Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-16
Nebraska
BURKETT SHOWS UP DEMOS
Senator in Speech at North Bend Dis
seots Party Acts.
ACT AS BLOCK 10 ALL PROGRESS
Members Of Rich FsrmtnE Community
Are Tola Of AchieveBents Of
Republfcans-Addre at
serfbner stock show.

NORTH BEND. Neh sept R-,spscisl)
Burkett IN his speech tonight
Divert VERY largely upon the interests o.
the farmer IN the policies Of the republican
party he said that the democrats had al
ways tried 20 make the farmer believe thai
be had 10 interest in the protective tariff
policy e1oept TO help share its imaginary
burdens. which q democrat Was always able
70 picture In the most sxaspeTs1ing terms
The senator said that no argument vAs
needed for those farmers who were old
enough 20 remember the conditions when
the democratic pity vsE in power and
their policies we're In operation. between
lgss and 1877
The democrats were opposed 70 the pTc-
tsctive tariff policy then, just - they are
opposed TO Il today. and when they came
into power they broke down the republican
protective tariff policy the ffrEt thing they
did-
As q resulted that" said the senator.
the factories Of this country were closed.
8On.1no q men were thrown out Of en-
ploynent and 1,.Hoo.poo os women and chill
dren went hungry 20 bed every night The
men were reduced 70 the low scale Of Euro
pean wages and were forced onto Chinese
diet Some Of you men may Ike IL but I
don't want any more Of Il IN nine
Think ofit-publc credit IrverinE, reve-
nues declining and the national debt grow
ing In a time Of profound peace; labor IN
employed or working At the lowest wages
for fifty years. and all farm products below
the cost Of production, and some Of them
with DO market At all That was the oon-
dition when the democratic policies were in
force in tbs country-oorn u cents 10 Is
cents. wheat 30 cents TO - centa oats
cents TO 10 cents. hogs 2 cents TO cents.
sheep 4 dollar q head, and the American
people starving. know . man who shipped
a carload Of horses 10 ST Louis and sban-
doned them because he could not sell them
for enough 10 pay the freight know al
other instance Of where they drew upon
the shipper for 80 deficiency 20 pay the ex-
penses over I'D above what the horses sold
for.
Those were the conditions that the re-
publican party Sound the country in in 1897
after the democrats had rua Il four years.
II there had not been republican party
at that tine tohold CUT some hope Of RELIEF
20 the American people in ther distress
there would have been a revolution
The FIRST thing that the republicans did
after coming into power again was to re
enact the protective tariff fpolicy. and the
democrats said il was unconstitutional and
every democrat in congress voted against
il But We enacted IL into Law against theiI
protest We shut out the Mexican and
South American cattle, and held back tbs
Canadian hay. We stopped the inflow Of
European manufactures. started the fac.
tories on this side Of the Atlantic and SCI
the idle men TO work. We disbandsd tbs
hungry bread lines and reorganiBed the mel
into the fun dtnner-psIr brigade. We dis
charged coxey's army. put the Democrat,
party out OF business and the stars in theil
course once more looked down upon a pros
porous and oontenteo American people"