The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-10-31

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had in the land. Renewed applause.
Speaker Carlisle, in his speech that he
made in the senate-I have always thought,
thought in the 50th congress, and I have
had, as Abe Lincoln used to say, "a kind of
| a sneaking notion and that was one of the
| reasons why the Democratic party was so
/ tender of the sugar schedule in the Mills bill
that they wanted to protect that Hawaiian
Claus Spreckles sugar monopoly, and / am
conformed in that notion from the COM
| plant that Mr.. Ex-Speaker Carlisle made in
| his speech summing up this Mckinley bill
| In the Senate. want to read you
| HIS REMARKS ON THAT OCCASION.
Here is what Mr. Carlisle says, and I will
| have to read down in order to quote him
| fully and fairly, but you will see that he
| finds fault with this:
snow it is proposed to enter upon a system of
duties he refers to the sugar daties) re@posed
and this so-called policy of reciprocity is to be
inaugurated by abrogating. the only reciprocity
world, repeating the act of congress passed to
| carry it into effect 1t is to be inaugurated by
abrogating the reciprocity treaty with the
| Hawaiian Islands, and incidentally repeating
the law of congress winch was passed in 1876 to
carry it into effect. This bill as it came from
nos a 1oSds to y sbad r Be Se Sy
pair the force or effect of any existing treaty
| with a foreign country, a provision similar to
act of 1852, but the senate GOD be praised, and
those are my words) finance committee struck
| it out, and the house receded on conference, so
| that the bill comes back here abrogating alb
| solutely, and without notice to the Sandwich
!slends, the only reciprocity treaty We now have
| IN existence"
So you can see that by Mr.. Carlisle, one
of the complaints is that we have abrogated
that treaty giving that sugar monopoly
to Claus Spreckles. Now you may not un-
| derstand the full force of this. There is a
native government, a sort of fgurehead in
the Hawaiian islands, but the real business
is either run by Europeans or Yankees. and
| it seems the Yankees under the leadership of
that great man Spreckles have got hold of
the whole sugar production of that island,
| and under that have been making from
| $1,000, 900 to 100000 year out of the
American people. And from that load the
Republican party has relieved you by the
| Mckinley bill.
''Now, if it be asked, if some gentleman
wonders and says: "Why, you voted for the
| Mills bill, how could you vote for it? Now, l
want to tell you that in all frankness-not as
matter of apology,
lam NOT HERE TO APOLOGIZE,
but when brother is in campmeeting it is
his duty to tell his brethren just how he feels
and what his feelings have been in the past.
| Laughter and applause.l voted for the
Mills bill, first of all, not be.
cause I thought it was good bill
but because I voted for it as an
expression of my sentiments in favor of
tariff reform and tariff reduction. In other
words, was like the boy, wanted to kick
| something, and there was nothing else to
kick except the Mills bill. Laughter. ]
| But more than that, knew that under our
constitution no tariff bill could originate in
the senate, and also knew that any tariff
| bill, however mean it might be, if it passed
the house, if it got over to the Republican
| senate, would be corrected. Laughter and
applause And just as I guessed 1t turned
| out. That Mills bill which ! voted for
under sort of moral protest, when it got
into the senate, you all know that the senate
prepared a substitute; prepared a substitute
on line of the Mckinley bill, and they
| showed to the American people on the eve
| of the last election what Republicans would
do in the way of tariff legislation and tariff
reform. [Applause.] But the strangest
thing of all Island you would all, smile if
would tell you, if | would let you a
little into my confidence, have been
regarded as O sort of tariff crank, and yet
this Mckinley bill has Endorsed more of my
crank notions than I supposed until today,
because 1 never looked it up until this FORE
noon, just as I was coming down here to at
tend this meeting. And was fairly aston
ished. In the 50th congress
INTRODUCED LITTLE BILL,
tariff bill, to put sugar. molasses, MANILA,
jute, and few other things on the free list
and then made vigorous kick against re-
tobacco. That little kick was in my little
speech. Well, Mckinley went to Chicago,
| and wrote out his platform, and know how
felt and / know how good many other
Republicans felt. We shut our eyes for the
| dose, but we voted for that good
man Benjamin Harrison. [Great applause. ]
| The platform promised, under certain
conditions, if you remember, free whisky
and free tobacco. I am putting it in 8
plain rural way, [Laughser.] They say it
was necessary, they had better wipe those
taxes out than remit any protective duties.
Now what has the Mckinley bill done2 They
have not touched whisky in any shape or
| manner. That thing is taxed as much as
ever, and the tobacco schedule they have
only taxed it mere trif1e, they have only
cut it down. think I cannot give the fig
| ures exactly-but take Mr.. Carlisle's state
ment in his speech, they have only cut down
the tobacco schedule $6,000,000, while the
total amount is over $36, 0OO, 600; or, in other
words. the Mckinley bill has left whisky
untouched, and has only taken one-sixth Of
the internal revenue tax off of tobacco, and
it has given US free sugar. Now, do you
'GThe Mckinley bill has Endorsed my little
bill and my little speech, all but one-fifth of
the tobacco tax. Laughter and applause.
Surely if there is any man who ought to be
| FLEAsED WITH THE RESULT,
I ought to be. Renewed laughter and ap-
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the retired list, in a sort of superannuated
| relation for about Is months.
"Well. now, my friends, I will briefly re-
capitulate. I will show you-it Is not mat
ter of oratory-I will show you the exceed
| ingly solid ground we stand upon in this
campaign and you need not go any farther.
If the Democrats say that your party is cor
rupt, tell them, you said so in 1884, you
| got in and you found no corruption IF the
Democratic party say to you, Wen reform
this government if you will let us in,' say
| to them, you got in (by scratch) in 1884.
but devil a reform Laughter Excuse
things are expressive. Laughter and ap-
| plause.] Let the Democrats say that this
Mckinley bill is an awful dangerous thing.
True, we can say to you it is not an angel, it
| is not a saint, it is made by poor weak
human hands, poor weak human minds; it
| is not perfect-there Is nothing perfect on
this side of the grave-but it is infinitely
more perfect, infinitely better than your
| Mills bill, and it is infinitely better than
| what you promised us to do-pure, unadul-
terated free trade. Applause.
Snow, this is all you need for the purposes
of this campaign. IT any Democrat ap.
| proachcs you, MAKE an answer such as I
have suggested to you and you have filed
| the bill complete.
"It was an old rule of common law plead
| ing( lawyers will know what I mean, and
| will try to make it plain to the rest of you)
| if the plaintiff sued the defendant and the
defendant came in and, pleaded in abate-
| ment, that he hadn't brought his suit right
or not in the proper court, 1t was the de-
| PENDANTS business to point out the court
and the tribunal in which the plaintiff could
get remedy. Now. here,