St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-10
Judge McCafferty Makes a
Pointed Reply to the Twi-
light Critic.
Eloquent Dan LAWYER Shows
Up the Baseness of the Re-
publican Party.
Second Warders Give DR..
AmoSS an Enthusiastic
Send-OfH.

The holding-up before the political
camera. as viewed through that delicate
tense, The Voter, and the impression
received upon that sensitive negative,
The People, that was given the above
mentioned five caucus-yoting, hide
bound representatives of the state of
Minnesota in congress, by Hon.
| j. n. Castle, the next Democratic con-
| gresham from the Fourth district, is
one that will echo and reyerberate all
| along the line up to election day. The
| meeting was held under the auspices of
the Fifth Ward Democratic Cleveland
club, presided over by A. D. Warner.
| with William Koch in the secretary's
chair. The audience was large and ap-
| preciative.
Hon. j. n. Castle was introduced as
the first speaker. He prefaced his re-
marks by reference to the old-time
| government o. the people and compared
it to the S. lendid management of affairs
in Ramsey county at the present time.
In the old republics, located in the
mountain Businesses of the Alps,
the people gathered once year
to hear the reports of their officers,
and If they were vOt ed as
satisfactory, they continued in Office
for another term. This he claimed as
| right, as the people should sit in judg-
ment Oh the conduct Of these officials,
and so they should reflect the officials
OF Ramsey county. To illustrate the
much-talked of question of bosses and
rings, he told story of Maine Yam
kee who came to President Lincoln and
told him that Gen. Grant was in
the habit of getting drunk. Lin
coin told him If that was
so he wanted to find out the
kind of whisky Grant drank. and fur
nlsh it to the balance of the generals.
He hoped that the county officers of
Ramsey county would be given the
same dose. The speaker then started
On the tariff question. Hancock, he
said. had stated that the tariff was a
local question. Hancock was both
right and wrong. 1t had been during
the war a national question; it was now
local question. The War of the Re-
bellion made the tariff and the in
ternal revenue tax a necessity. The
| speaker here defined the difference
between the tariff and internal revenue
tax. Ii blanket in Canada costss$2,
you bring 1t to this country and pay a
tax of 81, making the blanket cost So. it
| is termed tariff. The home manusact-
urer will undersell this by small per
| cent, and iSthuS protected from coming
in competition with the Canadian
| blanket. Tie internal revenue tax IS a
tax on manufacturers and the income of
| corporations and individuals and
on professional men. 1t is a
tax on bonds, mortgages, notes, etc.
Several years ago you had to put q
stamp on notes. The internal revenue
] tax was also placed on whisky and to-
bacco. This tax all went to the govern
ment, and by this means the war was
carried on. When the war was over the
promise was made to cut down these
taxes. 1t was done. But how? By tax
ing the internal revenue tax off from
wealth, but not from the necessaries.
| From 1866 to 1871 the Republicans had
| control of congress, and removed the
tax from all that the rich use, but it re-
manned on whisky and tobacco. Mr..
Brooks, of New Yor6;opposed the meas
| ure, and was called copperhead. This
| was the only argument they had against
| it. This was the first wrong step. By and
by congress found that they did not
4 have money enough to meet expenses.
Then the tariff was inaugurated, but
instead of putting it on the lux
| urieS it was put on the neces-
saries because they were in
greater demand. He referred to the
opposition it received from such emf.
nent Republicans as Garfield, Sher.
| man and ingalls,, who claimed it was a
burden ON the masses. In 1882 a com
! mission was appointed to revise and re-
duce the tariff. How was it dane? Be-
fore the war it was Al per cent; the COM
mission made it AZ per cent, an increase
off per cent, No Western man could
| defend this, and he would like to meet
| any of the present congressman who
| could. He gave numerous Instances of the
! injustice of the bill. Woolen cloths OF
higher grades had increased but 60 PEI
cent. while the cheaper grades had adj
vanced 120 per cent. Cut glass, As PEI
cent; window glass, through which
every working man has to look to see
the light of heaven and the bright light
or the sun, was raised to so per cent
The diamonds of the rich, 10 per cent:
the tin of the tin pail brigade to lie pei
cent. Why do they pay this
tax? Because it is an in.
sidious tax, and they do not
realize they are paying il, they have
stood it so long. How long would they
stand it if the working man had to pay
this tariff tax the same as he does his
tax to the county treasurer. If, after
paying his realty tax or personal tax to
the county treasurer. he would say you
owe S. to the government, and $40 to
S10o worth of goods you have
purchased during the year, he
would then realize what the
tariff meant, and by exercising his right
of suffrage forever stamp out such in.
EQUITIES as the Mckinley bill. The
Eastern manufacturers live in palaces
| such as all the wealth of Solomon could
never buy. He related how one presi
dent, not long ago, called the attention
of congress to this WRONG. knowing al
the same time that it would defeat hin
for reelection; but in the course OF
| time his name would go down to history
beside that of Washington, and the whole
world would say that Grover Cleveland
had given to the Democratic party an is
sue and platform. The election in 1885,
was a debaucheTy of men. Foreign
| countries pointed to America, where
they could buy and sell men as they dc
cattle. The manufacturers own the
| present congress, and the manu-
facturers passed the Mckinley bill
This congress has done nothing
but register the DEGREES of Tom Reed
who represents district that has less
kotCiS liidii d SiilSlt County III lit
Fourth Minnesota. He looked to the
West for hope and relief: to the sons OF
the Rhine, la belle France, ireland and
| Albion, and that far-off land north OF
| the shores of the Baltic sea.
Otto X. Sauer then made what he
termed his maiden political speech. He
went into politics because congress haC
passed the Mckinley bill, and explained
at length how it injured the working
man and enriched the manufacturer
The tariff, he said, was a monopoly
Judge Netheway, of Saltwater, tool
the platform and madeone of the neat
est speeches indorsing Mr. Castle thai
| any candidate could desire. He was
proud of his nomination for congress
but Mr.. Castles modesty forbade hin
| to suggest how to remedy the evil OF
over. taxation. He would say the onl,
| way to remedy it was to place J. n
| Castle where he could be heard in the
| halls Of congress. Will he remedy i
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