The Republican party
in New Mexico is preserving the same de-
structive policy in county and territorial
affairs that it did in national affairs. 1t
has nearly bankrupted the territory and
burdened the people with an enormous
debt. New Mexico Is to-day paying a
greater rate of taxation than more than
one half the states of the Union. What
benefit are the people deriving from this
enormous taxation? What becomes Of all
the money in the shape of taxes that is
being turned into the territorial treasury
every year? Who are the beneficiaries? If
you ask the people of Santa Fe they will
point you ou5 fat man called Thomas
B. Catron who, with his little coterie of
followers, owns all the territorial script,
obtained by passing laws in the legisla.
ture depreciating its value. He has al
ways controlled the Republican legisla-
lures and hence the large number of
vicious laws on our statute books"
Mr.. Joseph's denunciat1on of Catron
and his methods was the most severe ever
heard in Lincoln. He accused the "Boss
Tweed" of New Mexico of having robbed
the people of nearly 100000. He paid
high tribute to the brave men of New
Mexico who defended the Union and were
paid in warrants and afterward
BoBBED BY oATRoN, ELKINs, EFT AL.
1.-TWO hundred thousand people in New
Mexico are being taxed to death to pay
who have been robbing them for the
past twenty-five years, and yet this man
has the audacity to come before you ask
ing your suffrage. During the twenty
five years that he has been legislator in
this territory he has not done anything
to benefit the people. Hs has not passed
a single act for the advancement and
prosperity of the territory. His whole
career as legislator has been
IN HIS OWN INTERESTS
and antagonistic to the people. He now
has a law practice worth $4,000 year.
Why is he so anxious to relinquish this
and accept place in congress at $4,000
year, thus losing $4,000 annually! It
is not to work for the interests of the
people, but to sell the fifteen or twenty
land grants he has in this territory to
foreign spectators. If you give him the
power you will regret it. I do not be-
lieve, however, the people of New Mexi-
CO are willing to trust their interests to
the mercies of this INSCRIPTIONS man."
Here Mr.. Joseph related an incident Of
Republican having told him that he was
going to vote for Catron, because if he,
(Catron), was sent to Washington he
would rob the government blind. His
keen cut sarcasm was greatly enjoyed by
the large crowd. He delivered strong
argument in favor of statehood and paid
his respects to the Populist candidate,
Mills, in vigorous terms.
An informal reception was rendered
the delegate after his speech and a
stream of people passed before him for
fully an hour, all anxious to shake his
hand. After the reception the building
was cleared and dancing was INDUCED in
until a late hour.