St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-09
GOV. CAMPBELL OPENS.
He Tackles the Tariff Right at the
Outset.

He Tackles the Tariff Right at the
Outset.
ADA, O., Oct. ST. regret" said
Gov. Campbell In opening. "that have
not time to properly present the indict-
ment of that overgroWn monster which.
masquerading in the garb of protection,
subsists on the wage-worker and the
agriculturists [applause]. Yearly farm
ing is growing more Improbable, our
commerce is swept from the seas and
that industry abandoned. Under pro-
lection the splendid palaces of pro-
tected manufacturers are browning the
hills. while imported Huns, Italians
and Bohemians are displacing American
citizens. These who are some
times called the 'rotten rich' are defy
ing the peoples seeking through
yenal press to destroy the reputation,
the honor and the estate of any who
of the people. Applause.] We are
rapidly reaching a condition which was
predicted by Abraham Lincoln when he
uttered these words: AS result of
the war corporations have been ell
throned. an era of high prices will fol-
low, the money power will endeayor to
prOlong its reign until all wealth is ag-
gregated in the hands of the few and
the republic is lost, fApplause.l To
convince you that the Prediction is be-
ing realized, | cite you TO the utterance
OF Republican congressman (But-
terworth) from Ohio, who said
the ten fingers of his hands
count the men who had added more 70
their wealth in the last ten years than
had been added to the wealth of all the
agriculturiStS in any state in the union.
democratic applause. 1.-THE Amer
lean Economist says that the number of
people In the United States who
Own Their Own Homes
have in twenty-five years fallen from
fve-eighths to three-eighths. How
many Years will 1t take tor them to fall
to one-eighth? The Progress, of Bos-
ton, says that when Egypt went down
per cent of her people owned 81 per
cent of her wealth and the people were
starved to death: that when Persia went
down l per cent of her population
owned all the land; that when Rome
went down 1880 men owned all the
known world. In 1850 in this
country the capitalists owned
3719 per cent of her wealth.
To-day they own more than twice that
dlllOuuI VI llor Wedltn. Leu lie VINO
goes before the people and without COM
ment, without temper, points to these
facts that are statistical and undis-
puted is sneered at as a calamity
croaker.' Laughter Bradstreet, an
authority in this country, says the total
number of mercantile failures in the
United States for the nine months of
1891 are $500, as compared with 1883 in
like period of 1890, a gain of II per
cent. This is under the Mckinley bill.
Applause. Yet in 1890, when Major
Mckinley accepted the nomination for
congress, he said that if his bill passed
the senate, this country would witness
boom more marvellous than it had
ever known. Laughter. Where is
that boom? Democratic applause.
Free sugar, tree sugar. from
the Republicans. Were it hot for the
present abundant crops, the best in ten
years, these failures would be a great
/ deal worse than they are. One of the
greatest causes of the depression and
failures of the present season Is that we
are paying too much taxes. Maj. Nc
Kinley on May 5, 1888, at Philadelphia,
said that the tariff was tax" Demo