St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-15
j. N. CASTLE.
An Able Address by the Congress
SiOnaI Candidate.


sional Candidate.
When the applause succeeding Win
ston's speech had dice away, Maj. Hen
derson introduced j. N. Castle, candi-
date for congress. Mr.. Castle devoted
most of his attention to the tariff. He
said he wanted to be elected, not be-
cause he was a chronic politician. but
because it would be an honor, this dis
trict having more inhabitants than any,
except one, of the thirteen original
states, and more than any one of the last
three states admitted by the Republi-
cans into the Union. He told how the
internal revenue system came to be es-
tabliShed, aud how bonds and incomes
were taxed on account of the war. He
continued:
The time came to reduce taxes. The man
ufacturers. shrewd fellows, saw what was
coming. They gathered a congressman here
and a congressman there.and when the taxes
were reduced they were swept away from
the rich manufacturer and capitalist, but
left 10 bear down the poor. This influence,
which was SO disastrous to the workingman,
did not come from the whole country; it
all came from east OF the Al
legheny mountains. Sherman, ingalls, and
other great men liz the Republican party, de-
nounced what had been done; declared that
these burdens bore too strongly upon the
backs of the poor. Attention became directed
to this matter so strongly that in 1882 COM
mission was appointed 10 reduce the tariff.
but the manufacturers swept down upon
this commission and said: Here, you fell
lows, this won't Go. We've been making
money too fast to give it up now. and
we've been sharing with some of
the bill introduced in 1883, instead of re.
ducing the tariff, increased it from II to AZ
per cent 8 per cent more than was paid dur
ing the war. when the government needed
more money than it ever did before since.
You ask why didn't the people rise in re-
bellion? The peculiarly of the tariff tax is
that you don't miss it.
Il II put it to you in another way: Few
of you buy less than 81 worth of goods in
county treasurer TO pay your taxes. He says:
Yes, your real estate taxsis paid and your
personal property tax is paid, but want S47
more
whats that for?' you ask.
THAT? That's your tariff
"You'd appreciate that and feel 1t, too.
wouldn't you? And not cent of that S47
goes to Uncle Sam. 1t goes to the manu-
facturer."
Then Mr.. Castle took up the matter of
WOODEN blankets and showed how, when the
poor man pays 1878 for wooden blankets he
pays 81 to the manufacturer, which in itself
affords good profit, and S1.7o more to the
same manufacturers, which latter he doesn't
earn, but which is given to him by the Nc
kinney Dill.
And this'' said the speaker, ''our Re-
publican friends call good thing. The tax
gatherer tells them that he wants S47 out of
every hundred that they spend for neces-
saries of life, to send to the poor manufact-
uring millionaire down East. and yet they
call that good thing"
Mr.. Castle then took up the action of
Cleveland on the tariff. every mention
of Cleveland's name provoking uproar-
ious applause, and finally came down to
the way the Mckinley bill was built. In
the matter of free sugar, about which SO
much has been said, SIS, 100000 is taken
from the United States treasury and put
into the pockets of the sugar trust, be-
cause nothing but mOlasses and the very
coarSeSt of brown sugar is allowed to
come in free. Then came all astounding
array of figures, showing that on arti-
Giles of common consumption the tariff
has been increased from 20 to 100 per
cent. and lowered On luXurieS.
w. Ii. Donahue and Z. j. Buell. fol-
lowed with excellent speeches, the lat
ter showing that the increase in local
land valuations is mostly OH working
mems homes, not on land held for spec
ulation.