St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-19

manufacturers of lumber, l cannot vote
to sustain this condition OF things.
If pine lands have risen so much in
value for that period, as is conceded
here, why is it? And if agricultural
lends have not risen in something like
the same ratio, or at all, why is that so?
The answer to these questions is not far
to seek. When crops are bountiful and
prices high. agricultural lands go ND.
When crops are poor or prices low, such
lands 90 down. And by this sign it is
seen that the lumber industry has been
exceptionally prosperous for a long
time, and that for the last fifteen years
or more agriculture has been unprofita-
bic. Now L want some man to answer
this question: Why should these men,
who are making not farthing,
but are merely holding their own be
forced to contribute 81 a thousand feet
on any lumber consumed to an industry
which is making millionaireS of the
men engaged in it? Why should poverty
protect wealth? That is the question
which touches the masses of the people
and which they would like to have am
swered. Are our laborerS benefited?
The man that stands up to-day and says
that labor in the lumber industy re-
ceiyes higher wages than in other like
PlOlCCbCu VI unPAOINNbNN3
makes statement that can not be suS-
tanned. The higher compensation goes
not to the laborer, but to the million
aire.r
SOUTHERN WAR CLAIMS.
On the question of paying Southern
war claims for cotton, etc, and which
Dunnell voted to pay, Judge Wilson
says:
I'm times of war the laws made for
our guidance or government in times OF
peace are silent. In war the protection
of the peOple-the defense of the gov
eminent against its enemies-is the SUI
preme law. If we admit liability in
these cases we shall make a precedent
that will rise to torment US in the fu-
ture. Such a precedent is not to be toll
Grated and cannot be justified either
upon grounds of pablo policy or upon
any legal principle"
THE TARIFF.
Turning now to the tariff, question
which Dunnell does not pretend to dis
cuss with any of the ability or fairness
with which he approached it some
years ago, there Is, in marked contrast,
the utteranceS of Judge Wilson made
to his audiences, and received with the
utmost manifestations of approval. He
says to the people:
1.-The people have asked for bread and
been given a stone. There is hardly an
article worn or used by the poor whose
price-is not largely enhanced by the in
ia utOus tariff, while the articles which
the poor themselves produce and sell
are unprotected. They are compelled
to sell in the lowest market, and buy in
the highest. 1t is not so strange that
people residing il manufacturing
communities which, at any rate, are
supposed to receive some benefit from
the forced contributions of the masses
should acquiesce; but that the people
of Minnesota should not cry aloud
against such all injustice passes COM
prehensiOn. The people of our state,
of either party, are not in favor of con-
tributing of their own scanty means
to enable the m0nopolists of the East to
add to their millions, for this is what it
comes to-"
These extracts from Judge Wilson's
speeches give to the voters of the First
district vino have not heard him an in
telligent knowledge of his relations to
every vital question of the hour. 1t is
not a matter of wonder that such a
spirit of faithfulneSs to the interests of
the common people brings to him over
flowing houses and makes his re-elec-
ton something beyond doubt. IL. l. g.