St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-30


poor man landing In New York is met
by q custom house officer. and all he has
Is gone through, and ii anything is
found like smuggling seizure is made,
and coniiScatiOn is made right there.
If caught smuggling you are not al
lowed to pay your duty and take your
goods. but your goods are taken, sold at
auction. and the entire proceeds turned
into the public treasury-and the un-
fortunate creature who attempted TO
escape his tariff tax or bonus to protect
the home manufacturer. is sent on
his way empty handed. The law on pro-
lection doesn't fool with him any when
he runs against the end of tariff beam
in the Republican platform. When it
comes down to collecting the bonus on
imports. the law is so strict and grasp
ing that they have female detectives
and officers to search females who are
suspected of smuggling, and it is 4
Known fact that suspicion goes SO far
that they probe their persons and use
stomach pumps To see if they have not
swallowed or concealed diamonds. This
is all well enough, and is principle to
be admired, if it was only followed ON
to the end and applied TO every oody in
the collection of revenue. But let us
see how many smugglerS there are in
the world, and how many get through
and are considered highly respectable,
and the law never interteres with him.
In fact, they are rather applauded
for their brightness and success.
Six men have died in Minneapolis
within short time, and the six together
returned for taxation to the assessor,
nine thousand two hundred and thirty
three dollars, go, 233). The inventories
of their possessions in the Office of the
probate court, as brought out and filed
by the heirs, executors, and administra-
tors foot up the magnificent sum of one
million seven hundred and fitty-four
thousand three hundred and forty dol
lars, Isl, 754, 340). These highly respec-
table gentlemen were able to cross the
ocean of life, and land on a distant
land and Smuggle through just Si.745.-
107, Oh which they successfully lodged
the assessor and escaped from taxation.
Here is where the custom house officer
and the law of protection is deficient.
All smugglers should be treated al ke.
If the law was such that. the man who
lies TO the assessor to cover up his pro-
perty from taxation, knew when he was
found out, that all he had would be
seized, confscated and turnedinto
the county treasury, it woul d
revOlutiOniZe death bed scenes TO
such an extent, that there would
be an entirely different air round funer-
ais from what there is now. If the wife
and charming daughters, clad in bro
cadeS and adorned by diamonds and
sparkling jewels, knew, if they turned
up at the probate Office with more than
the father and husband had returned
the assessor, that
ALL THEY HAD ON EARTH
that they would be stripped of their
jewels and turned out of their magnifi-
cent home, and sent to the wash tub to
earn living with the rest of the world,
protection then would be good thing.
Certain rich classes would not SO read
lily deceive and lie, and pass out of this
life with fraud stamped on their coffin
lid. Ii the law of protection was car
ried TO this extent, there would be a
surplus in every public treasury; the
seizures from Smu .glers alone would
be more than sufficient to pay all eX-
penSeS of the county, state and national
government. If this was the law, when
a man came to die, the first question an
anxious family would ask would be.
Father, did you ever lie to the assess
or??''
Instead of having a lawyer by the
DCuSIdC W III N q W ills MOulu nave
one there examining the assessment
rolls to see if the valuation had been
put high enough to avoid all question of
seizure. Instead of SURPRISING the
truth, they would be hunting around to
see how strong they could make it. If
the same protection applied all around
that the poor man has to bow down to,
who would like to receive from his
friends in Norway or Germany at
Christmas time little remembrance to
keep him from freezing in the DakotaS
without taking off his hat and mort
gaging his farm to protect the rich
Eastern manufactures, Smug5terS in
land would not show up $4,000 TO the
assessor, then land their bark on the
golden shore and have the family file
an inventory for million with the
Judge of probate, and carve in marble
over the depart4d's head: asleep in
.lesus." He would never be allowed to
IA asleep anywhere until the broad
ruth was known, if we had full pro-
lection laws. Does any one believe that
the man who is now successfully dodg-
ing the assessor will vote to get caught
anu have his whole estate cOnfiScated
and turned into the public treasury for
LYING To THE STATE?
Do they believe this man who Is en-
jOying the blessings of free Institutions,
being protected in life. liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, and accommodating
wealth at little expense or trouble,
will vote to reverse his position and
take lower place? Is you can't be-
lieye this. then how can the poor op-
pressed Western farmer think that the
Eastern manufacturer. who is getting
rich off of him, is going TO reduce his
own wealth and give it to the farmer?
This is a matter for the farmer himself
to attend to. All the farmer has to do
is to demand it and walk up and take
it. He can't sit Oh stump in the mid
die of The field and wait for the cow to
back up and be MIXED. The protected
manufacturer is not in that business.
Every city or house divided against
itself shall not stand" The congress
of the United States to-day is organized
in the interest of the protected manu-
facturer as against the oppressed farm
producer who is Ducking against the
free pauper labor and markets of the
world on what lie grubS out of the
ground.
When the protectionists says to the
farmer, II am your friend, wait for me
to help you and improve your fortunes"
all the farmer need say unto him is,
And Jesus knew their thoughts"
BUDD REEVE.