Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-10-18
POWERFUL
ARGUMENT
Made by Judge A. |. Morrison at
Las Cruces Republican Rati.
fication Meeting.
TARIFF LEADING ISSUE
Proves Present Party in Power Has
Been and is True Friend to
Every New Mexico Industry,

Every New Mexico Industry.
The following we'll written and inter
estng speech was delivered by Judg
A. L. Morrison, of this city. at the Re
publican rally and ratification meetin,
held in Las Cruces Saturday last, to
large and apprecatve audience ant
was subject to frequent and hearty ap
plause:
Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens:
Parties in this republic are aus nee
essary for our political welfare as ad.
verse currents of air are to our phys
ical health. But to be beneficial to the
people, parties must be based on Am.
erican principles and advocated with
sincere and honest intentions. When
a. party fails for any reason to repre-
sent such principles the best service it
can render the country is to retire
from public view and make way for
another which possesses those require
ments.
But what principles has our party
advocated? First and above all it has
been the sole champion of protection
to native industry. By abolishing slav-
cry it elevated and dignified honest Ia
Dor and it further dignified it by pro-
hibiting the contract system among
United States convicts. 1t insisted and
still insists that American workingmen
shall be protected from unequal COM
petition with the poorly paid labor of
Europe and Asia.
Further, when the Republican party
sprang into existence, the Democrats
had been in power from 1901 to 1851,
excepting the terms of ]. @. Adams,
General Harrison and General Taylor.
The vast and uninhabited public do
main lay fallow almost from the Allie
ghanies to the Pacific. Hardy pioneers
builders of Istates) taking their lives
in their hands, were crossing the noun
tains exploring the prairies, navigating
the great rivers and lakes and carrying
our flag to the unknown parts Of the
country to build up new homes and
new states nearer to the setting sun.
Now, what had the Democratic party
ever done to aid these indomitable
souls in securing good titles to their
farms? absolutely nothing.
Any one who is acquainted with the
history of the early migrations west. |
ward, knows the chaotic confusion |
which prevailed everywhere about Sc
curing titles to their hardly won homes,
Read Roosevelt's Winning of the
West" and you will form some
idea of the imbecility of the Democrat
ic party, which was responsible for this
confusion Now, what did the Republi-
can party do to bring order out OF this
choas? Lincoln was inaugurated on
March 4, 1861, and Notwithstanding the
existence of the civil war in the south
and disloyal conspiracies threatening
the Union in the North, less than fif-
teen months had elapsed when the first
homestead law was enacted on May 20,
1862 This was probably the most ben
eficent and far-reaching act since the
revolution. Under it's provisions hun
dreds Of millions of acres have been
settled by millions of citizens. The
gloom of the forests, the solitude of
the prairies, gave place to the busy
hum of industry Cities, villages, church
es, schools, colleges, hospitals and 9TH
er cheering evidences of American civ
ilization sprang up, as If by magic on +
every side, and dozen wealthy inde-
pendent states forming the very heart
of the republic) stand today as undy.
ing witnesses of the blessings of Re-
publican legislation.
But let us examine the more recent
record of the Democratic party. What
has It done since the Civil War to en-
title it to restoration to power? Will
some good Democrat inform us?
They did pass one law which the peo-
nle of America will long remember
with detestation. During Cleveland's
second administration the infamous
wilson-Gorman tariff act was passed,
and within three months thereafter. a
financial cyclone SWcpt oSSA eu0 ~OAAA |
try before whose fury factories, FUR
naces, rolling mills, work shops OF ev-
ery kind suspended; banks closed ana
general industrial prostratfon prevail
ed all over the country. The. wool crop
of the nation went begging for custom
ers and found none. Millions OF able
bodied working men crowded the
streets; soup houses (those regular ac-
compartments of Democratic ruiel
were opened in every city in the iand
to save the people from starvation
French and German manufac'
turers undersold us Ia our own mar
kets; the country was flooded with their |
wares to the exclusion of our own.
They were prosperous, while we were
on the verge Of ruin. This was only
ten years ago. SO none Of us can have
it. You cannot have forgot.