St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-07
BROOKLYN BANQUET.
Given by the Young Mems
Democratic Club Of
That City.
Words Of Cheer From Morrison,
Carlisle, English, Seymour
and Others
A Straight Out Democratic Talk From
Senator Bayard Oh the
Constitution.
The Republican Protective Tariff Described
as Nothing Better Than Legalized
Communism.
Blackburn, of Kentucky, an Absolute Free
Trader, but Not a Reckless
ReVOlutionist.

NEW YORK, April 5.-1ne assembly rooms
of the Academy of Music, in Brooklyn, were
ablaze with lights tonight, the occasion be
ing Il dinner given by the Young Mems Dem
ocratic club of that city. Nearly every Dem
ocrat of local note was present, and among
those from ,, a distance were United States
Senator Pendleton, who sat at the right Of
Chairman White, and ON the left was United
States Senator Bayard. With these at the
main table, were United States Senator-eect
Blackburn, Congressman Hurd, Mehr and
Slocum, Andrew Mclean, editor of the
Brooklyn Eag2e, and few other gentlemen
of the city. Letters were received from
many distinguished Democrats regretting
their inability to attend.
MORRISON.
Congressman Morrison writes: ''We are
trying here to make the burdens Of the peo-
pie of the great state of New York, little
lighter and her commerce a little freer. If
we fail, it will be because her chosen Demo
ocratic representatives, forgetful of Demo-
cratic principles, shall unite with the Repub-
lican protectionists in voting to maintain
war tariff taXes.''
Speaker Carlisle, in his letter writes eff
1t were possible for me to do so, it would af-
ford me great pleasure to meet the Demo-
Gratis Of Brooklyn-especially at this time,
when the whole country is looking to our
party for some relief from excessive taxation
imposed upon the people by the general gov
ernmen you can safely assure our Democratic
friends that great majority oftheir represen-
tatives in Congress are determined to make
an earnest and honest effort during the
present season to inaugurate the policy
of tariff reform, to which we have been
so long committed as political party. The
time for resolutions and declarations has
passed. and the time for action has come.
We may not be able at this time to accom-
plish all that ought to be done, but we can do
something to give an assurance to the coun-
try that we have been sincere in our profess
sion, and that it is our fixed purpose to re-
duce and equllize the burden of taxation as
rapidly as circumstances will permit.
PULITZER, ENGLISH, SEYMOUR.
Joseph Pulitzer, editor Of the New York
World, in letter, says: II am myself
heartily in favor of real tariff reform, and
a decided reduction of the tariff"
Ex-Governor English, of Indiana, writes:
tI am in full sympathy with the object of
your meeting"
Horatio Seymour sends: "Wishes for sue
cess"
CHAIRMAN SHEPARD.
The menu exhausted, Chairman Shepard
invited the attention of the company. He
10 rbofh
Democratic house will pass a Democratic
bill or rather we are here to learn whether
the house of representatives will be a Demo-
cratic or Republican house. We read that the
distinguished author of the Morrison bill him
self asserts the measure is not entirely suf-
ffcient, and that it is not altogether
scientifid in its character. If the bill can be
improved so as to cure still further the evils
from which we are suffering, and without
seriously endangerng or delaying its pas
sage or diminishing the heartiness of its
Democratic support let it be so amended, and
we shall rejoice. The Morrison bill, without
the scholastic and sublimated disquisition of
which the revenue refOrmers are often ac
cused, and without verbal plays upon tariff
only for revenue, or tariff for revenue only,
proposes practical and real and substantial
reduction in the duties and imports. This is
performance, not promise. The chairman
then announced Senator Bayard as the first
speaker, and he was very warmly welcomed.
SENATOR BAYARD.
Senator Bayard responded to the senti-
ment, "The Supreme Law Of the Land"
He said: "There are some laws of tempora
ry and limited Jurisdiction to which it is a
pleasant thing to render allegiance, and just
now, the law that confess that feel most
strongly, is the law of your hospitality and
good fellowship. But that may count on,
I suspect from experience, every time 1
come to Brooklyn. But now, room for His
Majesty, whose voice is the conscience of
the American people and whose throne is in
the American heart [ speak now of the
subject of the law of this land. What is it?
1t is liberty, clad in the words and manifest
ed the forms of the written charter of our
government, ordained to secure it for us and
for our prosperity. 1 mean by this, that
the supreme law of the land, is declared so
TO be, he charterhitseif, is by its observ
ance the true and only means of maintaining
liberty in this land. Neglect it, forget it,
disregard it, disobey it, weary of its COM
mand-and you neglect, you disregard and
you will lose liberty itself. Obey it, cherish
it, studiously respect it, and liberty will
flourish and bless us and our posterity I
don't think these simple conditions can need
more than simple statement. They are sub
lime in their simplicity. They are incalcul-
able in their value; they are mighty in their
truth
Where should an American better speak
shan here in Brooklyn, and where had he
better speak of liberty than in one of the
earliest scenes where the struggle was COM
menced for its accomplishment? 1t was
here that the great Virginian was given by
that state to the country, and by the country
to humanity. 1t was here that his first seri-
GUS battle was fought as commander of the
American forces, and he began in adversely
and closed in complete success. To-day l
came from the city that bears his name, from
the city, where your representatives, from
every quarter of the great union, which he
began and founded, and which has grown
6 beyond his feryent imagination, assemble
came from there here,
to tell you the practical
facts, so far as I know them, of the ten
dency of the government under its present
and late administration.
Gentlemen, what is the tendency? Is the
tendency to revere, to respect, to obey the
supreme law of the land-a law that created
nation out of living states and made these
states to live as long as the nation lived;
that we should have sovereignty in our ma
tion, and it should be supported by free
states. capable Of exercising the powers of