The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-09-29
THE CAUSE or DEMOCRACY
Dan W. Lawler, the Eloquent St. Paul
Paul Attorney, Rings the Changes
on the Tariff Issue.
HE MAKES SOME TELLING POINTS
AN Insult to Ireland Resented-Does
Protection Protect 2-Meriam's
Nomination.

Nomination.
Saturday night Tollefson's hall was
crowded to overfowing to hear Dan w.
Lawler, Of st. Paul, Judge Lars M.
Rand and Thomas J. Leftwltch, of
Minneapolis, discuss the issues of the
day. Joseph Jepson presided and in
troduced as the first speaker OF the
evening, Mr.. Leftwich, who made a
short address. paying high tribute TO
the honesty of Grover Cleveland. He
also praised the fearlessness with which
he had expressed his convictions upon
all public matters. and predicted his re-
election by an overwhelming majority.
u. w. Lawler made a most eloquent
speech, which was frequently inter
rupted by loud applause. Hs said that
he wanted to say that Ramsey county is
all right for Grover Cleveland, Hon. B.,
NJ. Wilson. Hon. Edmund Rice and the
entire Democratic ticket. He paid an
eloquent tribute to &he memory OF
Samuel j. Ti'den, who was defrauded
of the presidency. He traced the po]it-
ical career of President Cleveland and
challenged anyone to point out a single
act Of dishonesty or corruption in his
official life. There had been two differ
+nt views in regard to our revenue sys-
tem. One view favored tariff for
revenue only, and the other for protec
tion. He pointed out in a most logical
manner the great wrongs which are be-
ing done the American people by a high
D, otective tariff, which had served It's
purpose and should be Gone away with,
and is now being maintained by She
Republican party in the interests Of
great corporations and monopolies'
There is locked up in the United States
treasury $4,000, 600, and how came it
there? Il is the money of which you,
the American people, have been robbed
to support monopolists and capitalists.
President Cleveland said this, aud in
one of his messages called the attention
OF congress to il and gave sound recon-
mendations for the removal Of this evil.
The Republicans call this protection,
but whom does it protect? The Ameri
can manufacturer against the English
market. Does it protect the farmer?
No. His productsara not protected, and
be is forced to compete with the cheap
est markets Of the world. Where Goes
he buy the necessaries of life? In the
dearest markets OF She world" Mr.
Lawler went on to tell now this pr0tec
tive tariff came in existence as a war
measure under the promise that it
~hould be removed as soon as the war
was over. The wal has been over
twenty-three years and it is still there.
Sectional feeling has passed away, and
there is now no North, 10 South, but
one united, harmonious country. The
high protective tariff is the only relic Of
! that war, and that, too, shall be wiped
away. That is what the Democratic
party contemplated in the Mills Bill,
| which was opposed by the entire Re
publican party, with one notable excep-
tion. That mal was Hon. Knute Mel
son, whose memory will be cherished in
honor long after Ben Harrison has
passed from recollection. The Repub-
llcan senate has promised to bring in a
v Use aud iudicious waunee. But they
have not done 1t nor will they do it, for
they know that, if hey should present
such bill, the Democrats would take
hold and pass it at once. They don't
want any such thing, and they are max
ing this promise without any intention
of keeping ii. -Four years ago we were
told that Cleveland's election meant
ruin? We have been most prosperous,
and besides there has not been single
scandal connected with his admlnistra-
ton. He has most carefully looked
after our interests at home and has
maintained with dignity our respect
| abroad. 1t was only the other day that
a manufa cturer told one Of his employees
that if the Democratic ticket should be
successful his wages would be reduced
from 81 so to$1 day. The laborer re-
piled: IF that were so, You yourself
would vote for Cleveland. No; 1t is
not the tariff that makes high wages
and gives national prosperity, but it is
the natural resources Of our country,
and nothing else. II heard Mr.. Sheri.
dan few nights ago at Market hail.,
and it was with shame that [ heard him
parade the suffering and poverty of Ire
land, the home of my ancestors, before
the people. He told the Irish not to
vote for the democratic party. because
| the Democratic party would reduce the
l.tarlH and that would benefit Great
! Britain. That was an insult to the