The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-07-06
Is Very Sarcastic in
Reference to Print
Paper.
PROBLEM OF RACE
When Asiatics Of Pacific Coast Re-
ceive the Franchise Then There Will
Be New Race Question to Solve
Negroes I'm North Carry the Race
Problem With Them.


VI one of the speakers at the
Fourth of July celebration at
Tammany hall today. After pay
ing tribute to the organization,
its accomplishments and services,
Governor Gilchrist turned to ma
tional issues, declaring that
"Great as the possibilities are for
the further growth and develop
ment of this country. yet its
greatness will be but as 'whiten-
ed sepulchre, beautiful without,
but within full of dead mems
bones,' if the policy of the pres
ent ruling power in this nation is
to continue"
Governor Gilchrist referred to the
tariff question and pointed out what
he declared to be fallacies and absur-
edities of Republican platform prom
ises and assertions. When the high
protective tariff was first established,
it was, he said, for the benefit of in
fant industries. after 48 years, and
after they have become able to COM
pete successfully with the world, do
you still consider them infants?" he
asked. "Then they said that the for
eigner paid the tariff.
do you suppose that the American
Newspaper Publishers association be-
lieves that when they Resolved that
it is the sense of this meeting that
the duty on printing paper, wood pulp
and other materials entering into the
manufacture of printing paper be i'm
mediately repealed?'
'"The Democratic party very proba-
bly,, styled this Sc per ton no tax upon
the foreign, but a tax upon the
spread of knowledge Thanks to the
protest of the press and the Demo-
cratic party, it is now proposed to re-
wise downward this particular tax.
"In the last campaign, did you not
hear of notices being posted in the
shops that they would run at half
time if the Democratic party sue
ceeded? They would throw the finan-
ciaI and industrial interests of the
country to the four winds if a party
succeeded to power which would pass
laws so that the evils of privileges
and favorites would not assert them
selves in securing "a per cent more
than they should receive in the an
nual disposition of wealth of the
country; they practically threatened
the country with ruin If their 'privi-
leges' were cut down. 1t is the same
old tactics which were used when
Tammany was successful in f1ghtlng
for the election of Andrew Jackson.
Governor Gilchrist condemned CEN
tralization of wealth as "legallzed
robbery" declaring ut is bound to
result in the elimination of the mid
die classes and the draining of the
wealth of the masses into the hands
of the beneficiaries of the legallZed
combinations"
"Will the people assert their rlgnts
after 12 or Is years more OF Repub-
lican rule in favor of the so-called Ia
boring MANI" he said. "Will they be
stronger when a thousand men will
own one-fifth of the property of the
United States, but 5000 men shall
a have owned Is per cent or 80 per cent
.of the wealth of the country"
! 'Eew England ancestors OF the Re-
nublican party were responsible for
slavery at it's inception. The Repub-
lican party in it's platform now talks
about having freed the slaves. They
never did any such thing. Their free
dom grew out of a war incident to the
secession, the seeds of which they had
themselves sown. Instead of the Re-
nublicans claiming that they freed
the slaves, their statement would have
been more accurate had they claimed
that in open defiance of the constltu-
zion they unslaved the negroes"
Governor Gilchrist said he was op-
posed to the Inauguration of steps to
test the constitutionality of the hf-
teenth amendment to the federal con-
stitution being started by any south
ern magistrate or state. at can safe
ly be affirmed" said he that sooner
or later. when the Asiatics become
voters in California and elsewhere on
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