The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-10-02

to death by q Is hour speech, how
the late Attorney Irwin Of Minnesota
talked for days In defense of q client
and how attorney for Dreyfus occu-
pied days in talking in defense OF his
client, establishing a record for talk.
But Bryan has the records all
beaten. He has been talking for IL
wears and the end is not yet"
Launching into a discussion OF poll
cies and candidates Mr.. Harris pic
tured the service Of William H. Taft,
the mention Of whose name was greet
ed with prolonged applause. He de.
clared that he was the logical c
sor to President Roosevelt.
Address Of Mr.. Brown.
John G. Brown of Helena, the prin-
cipal speaker Of the evening, held the
closest attention Of his audience. He
did not tell a story MOI did he crack
a Joke to entertain his hearers, but
for two hours he told what the Re
publican party had, done for the Amer
lean people, comparing the party to
a family tree and showing it's lineage
and the wonderful timely history it
had made and the great men it had
produced-Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Gar!
field, Harrison, Mckinley, Roosevelt
and William H. Taft.
Splendid History.
The family to which you and I
belong" said Mr.. Brown, was origi-
mated in the presidential campaign Of
1856, on the issue of 100 acres for a
homestead and against slavery. In
it's first campaign it was defeated.
Fremont and Bacon we're the stand
ard bearers, bq1b in 1860 the Republi.
can party gave to the world the i'm
mortal rail splitter, the Emancipator,
Lincoln. It abolished slavery and
gave the farmer the 100 acre home,
stead. That was the birth of the par
Ity that we represent, the family to
which you and l belong"
He then traced the work Of the Re
publican family. He told what it had
done for industry, for agriculture and
for labor. He declared, amid pro-
longed applause, that 1t was needless
to call attention to what the Republic
can party had done for industry-it
had builded a wall of protection
around American industries that had
built them up till they control the
markets of the world and SO that it
was acknowledged everywhere that
the balance. Of trade in the world is
in favor of America.
""Our protection wall is the basis OF
industrial activity" he exclaimed. "Do
you want to turn the reins of govern
ment over to a party that would tear
down that wall? Do you want to turn
the reins of government over to and
place in power a party that will per
nit the foreign labor to enter into
competition with American labor
which is better paid, has better
houses, better feed and better clothes
than foreign labor. This great family
to which you and I belong believes
in, protecting American industry SC
that all may make a reasonable
profit"
The Wool Question.
Mr.. Brown then entered into a dis
cussion Of the wool question and the
tariff on wool. He told of the fine
woods produced in Australia and ex
planned what wages were paid there
$40 per month. He told how cheaply
wool was produced in Australia anG
how there was not demand enough tt
take it all and how low the price was
Then he showed how the tariff of The
Republican party protected the WOO
grower and sheep raiser from thu
cheap labor and cheap wool Of Aus
tralia.
The Democratic party removed tn
tariff on wool and it gave you a 6 cen
wool and four-bit Sheep" he said. cd
you want to place in power part,
that will place the cheaply produces
woods in competition with the WOO
product of America? That is an issu'
in which you-the people of yellow
stone county, in the greatest woo
shipping district in the nation are in
terested and one you must answe
at the polls.
Protection to Beet Sugar.
II have been in manufacturin
plants from the Atlantic seaboard t
Seattle" said Mr.. Brown. II have II
!. spected plants Of all kinds, but toda
through the courtesy Of some OF you
citizens / was taken through you
sugar factory. 1t was a revelation {
me. It was one of the most wonder