St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-18
AN EAST SIDE RALLY.
The Democrats Fire a Broadside c
at the Tariff.

at the Tariff.
So many people were in attendance
at the Democratic rally held last even
ing in the vacant store at the corner of
Spring and Jefferson street that not
more than one-halt of them could gain
admittance to the building. The
speakers wers Hon. A. T. An
keny and Judge Rand. Mr.
party had been promising the people to
reduce the tariff for the last sixteen
years, but the mOnopOliStS and trusts
which control that party had prevented
them from making the reduction. But
the Democratic party pledged itself to
relieve the people from this enerous
tax just before the last cleo
ton, and it has carried out their
pledge by passing the Mills bill through
the house of representatives, and now
the United States senate is trying to
excuse itself from passing it by saving
that it is mistake to reduce the tariff.
want. and know also that the Dem
ocratic party is the only party
from which, they need expect any re-
forms or protection from the mOnopo-
lists and the trusts. The Republican
party is so much alarmed at the whole
sale deSertion from its party on account
of the conduct of the Republican
senate, which is controlled by
the monopolists, that it is afraid that it
will even lose this state, and so this
evening delegation went East to i'm
plore Blaine to come and help them
save the state from the Democrats. In
Indiana they are in the same fix. Gov.
Porter is the only man in the state who
has succeeded in carrying the state
for the Republicans for years, and
the only man whom it was thought
could possibly be elected this year, but
he looked over the field and declined an
unanimous nomination for governor, be-
cause he knew that he would be de-
feated. Defeated in spite of it being
HarriSOn'S own state.
Judge Lars Rand spoke on the tariff
issue. He said he had heard number
of Republicans say that they could not
see how it was that the labOring men
were not in favor of protection. But
these men never labored for living:
they belonged to the same class who
hired X. q. Horr for $1,000 to travel
around The state and deliver protection
speeches, and now they have sent after
Blaine the great boss of the corrupt Re-
publican party to come and save the
state for protection. Now this man
Blaine a few years ago, while out of
politics, wrote a book called Twenty
Years of Congress-" and in this book he
speaks Of the very low tariff of 1916 as
follows:
The tariff of 1916 was yielding abundant
revenue, and the business of the country was
in a flourishing condition. Money became
very abundant after the year 1919;
large enterprises were undertaken, spec
ulatlon was prevalent, and, for
a considerable period, the prosperity
of the country was general and apparently
genuine. The principles involved in the
tariff of S4S seemed for the time to be so
entirely vindicated and approved that resist
ance to it ceased, not only among
the people, but among the protective
economists, and even among the manu-
facturers to a large extent So general
was this acguiescence that in 1886 a pro-
tective tariff was not suggested or even
hinted at by any one of the three parties
which presented presidential candidates 1t
was not surprising, therefore, that in 1857
the duties were placed lower than they had
been since 1872.
But if he comes here to speak he will
probably talk very different from what
he did when he wrote his book.