St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-26
reputation as "lady killer" spending
most of his time around the hotels and
streets ogling women.
ATE AND TALKED TARIFF.
About 100 Wholesalers Banquet
at the Nest Hotel

at the West Hotel.
About 100 representatives of the job
bing interests OF the Twin Cities sat
down at the banquet OF the Minneapolis
JobberS' association at the West last
night and ate and drank just like ordi-
nary men. All the leading jobbers OF
Minneapolis were there and about thirty
wholesalers from st. Paul came up to
enjoy the Inequalities of their brothers
in trade. j. G. Eliel's round face and
blonde mustache set off the bead of the
table in becoming style, and on his left
lOomed up the shining features Of Rev.
q. l.. Morrill,. Prof. 0. V. Tousley, the
speaker Of the evening, occupied the
place of honor at EliePs right. Next
him sat Mayor E. c. Babb, wearing
brilliant boutonniere and handling his
knife and fork in the latest Eastern
manner, just as nonchalantly as If
Washington correspondents never
existed. T. B. Janney was
there, but could not be seen.
George A. Bracket and B. f. Nelson
J. j. Ankeny sat opposite Il. Alden
and beside him were Dexter Thurber's
Joseph Pulitzer-like features. w. q.
Byron and Secretary of State Hans
Mattson sat the foot of one table, near
the door. while the musical ripples from
DanZ's orchestra ran riot in Mattson'S
beard. G. A. Pillsbury forgot for once
that there was such a thing as
"short selling' of wheat and
let himself out for a nice,
quiet time. President Cyrus
Northrop sat next Mayor Babb and
talked across him to Prof. T0uSley. the
two, to all appearance. being engaged
in discussion of problem from cal
culus, Babb, meanwhile. looking as if
he understood it all. There were few
dress suits visible, but they were con-
fined principally to the honorary guests.
No public gathering is ever complete I'M
til e. j. Buell. arrives, SO the single tax
ist blew in just before 8, and j. Q. Eliel,
vice president of the jobbers' union
and chairman of the evening, raped
fer order.
He made some humorous remarks
about the wedding of st. Paul and Mill
neapOlis, and referred to the tariff and
discussed the tariff from non-partiSau
standpoint. Mr.. Tousley spoke in sub
stance as follows:
II do not expect to add much to the
peoples understanding of this topic.
Opinions are queer possessions, and we
should be surprised. were we to study
them, to find how little we have to do
with their formation. Two young men,
who study a question from different
StandpOints, are sure to arrive at differ
ent results, and so with the tariff.
sit is an accepted proposition that la
Dor lies at the foot of everything. We
pray for bread: we answer the prayer
by working for it. And what is true of
the physical nature is also true of the in
tellectual. History proves that the
workers are the ones who win
in the end The necessities of
life are very largely controlled by
climatic conditions and surroundings.
''In considering the resources of ma
ton, capital and labor come first.
If l had boy would select an Occu-
patton to which he was applicable and
thereby protect him in his career. In
the same way why may not the nation
protect itself from foreign labor? We
are familiar with the spirit of prOtec-
ton. 1t is an instinct. AS mem
berS of municipalities, we talk
of building up the city.
These matters we understand. But
when we reach international commerce
we find plenty of earnest advocates of
unrestricted trade. England is linn
ited monarchy. Her home is an island.
She grew until her products would not
support her people. Then she threw
off all trade restrictions and entered
into contest for the business of tue
world. She supports her government
by taxing articles of universal interest.
America is a democracy. No nation
has such facilities for internal COM
MERGE. We are not colonizers. Inside
our borders we have free trade. We
bar out the foreigner, meet him at the
custom house and explain things. Cir
cumstances alter cases. That two ma
tions so fundamentally dissimilar could
adopt precisely similar plans of govern
mental economy is, to my mind, I'M
tenable.
With the protective system l am in
full accord. 1t has made us the nation
we are. That any considerable part of
protective legislation is robbery L do
not believe.
American manufacturing interests re-
flute the Indictment that it is so. l
would as soon expect a national indie
pendence without Bunker Hill and
Yorktown as commercial emancipation
without protective legislation.
"But we have reached a new stand.
This nation should become an exporter
Of commercial valuables. We can now
compete with the world on nearly all
manufactures. We are crowding Eng
land out everywhere. What good,
ask, can protective tariff do here? l
would rather endure all the perils Of
competition than the dangers of the
trust. Agriculture needs some consid-
Grafton. The farmer is concerned in
finding consumers of his products.
Where will he find them? Let us knock
down the barriers to the extension Of
the trade of our manufactures. Let US
cultivate the closest trade relations with
the South American states and enter
the door to renewed prosperity which
seems swinging open to receive u.s.
Vice President Eliel announced that a
business meeting OF the jobbers' union
would be held next Friday afternoon,
arose, but said little. W. B. Dean was
called upon, and in the name of the st.
Paul visitors thanked the Minneapolis
jobbers for their hospitality. He also
made a few remarks on the tariff from
the protectionist standpoint, and as
serted that the prairies of South
America threaten the wheat growers of
the Northwest more than does the pro-
tective tariff. He also predicted that
the time will come when American
farmers will demand protection for the
grain, and said American farmers must
not look elsewhere than in America for
market.
Chairman Eliel said that as President
Northrop had specially requested to not
be called upon. he would, in accordance
with that request. call upon that gentle
man. President Northrop said the tariff
cannot be settled in political caucus.
He did not, however, believe, for HIM
self, that absolute free trade would do
for US. Nor did he believe that states
man lives who can grasp the question
and tell us just what we want. He
thought we should work little at a
time, and gradually rise to the happy
medium which we look for. He also
hoped that we might yet reach time
when we would have honest statesman
ship on this most vexatiOuS question.
Charming Seabury, of st. Paul, was
called upon to explain what he meant
by tackling T. B. Walker, but declined
to enter such deep question. He ex-