Show POLITICAL POTO first am tad organization of the bounty democracy the delegates who attended the republicans of the first and second wards rallied in fine adape at the courthouse court house on wednesday evening the opera house band was and rendered et irrine and appropriate mu sic A very pleasing feature of the meeting was alie large attendance of ladies at mr nominated J 0 arabam as chairman of the meeting carried mr graham alie meeting for the honor bestowed and stated the object of the meeting was the organization of republican cluba in the first and second municipal wards he cong ratu those engaged in the present campaign of both parties for the n a clean manner in which they had conducted the campaign there had not existed that rancor which had been so apparent in many previous campaigns A change had come durine the past lew months in the politics of utah there was now but one local political party in the field alie liberal party and that would abon be applause II 11 M edwarda was elected secretary of the meeting mr george sutherland was introduced he opened his remarks by abat ing that a glance at the intelligent faces of the audience revealed the fact that it was a republican meeting on saturday last he had taken an affectionate farewell of the liberal party and he had scarcely worn the collar marks from his neck before he was pressed in to service in a republican harness he felt a little rusty in speaking on republicanism lican ism but there was no rust on his belief in republican principles in his mind there was now no longer any reason for the existence of the liberal party the people of utah had given up polygamy and there was no union of church and stale he was willing to take by the hand any man in utah be be mormon jew or gentile the only requisite being that he believed beli eyed in re publican principles the speaker then took up alie of the republican party it was iced iti 1856 in 1860 it was organized on a fighting basis and elected abraham lincoln president of the united states the republican party had always been the progressive party the democratic party at one time favored the principle of state secession we drove that idea out of their heads at tho point of bainet at one time the democrats were opposed to national banks hut after a while we succeeded in driving that idea out of their minds and now even the average democrat can see the utility ot national banks and so we are educating them up step by step and I 1 expect after a while we will succeed in educating them up to understand the benefits of a tariff for protection the tariff question is the live issue of alie day these other issues are dead and I 1 dont care to discuss them the republicans believe in a protective tariff and the democrats believe in a tariff for revenue only the republicans favor the placing of a tariff en those goods which we produce at home such as woolen goods the democrats favor the placing of a tariff on articles that we do not produce such as lea the entered upon an exhaustive argument upon these respective positions taken by the republicans and democrats showing that a protective tariff for the benefit of our home in was essential for the welfare of the country this principle could be carried out not a national sense but in a state capacity in a county capacity in a city capacity and almost in a family capacity for instance the merchants of our city pay a license for the conducting of their business if some itinerant peddler comes into the town he is charged a much higher license or tax than the merchant this is for the protection of our merchants were it not so itinerant peddlers might drive our merchants out of business and then they could charge whatever price they pleased this idea would be carried out in a national natio oal eliise if free trade were prevalent our own manufacturers would be driven out of business bu einess and foreign manufacturers could charge whatever prices they pleased on the other hand there is enough competition in ane united states under a protective system to keep down tho price of goods to the actual cost ot manufacture paying a fair price to workmen and we dont want it any lower of course the republicans public ans and also the democrats do not believe in monopolies or trusts tho democrats eav protection favors trusts As ft matter of fact it will be found that trusts exist on those articles that are not protected the strongest trust wo have had is the standard oil trust there is no duty whatever on coal oil the democrats prophesied of the evil results that would follow the mckinley bill we were told that woolen goods would be 25 or 30 percent higher but I 1 had occasion to confer with a couple of traveling salesmen on this subject and they stated that boolen boods were actually lowrie in price than before the passage of alie mck n ey bill the speaker closed his remarks by urging the young men to the principles of doth political carlies and then decide throughout bis remarks mr land was greeted with warm applause mr J W N the republican war borss was introduced he i aid he had been called a irrean many things in his life but he had never before been culled a war horse he made the assertion that under a system of protection the wage earners of america received more money than under a system of free trade he had a list of industries showing the comparative wages received by wage earners in free trade england and protective united deates dt ates boot and shoe cutters in england in america 13 08 per finishers in England in per week two industries showed an average of per week in england and 1190 in america many other figures presented blowing that under a system of krotec tion wages were always belter than under a system ol 01 comparative free trade he took up the subject of trusts and gave figures showing that when there was no trust sugar bold tight pounds for one dollar but when there was a trust in 1890 sugar sold twelve and a half pounds for one dollar the social question was also treated upon in england husband wife and children were compelled to work for their daily bread children eleven years of age who should ba at school were compelled to work at the furnaces inhaling the poisonous gases and smokes it was not so in america children are liere kept in school statistics show that the american workman eaves the english workman eaves 13 air intern ced liis remarks by many humorous and witty sayings which called forth the mirth of the audience to an alarming extent old man osterloh was especially amused and frequently interrupted and rather annoyed the speaker with his guffaws and ejaculations the substantial arguments advanced met with the most vehement applause he cited an instance in conclusion of an indian swapping his buckskin for powder and shot he was a true iree trader some one asked the indian what his politics were and he replied me damoc at the band played and the meeting adjourned after which a large gumbei of the auditors came ferword and signed the republican roll of honor |