St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-30
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
TransIatins n PLATFORM.

Resolved, That IN the imposition OF duties on
foreign imports we demand such reform as will
not only correct existing inequalities inherited
from the necessary legislation of the war period
but will also relieve the taxpayer. to the fullest
poss BILE extent without injury to the cause of
labor or menacing the prosperity of the great pro-
duclng interests OF the country. In furtherance
OF this policy we require that all articles neces-
sary to the comfort welfare of the American
people which do not directly compete with the
products OF our own country shall be placed on the
free list.
The above tariff resolution is another of
the old tricks and lies. First, it proposes to
correct only such inequalities as were in
herited from the necessary war legislation.
All other inequalities that have arisen from
new methods of manufacture or production
and change of the channels of trade are to re-
main in statu quo, and it is quite likely that
some lobbyist would make him see that all
existing inequalities have arisen since then.
Such mouthings are made to deceive, and this
is clearly what Mr.. Lovely intended when he
penned it. The connected dependent sem
tence about "relief to taxpayers, to the
fullest extent, is modified by without injury
to the cause of labor" There is no possible
question of tariff reform that can arise in
congress but Mr.. Lovely might oppose on the
ground that it injured the cause of labor.
Even this hedge is not enough. He further
mobiles the same phrase by adding still fur
ther, ''or menacing the great producing in
terests of the country" Is there an existing
INDUSTRY favored Dy our preSenC CdrlH UnaU
would not be menaced by relief tariff bill?
Such a thing is inconceivable. The last sem
tence means nothing, as tea and coffee are on
the free list and there are no other great
staples which we do not produce. If there is
any idea at all in this resolution it is strongly
protective. 1t is just such resolution as
Judge Kelley or Sam Randall would swear
meant protection, and
WE DEFY MR.. LOVELY
n cOnstr,a so q n Oiya if anV other nnon-
ing. Mr.. Blaine might have stood on this
plank and made his protection speech. How
can protection protect labor when the manu-
facturer is the only man who receives the
higher moety paid for his goods? He never
divides the lnoiety among his laborers unless
labor gets scarce, and then he sends q dis
patch to Europe and in less than a month he
fills his shop with cheap contract labor, as
Mr.. BlaineS partners did in 1884 in the Hook
ing valley. Under peculiar tariff provision
Carl Spreckies ships sugar over the Union Pa
cific to New York and sells in competition with
that from Cuba, while he charges (having a
monopoly to San francisco merchants New
York prices plus freight from New York
back. All the great protected do just so, and
it is foolish for laborer to assail this Internal
system with any mental reservations. The
pension taffy can pass. There is not an old
soldier but knows how insincere such reso-
lu tons usually are, and utterly detest
them.
Resolved, That we declare in favor of the con-
tiuued use of silver a measure of values, but
we demand as matter of common honesty, and
especially in the interests OF all wage earners,
class entitled at ali times to payment IN the best
money, that the silver dollar be made to contain
a value equivalent in the markets of the world to
the gold dollar.
The congress Of 1898 made the present dol
lar the unit of values, and it has never been
changed. During the wars between Spain
and her colonies there was an immense in
tiux of silver from South America and Mexico
and as the coin was nearly all from those
countries, aud in no wise legal tender,
THE EQUIVALENT WEIGHT
of silver became less than gold. To equalize
the value of the two metals, congress, in
1885, reduced the value of the gold dollar q
trifie over cents. We produced no silver
then, and it soon left US. Silver than rose to
over 5 per cent above gold, and in 1852 con-
gress reduced the subsidiary coins to gold
but let the Dads dollar alone In 1873,
when silver was demonetized, silver was per
cent. above gold. Great Britain had demone-
tiled it above So, but this did not bear it
down to gold. Then came combination be-
tween the Rothschilds, Earrings, Erlanger
and other bankers to demonetize the
metal in Europe and the United States,
and it was generally successful, and
silver began to decline, and has now reached
the lowest figure ever known. % per cent.
below the standard dollar. In the light of
these facts it is hard to see where the dshon-
est dollar comes in. II it were not for the
Pioneer Press and few more such ignorant
howlers, every impartial mind would arrive
at the conclusion that the dishonesty came in
when silver was demOneJiZed. One of the
Minneapolis Journals satires reads thus:
You call this fighting? Can that be fighting
where
He only scourges, and l duly bear?'
For sixteen years silver has been scourged
by the enemies of labor, but it never scourges
back.
WHAT REMEDY Is PROPOSED?
To increase the present dollar from 412 5
to 561.5 grains, ten of which would weigh 81
pound How does our silver product stand?
We mine So. 900, 600 per annum. OF this we
coined S29,000,000 last year, and sold S15,-
600, 900, leaving S14, 000 600 of bullion on hand.
1t is evident that had we free silver coinage
the remainder not needed the arts would
have been coined and utilized as money, as
the owner would save the discount. We pro-
duce one-half the silver in the world, and the
other American nations produce nearly all
the rest. 1t would follow that sill
yer must rise, as the arts re-
Quire certain amount, and England
would be compelled to buy it for her East
India trade The way to make silver valua
BILE is to utilize it, and it is the sheerest folly
for America to curtail the market of one Of
its most valuable products. If some new art
should be discovered that would utilize profit
ably annually S10,000,000 of this metal in ex-
cess of what is now used, silver would soon
go back to its old value. If our treasury
would coin S3,000,000 per month instead of
S2.OOO.000 it would have precisely tho same
effect, and under the present law it may coin
81 100000 per month"; and even this amount
duplicated with silver certificates will not
make good the present contraction. 1t is not
for me to defend the Democratic party butt
will say in behalf Of Hon. Milo White that,
while he deserves the thanks of all, Demo
Gratis as well as the rest, for his independence
and effective ability, the resolution of thanks
is
CLEAR BITING IRONY
when tackled to such a platform. If they