St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-24

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and to declare, from his high place. that
he would recognize no member of the
house to make any motion to cut down
the surplus unless it was first submitted
TO Democratic caucus. The Demo
cratic secretary of the treasury had also
Joined i'll the choral song of the free
traders, apparently with all his heart.
In fine, he was satisfied that
ALL THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
agreed with the president, except that
thev had not the presidents bolduess or
honesty. If, however, by cheating the
people i'll the next election as to their
position, they could get a new lease OF
power and obtain control of the United
States senate, then the people might
bid farewell to every principle of pro;
lection. The Republicans took up the
presidents gauntlet of free trade With
great pleasure. and Joined issue with
the Democrats. The Republicans de4
clare that, instead of the tariff being
vicious. Illogical and inequitable it in+.
creased marvelOusly the prosperity of
this country; and that instead of a duty
being tax paid by the consumer. mo-
instance could be found in which the
duty had not been decreased to the con-.
sumner the cost of the article cOnsumeda
The Republicans further declared that
for Twenty-Five years, at any rate, de-
pended absolutely OH the benign infiu-
enceS of protective tariff. He adj
united that this country possessed manyY
advantages oyer competing nations, but
he declared that. with all these adj
vantageS, 1t could not compete in man
ufaetures with the European nations,
because it was handicapped in the mat
ter of wages. On this point, and on the
additional point that the price of all
manufactured articles had diminished
under the protective system, Mr.. Frye
supported his argument with numerous
Illustrations, many of them drawn from
his own observations in Europe. AS a
surplus, it was Democratic in
capacity, he said, which caused
it; and now the country
had to look out to see that the same
Democratic incapacity, in administering
medicine, did not give poison and kill
the patient. He was as much against
the surplus as the president was, but he
was not frightened at it. He would
rather have surplus than deficit. If
there was an honest purpose to get rid OF
the surplus it could be done without the
slightest difficulty. In the first place,
some of it ought 20 be expended wisely
in coast defenseS, in Increasing the
navy, i'll building up the merchant ma
rine, and i'll educating the people, as
proposed in the bill of the senator from
New Hampshire tBlair). The senator
from North Carolina (fance) had indi
Gated way to prevent a surplus: and
the senator from Georgia BIown) had
proposed way which would do it be-
You'd all manner of question.
THAT WAS 4 REPEAL
OF all the Internal revenue laws. But
hi 10 f,.sn L. lii
the diStillerS, and brewers, and saloon
keepers had recently developed a Won
derful regard for temperance, and
had become great temperance champi
OnS, protesting against whisky being
made cheaper. But he told them that
the temperance sentiment of the cOun-
try was rapidly crystallizing into the
opinion that the sooner the tax on
whisky was repealed the better and
quicker the principles of temperance
would be subseryed. He could see,
however, one or two objections to It's re-
peal, and one Of them was that so much
revenue could not he spared.
As to the duty on sugar he declared
himself III favor of taking it off; but he
would not kill the sugar Industries of
this country, feeble as it was. He would
give bounty equivalent to the present
duty on sugar. But. if the purpose Of
the Democratic party was to destroy thei
tariff and cripple many, and absolutely
destroy some of the industries of thef
country, the presidents method could,
of course, do that. American working :.
men could be reduced to the degradation
almost, of the workingmen and women:
of Europe. But. here was a splendid
country. perfectly marvellous in its.
possibilities. Why he asked. ''shOuld,
not this country lead the whole world
in pure, lofty civilization, in religion. in
education, in temperance, in arts, in
literature, and in material progress?s
Who doubted that it would do so, if men
only remembered that they were Ameri-
cans? Who doubted that it would dol
so if, in the administration of its affairs.
and in its legislation, they undertook,
in honest purpose. to provide in the
best possible manner for their own peo-
ple?''
AS Mr.. Frye concluded there was con-
siderable applause from some of the
galleries (Which were well filed and he
was congratulated by several senators
including Mr. Morrill,. who has been alb
sent from the senate chamber for some
time past, through sickness. Mr.. Pal
mer gave notice that he would address
the senate tomorrow on the subject OF
his bill to regulate immigration. Mr..
Blair spoke for an hour on his educa-
tional bill, and then the senate. after an
extra executive session adjourned