Show A mf RAILI held ity the itchus OF AMERICAN FORK judes john P breeze and mr geo mcannon the speakers republicans of american fork bad a rally last night tae mens hall a oua building vas crowded with eager enquirers alter truths ih e speaker present and appointed by the territorial committee were judge john P erenzo and hon george M cannon of faaet lake and HOD john E booth of provo the Amo rican forehand was present and played several excellent overtures mr W D robinson called the meeting to order and announced JUDGE as the first speaker the judge opened his remarks by referring to the principles set forth in the democratic national platform and bo called principles were a of denunciations and fault finding each party had placed its candidate in the bield for president of this great nation the platform of each party assumed to outline its policy and IT hile in utah we were unable tu cast our votes for either one of the candidates fiill were deeply interested in the result when we bad this it was hoped we would be able to do so antt urgently and with a clear ander amandine of our territorial condition and necessities andee breeze proceeded to thea history ot the two great since the outbreak the depleted condition of the treasury when abraham lincoln assumed tho control of the government the speaker showed how by a patristic pa and roua policy the rebellion was suppressed and the country saved every man who declared that there wa no power under the constitution to i coerce a state was a democrat every man who fought against the Union was a democrat every man who had declared that war a failure was a democrat every man who opposed the national bond system was a democrat if there is anything in the record of the democratic party connected wilh those events to point to with pride the speaker had tailed to see it that any had opposed iha homestead lay as they had abao opposed the granting i railroad subsidies and now they are bitterly oitt erly opposing the movements of the j He publican party directed in behalf of f american industries judge breeze interestingly the history of the protective tariff and 1 compared its beneficial policy and results with the free trade disasters inaugurated augu rated at different periods under democratic legislation the first protective tariff legislation was instituted under the presidency of george washington the democratic party had opposed every effective measure for the benefit of the country under the pretext that it hafi unconstitutional they claim anat the mckinley law is unconstitutional but they avoid going into acorns detent court to have its constitutionality or unconstitutionality decided upon democrats claimed that the farmers real iid no benefits from the mckiniry bill every tariff law had legislated against foreign products pro duts when their import against the american farmers democrats wanted the tariff taken off wool the bill said to thi foreigner keep your hands off the american producer and manufacturer by fostering our homa industries and biag them a chance to i subsist until atu y can become self sustaining ta we are able to build up our country eafen ine to the meu who in the last legislature had voted against the bounty on sugar be said they should be watched they are to ba mistrusted and the people of utah have no use for such enemies of the public good the judge closed his remarks by hoping that the people of utah would place themselves on record eo that this ter antory may ba to the great sisterhood of states tha of interrupted by applause the lehi glee club sang a jolly campaign song that finh unbounded enthusiasm trev were vociferously encored and gave another excellent sons which was also received with tremendous applause HON OBO il CANNON waa the second ap eaher he bad no beaire to abuse or of the democrate Demo crata many of them were his best frienda whose only fault was that they were mistaken Mr Cannon proceeded to describe the difference between a tariff for revenue only and a tariff for protection A pro tariff is not a tax because ita purpose is to build dp home industries A tariff for revenue only has not this purpose or effect it is practically drw trade ani when to this country discourages the building UD of our own and places us at the mercy of foreign manufacturers aid importers speaker arpad a speech of mr fox the british in parliament alo question of the disputed boundary between this country and anzland Enz land in that speech it w is shown british government had hoped by free trade to conquer th q country that free trade would prove more effective in bring iny taj united states into commercial subjection to england than the force of arms other authorities were read by mr cannon to show how eager great britain has been and still is to have this country a free trade policy in erder to benefit the mother country he read also numerous authorities ties to ashes that all the enry presidents of this union were in a tariff for among them jhb original democrat v bom modern democrats revered sir cannon coi eluded with soma and statistics bearing on the bent fita of the sugar industry and bounty to the people of utah an abow ing that instead of the poor as democrats alleged paying the boober bounty it was the wealthy he showed that nearly had been saved to the money lenders of salt lake by an act of the late democratic legislature and that the burden fell on the poor whose property wa under mortgage to those same money lenders mr cannon made a capital speech and waa enthusiastically applauded throughout the lehi glea club bye free traders good bye and was rewarded with tumultuous applause hon J E booth made a brief speech A democratic speaker the other night eaid eliat when he was in the legislature the bounty was given on condition that no mere bounties should hereafter be asked speaker denied ever before hearing of uch a promise being either asked or given he was in that legah lature and in a position to know what occurred in connection wath the linear bounty for he was chairman of the committee that reported the bill and recommended thy bounty and every maa u that assembly peoples party man and liberal voted for it mr booch proceeded croce eded to argue for home manufactures and then got on to the home rule he had noticed that every man who strove to have anle bill passed had an ex before his name and he went on to show how all those parties were anxious to get a year mr booth created considerable amusement by his rag baby story after which the glee club again eang and the audience was dismissed the meeting waa one of the best ever held in american fork and evidently was productive of much ment |