Show EVENING RALLY at the opera there was a big audience in the evening to hear senator rawlins answer senator lion john T caine introduced senator rawlin who said ladies and gentlemen senator armed with fabricated figures and with facts drawn from hi fancy lias been selected by the trusts as their chief advocate and plausible messenger of deception his special mission to utah was to laud senator kearns and to deliver tho local republicans to the sugar trust my binic is too short to point out as I 1 might in detail his erroneous alg arcs and faulty logic I 1 will give however some specimens of his inaccuracy the first two sentences af pf senator bel cringes crid speech are AS follows the total cost of the war with spain was nearly four hundred million dollars alie cost of suppressing the insurrection in the philippines was let us see how wide of the mark this first statement is the war with spain lasted from the of april until the irth of august 1898 its total cost including the expense of occupation in cuba was less than two hundred millions of dollars the insurrection in the philippines never has been suppressed our latest information is that gen chance has ordered gen sunnier to dispatch an army to fight the moros the actual appropriation made on account of the war in the philippine since it commenced on the ath of february 1899 not including pensions to disabled amounts to the normal expenses for the army and navy are shown by the appropriations for the fiscal year 1898 namely for he a riny and for the navy with deficiencies making n total of while the total appropriations for this purpose made for alie succeeding five years amount to multiplying the normal appropriations for 1898 by five we have a total of deducting this last sum from the former leaves a balance of deducting as the cost of the spanish war leaves the cost of the philippine war as above stated senator beveridge says that during the past five years the debt of the republic has been reduced more than en millions of dollars the fact is that the republican congress making the spanish war an excuse authorized the secretary of the treasury to incur an indebtedness by the issuing of bonds of four hundred millions ol dollar TWO hundred million dollarson dollar bonds were accordingly issued under this authority adding so much to the public debt the same con erets authorized the secretary of the tr usury to fund the treasury notes and greenbacks green backs in interest bear ing bonds thus converting this legal tender money into the debt of the nation they have also sought to convert silver money amounting to about five hundred million dollars into a debt represented bv bonds bearing interest the fowler bill which recently passed the house of representatives has this for its object if these schemes of the Ite publican party are carried into effect the debt of the nation will ix augmented more than a billion of dollars moreover th outstanding bonds which by their terms were payable in coin that is gold or fiher have by republican legh Ution been converted into gold bonds thus adding greatly to the burden of the obligation of the people it is the settled policy of the republican party not to pay off but to augment the bonded debt of ane united states in order that the bonds may be donated to tho banks upon which they may issue bank notes to circulate as money ap to the par value nf the bonds and we are informed by tho present secretary of alie treasury that he is careful to keep on hand ready made large supply of such notes to be turned over to the banks senator beveridge says that sine the spanish war the other expenses of the government werft more than one billion of dollar the fact is that appropriations made by each congress since that time have amounted to about one billion filp hundred millions of dollar the burden of which tho people must pay nc interest has been therefore greatly increased whatever expenses have been gaiu have been paid not by the republican party but out of the taxes gathered from alie people of all parties this extravagant expenditure will not prove a blessing but a curse to the american people further on in lire speech is another example of inaccuracy I 1 quote his language tho cash value of the products of american farms themselves increased in value nearly five billions of dollars in answer to this I 1 compare the value of the agricultural products of 1880 with those of 1000 taken from the report of the department of agriculture the corn crop of 1880 was valued at in 1000 is wag valued at an increase in twenty years of about the wheat crop in WAR 0 in aco it was a decrease of about oat in 1880 was ISO in 1000 an increase of in 1880 was in 1000 n decrease of barley in 1880 was in 1900 it was 24 a decrease of about that i in 1990 the value of these farm products was than it 1880 senator beveridge says the only law ever enacted to regulate trusts was passed by a republican congress if this be true it wa evidently intended that the law should be r dead letter senator beyeridge hayg that trusts do not esit by reason of the tariff it is certain however that the dingley eraitt law was framed largely in the in of the trusts duties were placed upon all articles coining from abroad which might compete he product of the arnt of this country it has been clearly proved before the industrial that these trusts so protected sall for export much cheaper y sell to the american people ihly meet foreign competition ri foreign markets without the aid of protection tec tion and foreign consumers derive the benefit while bv reason of the tariff they shut out foreign competitors from our onn market and exact prices as high as the tariff duties win permit and the american consumer buffers tah advantage it is tl plain that these duties build up and strengthen the trusts enable them more effectually to control prices and shut out competition senator says how shall the prosperity of the last five years be continued is the real question of the campaign new markets for american products that 13 the only answer to this great question how does the re publican party propose to obtain new markets and extend trade senator 3 it is by reciprocity with cuba and other countries and by the expansion of territory raw sugar is produced in Cn cabais bais bought by the garrest gar rust the refined article sold to the american people tho administration wants the duty on raw sugar coming from cuba reduced the sugar trust is protected in the american market from foreign competition by what is known as the differential duty upon refined sugar the democrats in the house aided by tome forty republicans passed a bill reducing the duty upon raw sugar coming from cuba 20 per cent and repealing the differential duty upon refined sugar tho former provision was to fac advantage of the trust to the extent or 20 per cent and it might resulting resul tin raising to the cuban planter slightly the price of his raw sugar the repeal of the differential duty was to the disadvantage of the sugar trust tending to destroy its monopoly and to cheapen the price of refined sugar to the american people when this bill reached the senate the administration and the republican leaders were unwilling to permit it to pass in the form in which the bill came from the house the sugar trust in other words would not permit this party which it controls to repeal the differential ferent ial duty upon refined sugar which would tend to weaken and destroy its monopoly jt seems quite plain that the chief motive which inspires the administration to exert its influences for the reduction of the duty upon raw sugar coming from cuba is that the sugar trust may receive this advantage it is rather their interest in monopoly than their desire for the relief of suffering cuba which inspires their activity the demand for expanded markets ha behind it a similar purpose it is not expanded markets for our agricultural products because great and europe must purchase for consumption whatever we have of those products to supply it is expanded markets tor the things which the trusts produce the republican party erects a tariff barrier giving these trusts a monopoly of the home market and invites them to exact ot the american people prices from 50 to per cent higher than the foreigners then while giving them thi advantage and monopoly invites them to sell like products to foreigners in competition with the rest of the world to lius enable the trusts to discriminate against the american in favor of foremen consumers the republican party would have the government engage in wars of aggression for the subjugation of unwilling peoples unfit for our citi zen snip and cast i upon the american people the burden of large and constantly increasing military and naval establishments lish ments for this demanded that we permanently retain the philippine islands in order to secure the trade ot the orient islands have cost us already more than six hundred and fifty million dollars to say nothing of the sacrifice of life resulting from this war ot aggression we cent of the islands goods to the value ot the total imports into the united states from the islands ag given by the treasury department during the year 1001 were the total exports from the united states were included in the exports are malt liquors and spirituous liquor the following shipments indicate inui cate another character ot export one shipment during june by the troopship kilpatrick conveyed coffins valued at eliat those engaged in thit trade make a net profit both on hie exports and imports of 20 per cent their total annual profit would scarce exceed or tor five years that is during the five years ot our operations erat ions in the philippines we have expended more than and haac derived a profit to offset it of not to exceed but the arc paid by the people taxpayer ot the united states and he profits however email they may be mainly go into the coffers of the trusts republican legislation and policy pays little regard to the former and crary attention to the latter and the period of outlay in tha islands has not ended but has hardly begun they bankrupted and ruined spain as stated by her representatives in paris and they will surely tend to bring about the ame result to the united states it we retain them senator beveridge says that wo instructed ted the filipinos Vili pinos in liberty wo gae them good roads just institutions equal laws tree education general prosperity and happiness how opposite this picture is to the reali gen bell in an interview silted that tance our occupation cu more than one esth of all the inhabitants of luzon had perished last an official report 0 the acting governor of batangan Ba tangas informed us that the population ot that province in two years and hwn reduced from more than to inhabitants ninety per cent of their draft animals have perished according to th testimony of gov taft no road hat been built by us except for some military movement towns and villages ot tho inhabitants bv the hundreds have been the prosperity we have given them i evidenced by the charred ruins of the homent the people every where we have dispensed disease and death and desolation it may ba truly eaid of us that we have caused death to live and life to die throughout the archipelago As an example ot liberty to those people we have forbidden them to read alio declaration of our independence the philippine commission has paused law making it a penal offense to belong to any association or for the promulgation 0 any political principle or policy terror inquisition and torture arb alie means there by which we preserve peace good men leaving home and acquiring a philippine experience on return advocate the adoption of the bisaroe means liere which we have there the policy of alit republican party during the enst five yeara both domestic colonial nd foreign ha apen in contravention of th hippy and traditions 0 the republic sine the days of it establishment if that jon linued the uba tanco of our free int sL will be eaten out and the lie destroyed and not even its form may remain as an example to console the lovera of freedom throughout the world and in future generations the senator said that a newspaper conspiracy existed which had robbed him of credit for what he had done in congress and distorted his utterances so that he thought he might have to come home in sackcloth and ashes after paving liis respects to heath and smoot the senator at threatened to stop but the personal turn in his discourse had made ft hit and cries of go on came from all over tho house lie continued for about five minutes longer and then gave way to the ladies quartette which sang a parody on 1 I wish I 1 were a white man very sweetly and for a third time responded to an encore at the close of judge kings address chairman john T caine made an announcement that caused more enthusiasm thusia sm than any other incident of the evening meeting it was to the effect that frank J cannon bad been elected chairman of the state committee and had accepted the election mr cannon was introduced nd wai greeted with a yell proof that the rank and file ratified the action of the state committee the new chairman spoke briefly and in his most earnest style he urged every democrat to do his full duty not to depend on his neighbors but to do his own work himself he said it was n poor mans fight against a syndicate of wealth that every man must contribute his mite abid do his share of the work he did not want a man outside of utah to contribute a 6 cent piece he demanded to know if he wa agreeable to the candidates and when assured that he was he said then I 1 am your chairman there must be concentrated ion he baid 1 I will not rule but I 1 purpose pur pose to carry into effect the purpose of the people and no democrat and no Ke publican will be permitted to stand in the wy of that purpose there was great enthusiasm when chairman cannon dosed his remarks |