St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-18
How Everything About the
Workingman But His La
Dor Is Protected.
Fallacy of the Argument as
to the Size of Wages Ex-
ploded.
More Kicking Against the
Registration LaW--Poli-
ties in General.

night by Democrats and Republicans,
who wanted to hear Z. S. DarrOw, of
Chicago, OH the tariff. The hail should
have been larger, for there has not
been a speech delivered in Minneapolis
this season ADLER than that of Mr.. Oar
row. His logic was true, his arguments
| clear, his Illustrations apt and his elo-
quence threw charm over the whole,
setting it off as beautiful landscape is
brought out by the brilliancy of the set
ting sun. He is an orator. 1Ogician
and. Judging from his effort last night,
| lover OF man.
.. T. Erickson. secretary of the Cleve-
! land club. presided in The absence of
| George f. LedgerwoOd, president of the
| club. In few words he explained the
| objects of the Cleveland cub, which
had charge of the meeting. and intro
! duced Mr.. barrow. Mr.. barrow is a
young man, not over thirty five, but
| looking younger. Smooth-shaven, he
looks more like a theological student
| than political speaker. That he is a
| student was evidenced by his speech.
In clear. strong tones he addressed the
audience on the tariff measure. His
manner was most convincing and his
arguments indisputaDle.
| ingly declared that he was free
trader. If free trade is wrong. he
thought tariff reform must be wrong.
| He invited questions from the audience
| and then launched into his subject
1T might he WE'LL" said he, Ito in-
| qulre, in the beginn ny, as TO the nature
| of a tariff; tor believe that if we all
| understood just what tariff is, we
would git rid of 1t just as soon as posi-
| Bile. If we believe thoroughly in the
| theory of protection we should draw a
| lesson from China and Japan-frOm
! Japan. which is but recently beginning
10 blossom under the sun of civilization.
| Ii we believe firmly in protection we
| should build wall along our border.
| We should get rid of all this dickerlng
| about schedules. bar out foreign goods
| entirely and live alone. We should iso-
| late ourselves from the world. Last
| year s247 .O00. 0U0 or tariff, OStenSibly for
| tile government, were collected. Hence,
| you see, tariff is a tax and tax is a
tariff. When people are talking to you
| about the beauties of the tariff, they are
| explaining the beauties of a tax"
Mr.. DarrOw then took up the illustra-
| ton of "A snip load of goods upon which
| paid by the importer. The importer
sells to the Wholesaler, charging up
| what he paid for tariff upon the latter.
| The wholesaler does the same by the
retailer and the retailer by the con-
| sumner. the poor consumer in the end
| paying every cent of it. More than
that, all these dealers,
From Importer TO Retailer,
| Takes advantage OF the tariff plea and
exact little extra profit. the consumer.
| in some cases. paying an excess OF
| twice the original tariff. Speaking of
what the Republican party has done to
7 prostitute its power, the speaker said,
| among other things.
| They have taken up the Grand Army
of the Republic, for years an Organiza-
| ton which was a source of pride to this
| country, and have made of many of its
members mendicants, begging tor
| alms.'
Returning to the tariff, Mr.. barrow
continues:
''Now. how does that tariff affect
| Minnesota. This state is an agricultural
country. Take away the farmers, and
the cities of Minneapolis and ST. Paul
g, would vanish In night. There is not
an industry in the state worth
considering that does not depend
upon farming. We do not buy
grain and beef and cheese
we sell it. Your wheat is sold i'm Eng
| land, and il is there sold in the market
of the world. in Liverpool, at the Liver
pool market price. Does the tariff add
| one penny to the price which you get
for your wheat? Not one. The most
| ingenious protec i've system in the world
would not add to what your wheat Will
bring in competition with that of Rus
STA and India. Now there is a
4S
wheat. 1t has be9n raised a
nickel. You should all vote for your
congressman, for he has raised the tariff
On your wheat, of which you import so
much, and for the raising of which you
need protection. And SO it is with
everything which the farmer raises,
with the possible exception of wool
| Now that wooden subject is small, too
small to be considered. But if there is
| farmer who wants to add to the cost
of poor mans pants, or steal the
WOODEN blanket from babe in the
| cradle, he doesn't want politics talked
| to him; he wants religion.
1.-The farmer takes his wheat across
the water and there sells it. He wants
to buy something to take home to his
wife and children. The United States
government
Lays It's Heavy Hand
| upon him and says: You can't buy
your clothes where you sold your wheat.
You must go back and pay out your
money for few necessaries to that
gang of robbers which has put fence
around your country We stand
this Ubiquitous system because
we have become used to it.
We have been educated up to
| "a Ett Ia ha -
opens its eyes upon the world, looks out
80 per cent. Even the American flag is
taxed. That must be why there are SO
many red flags carried in this country.
When this little child grows up and
goes TO school, the governm ent puts a
tax upon his school books, for if there
is any one thing that the protectionist
hates. it is knowledge.
1--WE would naturally suppose that
men should be taxed according 10 what
they are worth. Under the protective
system every man is taxed according to
family. If he has ten children he is
heavily burdened. If he is an old
bachelor his tax isn't mentioned. His
generosity is taxed. If he is mean and
stingy and makes his wife wear hel
summer dress in the winter. and his son
his old clothes, the tax lets him
alone. Ii he be farmer, he goes
out to the field with pillow taxed 40 pei
cent: he goes home to dinner and eats
off taxed dishes; he goes to bed and
pulls up sheet taxed 40 per cent, and
dreams of the beauties of tax. The
Indian follows his victim to the grave
then breaks his bow and forgets his re
venge. The tariff follows the American
to the grave by taxing his coffin and
headstone, and goes even beyond by
placing tax of $40 ton on birthstone
In justice to the author, should say
that the Mckinley bill takes this of
now. They propose giving us HI free
when was this burden placed upoT
us? In those dark days, between 81
and '65, it was done, but with the ex
press promise that when the exigency
had passed it would be removed. When
some of you were Drawing death at the
front, monopolists were getting rich of
you. When you had returned, when the
war was over, when the debts had beer
funded these men who had become