St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-01
PROTECTIVE RESTRICTION.
j. 0. Barrett Tackles Secretary
Blaine's Speech.

j. o. Barrett Tackles Secretary
Biaine's Speech.
To the Editor of the Globe.
James G. Blaine has issued his pro-
tective ukase. 1t is presented to view
as the solution of the industrial prob
lem. AS it is meant to hold the work
ing classes i'll subservience to their mo-
nopolistic masters, and thus hush their
murmurings, it deserves TO be handled
in its true light. Mr.. Blaine only puts
on the gliding to the s'annexation trade
policy of Senator Davis. of Minnesota.
Both declare for expansion. Thus a
new key note is struck to the protective
song, and all Republicans are to sing
the chorus of our Infant Industries
loo much credit cannot be given the
reciprocity project. 1t is what reform
ers all along have demanded, and so
popular now is their policy, protection
lists are stealing the tariff reform thun-
eer and calling it their own. Mr..
Blaine comedies at last that under a
protective system in the aggregate we
have lost in the international ex-
change to the amont of "S13,-
100000 against us in our for
eign trade. Hear his forced conclusion:
we have chosen with our eyes closed
to get nothing. [ hope with our eyes
open that we shall in the future choose
pose to get something? BY "a supple
mentary of protective tariff" BY in
augurating Pan-American system of
reciprocity. Coed so far. Thus we
shall get something on virtually free
trade exchange with countries outside
of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and
Hawaii. But the project is to close the
door of tariff reform OH the people OF
the Eastern continent! How is this? Is
it not too narrow to get something equal
to the enterprise? These protectioaists
want to expand the national lungs in
their straight jackets. They will recip-
rocate with South America. but not
with the Eastern continent, where the
greater enlightment obtains, where the
greater variety of commodities are pro-
duced, which our people absolutely
need. But let us credit these China
walled politicians with opening their
eyes wide enough to see across the 18TH
mus of Darien, if not across the Atlantic.
Let the project pass in credit to get
something out of the expansive protect
i've restriction. But let all tariff re-
formers of every name hold together
and strike together for worldwide rec
lpr0clty of commerce.
holding otto straw, Mr.. Blaine tries to
reconcile expansion with restriction.
Ho says:
Happily the great majority of our people,
without strict regard TO party lines. believe
that the results to the American people from
the protective policy have been intellectually
beneficent, aggregating in a quarter OF Il
century national and individual wealth be-
vOnd everything ever dreamed of before in
the history of the world.
This political taffy can no longer be
forced down the throats of thinking
men. 1t is true that under protective
tariff our nation, in the aggregate, has
accumulated ga wealth beyond any
thing ever before dreamed of in the
history of the world" But in whose
hands is this wealth? Seventy persons
in these United States own 81, roo, 0OO, 600
worth of property, averaging S37, 500, 900
each. twenty-five thousand persons
now own one-half of the aggregate
property in the United States. Every
body knows the rich are growing richer,
and the poor are growing poorer. This
Oratorcal talk about our national wealth
under the protective system, is nothing
but blind to hide the causes of the Sor
rows of the labor earning classes, and
to keep them under the party whip.
They demand tariff reform that is re-
lOl iils CApdlloCu oil IOuIlu IHc
world, an open market in interna-
tional reciprocity, and they fling back
into the teeth of these deceivers the lie
that our country is rich in the sense of
| distribution of what is earned in the
comforts and blessings of life. That
country only is rich where there is no
class legislation, where monopoly cam
not forge its chains of sla Iery, where
justice is done, where labor is enthroned
in power, where the toiling millions
have their own homes and are allowed
equal rights and privileges. The pro-
teetive tariff has reversed this demo-
cratic order, and 1.-The land of the brave''
is desecrated by the tread of the feudal
lord. Really, practically, sequentially,
the American republic is one of the
make it rich by instituting a system of
international and domestic justice.
j. o. BARRETT