St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-20
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all of England, which has, from the be-
ginning, been hostile to the industrial
progress of the United States; but it has
fallen heavily upon the ears of the
patriotic portion of the Democratic
party. However, we must not expect
that this is the end of dishonest pre-
lenses. Deceit, fallacies and sophiStry
will again be resorted to and practiced.
Therefore, we should have a platform
based upon true Republican principles,
free from equivocatiOn or ambiguity land
should nominate candidates who are
the embodiment of these principles.
The founders of this government saw
that it was absolutely essential
for self-preservation that the origi-
nal thirteen states should be-
come united, for, the purpose of pro-
lection and defense against alien acts
and influences, as we'll as for econOml-
cal and effective government. One of
the first acts of the federal government
was to provide for revenue and for the
protection of the industrial interests of
the country. All our early presidents
from Washington to Jackson, inclusive,
advocated tariff for revenue and for
protection. ALI of the great patriotic
statesmen of those days conceded in
this policy. No man of note, who was
lover of his country, down to Jack
sons first term, entertained and eX-
pressed doubts as to the constitutions
ality of the policy of
PROTECTING THE INDUSTRIES
of the United States against foreign
competition. The tariff question was
not considered as one embracing solely
or chiefly the manufacturers interests,
but one which broadly embraced the So
cial condition of the laboring classes,
the mutual interest of all home prOduc-
erS in the home market and of the coun-
try's real independence. The British.
who now shout free trade, protected
themselves against all competition until
they were masters of the commercial
world, and until they realized that the
United States, with its great natural
advantages and by moderate use of
the same means. was becoming a for
midable rival. 1t was only when Great
Britain preceived something of the
future of her American rival that she
attempted to regain that control over this
country by artifice which she was unable
to hold or reclaim by force of arms.
After relating the history of the alleged
alliance of the South with English man-
ufacturers under the administrations of
Van Buren, Polk, Pierce and Buchanan,
Chairman Jones continued: The Re-
publican party vanquished the Demo
cratic party. passed the homestead law,
destroyed slavery, elevated the mud
sills," restored credit, redeemed the
country and started it anew on the lines
contemplated by the fathers. To-day
we occupy a much higher plane than
any other people on the face of the
globe. The Republican party believes
that it is not necessary or right that we
should be reduced to common level
with other nations, but that we should
have the full benefit of our natural adj
vantages and the sole enjoyment of our
glorious heritage. The logical conse-
quences of the theories of the Demo
cratic party would have left this coun-
try with but a
FRINGE OF POPULATION
on the waterways. Many of the lead
ing Bourbon Democrats to-day look
upon the magnificent developments and
the grand improvements of the nation,
which are simply labor, genius and
management crystalliZed, as a rank, uIl-
natural and unwholesome growth, and
believe that we ought to go back to the
days of ignorance, slOth and small
things as quickly as possible. Through
Republicans, and by fraud and duplicity
on the part of the Democratic party, our
honored and gallant standard-bearers
in 1884 were defeated. Fortunately fol
the country, we still have the benefit of
the wise laws passed by the Republican
party and still have majority in the
senate of the United States, which
majority has prevented unwise
legislation. We are again confront.
ted with this same Democratic party,
the mother of all the evils from which
this country has suffered, asking for the
power to control and direct its future
course, and we find that the same ele
ment which first led it astray by its