St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-30

facturers are getting solely the benefit
of the protective tariff. Yet when these
Republicans talk out loud they say
this protective tariff Is solely for the
laboring man. l am more interested in
this tariff question than | am in my own
election. You hear the question, "HOw
can we compete with the pauper labor
of other countries?' When they say
that the fact of a protective tariff makes
the difference, now does 1t come that
the highest wages paid in any country
in Europe is in Great Britain, a free
trade country, against protection in many
or the other countries. The lowest tariff
country in Europe is the highest wage
country. The Mills bill. about which
they are complaining so much. would be
the
HIGHEST TARIFF IN THE WORLD.
Since when did wealth make a rich
man kind and good? VIII you tell me
that when a man has become immensely
rich he pays his hands more? l am
down on this high protective tariff be-
cause it limits the field of labor. 1t
benefit of his labor Is it rational to
foster these millionaires, we have got
lot of these fellows that are in Office
to-day just because this high protective
tariff has permitted them to amaSS a
fortune. If we don't make the tariff
low what is to become of the land of
this country? Think of the agricultures
of this country taxed on everything for
these million acres, and on what
are they protected? Has any farm
in this community risen in value
in the last fifteen years? The lands of
Minnesota are cheaper to-day than
they were fifteen years ago, because
they are taxed on everything magma
bic. Go on one step after another and
will find that the farmers products are
decreasing year by year. The farming
industry of Minnesota is getting to be
serious thing. In thirty years the
protectionists has been collecting that
war tax from you, and in how
many cases have they helped the
price Of your products? My
friend Dunnell has been down here and
says: 81 have found the brigadiers of
the south, and they have gone generally
ord. The only thing they put in their
platform was, they say l opposed the
direct tax bill and joined the Southern
brigadiers. The leading men in favor
of that bill were Southerners. 1t was
simply a scheme Of the tariff men to
keep up the tariff. had two or three
reasons for opposing it. l am opposed
to making the poor man
PAY THE TAXES OF THE RICH.
l am more proud of my vote on it
than on anything else. Now, my
friends, they say l voted against the
Logan pension. l admired Gen. Logan,
and | admire Mrs. Logan, but she is
wealthy and has a fine house. don't
believe in pensiOning off moneyed
aristocracy." MIR. Wilson then spoke
of his challenge for joint discussion
with Mr.. Dunnell and fine latter's cow
ardly reply that he would consent to four
joint debates the latter part of October
if congress had adjourned and Mr..
Dunnell knew congress wouldn't adj
jOurn. Since he had refused to meet
him in joint debate he felt at liberty to
go over his congressional record for the
twelve years he was in congress. Judge
Wilson then scored Dunnell's vulner-
able records numerically, and said he
dared not meet him in joint debate as
he could not refute the charges he had
against Dunnell as to his action in con-
gIeSS,