St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-27
MENACE TOTHE union
The Gospel Of Force and
Doctrine of Protection
Threaten It.
Henry Watterson Gives the
Solid Men Of Boston Some
Pointers.
Republican Assaults Upon Ma
tional Character and In
Stitutions.
Blaine's Cry for Ampler Mar
kets the Acme Of Free
Trade Ideas.

BosToN, Sept. 26.-Notwithstanding
the inclemency Of the weather MEM
bers of the Massachusetts, Reform club
turned out in large numbers to greet
Henry Watterson, of the Louisville
COurler-Journal, who was the guest of
the club at banquet at Hotel Bruins
wick. Shortly after 6 o'clock
the large dining hall of the
Brunswick began to assume lively ap-
pearance, and large company was
soon seated at the tables, including
Hon. p. A. Collins, Hon. Leopold
Morse, Gen. F. A. Walker, DR.. William
Everett, Hon. William E. Russell, Ed
ward Atkinson, Hon. John E. Fitzgerald,
Sherman Hoar, Judge Lathrop, Josiah
Quincy, and other prominent gentle
men. Hon. George S. Hale presided.
The principal address of the evening
was delivered by Mr.. Watterson. He
spoke as follows: 1.-Two dangers seem
to me at this time to threaten the in
tegrity of the Union and the prosperity
of the people. One of these is the gOS-
pei of force and the other is the doctrine
of protection. The first is expected to
1t; and to both the Republican party has
committed itself.
Latter-Day Republfcanism.
''I wish that it were otherwise. wish
that l could see in the Republicaism of
to-day some reflection of the spirit
which animated a Garrison and in
spired Whittier. and brought forth in
the authors of the anti-slavery move
ment a modern and native race Of
paladins for a thousand years of song
and story. L wish that the men who
have succeeded Lincoln and Seward,
Chase and Sumner, Fessenden, Trum-
bull and Greeley, in command, pos
sessed little of their moderation and
patriotism. When 1 seek fer them
encounter in their places another and
a different set of leaders; / am chilled
by the implacable hostility of Sher-
man and a HOar; [ am amazed by
the vindictive and sensational OutcrieS
of an ingalls, and a Chandler; l stand
aghaSt before the shameless intrepidity
of a Quay, and l find all progress to-
ward the light and warmth of truth
completely blocked by the adventurous
and unfeeling obesity of Reed. in
my despair am almost tempted to ex-
claim
Where rumor of oppression and deceit
Might never reach me more''
But here again. saddest OF all. when
look for independent thinking and the
faithful discharge of early promise,
see the aspiring young man of letters
turned into the ambitious politician,
forgetting in the selfish aims of to-day
the disinterested beliefs of yesterday
The ground upon which these hot and
cold gospellers of repression and pillage
plant themselves is an assault upon our
national character and institutions
They say that one-half the country
is not able to govern itself. and that
the other half needs Chinese wall to
save it from ruin. They say that the
white people of an entire section of the
Union are little better than SavageS,
who love murder for murders sake.
and that, next after the duty of subject
ing these to federal supervision, the
whole power of the government must
be bent to substantiating the theory
that man may be enriched by taxation.
They declare that the South is as dis
10y al as ever it was-thOugh genera
tiOn has come upon the scene since
the final gun was fired in the
great conflict and not a single chief of
the secession movement survives-and,
ignoring the promise which underlay
the enactment of the war tariff, that it
was an imposition upon the people and
should not outlast the military necessi-
ties which called it into being, they tell
US that its eXactionS represent an Origi-
nal function of government, which
must never be surrendered. In short.
Entrenched Behind the Ramparts
of Mr.. Reeds rules and Mr.. Quay's
Doodle, they demand at all hazards, and
in the exclusive interest of the Repub-
lican party. a full poll and an exact
count of the negro vote in the South,
and the establishment of Mr.. McKin-
ley's new-found theory of protection, as
a fundamental theory and fixed poll
cy. l deny each of the assumptions on
which these several claims rely for their
support. l deny that the Southern
states are less able to manage their own
affairs, less devoted to law and order,
and less loyal to the Union, than the
states of New England. l deny that
impost taxes can create wealth, or ben
eft anybody pit those whom they
directly exempt from foreign competi-
ton. On the contrary. / assert that
the Southern people are just like the
Northern people, bone of their bone,
and flesh of their flesh, and, denounc-
ing the theory of protection as a de-
lusion, maintain that the government
has no constitutional or just
right of taxation, except to raise
thes money needed for its own
support, economically administered.
Before l take my seat / shall try to
make these assertions and denials good.
Crusade of the Extremists.
Ever since the termination of the sec
tional war with the total collapse of the
Southern Confederacy, there has existed
at the North body of public men who,
with varying degrees of indiscrimina-
tion, but an ever increasing resonance,
persist in aScriDing to the white
people of the South purposes and
character wholly foreign to them. Ac-
cOrding to these prophets of evil the av-
erage SOutherner is a cross between
feudal lord and modern tough. Ac-
cording to them, society at the South
is organized into ariStocrats and ruff
fans, united by the common bond of
hatred alike to the negro and the Union.
The poor black man, meanwhile, is
pictured as a patient martyr, abused
and menaced in his person, cheated of
the fruits of his labor and deprived of
legal right to vote. On these
premises and pretenses a series of
extraordinary schemes of relief. from
Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens original plan of
reconstruction to Mr.. Lodges recent
bill for the regulation of federal cleo
tions, have been formulated and pro-
posed. and some of them enacted into
laws. Most of them have been of