St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-15

we shall be powerless to repeal, reduce
or reform the tariff. The president and
the senate are mOrtgaged to men made
rich by protection. The most that we
can do is to prevent an increase of taxa
ton. The wheels of progress are
clOgged and chained by the results of
the last election.
1t cost a great deal of money to secure
these results, and it left the successful
party heavily indebted to the men who
contributed the money. The Mckinley
bill is the natural offspring of a cam
paign in which the
People Were Debauched s
by an enormous corruption fund. 1t
was bargained and paid for in the last
election; it is the contamination of the
trade-the fulfllment of the contracts
made between the INSCRIPTIONS lead
ers of a party in distress and the
mOney-lenderS who saved it from. de-
feat.
The bill is worthy of its p~arentage. 1t
is the theory of high protection carried
to criminal excess. The war tariff,
which, during the war, was SO per cent.
on dutiable imports and is now AZ per
to 81 per cent. This increase is sun
ningly so adjusted as to afford addi-
tional protection to men already en-
rlched by protection. 1t is friendly in
the interests of the trusts, by the trusts
and for the trusts.
1t lightens the tax on the millionaire
and imposes a heavier burden upon
every man who in the sweat of his face
eats his bread. "Unto him that hath,
it gives until he have abundance; but
from him that hath not it takes away
even that which he hath"
1t is a bill worthy of a revolution;
such a measure as the lIcentious court
of the Bourbons might have imposed
upon the haplesS peaSantry of France.
L cannot enter into a EXPERIMENTATION
OF the iDiquities which Mr.. Mckinley
has consolidated into his bill. Wher-
ever there is a millionaire to be en-
rlched OF a trust to be subsidized the
tariff taxes have been raised SO cum
nlngly adjusted as to accomplish this
result. For instance, it
Doubles the Tax Upon Tin Plate
in order to compel our people to use as
a substitute for tin the galvanized sheet
iron and roofing manufactured by a
P1ttShurg trust, and then it gives a re-
bate of SO per cent, on tin cans exported
for the benefit of the Standard Oil
Company which last year exported in
the form of cans One-ninth of all the tin
plate imported during that year-a tax
for II trust and a rebate for the others.
When our Alliance friends announced
this bill as ''the browning infamy of
protection" they used the language of
truth and moderation.
Yet your able representative in con-
greSS. my esteemed nameSake, in his
Glencoe speech, says: This is a farm
er's tariff bill. and l tell you it is the
farmer who will be protected and bene-
fitted by it." He is honest about this,
for he has 200 bushels OF barley in his
granary awaiting the so cent advance
which the Mckinley bill has promised
him, That is why he voted for the
bill.
1t is said of the Roman augurS that
they never could look each other in the
face without laughing. What a world
of enjoyment, what a lot of fun Reed
and Mckinley must have had as they
benefited and protected the farmers
with a tariff on wheat and corn, on beef
and pork, on lard and poultry, or pease
and onions, on eggs and acOrnS, on hay,
on mushrooms, and on straw. How
the American hen must have cackled
over the prospective development of her
home industry, and how the American
hog must have
Grunted His Delight
at the prospect of being protected from
the paupor porkers of Europe?
"You can fool part of the people all
the time and all the people part of the
time," said Lincoln, "but you cannot
fool all the people all the time"
James G.. Blaine IS the unexpected
advocate of free trade by means of
treaties of reciprocity. The idea is not
his own. He stole it from Richard
Golden, the greatest British champion
of absolute free trade. l confess | fear
the Greeks when they come laden with
gifts
Mckinley promises to reduce the sur
plus revenues some $50, 600, 600, by put
ting raw sugar upon the free list.
Blaine proposes to retain the sugar tax
in order, as he says. to negotiate recip-
rOcity treaties with the Spanish half
breeds of South America. There was a
surplus of S100, 900, 0O0. There is a de-
felt of $3.50, OOO, 900. The accumulated
and estimated revenues of government
have been by this congress so wantonly
squandered and appropriated that its
revenues cannot be reduced and must
be increased. Blaine seeks to correct
McKinley's blunder. His reciprocity
scheme is the will'O-the-wisp-a pre-
text for retaining the tax Mckinley
promised to abolish. l have read your
platform with great care. My candidacy
Covers Every Square Inch
of that platform and nothing more.
We recognize the tariff question in
this restricted sense, as the pre-eminent
issue of the campaign. The battle is
not between the theories of protection
nVl frnn frndn. - IL NOT ~ ,aofi ~
the retention or reduction of the exist
ing tarlff-but whether such a tariff
shall be increased, whether the McKin-
ley and the other bills of which it is the
pioneer. shall be added to the burdens
already borne by us.
This is the colossal issue of this cam
paign. 1t is the one issue which can
and will be settled in November. We
will not cOmplicate nor entangle it
with any other questions. We will fur
nish no man who says he is opposed to
increased taxation an excuse for voting
against us, because he differs from US
the roll-we will take the ayes and
nays of the people of this district upon
the Mckinley bill.
Subsidiary to this is that other q ues-
ton of the s~ubserviency of a rep resen-
tative to the action of his party caucus.
History Will sustain the statement
that the worst, most vicious, least juSti-
fable, and most unfair. corrupt and OBJ
~jectionable legislation is that which
emulates from and is forced through
under the whip and spur of the party
caucus This is, and long has been, true
of all political parties.
l recognize the caucus as a suitable
place for discussion and d%eliberation. as
a Legitimate means for organization, and
for the development of the details of
measures upon the substance of which
there is no difference of opinion.
TO this extent and within these limits
the caucus is a proper and necessary
part of political system.
Beyond this it should never go. 1t is
not the place for the abandonment of
principles or the surrender of individual
independence and responsibility. Its
DEGREES should have the force of rec
o~mmendation, but
Not the Power OF Command.
Nothing is more disheartenlng to
the friends of popular government than
tn see the chosen representatives of the