St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-15
Independent Tariff Reform
ers and Democrats Name
a Ticket at La Moure.
Hon. Taylor Crum Talks Com
mon Sense to the Largest
Crowd Of the Year.
How the Republicans Have
Legislated High Prices
Upon the Poor,
And the Poor Will Respond
With a Solid Ballot Against
Their Oppressors.
Special to the GLOBE.

Special to the GLOBE.
LA INQUIRE. n. D.. Oct. 1.-THE indie
pendent tariff reform and Democratic
conventions were held here to-day and
conference committees appointed. The
conventions united and nominated a
strong ticket, which will be elected.
Hon. Taylor Crum spoke in the after
noon and evening to the largest and
most enthusiastic meetings ever held in
the county. This evenings address
was as follows:
The first tariff legislation after our
birth as nation was enacted in 1889.
The preamble of the bill announced the
object of the legislation to be the sup
port of the government, the discharge
of the debts of the United States and
the encouragement of manufacturers.
1t was declared to be only temporary in
order to give infant industries start,
and was only to continue about seven
years. The duties levied did not exceed
an average of 81 per cent on dutiable
imports. 1t was not done away with in
seven years as contemplated, but con-
tInued until JefferSon'S time, and in
1905 the tariff did not exceed an aver
age of 49, per cent on dutlabie i'm
ports. The So per cent average tariff law
of 1889 Is referred to by James q. Blaine
in his work Twenty Years of Con-
gress," Vol. l, page 1874. in the follow
Ing words: "lf was characterized IN an
eminent degree by wisdom. by mOdera-
ton and by keen insight into the i'm
mediate and distant future of the coun-
try" Is Mr.. Blaine declares such a
bill, with an So per cent average on
dutiable imports, to be "characteriZed
in an eminent degree by wisdom and
moderation" what should he say of the
Mckinley bill, which is justly charac-
teriZed by the farmers OF our sister
state of Minnesota as the "croWnlng
infamy of protection" In 1905 an act
was passed to prohibit English imperta-
tons as a retaliation for her Interior
ence with our commerce, and during
the NapOleonic wars, about this time,
what was considered very high tariff
was imposed to force European coun-
tries to cease interfering with our conf
merce with other nations. The 1872
war and the retallatOry measures
doubled all duties. High prices pre-
vailed and manufacturers made great
profits, and the tariff of 1916, during
Ia ia, ulree yeas of its operation,
was equal to rate of 80 per cent on
duuauie imports. The manufacturers
becoming very wealthy through 100
much protection, were enabled to have
the tariff raised, so that in 1924 the in
creased tariff was equal to an average
of 81 per cent on dutable imports. A
strife of sections and struggle between
conflicting interests followed and the
combinations made thereby resulted in
again raising the tariff so that in 1928
the tariff was equal to an average of Al
per cent on dutiable imports. The
people became alarmed at the audacity
of the manufacturers and material
reduction of the tariff was followed by
increased prosperity of the country.
the rich manufacturers again rallied
against the agricultural states, and
finally, in 1912, the highest protective
tariff then ever known was levied upon
the people. Four years of that kind of
law was enough for our grandfathers.
and in 1874 the Democratic party was
placed in power and had control of all
branches of the government, and in
1916 reduced the tariff to an average of
% 40 per cent on dutiable imports.
Excluding intoxicating liquors, upon
which the tariff was 100 per cent, from
the computation. the average tariff on
all other dutiable imports was 2O% per
cent