St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-30

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upon articles necessary to be consumed
year by year in order to sustain mans life.
1t takes that view on cloth, on the implements
OF labor. on che necessaries of life, while the
wealth of the country is ali excused from
taxation A disturbance in the gallery and
hisses.] The difficulty with that man is he
did not put sugar enough in his whisky to-
night.
Now, my friends, a few years ago, during
our unhappy civil war, it became necessary,
after exhausting ali other means of securing
revenues to meet the expenditures of our
military establishments to levy duties upon
the wealth of this country-to levy taxes for
this increased expenditures-and taxation
was LEVIED upon the products of domestic
manufacturers, as we'll as The products of
foreign manufacturers imported into this
country. The government in its magnan-
unity toward the manufacturers OF this cOun-
try, placed burden of So
on foreign goods coming into this country
which established the prices in all places in
which domestic were to be sold-increased
the price of the domestic goods to the con-
vote, after having conferred this heavy bur-
den upon them. which it was not unreason-
able, to ask them to Contribute 81 of this
sum toward the support of the government
during the war; but just as soon as the war
was over and peace returned to bless our
land, they came before congress and said
that this taxation is burden upon us; take
it off our shoulders and put it upon the
shoulders of the fellow that has got to pay
S45 to every S1Oo worth, and he will think it
is a blessing Loud applause.1 Now you
may talk 10 him and perhaps he will believe
it: they told him that it would increase his
wealth, increase his prosperity, develop him
m1Pay and inteleetually odu and physically
treasury, but Immediately after the war was
over they came before congress and had
every dollar of the taxation Immediately re-
peaied; but at the same time they remon-
tod
are paying. Loud apDlause:l Well, they
taxed the income people of the United
States, all persons having an income over
support for themselves and families. The
ington show there were 40. 160 persons in
the United States who had an annual net in
come of over 100000. and they were
taxed S12,oO0.0OO to support the govern
ment that protected them in the enjoyment
Of their property. Loud applause.
But they said this Taxation is a burden to
us, this income taxation is iniquitous and
odious to have these tax-gatherers coming
around and asking me how much money I
am makiug year, inquiring into my private
business If this tax is repealed and if you
want $4,000, GOO, why place it, the taxation,
on the implements of labor and let the
country
People Pay IT.
81 don't want to pay it,
Now the income tax has gone gone gilt
tering through the shades of things that were.
They have taken the taxes off of the bank
deposits-they have taken the taxes off of
the wealthy classes of this country who were
paying something to support the government
that was protecting them. They are all gone.
And the Republican party maintained if you
want any taxation, put the taxation upon the
shoulders of the man who has not got any in
come and who is laboring for the support of
his wife and children. Why did they do
that? Why do they tell you that when you
put taxation on foreign goods imported
into this country for consum ption you pro-
tect the prosperity of the United States and
develop the growth of Industries in this
country. and you will make market for the
consumption Of American products; you
VIII make the country rich in wealth,
more you raise it, the more prosperous the
people will be. Taxation is not burden; it
is blessing; it increases the wealth of the
country-let's see if it does or not What is
builds The beautiful homes these grand ma man. n.
ufacturing establishments of this beautiful
city? What is it incloses these magnificent
farms through the countryf Is it wealth?
No. it is labor. 1t is labor that makes wealth,
and with trade attached to that labor, and
without we have trade the wealth is worth
less, so far as wealth is concerned. You
can't accumulate wealth without trade
Why? Why because no man can satisfy all
and which he sells to somebody in the world
that makes wealth. which he accumulates.
Our Republican friends say: You have
got to stop at the water edge; you can't go
You must stand by the home market" The
Democrats say: run out your vessel with
its
Stars and Stripes,
now lost on the ocean, and load that vessel
with the commerce of the most intelligent
people of the world. and send it's bending
sails, driven by the winds of heaven, into all
the ports and harbors of the gIobe.'' LGreat
applause.
Now, then, when you do that, won't your
wheat go up? Won't your flour go up? Sup
posing you take down the Chinese wall that
our friends have just built up little higher
and good deal higher yonder at Wash
ington. Applause supposing you bend it
and take 1t down deep enough beneath the
surface Of the water for a seventy -four gun
ship to plow its waves, and bring to our ports
the Surplus products Of other people to be
think your wheat would go little higher,
and your flour, ana your corn, and your bacon,
and all those things? No, no. our Republi-
can II friends e. say, mo; The way to make
pei everybody to sell and buy at home. Pro-
tect again st foreign competition Let me
illustrate that a little: Let's see about
that. Now, we will say that man can buy a
suit of WOODEN clothes in Great Britain. Ger
many, France, Switzerland, Belgium, any Of
those old manufacturing countries, for $40:
any one of you can go there and buy $40
suit of clothes They cost you ten days
labor, at 81 a day. We will say that for COM
parison may be So day. but we will say it
will take ten days. If you are laboring at 81
day, it is going to cost you ten days labor
to buy that suit OF clothes. Now. your gov
ernment comes in and says, 1--WE want to
protect the American manufacturer and pre-
vent you from buying that suit of clothes over
yonder. We want to compel you to buy that
suit OF clothes from our own manufacturers,
and build up our own industries, and thereby
increase the wealth of the country, and so we
win put duty of 100 per cent on that. That
is about what they have got on large amount
of woolen goods Some are far ABOVE 100
per cent. Knit goods are up to 140 or $50
per cent, but will say 100 per cent, because
crease the duty on the woolen goods 100 per
cent TO protect the American manufacturer
against that very competition which you.
perhaps, now have in this country with it.
That is $40 more, isn't it? One hundred per
cent on SO suit of clothes is
Ten Dollarc More;
that makes the clothes cost you $40; that re-
q1ires twenty days labor. If it takes $40
without the tariff to get you suit of clothes.
and ten days labor TO get that $40, does not
the tariff, when it puts 100 per cent duty on
them, make you work twenty days to get that
$40 suit of clothes? Applause
Now. is that the way to make money? Is
that the way to increase the wealth of the
country. to make man work twenty days to
obtain the very same thing that he could
have gotten for $40? That is what they tell
me. That is what they are telling you; that
you are actually increasing in wealth be-
cause the tariff compels you to pay the
domestic or the foreign manufactured $50 by
twenty days work i'll order to obtain the
same thing which without the tariff you
could have gotten for ten days work or $40.
A Democrat believes that the wealth of
country is made by producing the largest
possible amount of product in a given time
and exchanging it in the largest possible
number of markets in the world. Applause
Let me illustrate that little further: Sup
pose, now, that man is making horseshoes,
as they used to in the old times good many
years ago. twenty-five or thirty or forty, and
we will say that man can make hundred
horseshoes by hand in a day. which he can't,
but will put it at hundred. and that man
is earning 81 day by his labor, and he is
making the hundred horseshoes at cost of
one cent apiece for labor If a machine is
invented and one has been not long ago, by
which that same man makes Is, 900 horse
shoes in the same time that he made one
by the stroke of his arm, and he
makes the machine do it. and he
does not work one-fourth as hard as he
did, and instead of making 100 horeshoes
he makes $4,000 horseshoes. Now, want
to know if the man is not making more
wealth than hn yyac hafOra ha bod