St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-13
WILSON'S PLEA
Illegal and OnePous Taxation Not
to Be Borne.

I'D DE 1oOEnc.
In the course of his speech at Fergus
Falls, Mr.. Wilson said
Since the commerce of the world is
not at the command of America, and
England, passing by the borders of our
land, seizes the richest mercantile coun-
tries of the Southern continent for her
markets, why, in the name Of common
sense and justice, are not we masters OF
what by geographical and natural laws
is ours? More than able to supply our
own home market; capable of being
granary for the world. why does Eng
land sell more to Mexico and the South
American states, twenty times more OF
her products, than we of ours? England
is thousands of miles from their doors;
we at the threshold. Yet England
ships S100,000,000 annually OF her
products to South America and we but
few millions. The clear and simple
explanation is that having shut our
doors to the markets OF the world, these
markets, through natural self-interest,
have shut their doors against us. Tax
ing not alone its own people for the
benefit of a privileged few. the govern
ment turns about and deprives itself or
mines of wealth by shutting out the
balance of the world from its stores OF
riches. For this our foreign commerce
has Shrunk to proportions that are
ridiculous. This is one of the curses
of high taX-rObberv of the many for
the benefit of the few; robbery of the
government that foreign nations may
may profit by our folly. Cheers
Where a nation by Chi
nese wall of high taxes says to
other nations of the world Enter you
cannot" those so addressed will not
welcome her to their ports. Her sugar,
coal, iron; her thousand manufactured
products that might develop the will
dernesS of near lands, lie unused; her
people groan under an onerOuS tax. while
Folly laughs the wisdom of fools to
scOrn.
Where is our merchant marine, first
in all waters before the war? Thirty
per cent of it survived the ravages OF
the Rebellion only to fall at the hands
of repressive policy of taxation, In
none of the great ports of the world are
American merchantmen to be found:
Taxation that shuts our products out OF
Australia, South America, Europe; that
destroys our national shipping
cannot be right, cannot exist,
tice. [Cheers.l The supreme court OF
Kansas has held that taxation upon one
for the support of another IS illegal. Inns
decision strikes to the heartOf the high
tariff. A tax upon the wage workers 20
support the manufacturer cannot be le-
gally justified, since it is Illegal and
Expresses the laborer in the ditch, the
mechanic at his bench and the farmer
in the field. The Republican party adj
vocates its retention, the Democratic
party it's removal. Cheers.l
This speech, delivered forcibly and
addressed to representative farmers and
Scandinavians, was received with fire.
uuent applause. The closest attention
was given to the speaker, and when the
applause came it was noticeable that
the working people present gave their
share of it.
"a tax for the national good is one
thing, but tax that saps the national
wealth and turns all the affairs OF the
government into mere tax imposition
and collection, is another thing. With
the first is justice to all; with the latter,
oppression"
manded audible approval. An OLD
farmer from Kittson county said as he
went out:
That's better than preachin'."
Another grasped the hand of Mr..
Canning, who was present, with the re-
mark:
II have been a Republican, but -
the taxes. | shall vote for you and
Cleveland and Wilson, and many more
mo