St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-27
UNJUST AND UNEQUAL
Taylor Crum, Of Fargo, De-
livers a Mastery Address
on the Tariff.
The Mckinley Law Merely a
Means Of Plundering the
People.
All Americans Being Taxed to
Support a Handful Of
Manufacturers.
National Legislation System
atically Disregards Farm
erS' Interests.


meeting held here yesterday afternoon
Taylor Crum, of Fargo. delivered one
of the best and most effective speeches
of the campaign. He was listened to
10 throughout with the most careful at
tention by large and Intelligent audi
ence. He made many votes here, and
his keen and lawyer-like manner of
treating the tariff will result in many
more conversions. Following is brief
synopsis of two-hourS' speech:
After reviewing the history of the
tariff legislation of the United States.
and showing by the writings and
speeches of prominent Republicans.
that the period between 1876 and 1860
was one of general prosperity, uneX-
celled by any other period in the history
of our nation. he sa d: In 1S4S and 1852
California, Illinois, Indiana. Iowa, Min
nesota, Michigan. Ohio. Wisconsin.
Texas. Missouri. Louisiana. Mississippi.
South Carolina, West Virginia. and, i'm
fact. all the agricultural states West
and South, were Democratic.
The Slavery Question
divided the country. The Douglas
Democrats and Republicans of the
North rallied to the supp ort of the old
flag. But the war is ended now-the
slavery issue is forever dead. Other
questions are before us. ! say the war
Is ended, the soldiers of the North, the
soldiers of the South. met on the fields
of Gettysburg and had campfire
together. They shock hands on the old
field of battle and said: 1.-The war is
over;" and within few months the
snldIers of the South have proposed to
erect monument to Gen. Grant, with
this inscription, Erected by the SOL
diers OF the South in memory of our
magnanimous conqnerer." This the
Southern veterans offered to do in honor
of a great soldier. who. when he
Sheathed his sword at Appomattox.s said:
LET us have peace" Tremendous
applause.] When a vanQuished. chival-
rous soldiery do this. o pity a poItroon
who attempts to carry elections by tear
ing open afresh the wounds of war
winch twenty-five years of peace should
have healed. The whole complexion of
politics has changed from what it was
in 1856 to 1860. The interests of the
planters of the South and the farm
ers of the North are identical
to-day. As Douglas Democrats
and Republicans stood side by
ny Siut III Tic di lily. DIT tildI Jiil1t. ~ III
day men of all political parties should
stand side by side to accomplish those
reforms which are positively necessary
to our prosperity and future welfare.
Capital is arrayed against labor. Rich
corporations and monopolies are arrayed
against the interests of the people.
From 1850 to 1860, under low tariff, the
agricultural wealth of the United States
Increased more than 100 per cent. From
1860 10 1870 the increase was less than
40 per cent, and from 1870 to 1880 the in
crease was
Less Than 10 Per Cent,
and yet they say the farmers are pros
porous. Ii the present plutOcracy con-
tinueS the farmers of this republic will
soon become the tenants of an aris-
tocracy OF wealth. The design of the
high tariff advocates of the East
is to keep the toiler harnessed
to their service. The uhnat-
ural and unqualified tariff law
surrounding the country. enables the
manufacturer to form trusts, pools and
combinations, to raise the price of home
made products to any point below, or
up to. the top of the tariff wall. By this
iniquity competition is done away with.
and where we pay 81 in revenue to the
government, we pay more than 81 into
the money chests of the United States
in the increased prices they compel us
to pay for American goods above the
prices at which they sell the same goods
for In foreign markets. 1t has been
proved during the debates in congress,
and stands Of record, that the manufact-
urers OF this country, instead of need
ing more protection, are actually able
| and do sell at a profit American-made
-,
competition with the world. 20 to 20 per
cent less than we can purchase the same
products at home-at the very door of
the factory. And to still further enable
the manufacturers to loot and plum
der the people of this republic
the Mckinley bill raises the average of
the tariff from AZ per cent to 60 per cent
on dutiable imports, and as further in
centive Sec. % of the Mckinley bill
provides that a drawback shall be al
lowed the manufacturer when he ex-
ports products in which taxed raw ma
terial has been used, thus placing a
premium On selling dry goods to foreign
ers at low prices. But nothing Is done
to reduce the price to us. Are we slaves
to endure such oppression. They can sell
goods in foreign countries, in COMPETE
ton with the world, for $50 ana make
money and charge us 500 for the same
article. simply because this tariff
Shuts Out Competition
with the trusts which exist here. Why
are these things as they are? There is
but one anSwer-organi cation of capi-
tai to control labor and the aggrega-
ton of enormous fortunes in the hands
of q few. The farmers of this nation
are mortgaged and losing their farms,
while capitalists and manufacturers are
becoming millionaires. 1t is unjust
legislation and unequal taxation. Were
it not for our magnificent resources,
our free lands, our ineXhauStibe mines,
and the great demand for labor, which
does not exist in the old country. heav-
en- only knows what our condition
would be, ground down with more
than war taxes. during quarter of a
century of PROFOUND peace. Is it not
| SOM thing for the anvil to sing
out to the saw, and for the saw to speak
to the plane to talk about it to the
reaper and the plow. Should it not be
understood, ought it not to be under
stood everywhere and by everybody?
| When i'll the declaration of independ-
! ence it is said ''All men are created
equaP' it meant something. 1t did
not mean that the shoemaker should be
taxed to help support the black
smith. 1T did not mean than
| the butcher is to be taxed to
help support the harnessmaker. or
that the whole people are to be taxed to
enrich the glassmakers. the ironmakers.
| the clothmakerS, the lumber kings and
the trusts and corporations of the East.
When the American congress passes
laws Ievying a tax upon the necessaries
OF life which we must have, for the
avowed and only purpose of still further
| protecting and enriching Eastern man
ufacturers,. and enabling them to
| raise their prices still higher
at home, we have a right
10 complain. and. regardless of
former party affiliations, bury in we'll
merited oblivion any congressman OF
senator, political party. man O, son OF