The Anaconda standard., 1896-03-06
As Colonel a,rrIou Sees IL.

| ~ (cfOdfA oJFuOu sees Il.
Yellowstone Journal: This paper has
purposely refrained from making any
| comment on the position taken by
/ Messrs. Carter and Mantle i'm regard
to the Dingley tariff bill in the senate.
| pending Mr.. Carter's promised speech.
. which was delivered in the senate on
| wednesday last. We had hoped to be
able to publish the speech or such por-
tion of it as would give the readers of
TINS paper the argument of Senator
Carter In his own incisive and convinc-
ing language. but now that the speech
In full Is at hand, we find we can do
neither the one nor the other for the
| speech itself would tax the best efforts
OF metropolitan newspaper plant and
It is SO thoroughly linked together that
the reproduction of any portion of the
argument in piecemeal would be at the
expense of the mastery finish of the ef-
fort as whole. 1t is, however, a
speech that Will set the whole country
thinking. 1t is a speech In which only
facts are dealt with, and in the read
ing or II the mind is not led astray by
nowery metaphor and ornate perora-
tion, for while Our Tom" is a master
OF this style when he chooses to use IL.
IL Is evident that on this occasion he
chose to give to the grave and rev.
erend seigneurs" who have sat SO long
In the councils of our nation, and to
the people as well. an intimation that
his talk was on serious lines and thct
1t was to be seriously considered. At
tne outset he disposed of the idea that
MS appearance as spokesman for the
oissenting five was i'm the role of an
apoiogist. Referring to their vote
against the Dingley bill, Mr. Carter
SAID: For that vote have ample JUS
tincation and no apology to present"
ana then followed a presentment of the
justification which no true republican
can dissent from. Mr.. Carter's argu-
ment Is briefly this: He charged that
the Dingley bill was not a republican
measure in that IL was not projected
on republican tariff lines. On the con-
trary, IL was a. horizontal and adva- |
loren adjustment OF a very few scbed- |
uies, through which, II it became a law.
the eastern manufacturers of wool |
would receive adequate protection and |
the producer. of the raw material a
mere shadow of relief. and that if con-
ditions were once settled in this rut. II
would De almost impossible to disturb
them even under a republican admins
tration, as the cry would then come up
from the fully protected manufacturers
that IL would not do to disturb the
business interests of the country by
further tariff agitation. Mr.. Carter de-
manded for wool the same measure of
protection that was accorded 10 |
both dignified and moderate and a COM
pIete surprise to the goldbug senators
and papers who fully expected Mr.. Car
ter to howl and shrek for free coinage
N the most Incorporate manner In
stead or this he quoted the financial
plank from the republican national
oIatform of 1892 and calmly but point
IDLY asked the goldbug senators on the
'epublican side, who the traitors were.
with dignity that was fully assured
llm by his postulates, he asserted that
vhen the republican party, in national
convention assembled, solemnly assert
"a that the American people, from
tradition and interest favor bimetaII |
Sh' ana the republican party demands \
ne use or both gold and silver as a | ,
money. with such restrictions
Ind under such provisions, to be de- ,
ermined by legislation, as will secure !
ne maintenance of the parity of values
u the two metals so that the purcha.-
ng power or the dollar, whether of sil-
er, gold or paper. shall be at all times Z
qual, the party meant just what II +,
aid, and this solemn assertion of the ,
arty he and his four associates were
repaired to back up even at the risk of {
eng called traitors" and read out of G
he party by republicans who, in de- I
ance of the platform, were open and
vowed monometallists. I
1t is refreshing indeed TO have Some 4
ne of prominence in the politics of t.,e .
ountry arise and openly refute the 3
rite saying that platforms are TO pet
on and not to stand on" and IL is n
articulariy pleasing 10 have this refu- i
alton come from the chairman of the /
epublican national committed n