The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-11
MUST co TOGETHER
Mantle Declares That Silver and Pro-
lection Are Classmates.
HIS LETTER TO DIR. SLIGH
Montana's Senators Are Receiving
Many Congratulations the
Ooldbug Press Censures
Them Right and Left.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Philipsburg, March 10.-Shortly after the
votein the senate on the Dingley tariff bill
Senator Sigh of this city wrote to Mon
tana's senators at Washington a congrat-
ulatory letter and the following letter
was received in reply thereto a day or so
ago by DIR. Sigh. who consents to its
publication.
''Dr. ]. NJ. Sigh, Philipsburg. Mont
MY Dear Doctor: / beg TO aclxnowi-
edge the receipt of your letter of the 18th
inst. and to thank you for your kind
words of encouragement. I have long
held to the opinion that the friends OF
silver would never be able to secure any,
thing unless they took the heroic stand
that silver and protection must go to-
gether and that neither should succeed
without the other 1t has, however, been
very difficult to induce very few people
here to accept that radical doctrine. The
truth Is. when our first vote was cast
against taking up for consideration the
Dingley revenue bill, it was not with the
intention Of going to the extent above
indicated. We were simply not ready to
take 1t up. When the motion was made,
however, the conclusion was Immediately
drawn by the goldbug press that our ac
ton meant that there should be no furth-
or tariff legislation unless II was accom-
panied by free coinage measure. and
clusion ourselves. although even at this
time. there has been no agreement
among any OF us to that effect So far We
have been fighting the Dingley revenue
bill upon the basis of its inequalities and
iniquities and especially because of its
utter failure to afford any degree OF pro-
lection worth speaking of to the wool
growers of Montana and the Wss,.
IT have written some letters bearing
upon this phase Of the question, which
have no doubt been published and which
you have perhaps read. or course, wien
we get over in Eastern Montana we find
a great many people engaged In the
wooigrowing industry. They are mainly
republicans. and are naturally very any,
ious for legislation that win help them to
retrieve the enormous losses they have
sustained in the past two years. e<pe-
cially during the last year. under the
Wilson bill. However. I think I have
shown that the Dingley bill. even though
1T became a law. would do them no good
whatever. The fact Is that about the
only people who would be benefited TO
any appreciable extent by the Dingley
bill are the wooden and carpet manufac-
turers of the East. Then again. the Ding
ley bill Is anything but a republican meas
ure 1t recognizes the Morrison horizontal
tariff idea as well as the fraudulent d
valorem system against which republicans
than all. II takes the Wilson bill Itself,
the most grossly sectional tariff measure
which ever became a law. as a basis for
making a horizontal rise in the rates and
thus practically committing the repu5ll-
can party to the most obnoxious denio-
cratic tariff bill ever passed. So that
there are ample grounds you see to OPP
pose the measure upon purely republican
lines.
II am more firmly convinced than I
ever was that protective tariff alone
will not bring back prosperity to the peo-
pie of this country. We must destroy the
enormous advantages which Japan and
other silver-using countries now enjoy. be-
cause of the divergence Of the value be-
tween gold and silver by the restoration
of silver as a full legal tender money be-
fore We can derive any lasting benefits
from a protective tariff. think you can
readily appreciate that our action has
given rise to a great deal of bitterness,
not only here. but throughout the entirs
East Every great daily paper is filled
with denuciation and abuse of those of
US who voted against taking up the tariff
bill. However, II we continue to receive
such congratulatory letters as the one
which you have written me, we shall not
mind the castigation which the Eastern
press thinks II is administering.
Senator Carter made a splendid speech
Wednesday. a synopsis of which you have
read before this reaches you. 1t was a
strong speech, well delivered, and COM
manded great attention and respect. am
inclined to think it's effect will be good,
although its first effect seems to have
been to still more enrage the gold stand
ard advocates. One thing. however, is
certain, and that is that his arraignment
of the Dingley revenue bill cannot be sue
cessfully met Senator Hoar admitted
that much to me himself yesterday morn
ing.
MY own belief is that the silver ques-
ton and the tariff question ought to be
united and that the friends of silver
ought to take the position that there shall
be no more tariff legislation unless ac-
companied by the free coinage of silver
This might, of course, involve some IN
jury to some of our interests for a time,
but / am satisfied that In the end all
would be the gamer by the adoption of
this proposition. The republican silver
senators will. of course. hold control in
the senate for some years to come. and
IL they will take this position and main
tain 1t. 1 feel certain that they will be
able to force a recognition of their tist
demands. Lee Mantle