St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-21

hurt capital nor harm labor and il shall be
heaviest upon articles Of luxury, and iightest
upon articles Of necessity. [Cheers.l And
now my countrymen, il there be a Republi-
can here that says nay to that sentiment Of
Democracy, let him rise up and say it. Now
is the time To say il or, as they say at church,
forever thereafter hold your peace.
Let me repeat it and then
you make your objection. II YOU
choose each sentence by itself (Dronouncing
again the four sentences relative to taxation
and pausing for reply at the end Of each
sentence.)
Is il possible, he continued, that a conven-
ton Of people consisting Of so many dele
gates has been able 10 pass upon that difficult
/ question Of the tariff aud TO express itself so
that every man, woman and child in so large
and intelligent an audience as this is com
PEELED 10 say THAT'S right" 1t is an un-
common endorsement Of a convention, and
after this you won't blame me much for be-
ing whole soled Democrat, will youl II
the party is so clearly right upon the subject
of taxation, one OF the highest
powers Of the government, Il
cannot be wrong much upon anything
else. Taxation comes 10 a mans home and
takes that for public use which was his, is
mis-, no longer like the law Of eminent do
main that takes private property for public
use. Like the laws Of the govern ment that
says to the young man in the bosom Of the
family, war has come and you must serve In
the army. This power Of taxation
is one Of the most tremendous that the gov
ernment compasses or exercises. And now
when have submitted II sentence by SEN
tence and detail TO this great audience, the
sentiment is that for once, anyhow, the De-
mocracy may be trusted. So next spring il
Grover Cleveland shall call congress together,
the machinery will somewhat commence,
not to destroy, but to remove objections.
Did you know the Republican Chicago
platform on the tariff subject pledged itself
TO reform In the tariff so as TO remove its in
equalities and reform its excessi They
pledged themselves to reform their own
work. Since the war there has been no
Democratic secretary Of the treasury, all be-
ing in the control of the Republicans, and
now, at the end of twenty years,
they say to their countrymen.
our mode Of taxing you is
not equal, it produces excess Of revenue,
and we pledge you TO reform it. II is not too
late now. The time for repentance is not
passed, but the time for good work TO make
repentance good is now passed. How Is it
that on the subject of taxation the Republican
party has dared TO come before the great
elements OF power in this country, New
York city, Brooklyn city, and admit the taxa
ton is Lnequall The language Of their
platform admits il is heavier upon one man
than another, upon one class and interest
than another. VIII you be good enough 10
tell me what greater offense a political party
in power can perpetrate than the making OF
an unequal tax law. As well might
the government in a time of war
ask your son TO serve two
years and your neighbors son four years. AS
well might the government demand your
private property without just compensation,
and make compensation TO your neighbor for
property.taken under like circumstances.
But no, we must have equality of taxation,
and the man is going in that's going to have
il that way.
The Republican party demand that the
navy shall be restored. Well, don't you
think that it is very queer request for
party TO make on itself When Senator
Bayard lcheersl was speaking in New York
at meeting not long since, be stated that
from 1865 10 1888 the construction aud re-
pairing Of the navy cost the
people Of the United States over four hundred
million dollars. Yet If we believe the New
York TribSlae' we have no navy. But sas IL
only costs about one million TO build a man
of-war. we ought to have 400 ships at that
rate. But three or four weeks ago we had
navy. 1t was called tie Tallapoosa. II was
no doubt very poor one, for It
could not tight, and it could not run away.
It was merely navy for pleasure, sailing
around with some of the heads Of the depart
ment. Well, on one of those excursions,
this navy Of ours came in collision with
sailing ship and went down to the bottom OF
rff
very unkind as TO say it was
pity that the secretary was not then on
board, but am not one that endorses that
sentiment But / will tell YOU
another story about our navy
that took place in the harbor
of Smyrna in 1854. Martin Kosta, who had
been a Hungarian rebel, took refuge on
board an American ship in the harbor of
Smyrna TO escape from the pursuit of his
Austrian pursuers. He had intended 10
become a citizen of the United States
and to make this country his home.
The captain of an Austrian man-of-
war took Martin Kosta a prisoner
with the intention of handing him over TO be
tried as a rebel. And it was a great day for
the American navy when the man-of-war st.
Louis, commanded by the gallant Capt In
gram, sailed into that harbor, and when
Martin Kosta claimed the protection of the
flag from under which he had been taken,
Capt Ingram sent word that IL Kosta
was not Immediately put on board the st.
Louis he would blow the Austrians out of the
water, and although he had TO live for lapse
of time in France according to the stipuIa-
tons pending the action of the American
govern nent, he was thankful to the great
untiring efforts of VIM. L. Macy, New
York's great son, who was then secretary
of state under Franklin Pierce's admins
tration, enabled TO return and live in the
United States, instead Of passing the re-
mainder OF his life in an Austrian dungeon.
And l will tell you, my fellow citizens, that
whoever is chosen after March next 70 nil
the position Of secretary of the navy, will
see that every dollar viii be well spent
towards once more building up our navy.
Contrast that picture with the administra-
ton which Mr.. Lowell represents abroad.
Well l believe Mr.. Lowell is not coming
back, but when President Garfield was lying
on his dying bed and James G. Blaine
was secretary of state the letter of Nc
Sweeny's wife of the 10th of September was
answered, McSweeny was allowed TO re-
m ain in a British dungeon. How any Irish
man, any relative of the Emerald isle, could
support the party who allowed that to
Nothingism of 1854 is beyond my
comprehension. 1t viii never my friends
occur, you may rest assured, under the ad-
ministratiou Of President Cleveland [cheersl.
When Franklin Pierce was president the
carrying tonnage of the United States was
50 per cent. Now it is scarcely Is per cent.
The carrying trade is now almost entirely
carried on by ships Of other nations, because
we are not allowed TO buy a ship abroad and
have them transferred under our flag, or so
restricted that We cannot compete with