St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-03

GREETED WITH BLOODY HANDS
ana n0sriSable grave if he went to
the Selth and tried to pull away any of
+ me strength from the Democratic party.
THAT'S the kind of people they have
down there. In closing Col. Plummer
KIND father watching over his young
daughters, and denounced the Demo
cratic party as wolf ready to break up
happy home.
Is Hon. NJ. Chance, of New York, was
the next speaker. Harrison and Nor
ton are all right" said he, in opening
his speech, land can vOuch for them.
Your great cities here have improved
wonderfully in the last few years, but
It you want to stop this great growth
right here just vote the Democratic tick
ct; If you will do it, Grover Cleveland's
message gave great JOY in England and
was the message, "Sumpter has been
fired upon" In 1916 the Walker tariff
came into force and remained with US
sixteen years. Such tariff is now pro-
posed. During those sixteen years we
had famine in Ireland and wars
in Europe. English markets took
great jump and left US far behind.
Free trade and slavery was in the con-
stitution of the South, and that was just
what England wanted. But that was
ended when the COnfederacy went down
in death under the matchless leadership
of Gen. Grant. Just think a moment,
my friends, do you want to throw Amer
lean markets open to the world and
cause second firing on Fort Sump-
ter"' Since our free trade with Eng
land was abolished we have
DISTANCED THAT COUNTRY
and now lead it so far that Englishmen
want free trade again. Protection has
made better wages for the labOring
man, lessened the profits of capital, and
made better homes and purer men and
women. A tariff is nothing more than
to protect ourselves against an
other unequal order of things.
and this is low wages. We
can have free trade if we want it, but
are you willing to pay the price? But
go to the North county in Ireland:if you
want to see the effects. We can have it
II you want to see one out of every five
of our labOrers buried like pauper.
The men who toll must bear the burden
| OF free trade, and not the govern
ment or the capitalists. l never yet
heard foreigner speak of the markets
OF the world; he always talks of the
United States markets and lets the free
traders here talk of the worlds market.
Now who are the free traders? Adam
and Eve were the first ones. Adam
wanted to get control OF the market, and
l am sorry to say that he did it, and
since then we have all had to earn our
bread by the sweat of our brOwS.
First, the free trader is the importer,
and then comes the college professor.
Bismarck, the greatest man Germany
ever had, was protectiOnist, and called
Oh the reichstag to adopt the American
or lfrh
much good in thousand ways. Then
there is another class of free traders.
They are those quite English fell
lows, you know, who want to
do everything that the Englishmen
does. Their object is to take the
wages away from the labOring man so
he cannot demand and get fair wages,
so he cannot build good house and
educate his children. Then another
class of free traders come from those
regions down South, regions where God
has not been since the morning after the
creation. And the men whose only food is
sour mash whisky and dog-leg tobacco,
are the free traders of that section of
the country, men whom you would not
pay $500 a year to take charge OF your
business. All the English people want
is your dollars; they care nothing for
you. That's why they want free trade
and plenty of it. Now in New Jersey,
where the land is so poor that the
humble bees have to get down on their
knees to sip the honey from the clover,
the farmers are richer than they
are here because there is more manu-
featuring going on there and there is
demand for what can be raised on the
.self-same poor ground. Now you labor
ing men want to protect yourselves
L. AGAINST CONVICT LABOR
and | ask you how in the name of God
are you going to protect yourselves, if
you get free trade, against the old coun-
try workingmen, who work for less
than you pay your convicts here?
Free trade means the lowering of our
people down to the level of the old
country w0rklngmen. Why do the for
eignerS who come to this country come
here except to escape from the terrible
burdens of free trade country, where
they can neither earn decent living nor
educate their children? The labOring
men of this country have the means to
say whether they shall have free trade
or protection-the ballot, and may God
direct them to use it Alright at
the coming election. In closing
let me challege any man to
show me that wages are not higher I'M
der protective tariff tlan they are I'M
uCi tlC IlCC lduC Sy OtCIls 1llSl NOlC
for Gen. Ben Harrison, the soldier
statesman, who has done so much for
his country, while Grover Cleveland
had his sympathy on one side and his
substitute on the other. We would
have liked that superb man from Maine
as our leader, but we are above men,
and SO will elect Gen. Harrison. Many
of the greater men of the Republican
party have passed away, but the party
still remains as strong as ever.
HOME TALENT.
w. II. Eustis followed with a short
address, in which he said he never had
He said he was glad, after thinking the
matter over, that Blaine had not been
nominated. ''This is an experimental
country" said he, ''and when 1 see the
bankrupt free trade dudes and dukes of
England coming over here and wedding
the protectiOnist widows and their
purses | admire their good sense.
There turning to the picture of
Harrison] is the man who will be the
next president of the United States.
Harrison is not liked in England, as his
English history, and they paid for it,
too. Grover Cleveland has done one
good thing since coming into that
power, and that was in gettivg married.
l would do the same if you would place
the same premium upon the ceremony"
The. meeting closed with three cheers
for Harrison and Morton.
1t was somewhat funny mistake W.
81. Eutis made last evening while ad-
dressing the meeting at Harmonic. He
began talking of Seen. w. II. Harrison,
that grand man who will lead us to VIC
tory when Col. King grasped by the him
coat-tail and called out: Here, Eustis;
for heavens sake get that right-it's not
w. III. Harrison, but Ben Harrison you
are speaking Of" Mr.. Eustis made