St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-24
FOR TARIFF REFORM.
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say n few words on the subject of popu-
lar government. He said that repub
lican, or representative. government
was thing that was we'll understood.
There is large body of people, more
over. who believe in the establishment
OF great central power. But popular
government i'll its purest and simplest
form Is to be found only in the sew
eral states. 1t is no evidence of
hostility 10 the general government to
Say that it is not as popular as the state
governments. 1t has an important func-
ton to perform, and its powers are as
well distributed as human power and
Iorethought could design. In the states
ii is different. There the legislature is
chosen from men by the people, and are
personally known to them. Real gen
uine, effective, popular government in
this country is found only in the states.
There is great political party
in this country. 1t is try
ing to extinguish the free gov
ernment. The principle that the
majority should rule is the true founda-
ton of popular government. Yet there
is no rule SO grinding or oppressive as
the rule of an unreStrained majority. 1t
is question whether we will surrender
popular government and turn federal
government into a mOnarchical inStitu-
ton. The institutions were gradually
changing toward taking the rights of
the many for the benefit Of the few.
American freemen shall continue to
exercise this right and the forms of local
governments must be maintained.
The next speaker was Gov. BOieS, of
Iowa.
Our New Allies.
Gov. Boies said:
Mr.. President: The sentiment of the
toast to which l am invited to respond
is one of SURPRISING interest from both
an economic and political standpoint.
Its importance. when considered with
reference to the nation at large, is in
tenSifed when applied to the prairie
states of the Northwest. which are, to
marked degree, the food producing dis
trictS of this continent. A brief state
ment of the situation in my own state
will as well present the condition in the
district referred to as can be done
i'll the time at my command. Ac-
cording to the most reliable sta
tiSucS attainable at this time, nearly
so per cent of the male population over
ten years of age in Iowa are engaged in
agricultural pursuits, while less than 3
per cent are employed in manufactur-
ing enterprises of all kinds, protected
and unprotected. 1t is estimated by
| those making these reports that the
| cost of producing an acre of corn ready
for market is IS; that the average crop
| for five years has beeu thirty-three and
a third bushels, and statistics show that
the average price Of this corn in our
local markets soon after harvest during
such periods has been % cents per
bushel, making the entire value of the
crop when marketed S7.33, or CT cents
less than the actual cost of production
| at market rates of labor.
We can easily see that if dozen men
were engaged in as many different pur
suits. and eleven of them were COM
PEELED to give up to the twelfth the en-
| tire profit they earned, the aggregate
wealth of the twelve might be greatly
increased, but in that case there would
be one very rich man and eleven very
| poor ones. Ii we extend the example
| 1t Is equally apparent that If the great
body of men engaged in industrial pur-
suits in any nation are compelled by
law or otherwise to surrender to few
the profits Of their laber, the nation as
such may grow rich, butts its wealth
will be concentrated in the hands of its
favored few, while the many, robbed of
their share of the wealth which the la
Dor OF all has produced, must of neceS-
Slty remain poor.
:, L 10 not hesitate is say there is no
possible justification for system of
| laws that produces such a result. | have
spoken of the condition of agricultural
Industries in my own state. l have
called attention to the fact that for
| years these Industries have been prose-
cuted at loss instead of a profit, and |
| affirm without fear of contradiction
that there is no state in this Union
where the great staples of agriculture,
the productions that supply necessary
food for man and beast, can be more
cheaply produced.
Recalling the sentiment of my toast,
"What the Farmer Has Right to De-
mapd," permit me to add they repre-
sent an industry as old at least as the
civilization of man, as laborious as any
that has ever fallen to his lot, without
the successful prosecution of which the
whole human family would lapse into
barbarism and end in decay. A buSi-
ness that forms the base Of every other,
without which the channels of trade
would run dry, the cities of the earth
moulder into dust, and the wealth of
the world disappear.
1t is because the Republican party in
a line OF SUGGESTIONS but once broken
in third of a century has ignored their
reasonable demands. because in all that
time but one voice in high places has
| called attention to the most essential of
their wants, and that voice was the voice
OF democratic president, that they
turned to his party in the election, the
results of which we are assembled to
celebrate. Ii the Democratic party is
true to itself it will be true TO its new
allies in the Northwest, aud henceforth
the union between them is complete.
Gov.-elect Russell. of Massachusetts,.
replied to the toast THE Place OF New
England IN the Pending Contest" W.
U. Hensei, of Pennsylvania. discussed
tariff reform at length. Referring to
Mr.. Cleveland's tariff message of 1887,
ne said:
Viewed with regard to the conse-
quenees it involved, the sagacity and
courage which inspired it OF the benefi-
cence of its results. the tariff reform
message of 1887 ranks with the other
three great executive acts in American
Observation-Disclosures purchase OF Lou
isiana, Jackson'S Modification proclama-
ton. and Lincoln's emancipation de-
cree. IN its PRONUNCIATION the Demo-
cratic president gained for the cause
hearing heretofore denied it.;
he silenced sectional strife;
he challenged intelligent discussion
OF deep reading governmental
questions; he lifted the politics of tie
country from the pethouse to the class
room, and he placed the Democratic or
ganization behind 4 leader whose fol-
lowing was neither personal nor sec
tionai. and whose place is fixed in the
fealty and confidence of his party asso-
.ciateS."
FL Roger O. Mills. of Texas, was to have
spoken 10 the toast RECIPROCITY" but
aie teiegraphed from Washington that
/ he was suffering from ali affection of the
+ throat, and regretted having to decline
attending the banquet.
r. When Mr.. Cleveland finished speak
ing. a massive silver cup was presented
to him by President Wheeler. The
ycup had on one side representation
f0f Jetferson's mill, and on the other of
his residence. said to be one Of set of
& thirteen made fey presentation to .Jeffer !
son on behalf of his admirers ia the