The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-09-23

upon election day that they are not for
getful of the lessons of the past, and are
intelligent enough to comprehend the
lessons of today and the dangers which
confront them,
VOTERS WERE WARNED IN 1892
In the 1892 we were living under a
prosperity resulting from the application
of the Mckinley tariff bill, 1t was per-
haps the best planned tariff measure
that ever was enacted by any party 1t
had not only been enacted and was just
being applied, and the prosperity Incl
dent to it was being enjoyed by the
people when the American people voted
the Republican party out of power,
When they placed the stamp of their
condemnation upon this splendid legs-
lation known as the Mckinley Bill, they
voted away the prosperity and happi-
ness of their homes We warned you on
that day that you dare not tamper with
that question; and when | say we"
mean those who spoke for the Republic
can party--warned them that the tariff
bill, the protective tariff policy of the
Republican patty, was the foundation
and shett anchor of their prosperity
But you looked at us in the face and
smiled why" they said, the Amerf-
can people are so established that
nothing can disturb their PROSPERITY
for it rests upon general principles out
side of legislation; they would be pros
porous i'll the absence of the Mckinley
tariff bill or of the protective tariff
policy of the Republican party"
INDU sTRIAL CONDITIONS HAVE CHANGED.
We warned them that they were mis-
taken but there had grown up genera
ton of young voters i'll the country
since the time when the Democratic
party had been last in power who were
carried away by the promises of Democ
racy that II they were returned to power
the prosperity of the country would not
be disturbed They had seen partial
Democratic administration in 1884 when
Mr. Cleveland was first elected; there
was Republican congress that prevent
ed the application of the doctrines of the
Democracy to the affairs of this country /;
and they reminded us there was no panic
when Mr.. Cleveland was elected in 1884,
, and they cited that as a reason for deny
ing the correctness of our prophecy
when we told them that in the year
1899 conditions were different, and that
a democratic congress and democratic
, president would have the power to carry
out the pledges that were written in the
democratic platform, and that if they did
carry them out that it would mean the
destruction of the prosperity OF our
country.
| Idaho in that hour went crazy. When
| recall the theories and doctrines adj
vanced in that administration, am
stricken with amazement and wonder
that any people should go so far astray,
In 1892 we had just been made a state,
A republican congress had created the
state of Idaho, then the territory of
| Idaho They had placed us among the
t sovereign states of the union, and we
, professed a pride becoming our posi-
: ton We strutted for few months
( upon the stage in the light of the prom
: Use of our greatness. We boosted of
5 the great position we assumed to occupy
! among the states girded ourselves with
! intelligence and patriotism; and then
went to the polls in 1892 and cast the
vote of Idaho for whom?
IDAHO FALLS IN IT'S INFANCY.
: Did you ever hear Of man by the
name of Weaver? ! do not believe many
of YOU know who he was and he is
the man to whom ldaho's vote went.
The first time they came TO the polls
they cast their vote for Weaver of
Iowa. am justified in almost stammer-
" ing over the state from which he came,
= because he has not been heard Of since,
: and do not suppose ever will be again.
What kind of political sanity was that
1t was done under the unholy combina
ton between the Populist and Democrat
ic parties with the hope Of defeating the
republican party, and brought down
upon the heads of the people of
Idaho and the heads of the people Of
this nation from one end of il to the
other, disaster and ruin, to which the
: ruins of the temple pulled down by Samp
son was slight As soon as it was
known that the people had shown symp-
toms of being no longer capable of self
| SONNi IlllOll, do oOOil do tiC NiNNliOl IL
turns advised the people Of the United
States that the Democratic party was
placed in absolute power in both houses
: Of congress, and in the Whitehouse, a
tremor of paralysis passed through the
frame of this nation which laid in ruins
at your feet your hopes, your fortunes,
your prosperity and your dreams Of hap
, piness. Many before me who remember
it wildly, and to those Of you who do
| not, and some of you we're small child
rem in that day-and it was only six
t teen years ago-I can refer you to the
! older members of the community and to
7 the written records of every community
{ in the land
PROSPERITY PROCEEDED THE PANIC.
I Both parties, all parties, in their plat
forms in 1892, boosted of the prosperity
r of the country. The Republican party
r in justification OF the wisdom of its con-
| troll; the Democratic party, for the pur-
pose of demonstrating that the ice was
/ thin and unfit to skate on; the populist
, party for the purpose of laying found