Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-10-13
The Ubiquitous Protective Tariff
Which Robs the Farmers Il
Must be Removed,
AND DUTIES COLLECTED ONLY AS RE-
QVIRED FOR THE SUPPORT Of
THE GOVERNMENT. :,
The Great Corporations Must b. Re-
pressed and Their Dangerous Z
Power Circumscrtbed.
Laws Should be Made to Protect the
People and not to Enrich
MOnOpolists. :
At Preston Judge Wilson Reviews His
Course in the State Leg
islature,
AndkShows How Single Handed He Fought:
the Infamous Bond Steal.

By His r'ntlring Efforts Saving to the Stats
Clean Million Dollars, o.
The Great Railroad Corporations Forced TO
Give up Their INSCRIPTIONS Practices,
And, Despite Intense Opposition, Their Lands
Placed on the Tax list.
A Magnificent Record, Always C~onsistneas,
Always the Champion Of the People. g.!
The Democratic Platform, Brief, Clear and
CForcible In Behalf Of the
People.
THE OPENING ADDRESS
Judge Wilson made the first speech
of the campaign ut Rochester. .ad-
dressing a large audience in Library
hall. Judge Wilson was. introduced
by w. L. Breckenridge, who paid q
high compliment to the eminent
speaker. Judge Wilson'S appearance
was greeted with enthusiastic ap-
plause. He spoke as follows: IL
In all countries occasionally there
is a breaking up of old party lines
and a Encouragement on new issues.
This must be so as long as men. are
more interested in principles than in
empty names, for the issues that IN
gage attention this year are often. dis
placed by new and different issues
next year. Thirty-one years ago I
was q member of a convention at st.
Paul which first, I believe, organized.
the Republican party in the Terri
tory of Minnesota. That convensasn
was composed ofmen some of wh61h,
like myself, had been Democrats;
others had been Wings. Some, there
fore favored the doctrines of the for
mer party, others those of the latter.
But agreeing for the time to forget
and subordinate all their differences
on mere economic questions SO that
they might act in concert about what
they deemed to be a more important
one, they agreed on one single point
as their platform of principles, viz:
Opposition to the extension ofslavery.
But when slavery became q thing Of
the past, and the right to carry 1t in.
to the territories could no longer .ba
an issue, those political questions
which before engaged the attention
of parties became living issues, upon
which men who had composed the
Republican party found themselves
divided. The fact, of course, that
men had agreed as to the right..to car
ry slavery into the territories would
not tend to harmonize their views on
the questions of political economy.
Those who had before been wings
were generally found to be favorable
to a protective tariffand to look with
some favor on certain tendencies of
the government
TOWARDS GENERALIZATION,
while those who had been democrats
stood opposed. Hence, when the war
closed and the issues Of the war he.
came matters Of history, there was
found to be no unanimity in therepub-
lican party on these questions which
remained unsettled. Each faction
sought to impress its peculiar views
on the party. Republicans in the
Eastern states especially, and in some
of the Middle states, Influenced, by
| what seemed to them their own In.
terests, have ever since the wal
| attempted to commit the republican
! party to protective tariff, while the
people In the West In that party BY
no means assented to this. But as
the party, when assembled in nation
al convention, has been controlled by
the monopolists of the East, q high
protective tariff has resulted as the
doctrine of the prty. To this doctrine
of high protective tariff and centrali-
xatlon---to the extent to which the re.
publican party has carried It. many
have been unable to assent. I am Of
that number. I have therefore, fol
the past few years, acted with the
democratic party, whose views upon
these questions accord with my own,
I believe. and the Democratic party
as 2 rule believes, that protection tc
the exteut to which 1t has been carried
since the war, Is not what the WORD
would imply protection to the veal
against the strOng--.but the contrary
protection to the strong and powerful
and wealthy against
rrYr Vryr u A Hyn n00Ds
that 1t is an oppressive burden un
Justly imposed for the benefit o
monopolists who are millionaires
that it's effect has been and must be h
make the rich richer at the expens,
of the poor. Let US not be misunder
stood. The democrats are not fre>
traders. They favor 4 tariff for thu
purp0seOf raising a revenue sufhcten
tor all the wants of the cOuntry-bu
they do not believe in compelling on
Industry to aid in the support of an
other, No man should be c0mpelle>
against his will to contribute hi
meAns for the support OF another.
should add, too, lest We may be mis-
understood, that the democratic part.
fs not in favor Of extreme measures
Speaker Carlisle voiced democrati
Views on the subject in q recent speed
delivered by him. He said: "Whel
, manufacturing interests have grow
up under q high protective system, o
In q series Of years have zAdjuste'
> themselves to it, and when those en-
> gagged in them have become accu<
: toned to rely upon government
bounty for support, it might he IL
!. furious, and even disastrous, TO- the1
to suddenly repeal or greatly reduc