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Show PROTECTION, PROSPERITY. That "Was the Leg-end Inscribed on Cannon's Banner WHEN THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE REACHED MONROE. He Is Unwilling- to Dig: Up Dead Issues, BUT ADDRESSES HIMSELF TO THE LIVE QUESTIONS OF TODAY. yir. Cannon Mipoke on the Sam Day ' at Marysv&Ie and. at Circle Valley to Easier Audiences on the Accomplishments Ac-complishments of the Two Parties, Contrasting the Relative Merits of Protection With Free Trade as Apply ins to Utah. Monroe, Sept. 30. At 10:30 this morning Hon. Frank J. Cannon reached Monroe. On the outskirts of the town a delegation of prominent citizens met the candidate with a martial band playing patriotic, airs and carrying car-rying a transparency upon which was painted a cannon and the legend, "Protection, "Protec-tion, Prosperity." As the procession entered en-tered the town guns and anvils were fired, and a brass band fell in line. The hall was decorated with flags, bunting and flowers, and every inch of space was occupied, and many stood around the entrance until the speaking was over. The Richfield Glee club was in attendance, and its excellent rendering render-ing of the campaign songs elicited the usual enthusiastic encores from the audience. Mr. Cannon's appearance on the stand was the signal for a burst of applause that shook the building. After expressing his appreciation of the good will shown him by the audience he said it was not his intention to review the past history of politics in Utah, as appeared pression of other lands. (Applause.-) jt offers grander opportunities than any other in the world, in witness of which SQO.OnO people passed lirough our open ports lat yew to embrace them, mother lands the boy whose father is one of the toiling millions, must be content to see befores him nothing better than his father's footstep. The child of a American ia her has within its rasp the highest gift of this great people. He sees before him the path trodden by the BABE FEKT OP ABRAHAM LCiCOLN, of Grant and Garfield. Tremendous applause. Fellow citizens, it is for the perpetuatiou, the glory and the aggrandizement of thes great institutions in-stitutions and opportunities that the Republican party comes before you with its sacred record of past achievements, aud its pledges for the future, and ask your euSrage upon the policy aud platform plat-form it has endorsed, because it believes that policy to be the best for the furtherance of that great purpose, the perpetuation of our government govern-ment und its institutions. On the contrary, the Democratic party has a policy which is, in my opinion, calculated to destroy our institutions and to put a narrower limit upon the opportuni-r opportuni-r tied of its citizens. Its policy is one which, if carried out, would crtainly end in forcing the same social and industrial conditions i pon us that prevail in the free trade countries of downtrodden Europe, to throw i down the wall of protection which now surrounds us under the Republican policy, and lay at the feet of England's manufacturers and capitalists our manufacturing, our mining and our agricultural agricul-tural industries. This is what the Democratic policy ot free trade means for us. Had it not been for the tariff on lead, Mexico would now be supplying sup-plying the United States with the product of THE FEOX LABOR OF MEXICO. Had it not been for the tariff on tin plate Wales would mow be supplying the f 13,0iX),0uo produced in this country thi.i year. Had it not been fcr tho turn; on wire i.ailt the American people would b paying more than f 10 per keg, as they did in 1875, to English manufacturers, and the manufacturers of this country would be making mak-ing even loss than the paltry 10,-00J 10,-00J kegs manufactured by them that year. The Republican party advocates free silver, as the bill which passed the last Republican senate and was buriea by a Democratic house cf representative repre-sentative becauee they were afraid to send it to thts Republican president, knowing he would bign it, has shown. Looking back over the record of the Republican party, it is not too much to say that it lias been and is one ot the greatest if not the GREATEST GIFT OF GOD TO HUMANITY, since when, six years after its inception, it swept into the White house that great martyred champion of human liberty, Abe Lincoln, great applause to this day, when it stands as it ever did, the protector of teamen and the liberator of slaves. (Tremendrous applause. Can the party of free trade say as much? I think not; but I am not here to draw comparison which can but reflect aaiiitt the one without adding to the glory of the other. I rather choose to ieavw the comparison with you, safe in the belief that your sense of justice, your honor and your love for your country will lead you to give your suffrages to the party it is your interest and your children's interests should be vindicated and maintained, and upon whose broad platform of protection and universal liberty 1 stand. LCheers.J On motion of Mr. Frewen the following RESOLUTIONS WERK TjKAXIMOUSLT ADOPTED. Renolxed, That whereas tbs Republican patty is the protector of American industry, and particularly particu-larly of all that concerns the prosperity of our mountain home, we, the asuaiahled citizens of Marysvale, do heartily endorse the Republican party as the only party worthy of our earnest support. That, having listened to the able address of Mr. Cannon, the Republican candidate for delegate to r.nnorrAiH- wa&Iko nlAdcrA aurMlvM tx work And to be the policy of the speakers of the Democracy. Dem-ocracy. He would rather tell them of some of the glorious possibilities of the future for the people of Utah under the Republican policy of governmental administration. The conditions of tho past, he said, had placed the people of Utah in a position where national na-tional party politics had been forgotten in the heat of local ptrtisanism and prejudice. THAT PAST 18 DEAD AUD BURIED, he said, and the patriotic citizens of this territory, terri-tory, with their feet npon its grave, forgive its errors and condone its wrongs, looking only to the future that is before them, full of hope. Great applause. The efforts that have been made in this and other localities by the opposition to reopei the old wonuds for partisan purposes will, I am confident, be a? futile as they are unmanly, and I will leave them to the oblivion into which they have already gone. fApplaase.1 It has been vote for the success of Mr. Cannon as oar representative repre-sentative to congress, and we hereby extend to Mr. Cannon onr thanks for his able address. AT CIRCLE VALXEl" 1 " a meeting waa held at 7:30 this evening, where Mr. Cannon had a rousing receptioa. Owing to the continued and almost herculean hercu-lean exertions, consequent npon keeping 60 many engagements and traveling such great distances every day without rest, Mr. Cannon's Can-non's Toice was almost exhausted, and it was with the utmost difficulty that he managed man-aged to address the audience. William Rubey presided and introduced WILLIAM M. M'CARTT, assistant district attorney for tbe Second judicial district, one of Utah's brightest young legal lights, who made a brief but eloquent address upon tbs duty of every American citizen to his country to uphold and maintain the institutions of tbe government, govern-ment, showing that the policy of the Republican Repub-lican party was best adapted to attain that object. Every man, he said, who owns 160 arres of land in this country owes his support to the Republican Republi-can party, who, in the face of the bitterest opposition oppo-sition from the Democracy, made the law that gave it to them. Every miner in these hills of ours owes his allegiance to the party whoaa policy has protected nis occupation from the invasion in-vasion of the peon labor of Mxico. Every farmer in these broad valleys owes it his love for fostering and maintaining the diverse industrial enterprises which make the market for the products of - his labor, by protecting them trom competition with foreign pauper labor and the insatiable and merciless mer-ciless greed of foreign capitalists. Compare its record with that of the Democratic party of free trade, the friend of foreign capital and foreign labor, and judge which it is to your interest to support. lie then said that he knew the audience was waiting to hear from the Republican nominee, and said that in introducing the HOJf. FRANK J. CANN0N he would only say that he was a Republican, loyal to his party and devoted to the interests inter-ests of Utah and her people. . ' Mr. Cannon was received with applause. He went over the tariff question in a clear, logical manner, and dwelt at some length upon the nail business, showing that in 1875, when a duty of but one cent per pound was imposed upon wire nails, the price per keg was $10, while only 1000 kegs were manufactured in this country, the great bulk of the product coming from Wales. In the next few years, under a Republican Re-publican administration, a tariff of four cents per pound was-imposed and the Democracy De-mocracy raised the old cry of robbery. But under that tariff in 1S91 the American manufacturers manu-facturers were making 4,000,000 kegs at a price of $1.55 per keg, while the tariff had been reduced to two dollars per one hundred pound, which was 45 cents more than the price. He went over the history of the McKinley bill, and pointed out how it had reduced the price of manufactured manu-factured articles in this country and raised the wages. How it had fostered the tin plate industry until this year ;13,000,000 pounds of the article had been made in this claimed that the people of Utah are under a great debt of gratitude to the Democracy for its efforts in their behalf in the balls of congress and In our territorial legislature. The Democratic legislature in this territory showed its love for the people by killing a sugar bounty bill which, had it become a law, would have been the means of establishing a sngar manufactory in every county in the territory, and opening a new market for the farmers' products as wdi" as creating a demand for an entirely new product. And tiie amount saved to the people on the reduced price of tugar would have paid the bounty and left a considerable sum over in their pockets, w hile the bounty itseif would have been paid not by the Brasses, but principally prin-cipally by the rich men Iwho could easily" afford it, since that cliiss pay the most taxes. Again, that lody passed a bill which compels com-pels the farmer, who, fc r any reason, borrows money oc his prop?rty, to pay taxes on it all the fame," and also pays interest on the borrowed money, while the receiver of that interest, the lender of the money, pay no tax on it at all. Applause. Formerly the money loaner was compelled to pay taxes on the mortgage, but tbe Democratic ierris'ature probably thinks that an imposition on the farmer, and concluded to ear his mind by 2'AKINO nix FAT FOE IT ALL. Great applause. The Democrats have done a great many things of this tort for love of the farmers, but these instances are enough, I t.Hink. to prove their affection. Laughter. lie then explained in his usual clever and logical way, w hat the tariff is, and pointed out the great benefit the Republican policy pol-icy had been to the country. He showed that Biaine's reciprocity policy had opened a new and great market for American products, pro-ducts, and at the same time admitted to this country, free of duty, a great variety of articles ar-ticles of common consumption, which were not produced here and did not need protection, protec-tion, so that the toiling masses might obtain then at the lowest possible price. He showed how tbe mining industry of the United States, and of Utah in particular, depended upon the tariff imposed upon foreign lead, which shut out competition from the peon labor of Mexico, and pointed out the disastrous disas-trous effects which must follow the destruction destruc-tion of that industry by the free trade policy of the Democratic nartv. country. At the conclusion of the address one of the prominent Democrats accompanied Mr. Cannon to his lodgittgs, where in answer to his inquiries, he received a course of instruction in-struction on the tariff from the Republican standpoint that staggered his belief in the policy and principles of the Democracy, and departed a wiser, if not a sadder man. A strong Republican, club ws organized after the meeting, which will no doubt sweep that burg clean for the party of protection. pro-tection. a He closed with an appeal to the people to consider the policy of the two parties now asking their suffrages in Utah, and urged them to cat their votes for the party whose principles they believed nearest to their interests, in-terests, snd the candidate who would the ablest represent them all. MA11T3VAI B was the next stopping place. A crowd had already assembled at the schoolbouse when the candidate and his party arrived. The room was decorated with flags and there was a great deal of enthusiasm evinced. Mr. Cannon was introduced to the audience audi-ence by Mr. Miles Durkee, who presided. He said that he had been struck with the grandeur of the scenery as he entered the valley, and it had reminded Lira of the grandeur of the Institutions of our government govern-ment and the responsibilities devolviag upon its citizens in the support and protection of them. Anrl it is not pocsible, he said, for any citizen of this iiiand republic not to love and honor its institutions, I care not whether he was bora under un-der its Hag, or fled to its protection from the op- |