The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-11-24
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terrupted at the commencement of
the campaign. The dam, which
held back the stream for awhile,
has given way and the waters are
rapidly gaining their usual level.
Although we have different ways
of looking at the matter, all men,
of whatsoever party or creed are,
or should be, interested in the
highest welfare of our county, state
and nation. The progress and de-
velopment of our common country
is the prize which is sought by
every patriotic citizen. We are SO
constituted that we cannot all
think alike, unless it is some mat
ter which can be demonstrated be.
yond,a a do'lbt, as, for instance, .the
rotundity of the earth and it's revo-
lutions upon its axis. = An old
preacher, assigning cause for the
multitude of sects, went farther,
and said that it would not do for all
men to think alike. He held that
if they all thought as he did they
wonld all want his wife. The old
deacon, under the pulpit, responded
that no doubt the doctrin was per-
fectly sound for if all men thought
as he did no one would have her.
The great political wave which
has swept over the united states
has never been equalled in history.
At the commencement of our great
civil war, the cohorts of Douglas
rallied, at the call of their leader,
to the support of Mr.. Lincoln.
Grand as that movement was it
will not compare with the present
stampede from the democratic to
the republican camp. They have
deserted their trenches by compa-
nies and by regiments. The Ameri-
can people. have pronounced in
favor of protection to American in
dustries. In doing SO they have
only came back to the teachings of
Jefferson and Jackson, the patron
saints of the democratic party.
Thomas Jefferson, author of the
Declaration of Independence and
third president of the united states
in his sixth annual message to con-
gress, wrote as follows:
"The prohibiting duties we lay
on all articles of foreign manufac-
ture, which prudence requires us
to establish at home, with the
patriotic determination of every
good citizen 10 use no foreign arti-
Gle which can be made within our.
selves, without regard to difference
of price, secure us against relapse
into foreign dependency. He there
fore, who is now against domestic
manufactures, must be for reduc~
ing us either 10 dependence upon
foreign nations, or to be clothed in
skins and live like beasts in caves
and dens. I am proud to say I am
not one of these"
Andrew Jackson, seventh presi-
dent of the united states, in his
place in the senate, said;
"Providence has filled our noun
tains and our plains with minerals
with lead, iron and copper-and
given US climate and soil for the
growing of hemp and wool. These
being the greatest materials of our
national defense, they ought to
have extended to them adequate and
fair protection, that our mauufac-
turers and laborers may be placed
in a fair competition with those of
Europe; and that we may have
within our country a supply of
those leading and impor' ant arti-
cles so essential in war. We have
too long been subject to the policy
of British merchants. 1t is time
we should become q little more
Americanized ;and instead of feeding
the paupers and laoorers of Eng
land, feed cur own; or else in q
short time we shall all be rendered
paupers ourselves.
The national debt of the united
states is less than that of Austro-
Hungary, France, Germany, Great
Britain, Italy, Russia and Spain.
That may be the reason that Sec
retary Carlisle is soon to speak be-
fore the New york chamber of com
merce in order to negotiate another
bond issue to meet the expenses ot
the government. He is evidently
determined that the above named