Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-11
governor BURKE ADDRESSES
LARGE AUDIENCE ON The ISSUE
Compares Party Platforms Of Two Great Parties in State
and Nation and Points Out Superiority of His
Defends His Administration and COntended He Stood Alone
in Law Enforcement and Other Matters

lie officials and thus bring the nation
al government closer to the people
and remove from the senate the
stigma of being called the "Ameri-
can House of Lords?"
If the Republicans and Democrats
thus declared themselves alike, and
seem to think alike in their plat
forms they ought to vote alike. II
high tariff is oppressive for the Dem
ocratic farmer it is oppressive to the
Republican farmer. 4. Trusts have
grown to mammoth proportions I'M
der a protective tarff. A protective
tariff has made big prices for coal,
lumber and iron. Last spring the
president called a great meeting of
the leading men in the nation, of
senators and congressman and plead
ed with them to save the natural re-
sources of the land to posterity. 1t
was there stated that at the present
rate of consumption the lumber of
the country would be all gone in 20
years, yet lumber is protected and
the lumber barons are cutting this
|, off as fast as they can for their i'm,
| mediate benefit, yet lumber is pro-
tected. Free lumber would make it
much cheaper for all of us.
! When the coal and iron are gone
they are gone forever. We can plant
more trees, but can't plant coal and
IRON. If the tariff was removed on
these they would be cheaper as we
could then draw ON foreign nations
for supplies and make our OWE last
longer by removing the pressure on
the native product. The forests, the
coal and the iron are all in the
hands of the trusts who are convert
ing them into cash as fast as they
can and yet We are year after year
helping them do it by keeping on
with the tariff; hence the inereasinf
prices for all commodities into which
these articles enter.
We can't expect much from state
officers or platforms, so must look
to the national platforms or to cong
ress. In the Democratic national
platform we find great similarity
to the state platform, but in the
Chicago document we look in vain
for planks advocating the election of
United States senators by popular
vote, as it was voted down almost
unanimously; We see nothing of the
physical valuation of railroads, of
guaranteeing bank deposits, and all
that is said about revision of the tar
iff is a promise to call an extra ses-
sion of congress to revise it. But
they don't say how they will do it..
Why didn't they say they were going
q to reduce it? (Applause.) l believe
the men who drew the Chicago plat
form were not only masters of the
English language, but also masters
of the convention-high protection
lists who were in control, and prompt
ly turned down the popular election
of senators, physical valuation of
railroads, guaranty of bank deposits
and other things which might take
the control of things out of their
hands.
Evidently the state Republicans
are out of touch with the national
fellows-with Taft-on the bank de-
post plank. Now, that guarantee is
good thing. When an individual
goes to the bank for a loan he must
put up ample security for it, but
when he deposits his money in the
bank he gets little piece of paper,
and If the bank goes under all he
! has is the little piece Of paper.
Il (Great applause.) The state, cities.
counties, school districts. in fact all
public associations require security
for their funds. Why should not In
dividuals?
Governor Burke adroitly placed
9 himself in the position of the 'tIittle
fellow" in the present campaign
! and charged that the whole batter.
of the Republican campaign was
!, ieveled at him alone; that he had /
I number of times been misrepresent
led in the Republican papers and b!
3 orators and therefore was PRACTICAL,
s compelled to take the stump In de
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