The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-10-22
Maddox Gives Good Talk.

Maddox Gives Good Talk.
Hon. Fletcher Maddox of Great
Falls, Republican candidate for Con-
gress and Hon. Dan Boyle of Helena,
Republican candidate for Railroad
Commissioner, started the republican
campaign ball rolling in Valley county
Thursday evening, in the first Repub
lican rally which was held in the
Gibson Opera house. The meeting
was we'll attended and the crowd was
very enthusiastic during the evening.
The Glasgow band was on hand to
furnish music and played in their
usual good form.
Mr.. Truman M. Patten candidate
for Treasurer ON the republican
ticket, presided and first introduced
Mr.. Boyle, who made brief talk.
Mr.. Boyle is now serving term as
Railroad Commissioner and his record
in Office is one that entities him to
reelection. He has been a railroad
man for forty years, and has been in
Montana since the first railroad came
through the state. He is we'll qualified
to serve in the position he now holds
and will poll big vote at the Novem-
ber election.
After Mr.. Boyle had finished, Mr..
Maddox was introduced and held the
audience deeply interested for two
hours. Mr.. Maddox has the ability
to state facts in a forcible and under
standing way which is quite plainly
pleasing to his hearers. Figuratively
speaking, he laid the democratic
party on the operating table and
dissected it. The economic plan of
the Democratic platform was made
a matter of burlesque.
He showed that no administration
in the history Of the American Re-
public has been SO eXtravagant with
public money as the present, from
increasing salaries of public officers
and erecting public buildings in
southern villages to the passage of the
rivers and harbors "pork barrel' bill.
He proved to the entire satisfaction
of his hearers that the present
Underwood tariff bill is detriment
instead of a benefit to the country.
The repeal of~4the coastwise vessels
!! bill relating to the Panama canal tolls
was clearly shown up to be one of the
most disastrous freaks of legislation
ever perpetrated against the U. S.
in taking away it's alienable rights,
all this being done by coersion of
President Wilson by the British
Government through the machination
of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Mr.. Maddox condemned the present
war tax measure as another
Democratic psychological freak and
showed how the revenues of the
country had been falling off millions
every month and that the Democrats
had been spending money faster than
they had been making it.
"The effects of the Underwood
Tariff bill may be noted in the
decrease of American Manufacturing
business, said Mr.. Maddox, land in
all lines of industry. The balance of
trade has diminished in the year of
the Underwood tariff bill, commenc-
ing with it's passage last October of
$284, ,0O0. 900, and that means practi-
cally the loss of $3.50, ,00o, 100000 that
has gone into the manufacture of the
articles of trade that composed this
total of 284 million dollars, and a
large part of that $50 million dollars
has been lost to our own American
workmen and the entire portion of it
has gone into the pockets of foreign
laborers and lost to our own working
men.
The effect of the administration may
also be seen in the shrinkage of pay
rolls in manufacturing centers going
through the balance. They made an
estimate, taking the last week in June,
1914, as compared with the last week
in June, 1913, and found a shrinkage
in "a banks in fourteen of the
manufacturing states of sS67,000 in
the payrolls in one week, which is
carried through the same banks for
the entire year would run into