The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-03-12
W. B. HEYBURN'S SPEECH
Delivered at Boise City Last Saturday
Evening.
REPUBLICAN PROMISES FULFILLED.
The Industries Of idaho One Year Ago
and Their Condition TOday-ReViews
the Administrations Work For the
First Year.

Following is the full text Of tho ad
dress made by Judge Hepburn at the
Republican meeting held at Boise on
Saturday evening:
Fellow citizens, one year ago yester-
day at u o'clock the Republican, party
resumed the management ana control
of the business affairs of the people of
this Union, and it is but right and
proper that upon Independently the
anniversary of that day, we should
look over the work which it has per
formed and seq whether or not the
promises which it made to the people
during the campaign have been ful-
filed, and whether or not, Us TO those
which have not yet been acted upon,
we may reasonably expect that they
will be fulfilled
When the Republicans received the
government a year ago, it was in the
midst of depressed business conditions,
practically an empty treasury, i'm
paired credit, the threat that the ma
tOnal debt would be continually in
creased from time to time, and com.
plant universal in the land that bust.
ness was stagnant and individual pros
perity at the lowest ebb. At the be-
ginning of the last campaign, and
throughout all its days, every political
discussion, every resolution that was
presented to the people, every speaker
that addressed them, dwel5 upon these
conditions. 1t was the complaint OF
the hour and the time. One year later
the people are meeting for the purpose
of recognizing for the coming cam.
paign, and what do we hear: Resnlu
tions that are presented to the. people
upon this occasion have not a word Il
say about hard times, have not a wore
to say about depressed business condi
tons, individual poverty, or the threa
of financial disaster to the government
These subjects are not mentioned il
the resolutions of one of the parties o
this state that met here but few day
since, take it, and | think we ma,
all take it, that their silence upon thes
subjects is an admission that thos
conditions no longer exist. applause
While the issues of the last cam
paign were given under many names
designated by one party as this an
another party as something else, as
matter of fact the real issue of the las
national campaign was that of the II
viVaI of the prosperity of the indiViC
uals of the nation. That was the rel
issue. And the various parties ths
went before the people whatever the
might call it, however they might e,
press it-they went there for the pu
pose of telling the people what,
their judgment, was necessary to r.
store prosperity to the people.
The Republican party told you in i
platform, told you from the rostrur
that it was only necessary to return
the principles of Republican goverl
ment that had made the nation gre
and prosperous through SO many year
and they asked you to accept that
the panacea for the ills that were upC
the people. They told you that by
return to the doctrine and principl
of protection as promised and prOmr
gated and proposed by the Republics
party in the past, that the prospect
which you had known would retu
to you; that the prices which you col
planned of as being depressed and 10
would be built up again, because Of t
increasedprosperity of the people a.
the increased ability of the people
buy the products of the farm, the ie
and the factory. These are things t
Republican party promised you. I
opposition to the Republican party
and | will class them all together,
cause it was anything to beat the /
publican party-told you that thu
things would not meet the emergen'
they told you that return to the pr
Giples Of protection and Repnblicanii