St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-22

but for this 20 per cent is ample;
and upon all other 10 per cent, feel
quite sure, is fully sufficient" The
duty on cutlery is now so per cent. and
on other hardware 80 per cent, about
three times as much as Senator Morrill,
said was ample more than thirty years
ago. Henry Wilson said in speech
at the same time: ''They merchants,
mechanics, laborers and business men
of New England) are for the reduction
of the revenue to the actual wants of an
economic administration of the govern
ment; for the depletion of the treasury
now full with boarded gold; for free
list, embracing articles of prime neces-
sity we do not produce, and for mere
nominal duties on articles that make up
large portion of our domestic indus
try" This was said when our duties
averaged only Is per cent. What would
he have said had the duties been nearly
three times as high?
In the same speech he said: ''If our
manufactures are to increase to keep
pace with the population and the grow
ing wants of the people; if we are to
control the markets of our own country;
il we are to meet and compete with the
manufacturers of England and Western
Europe in the markets of the world, we
must have our raw material admitted
duty free or at mere nominal cost"
Such was the position or the Repub-
lican party when it was young and its
leaders were inspired by a high and
noble purpose, before it had eSpOuSed
the cause of privileged class. But a
change has gradually come over its
leaders. Slowly but surely their atti-
tude towards protection has changed,
until they now have swung to the other
side and declare for the highest kind of
protective tariff. Before the party
had reached this stage of It's develop
ment Garfield lifted up his voice of
warning, and cOunteled it to be satisfied
with moderate protection, or the poo
pie would rise up in their majesty and
wipe out the whole system of
protection. In 1872 Senator Sher-
man said: "If the present rates
of duty were high enough during and
since the war, when home industry was
burdened with heavy internal taxes,
with stamp duties. income taxes, and
high rates on raw material. then surely
they are too high now, when all those
taxes are removed" He also said:
"a few years of further experience
will convince the whole body of our
people that a system of national taxes
which rests the whole burden of taxa
ton on consumption, and not one cent
on property or income, is intrinsically
unjust. Every one must see that the
consumption of the rich does not bear
the same relation to the consumption of
the poor as the increase of the one
does to the labor of the other" These
extracts are sufficient to show that the
Republican party of to-day differs from
the Republican party of thirty, twenty,
or even fifteen years ago, and it is for
this reason that those of us
who believe in the principles upon
which the party was originally
founded can no longer vote and work
with 1t. A party that at one time
prided itself upon having the inteli-
gence, morality and religious sentiment
of the nation within It's ranks is indeed
a different party than that which reviles
a James Russell Lowell, George Will
lam Curtis and Prof. Hyde, of Bow
doin college. for daring to utter their
own convictions; which cheers Bob
Ingersoll with enthusiastic delight when
he mingles religion with politics in his
characteristic way. and which dismisses
with a sheer such men as DR.. Cuyler,
DIR. GLADDEN., ex-MayOr Low and other
''Sunday-schooi politicians" S. L.