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MASTERLY ADDRESS BY
HON. BU RTON L. FRENCH
Congressman From the Staate of Ide^ho Ably
Discusses Na.tiorval a.nd Staate Issues.
Ida.ho a.nd the Protective Tariff—Wool a.rvd Lee^d, the States
Two Greatest Industries, Amply Protected.
Democratic Dreams of Nfvtione.1 Prosperity That Were Realized Only Under Republican
Rxile—The Mormon Question—Gooding 's Administration.
Hon. Burton L. French, congressman
from the state of Idaho, and Republican
candidate for re-election, delivered the
following able address at the Columbia
theatre in Boise, October G:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies nnd Gentlemen:
I cannot tell you what deep pleasure
I feel at meeting so magnificent an
audience this evening in the capital of
the state. We have met for the purpose
of considering some of the principles,
some of the questions that confront us
at this time as a state and as a nation.
It is a great distinction, that to share
and have part in the management of the
affairs of a nation so great and so splen
did as ours. Yet that distinction is ours
and this distinction inspires every man
and every woman of thoughtful mien
to higher purposes and nobler aspira
tions for self, for family and for nation.
Yet, somehow. I think, as my mind goes
back over the history that the books
tell us of, that the most striking periods
in all times are those which have wit
nessed the struggle of mankind for the
overthrow of monarchlal government
and despotism and the establishment of
free institutions; the right to worship
Ood according to the dictates of con
science, the right to speak freely one's
thoughts upon great questions and the
right to share In the management of a
great nation; these are the prerogatives
that go with being an American citizen.
This Is your heritage from the fathers
who fought the battles of the Revolu
tion a hundred years ago, and It Is
your duty now to zealously protect this
sacred bequest. It is your duty now to
pass on down to the generations yet un
born this great boon which belongs to
the moat favored nation at the dawn of
the twentieth century. (Applause.)
In controlling the affairs of our na
tion the people have found it necessary
to divide themselves into political par
ties. Political parties stand for prin
ciples and probably there never was a
political party that represented the
thoughts and ideals of all who were en
rolled beneath its banner; and yet the
parties that have divided the people of
our country have been so broad and
generous that, with rare exception, they
have represented the best Judgment of
our peoples.
At all times in the history of our
country there have been two great po
litical parties, and the parties which
today 9tand before you and ask for
your suffrage represent, in large part,
the political parties a{ the birth of our
nation. Different in names they are.
and yet the principles for which they
stand arc the principles which divided
the minds of our people when the first
steps of our great nation were being
taken. The Democratic party looks
back to Thomas Jefferson as the foun
tain head of true Democracy. The Re
publican party looks back to the lives
of Washington, Hamilton, and from
them drinks in Inspiration for the re
sponsibilities of today. It is right that
there should be two great parties ca
pable of outlining great policies and
capable of their execution. The other
party, no less resolute, yot watchful
critical, and by this spirit of watch
fulness ever holding check upon tha
party in power, lost that party, made
vain by continued trust Imposed in it
would forgot the duty It owes to a great
people.
lie
OreM Party'■ Birth.
In name, the Republican party was
Kirn a half century ago. In 1864 tho
Republican party elected members of
the legislative body of tho nation. In
ISO®, under the leadership of John C.
Fremont (uppl'iuse) the Republican
party commanded so large a share of
the confidence of the people of our na
tion as proclaimed it a party that had
been born to live; a party that had
been born to do great things. (Ap
plause.) In 1860, the Republican par
ty under the leadership of Abraham
Lincoln, who probably more than any
other man represents and stands for the
hlgrcst type of American citizenship,
was led on to triumph and was entrust
ed with the tremendous responsibilities
of guiding the affaire of stute (applause)
of guiding a people thrown down by dis
sension. a people from whom confidence
hod lied and «hose industries were par
alyzed. Such was the condition in which
the Republican party found the United
States, and to the duty of righting these
conditions the leaders of our party di
rected their attention with the frank
ness and resoluteness of the heroes of
olden times. You know full well the
story of their struggle. The nation was
saved and the broken fragments were
bound together into a stronger nation,
never more to be torn asunder.
Confidence was restored and the In
dustrie« of the country were given new
life. The people entered upon a new
era of prosperity and the Republican
party nM U m m «c the
masses throughout our broad land, that
gave them the leadership in the affairs
of state for a period of more than thirty
years. During that time our nation
grew. During that time our industries
developed and the national debt year
by year was diminished. In 1892. after
thirty-two years of uninterrupted rule
of the Republican party in the admin
istration of the affairs of our nation,
the people of our country found them
selves, Individually and as a nation, en
joying better times than had the people
Of this or any other nation enjoyed bo
fore that time. (Applause.)
The mind of the American citizen is
restless. He is never contented with
existing conditions but looks forward
to a better day. Yet I sometimes think
thatthe saddest spectacle there Is In
nn the world is the man bowed down.
îe man who sees nothing but darkness
" . 8 ° 0l ", n thfi da y s to c °me; and I
link that the man is indeed happy who
looks ahead and sees sunshine and bet
1er days through toe darkness. And 1
what is true of a n Individual is true of
a nation. The nation which lives entire
ly in the past has little left to live for,
but the nation which, with all her trials!
secs a future more radiant than thé
past has inspiration which makes her
great.
Democratic Misrule.
In 1892 tho American people wero
looking ahead for better days. Two great
political parties contended for suprem
acy. The Republican party was proud
of its principles and was proud of Its
management of the affairs of our nation.
Tho Democratic party, boastful of the
principles of Jefferson and Jackson,
promised tho people that if placed in
power It would give them an era of
prosperity such as they had never be
fore seen. Tho people believed them.
They had confidence in their promises
and they elected the Democratic party
to power. You know the story of the
next four years. It is one of the bleak
est eras in our nation's history. Low
wages for our workmen; low prices for
the producer, idle factories, mills and
mines, and impoverished homes; a coun
running in debt from year to year
and being unable to pay the current
expenses of government. Such, In brief,
are some of the things which a Demo
cratic administration suggests to the
minds of this audience tonight. But,
true to the splendid spirit of tho Amer
ican people even In the midst of gloom,
they saw brighter and grander days to
come. In 189G tho two great partlos
again contended for supremacy and
called upon the American people for
support. The Democratic party relied
upon, not what it had done, It relied
upon promises of what it would do In
the future if entrusted again with the
affairs of government. The Republican
party relied upon what it had done and
calmly Invited the confidence of our
people. The American people chose that
year, dreaming of days that would be
radiant with prosperity, and voted to
again restore to tho management of the
affairs of the nation tho party that had
for more than thirty-two years brought
not but good. Thoy elected a Republi
can congress and a Republican presi
dent and they bade William McKinley
(applause) Ood-Hpeed In tho great work
lie Ivul to do. Friends, your minds go
back over tho patjt ten years and you
view the work that the Republican par
ty has done and instinctively you sa.y
a day moro radiant than ever before
lias come to the American people. Our
homes are happy, our wage earners are
receiving more than ever before in the
history of our land. The price of com
modities which you have to sell have
reached a high point. Your mills and
factories and mines are busy and our
people ure employed; our nation Itself
has mode great strides in the confidence
of the world's people and now the Re
publican party again <iaks you for your
support. We are proud of the present,
proud of the past and our hearts
rejoice as we point to the life work of
our Lincoln, our Garfleld, our Grant, our
McKinley and our hearts swell with
admiration and deepest pride as we look
at the present leader of the Republican
party, Theodore Roosevelt, seeing him
with all the virility of sterling manhood
and enjoying tho trust and confidence
of the American people. (Applause.)
Idaho and the Protective Tariff.
During the last congress the Demo
cratic loaders pushed with great zeal
the question that they aay is paramount
and whose right settling means the
greatest good for our nation. It is the
tariff question. It Is an old question
and It shall not be my purpose to discuss
It at great length in theory, but to give
a few practical Illustrations as to what
It moans to us and to the new state of
Idaho. What did you receive for your
wool during Mr. Cleveland's administra
tiv T Waa It • oecits a pound or T oasts
CALDWELL, IDAHO.
I a pound? What do you receive for your
wool today? From 20 to 24 cents a pound
for all that you have to sell, and it is
so because lively competition in that
! produce from foreign countries has been
largely eliminated by means of the pol
icy of a protective tariff. What did you
receive for your sheep during Cleveland's
administration? Was it 90 cents a head
or $1.25 a head? What do you receive
today? $3.00 a head, $4.00 a head or
î'i.GO a head? It is one of the greatest
industries of the state of Idaho and Is
most alive to the competition of the
same industry in other lands and a
right and Just protection should be guar
anteed to it by means of the principles
of the Republican party. The sheep man
who receives this protection to his in
dustry is not the only one who is bene
fitted by this policy of protection. The
man who works upon the ranch receives
better wages; likewise the man who has
liny to sell that must bo used by the
sheep man to sustain his flocks. But
there is another industry in which our
state is interested. We are a great lead
producing state. Two years ago in
speaking in your city and other cities of
SrV
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HON. W. E. BOKAH.
Bepublican Candidate for United States Senator.
Idaho. I said that we produced more
than one-third of the lead produced In
the United States. Today we produce
more than one-half. Almost sixty ter
cent of the lead of the United Stales
comes from the mines of Idaho. It is
worth about 4 Vi conts per pound. And
yet if the duty of half that amount wero
removed from the lead that could be
shipped into this country from foreign
lands, my Judgment is that most of thJ
mines of Idaho would be compelled to
close and the twelve thousand men wno
find employment therein would be com
pelled to seek employment in other fields
and these men would be thrown in com
petition witk other workmen in diffcr
•nt lines of work throughout the state.
And so not only does this tariff on lead
benefit tho miners, but it indirectly af
fects the laboring men employed in oth
er lines of work throughout the state
and nation. There Is another benefit
that comes by reason of this protection
to the lead industry that does not come '
tr uUs llnnr L h ' , Tbo producer of |
fruits, flour and vegetables, the man
who raises grain must have market for
that which he produces
that which he produces or else he is a
poor man. So the occupation of men
In these mines produces a market for
tho farmer living hundreds of miles
••way, and he is deeply Interested In the
maintenance of that mine as it furnishes
him with a ready market for those things
which he produces.
An Infant Industry.
In my home county we have a moun
tain of mica. Enough mica is stored
there to last the United States for a
quarter of a century. And yet although
there is mica in many of the states,
most of the mloa that is used in the
United States today la brought to this
country from India. I n India the labor
er Who mines this mica receives ten
cents per day. Our miners cannot work
for such low wages. Our miners receive
$3 and $3.50 for their labor per day.
One American miner cannot do the work
of thirty miners of India, although he
can do the work of several. A little
duty on mica brought from foreign lands
would enable the mines of the United
States and the mines of the state of
Idaho to be operated, and pay the work
working living I
would furnish a I
market for the products those who live
upon the farms might have for sale.
But there are those who say that
some of the tariff schedules should be
readjusted. That the tariff Is no longer
needed upon some commodities. I free
ly grant that this is true.
Denatured Aloohoi.
Last winter a Republican congress
removed the tariff from denatured alco
hoi and it was a step i n the right direc
tion. I am one of those who believe
still further in the removal of the tariff
from certain industries that no longer
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have been running for many °years;"t'hey
have reached a place, many of them,
where they could continue in spite of an
adverse protective policy. But, sirs. If
v. «
need the benefit of protection where the
American people will be benefitted, and
on the other hand, I am in favor of
placing a duty upon such products as
we can proLcT'L/e" which"w'n enable
us to develop those Industries at homo
furnish a home market and give protec
tlon to the American producer and wage
earner. This is the right policy and if
I mistake not, the people of the state
of Idaho will stand for the adjustment
of their tariff schedules by a party
which believes in protection to industries
that need protection rather than to a
party which stands for free trade or for
protection for revenue only The citl-I
zens of Idaho will immediately see that
If the Democratic idea along this line|
should be adopted. Idaho would be In
Jured first of all. Our industries are
new, our industries are In their infancy
States to the east of us are older than
we are. Their mills and their factories
liavB heon t.,
the tariff walls should be torn down
from our country and our markets should
1)0 thrown open to the cheap labor and
Cheap goods of foreign lands, our Indus
tries would be demolished and our mills
and mines would be closed down and
our people would become Impoverished
und the state of Idaho in her develop
ment would be retarded until the child-L
ran of today have reached manhood.
O hanged Conditions by Season of Be
velopment of Our Country.
There is another question to whloh 11
ould invite your attention ti
pertains to naUsual palltloa.
would Invite your ^attentlon°toniffht th*.t
tiAt
A few months ago It was ray privilege
to visit the old home of the father of
his country—Mt. Vernon—beautiful old
home it Is, something like 600 acres of
land In the northern part of old Virginia,
lying upon the bonks of the beautiful
Potomac river, there Is the old home In
which Washington and his wife, Martha,
lived—a typical southern home, airy!
well lighted and roomy. The old housô
nnd the buildings that about It stand
are preserved today and well guarded,
that we of today might see the home
and surroundings of the man who had
so much to do with the establishing of
our great nation. I noticed many pieces
of furniture there and odd Implements,
strange to us. In one of the old out
buildings is the coach—of the coach in
four, you know—In which the father
of his country, and Martha, traveled up
to the capitol of the nation or down to
old Virginia, or maybe over to Mary
land. or Philadelphia, where liberty's
bell was first sounded. I went down to
the river a very short distance and
tlced a wall that had been built there;
I do not know whether It was there in
he days of Washington, or not. but J
thev ° ,d roWbo " ° r «H'boat
hey used to push up to that same bank,
in which Washington and his good wife
would step and be taken up the river to
. the beautiful mountain country, or down
J he rlver »^be. to the broad Atlantic;
1 noted ,ho lnsld ® °* the bouse; there
"J* 0 " the waJ1 was a 8 la SB case; within
the case was an old gun—the old flint
Ioc , k *»"•' a P 1 ® 0 ® °' «eel hit the flint,
and U "truck tl» flint a spark was
P roduc ed which fell Into a pan of pow
ff' and l . exploalon occurred. A poor
ffun was * that was the
m , with whlch our fathers fought Hie
revo " tl0n <">d made our great country
P°" 8 'ble. In ««»other room was the old
I "P'nnlng wheel and beside It a stool or
I and thought that maybe Martha
L^ asb Kt0n ^ 8at there—you remom
be f h ® r beautlful old face, with white
down ,0 her shoulders.—magnlli
Cen ' J 0 "" 1 " 8h ® was—I thought she
pr ° babIy had 8at there and spun cotton
which had been separated from the seed
by hand—the cotton Jinny was not in
vented until shortly before her death
i thought she had probably spun^hU
co | °" '" to cloth for the children of the
K °f d ' 1 'ooked upon these
f 1 ® 8 ' and 1 loolte < i "Pon many more,
and ,<"■ ,* dld ' 1 thought of the age, one
tmndred years u *°- and I thought of the
a £ ln " hlch w ® ,lv ®- There was the
old coach, the best means of travel so
few decade, ago. and I looked about our
land and saw the tremendous network
of railroads that binds us together. You
stop upon the cars at Golden Gate Uar- I
bor and in scarcely more than half a
week you have crossed the continent
and looked upon the waters lighted by
the Statue of Liberty.
I
A Wonderful Ace.
There was the old sail boat pushed
up to the shore, and I saw the beauti
nil modern launch waiting to carry vis
tors to that old home back to Washing
1 saw a Baln a magnificent ship
gliding peacefully upon the bosom of
the ocean and carrying her hundreds of
thousands of tons of American goods to
points in foreign lands. I saw another
stately ship gliding there ladened, not
1 """ »»'« ' h * "MP landed ,h„
the sad news could bo conveyed to loved
ones at home, and It would not be neces
sary to depend upon the telegraph or
ve'yed°t e> th"' ^ l™" C ° M ^ °° n "
\eyed to those at home by means of
wireless communication. I looked about
me and saw thousands of other
comforts and conveniences surrounding
our people at the lawn of the twentieth
century. A wonderful age it is ln which
we live, and yet with the splendor and
me inem 6 ° v, 1 T ,n WhlCh we
luxe conditio«» have changed from the
old days No one man possesses the
wealth sufficient to enable him to build
the; mighty ami stately ships, erect the
mills and factories or to develop our
wv. es " man 8 0f SUch great
worlds peoole wlt'lT .1° "T*
world s people with the comforts of
ïh«r n comfortr d lt 1 i thOUïht to 8UppIy
L i n J** 8sary that
woalth be combined ln order that these
great industries might be establishj-1
»a«««.», iiiuuaiiicn migni oe establish*
and the laws of today, In state ani I
nation, must meet this condition.
I BipuWoij Law«.
Lâ^o ^ftrollln^fa"^ 11 i C ° mpetitl0n
to be chaT^t IT. rates
Th.t tf™t bet ween different places
„„1 1 Indu8trte8 have
i™!! ,' J , , that competition has
m!? ' belleve
, " a faCt0r 1,1 the
of trade conditions shall be
«,»,1 î^'.u Uty of lh *
LIlA , ,he nation to step In and by
a , 1( " g ; 8la t' on do that which will
fh >T ^ . people right prices at
xh» n.l* k,. co . ncerns - < Ap P lau se.)
nn i|„ v 8tand s for this
fv wlula m McKinley nearly twen
L „ year " " g ? draft i ed the flrst P !a "k that
i„ , eV fv, pIac f d ' n any pIat f° r m look
,! « . A Republican congress
f, t »? I Up0n subject,
11 Dears the name of a great Republican
statesman. John Sherman, was signed
by a Republican President and Repubil
can administrations have endeavored to
derive good therefrom. The law was
im--..«,», .. . .
«„J?, Ä T \ ♦ oth
L nn( .!^' was " 0 , a qU ^" on that had
™"ted us before The trail had
üi„. ® . a , . road was not
T„ ^ peoples of our land or other
,ki ""—f, T atten >Pted 'o
I"® 8 " 00 - A*> d *>, I say. the
.oro .1 , „ Wa ^ lm P «rfect. Parts of U
smrml îî!? t by ,h ®
Supreme Court of the United Slates
^ .v. "' the law were ineffective. Some
of faulu that ® JÜ8 t® d were not
reached and in the years that have
" pruIle lnto be-|
11* 1 * « Republican congresses have tried
° r1 «" ^ Ve
I w •• 11 nr«t passed, ané last
winter, under the leadership of Theo
dore Roosevelt, a Republican congross
gave to our country a law which I be
lieve will go far toward the adjustment
Of right prices In all lines of business
growing out of interstate commerce.
law may not be perfect. It does
not represent the wish of any one man
in either branch of congress. It does
not represent exactly the wish of the
executive of the nation. Personally I
vo it is botter because It does not
represent the exact wish of any one
man, because whatever it may be it rep
resents the combined Judgment'of the
wo houses of congress and President
Roosevelt, lr U is imperfect It will be
corrected and. sirs, the Republican par
ti stands before you committed to the
idea, not of government ownership, but
of government control of all monopolies
that have outgrown the bounds of com
petition.
,„ a n 7™ me " t c °ntrol, not government
»nership i s the proper solution of
these problems, that the
problems, that the
and these false statements
It is for this rea
refer to what is
People and not the rew mayreceive the
benefits of the inventive «ni uTof lln
k'nd that combined wealth Is giving tô
the great American people it the dawn
" f 'he twentieth century
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Steunenberg Case.
There is annth
I would allude Not""if« U ° n WhlCl '
to be discussed'for it ~1" ae U ou * ht
a subject that it i« n0t t0 ' bUt
to because a few . " 'T to refer
of the opponents of * feW>
administration have m P f e8ent 8,at ®
statements and thr clrculat ed false
should be answered
won that I wish
known as the «to,,™ k ~ ""
A man whom you tJrtef ™ at , ter "
governor of the state Z rü t to be
dered as he returns mUr "
bosom of his famn v t 7 ?° lo the
tell you it was >n «, i " eed to
you have said so tn^.v me ' for
and time again i m f rts u me
that tho person 'or n.r.nn "i! l ° "* y
ted tho crime should h« commlt -
full extent of tho i p "' d to the
thought tho JÎVÎ*',,. y ° U " ava
It h.. L "fj" 6 thou « ht many times.
Isac^n,^!^" ^
napped from another 7^° k ' d "
Into Idaho for trial it h/" ,
sold that the trim'nr • >, ° b8en
been delayed for noim ^T T
tlu, present state S p " rpoaes *>y
I say that' ûîhîs ^s n,../ - , M " y
Lo \ rue U WOuld be
the adminlstreUon 'o^V' 8<m<1
would TunnoVt . V " y party that
to such oblivion fw? . ad ™ lnl »t ra tion.
- - ° ° whIch the V could
never more arise. But these statements
are false and the people know they are
false.
When your sheriff or your police ar
rest a man it does not mean that the
man is guilty. He
I of wrongdoing as are you. It simDlv
means that the evidence at the time
points to the man arrested And when
the evidence so points to a man It be
comes the duty of the man entrusted
with the enforcement of the law to cause
the arrest of the one to whom the evl
dence seems to point, that he mav be
held for trial.
The evidence in the stei.nenw
pointed to certl l T A?
, h . m
could be brought from the state ln whleh
they were either i „ J, 17, ?
by duTpUls of law R
pr0cess 11 would bo 'Pessary for the
governor of Idaho to ask that thl„ Ü
delivered over to the state fl tta
governor of Colorado r j
Idaho realized full well the resoonsibil
,ty that such a request «u£S H
studied well the evidence unH th« k
signed the re^est uporThe govern" of
Colorado asking that the m^n Moyer
Haywood and Pettibone. be ex trad ni
The governor of Colorado likewise was
impressed with the responslblHty th^
would follow his signing the requVuon
papers. I„ so dofng he did not act
hastily; for nearly two days he studied
— the evidence ^h^ s^ed tf poîm
to these men and at the expiration of
that "me he signed the extradition pa
pers and the men were brought to Idaho
to answer as to their guilt
And, sirs, the trial of
And, sirs, the trial of these men has
not been delayed for political purposes,
as has been charged. In fact, the state
has not delayed their trial at all. It
Is the duty of the attorneys for the de
fense to try by evëry'nonoràbie means
to acquit their clients. If you were ac
cused of crime, whether you were inno
cent or guilty, that is what you would
demand of your attorneys. In the de
fense then, of these men, their attorneys
asked that they be released under that
old writ, which is guaranteed by state
and federal constitution, the writ
habeas corpus. Their release under this
writ was denied by the Supreme court of
Idaho and an appeal was taken to the
Supreme court of the United States.
Theire release upon this writ was also
denied by the Federal court for Idaho
and again an appeal was taken to the
Su p reme court of the United States.
This seoond appeal has not yet been
heard, nor can it be heard until the 8u
preme court of the United States shall
again assemble. It will assemble upon
next Monday and 1 hope not many days
may pass by until that supreme tribunal
may pass upon the merits of the case
- -r-- *a*w««.o m« casts
as it has been appealed to them. The
state is ready for trial, but unUl the
decision shall have been given by the
Supreme court upon the case as it now
stands appealed to their honorable body,
the state cannot proceed. Whose fault,
then, Is the delay? Clearly it is not
the state 's fault nor shall I say it is
the faul t of the defense. Rather it Is
their right and more than their right.
it is their duty. It is the duty of the
attorneys for the defense, if they be
lleve their clients are wrongfully re
strained of their liberty. But. ln endeav
oring to procure their release by means
"»"-»f habeas corpus, if they delay
the trial of these roan thay brand as