, 1898-11-07

and some did not. How about the
winter in Carbon county, the southern
portion of it, and in Sweetwater
county? Some of our fiockmasters
lost rs per cent, some Is per cent, near
ly all more than 10 per cent. This is a far
greater loss proportionally than the
loss by drought in foreign climes which
our benighted friends are so solicitous
about.
Statistics show that the worlds sup
ply of wool has steadily increased every
single year during the time our demo-
cratic friends are now, at this late day
so much worked up over in Australia.
There are 534. 900, 900 sheep in the
world, the number has steadily in
creased and the 5000, 900. or about 2
per cent of sheep loss, in Australia, is
more than covered by the natural in
crease. So, like the flowers that
bloom in the spring. the Australian
losses have nothing to do with the
case" 1t is a bogie man., a iabrica-
ton. pure and simple Such argu-
ments are misleading yes, wickedly
false.
Our fusion candidates for senate and
house in congress-. respectively. de-
clare that wool is higher abroad than
home. This statement is absurdly
untrue-they hope to fool the people
by Juggling with figures, quoting wash
ed against unwashed. high grades
against low ones, etc., but here in my
hands, subject to your inspection, is a
book containing the sworn testimony
of experts showing that, under protec-
tion and protective tariff, London
prices have averaged 81 per cent Of
American prices when comparing like
grades and conditions.
Where did our democratic nominee
for congress get his knowledge of the
sheep business? A nice man is Mr..
Arnold. A sheep man, evidently;
knows all about sheep. Has he nerded
llleIl, SlttplHS oul VI uOolo III AiouA-
tains and on plains? Has he sheared.
LANDED. dipped, etc, working sixteen
to twenty hours a day with his sheep?
Hardly. But, say his admirers, he is
a sheep man. nevertheless, for hasn't
he a snug little corral up in the second
story of a building in Laramie? Lots
of law books up there; most of them
bound in sheep skin-of course he
knows all about sheep. Aren't his law
of course, that settles it. That's the
way for a man of high intelligence to
learn and run the sheep business. Up
stairs in a nice warm. comfortable
office; arrive at 9 or 10 o'clock in the
morning, leave at 4 in the afternoon.
To be sure, the sheep skin on the
books hasn't been a living sheep for
fifty years or so-but then democratic
politics and candidates are seldom up
to date. What's fifty or one hundred
years either way when you are running
for office as the standard bearer of a
acknowledgements party?
Now that nominee says in his speech,
and I have it here, first, that he is a
tariff man, he believes in tariff on
wool and hides and other products.
Suppose we give him credit for sin
cerity for a moment, what is his decla-
ration worth? He is running on a DEM
ocratic ticket; If elected will go to
congress as a democrat; will caucus
with that party and vote with that
party. You wouldn't ask him as a
party man to do otherwise. nor would
I. 1t would be idle to expect anything
else. Is his party for tariff? Does he
claim that the democratic party is for
commodities? Since when? Yet we
have here a democrat with assurance
enough to come before you and tell
you that he is the nominee Of his party
that he reresents the party, that he is
for protective tariff. when he knows
his party is against it, and then pro-
ceeds to lecture republication upon in
sincerity and a change Of base on sill
yer, etc. Are the Democrats for tariff ?
Let lie see. Here is a plank in their
national platform Of 1892:
I'VE denounce republican protection
as a fraud, a robbery Of the great ma
jority of the American people for the
benefit of the few" I'VE de-
%nounce the Mckinley tariff law enact
ed by the Fifty-irst congress as the
eliminating ~atrocity of class legisla-
ton" and We promise to re-
peal as one Of the beneficent results
that will follow the action Of the peo-
pie in intrusting power to the demo-
cratic party"
And here is the state PLATFORM:
"'' declares its allegiance to the
national platform adopted at Chicago.
June 22nd, 1%S92."sss I'VE demand the
repeal of those provisions Of the Nc
Kinley tariff act" referring to pro-
tection.)
Here is the state platform of 1891
of course there was no national decla-
ration that year:
"ss reafirm our allegiance to the
principles of the national democratic
party" : I'VE accept the Wilson