St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-18
Magnificent Address on Revenue Reform
by Speaker Carlisle, the Silver
Tongusd Kentuckian.
Senator Beck Also Distinguishes Himself
by an Able Exposition of the
Tariff Issue.
Commissioner Sparks Demands That
the Public Domain be Held
for the People.
Letters of Regret From President
Cleveland and Abram Hewitt,
of New York.


large number of distinguished Democrats
to whom invitations had been sent the fol-
lowing are among the most widely known
who accepted and are present: Hon. John
g. Carlisle, Hon. J. B. Beck. Hon. Ed
ward S. Bragg and Hon. J. Sterling Nor
ton. The following letters OF regret were
received:
Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 10
Edward Ferman, ESQ, Corresponding Secre-
tary. Ny Dear Sir: l regret exc eedingly
thai official duties. just 1T this lime unusually
exacting and important. prevent my accept
auce of your Invitation to attend the fourth
annual banquet of the Iroquois club on the
18th inst. l am much impressed with the
present importance Of g thorough and timely
discussion by the people of the various Ques-
tions which are related 10 good government
and the prosperity Of the country, and which.
because they are so related. concern the
welfare and success of the Democratic party.
In the work. which must be understood.
of presenting these questions 10 tie judgment
Of our citizens in such manner as 10 remove
misapprehensiOns and aid a correct conclu-
sion, l believe that the Iroquois cluh viii
prove most effective instrumentality. Hop
ing that the approaching banquet will be an
occasion of pleasure as well as interest and
usefulness, am yours sincerely,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
ABRAM :. HEWITT.
New York. Nov. I4.-Dear Sir: beg you
10 make my grateful Acknowledgements to the
Iroquois club OF Chicago for the honor of an
invitation to their fourth annual banQuet, and
to assure them of the regret with which 1 am
compelled TO inform you of my inability to be
present al the reunion of my Democratic
friends, devoted to the maintenance of
sound political principles AMI TO the perpetu-
alton of our free institutions, under which we
have progressed beyond the experience or
1ay,
Sincerely yours, ADRIAN S. HEWITT.
AMONG THE PROMINENT PERSONAGES
who sent merely formal letters of regret
are: S. S. Cox. Roswell P. Flower. Will
lam G.. Endicott, Perry Belmont. Gov.
Fitz Hugh Lee. A. q. Thurman and FitZ
John Porter. After the banquet. at which
between $50 and 500 guests and members
of the club sat down, the following toasts
were made and responded to as indicated:
The Treasury Surplus and Tariff.
Hon. j. B. Beck; The Public
Lands and the Peoples Heritage for
Homes.' Hon. W. A. J. Sparks;
1.-The Great Republic, Hon. NJ. W. Fuller;
THE President of the United States" Hon.
Edward S. Bragg; Monopoly Shall Not
Rule" Hon. J. Sterling Morton: The
Sanctity of the American Home, the Safe
guard of American Liberty" Hon. James
r. Doolittle: The Democratic Party" L.
J. Knne; The Young Man in Politics"
Hon. F. W. Lehman: American Indus
tries. Their Growth and Prosperity Cannot
be Promoted by Unnecessary or Unequal
Taxation. " Hon. John @. Carlisle. SEN
ator Beck spoke as follows:
SENATOR BECK'S SPEECH.
The speaker began by paying a tribute to
the marvellous strides in wealth and popula-
ton of the great West, and expressed the be-
lief that he would live to see Chicago ouJstrip
New York in point of population. What. he
asked. had this to do with tariffs, taxes and
surplus revenue? 1t had. he asserted, every
thing to do with it. To be great and COM
manding in this proud position, the West
must tighten the burdens of labor and pro-
duction. regain our lost carrying trade on the
high seas and send our manufactures TO Mex
leo. Central and South America the West
Indies. China, Japan, the Congo and else
where instead Of giving them up TO England,
France and Germany. Chicago was the prac-
tical eastern terminus of the great transcon-
tinental lines TO the Pacific coast. These cor
porations were given public lands larger in
extent than the French empire to open trade
with China, Japan and the great Asiatic
countries. Can you afford TO support pol
icy that diverts commerce TO the British Can
adian line, which is now about completed.
with its extension through ocean steamers to
all the parts OIL ASH ana L0S cOQuQ60LAl
lands of the Pacific? Yet our tariff taxation
and our navigation laws
EXCLUDE Us FROM COMPETITION
for that trade as effectualy as if the Ameri-
can railroads had never been built. l am
speaking TO the merchant princes of the
world You know that machinery owned by
g few men is now driving human labor from
our manufacturing establishments. One per-
son now produces what it required seven to
produce thirty years ago. You know We have
surrendered the trade in manufactured goods
with the 1.500, 000.000 of people of the earth
TO the nations Of Europe in order to enable
few protected monopolists to exrort double
prices for their products from 60,000,000 of
American taxpayers. You know that our
machinery is now more than equal to the pro-
ductive capacity of all the human muscle in
the world: that it can produce in six months
all that this people can consume in twelve;
that it is the slave of its owners, and
when idle consumes nothing tnat human
labor produces, out the families of the
men who are hired to operate II starve. while
its owners hold their surplus produce till
scarcity forces higher prices, which must
come when competition from abroad is pro-
hibited by protective tariff legislation. You
know better than any other body of men that
nine-teuths of our exports are agricultural.
With our vast railroad system and its daily
increasing capacity and the cbeapening of
by competition and invention,
coupled with the donations of public lands
10 the people of all the world who will come
and take them. thev are vastly in excess of
the consumptive capacity OF this country,
and the supus is increasing year by year. 1t
is so great now that the foreign use OF the
surplus regulates the home price OF the whole
CROP When wheat falls in Liverpool. II falls
in Chicago. When cotton falls in London, It
falls in New Orleans. When tobacco falls IN
Paris il falls in Louisville. and so through
all the lsl of goods exported. What can the
Chicago merchants afford to
PAY Mr.. DALRYMPLE,
the great Dakota farmer, for his wheat?
Simply the Liverpool price, less tie cost of
by land and sea, with the
commissions, interest, insurance and a rea-
sonable profit on the venture deducted Mr..
Dalrvmple only gets what remains. IF he
ships il himself he is no better OF. When he
cets il to Liverpool he meets the wheat from
India the Baltic and Black sea. He gets just
what they get for a like article. He has to
compete with every grade of pauper labor. |
Congress cannot protect MIN nor his laborers |
in that market. Wen say be gets SIC, 900 for |
his wheat in Liverpool. The money is only !
valuable TO him for what it will buy. He |
mnst have clothing for himself and his fam !
;jv He must buy new machinery and sup
niles for his farm in order 10 raise another /
crop. He is offered all he wants in Liverpool /
for s.. 900. He cannot buy because congress. !
~ Laws made to protect somebody, requires |
so ner cent. TAX. or 81. 500. before he can land |
his Goods He knows that he can buy them |
for : 600 in New England or Penns' lvania, |
therefore ne brings back no return cargo. |
He buys mis- goods here and pays some ody who
had no right TO take dollar from him $1,000
more than he was offered them for. The
gets nothing.