St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-16
done well by the powers that have been
conferred upon him once;

| ever vet was nominated in this way,
| and therefore the answer to what may
| be said against Grover Cleveland
| is the verdict of the American people
in his behalf. [Great applause. | nave
| such a cold that you see that 1t is al
most impossible for me to speak. MY
| throat is all choked up, but my heart is
not choked up. 1t beats we'll; it beats
with the fullest degree of emotion at
| the kind welcome that you have gwen
me. and at the sOlicitude ana
| interest you manifest in favor OF
| that party to which l have belonged
from my youth up, and to which L IN
tend to belong until | am laid IN my
mother earth. [Applause.l If L had
| time to do it, would like to say
| few words upon subject that inter
estS you so much, and that is
talked of so much this year, the
| question of the tariff as IL Is
| called. l must cOntine what nave 10
say upon that subject to very rev re-
! marks, and leave it to those who follow
me to elaborate it as much as you de-
sire. What is the tariff 1t is nothing
in the wide world but tax.
IT Is A TAX
| levied upon the people. and when 1t Is
! levied for the purpose and for no other
| purpose, of furnishing the revenue 10
| carry on the government of the country,
no member of our party makes any op-
| lection to it; but when it is used,
not for the purpose OF raising tne
! necessary revenue. but for ralS-
! ing millions and tens of millions and
! hundreds of millions of revenue 1or
which the government has no legitimate
/ use, the government puts its hands III
/ your pockets and takes from you por-
| ton of your daily earnings. l say IL Is q
| tax, but it is tax paid IN most
/ unusual degree by the poor men OF tne
| land. How is this tax paid? 1t IS not
| paid to the tax gatherer who comes TO
! you and demands it of you on your
| farm or in your workshop. That IS not
the way; it is laid upon every article OF
| foreign manufacture that is imported
| into this country for use. 1t IS
! collected in the custom houses OF
| the United States. 1t is hrSt
! paid by the man who brings the goods
here, the importer, and then, of course,
| he puts that tax on to the price when
! he paid for the goods and sells 1t for
that increased price when he dlspOSes
of it to the merchant. Then when
the merchant sell it to you here
in this city of Shelbyville ne
must add on that tax in the
price which he charges you or he
couldn't carry on his business for TWEEN
ty-fOur hours. He would necessarily
break up if he didn't put that tax on to
the price when he sells the goods to you.
So it is true, and literally true, with
some few exceptions, that upon all that
you wear from the crown of your head
to the sOles of your feet that you have
THE BURDEN OF THIS TAX
laid upon you, in the price that you pay
for these goods. There is this about
this tax: That so long as the price IS
raised on goods brought from abroad by
the tariff, it is raised on all goods man
ufactured in this country that come in
competition with the goods imported.
So about four or five times as much
money is collected from the
people in the increased price paid for
their goods. and goes to privileged
class in the United States, and don't 90
into the treasury at all. My friends,
the effect of this has been to collect
surplus in the treasury the United
States. On the 31st of August
last the amount of surplus
in the vaults of the treasury
was S13O,00O,0OO. Owing to payments
out of the treasury since then. it has
been slightly reduced. There was that
immense amount in the vaults OF the
| treasury. l suppose the amount now is
$100,000,000 of your money, taken
out of your pockets and lying idle
in the vaults of the treasury of
the United States, tor which the
! government has no use whatever. This
is so much money taken out of circula-
ton; this is so much money the people
| could use in their business, and in sup
| plying their daily wants. but there it
| lies locked up idle and useless. Now.
| my friends, the Democratic party says
| that this ought not to be. the Demo
| cratic party says that it is
! right enough to pay taxes to
| the government to the amount the
| government needs to carry on the affairs
| of the government, but it is mOnStrOus
! to tax the people to the amount
| of S1OO,O00,O00 in order that that
amount of money may be taken
from the business of the cOun-
try and locked up in the vaults of the
! treasury. You see. my friends, am il
a poor condition to speak to you to-day,
| and it is about time for me to stop. A
voice: Go on: listen again.
YOU'RE A DEMOCRAT, 1 KNOW.
! Now. my friends, our opponents say
that this is for the benefit of the labor
| ing map- this high tariff, as though it
| could possibly be for the benefit of the
| IabOring man to tax all he wears. to
nut tax on all his tools and imple-
| ments. and when he dies carry him in
a taxed coffin and bury him in
a taxed grave. No, it is simply
an absurdity, nothing more, nothing
| less. The idea that a nation can be
made rich by taxing the people far be-
vond the requirements of the govern
! ment? The idea that man can be
/ I,xr+ 20 al
! necessaries of life is an absurdity. They
! say the Democrats propose to break
down the manufacturers of the country.
We mean no such thing; we mean to
! give the manufacturers a fair chance
! for an honest living. and when we do that
! we do all that an honest man can ask.
| They talk about us being the enemy of
! the laboring man. OF what manner of
| men is the Democratic party composed?
| | have belonged to 1t since l was
KNEE-HIGH To a DUCK,
| as the saving goes. Laughter | have
! watched its course for years; l have
been of it; have worked with it and
! seen it under many different admins
trations, and always have seen that
ninety-nine one hundreths of the men
that belong TO the Democratic party are
laboring men. [Applause.l Now, my
] friends, l believe that, consider
ing the inclemency of the weather, and
! considering how many there are to come
after me, l will. after thanking YOU
kindly for the attention with which you
! have listened to me; | will ask YOU to
allow me to withdraw, with this admoni-
! ton: That upon your state may depend
whether we shall continue to have a
| good. honest, Democratic government
in the United States, or whether
we shall be opposed by course and
policy that robs the people for the
benefit of monOpolies and extortiOns. |
thank you for your attention, and | now
bid you good bye"
| ~ tho o+bar stands Capak0r Uoo~Loo.