Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-10-24
Senator Turner'S Canvass.

Senator Turner addressed large
and attentive audience in Olympia
Theater, Tuesday night. The first
part of his address was devoted to
showing the difference between Repub-
lican and Democratic rule in this
State; how ny to 1897 under q con.
tinuous domination OF the former
party from Statehood, the State had
accumulated debt of over three mill
lions Of dollars, and State warrants
had fallen to IS cents on the dollar,
and how, soon as the reform admins.
tration had obtained control and for.
mulate economic rules, indebtedness
ceased to grow and a reduction Of a
thousand dollars per day began, while
warrants speedily arose 10 par. No
State ever paralleled such an immedi
ate and rapid change from waning
fortunes to advancing prosperity.
The Senator said that party names
did not mean much at times 20 dis.
tinctive terms. The Democrats OF
JefIerson's days were called Republi.
cans; the State Administration under
Gov. Mcbride has assumed substan.
italy Democratic ground, and even
the national policy Of President Roose-
welt differed 90 materially from that Of
the party under his predecessor that
Democrats applauded many of its
acts. II had enabled him to be OF spe.
cial service At times in promoting OBJ
jscts for this State which had been re.
fused Representatives Cushman and
Jones. When they failed in securing
appropriations for dredging the mouth
Of the Columbia, the Lake Washington
Canal, improvement Of Tacoma hsr-
Dor, and other bills, he had gone to his
political opponents in the Senate and
prevailed upon them TO pass these
measures. It was likewise owing to
his exertions that the Moran Brothers
secured the contract for building the
battleship Nebraska, after the State
Representatives had exhausted their
endeavor TO secure favorable consider
alton from the Secretary of the Navy.
The Senator denied most emphati-
cally that he had criticised the conduct
Of the army in the Philippines. He
said that the war WAS favored by the
Democrats in Congress after the dc.
struction of the warship Maine, and
that his party had forced the Republi-
can leaders into line of compelling
Spain to lift its bloody hand from Cuba.
But the Filippinos, he held, were Diff
ferent. They have mingled their
blood with that of the American col.
der in lighting Spain and should have
their liberty. "Now that the people
Of that country lie broken and pros.
trate ct our feet, we cannot make them
citizens because that would hebauch
and breed disease in our body polite.
We cannot make them subjects, for
that would be slavery. The only wise
and generous course is to educate
them up 10 the true principles OF their
liberty and then make them . free re.
public like Cuba"
The speaker in the simplest and
plainest manner possible demonstrated
how the addition OF . tariff duty upon
foreign products advanced the prices
on all home products of that class in
this country when sold to our people,
and from that drew the irresistible
conclusion that abolition of tariff on
articles produced by trusts would be
an effective weapon against the extor.
tionate prices controlled by these com.
bines. He took tin plate. wire and
sugar, and other protected articles, and
showed by report of the Labor Com.
mittee appointed by President McKin-
ley how the prices of these products
had increased by monthly gradations,
to double the cost to consumers, since
their absorption by the steel octupus,
in one year, 1897, and afforded divi.
dend OF Is per cent. on the watered
stock and so per cent. on actual CAPT.
tai during that time. Revise the tariff,
he declared, and the Objectionable
trusts will disappear.
He likewise alluded to the possible
issue at the polls regarding the cleo
ton OF U. s. Senator. Should Q ma.
jority of Democrats be returned to the
Legislature, he would be reelected bis