St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-23
THE GREAT ADDRESS.
Roger Q. Mills Speaks to a Vast
Audience.

Roger q. Mills Speaks to Vast
Audience.
We are nearing the end of great
campaign, one whose result is to leave
it's impress for good or evil upon our
common country. When the sun sets
on the Sth day of November next the
American people will have decided
whom they shall have chosen to be the
chief magistrate of the nation, and
whom they shall have chosen to be their
representatives in the congress of the
United States. In the selection of their
public servants, they must necessarily
determine the policies upon which the
government is to be administered in the
future.
The great issue Joined between the
two parties, and upon which the people
of the United States are divided, is in
reference to the proper exercise of the
taxing power conferred by the constitu-
tion of the United States upon its con-
gress. The Democratic party today, as
it has ever been, is party OF strict con-
structiOn. 1t demands that every grant
of power conferred by itself upon its
public servants shall be strictly con-
strued in the interest of liberty. 1t
therefore contends that this power to
levy and collect duties is power de-
signed by the grantors to raise
revenue to support an honest, efficient
and economical administration of pub
lie affairs, and for nothing else. [Ap-
plausa.l 1t contends that in the impO-
sition of these duties they shall be so
laid, and upon such articles.as will pro-
duce the required revenue with the
least possible burden to the taxpayer,
and the least possible disturbance OF
the private business of the people. Our
fr,o DO n Nfk
demand latitudinOuS construction Of
the constitution. not only in this grant.
but in every other. We believe in local
self-government and individual liberty.
[Applause.] They believe in a
Vast Concentrated Power
in the general government. They be-
lieve that this power should SO be eyer
cised by congress as to prevent the i'm
portation Of foreign goods INTO the
United States; to restrict, as far as pos
sible, and in MANY cases to prohibit it
entirely, in order, as they claim, to pro-
tect American workmen against cOmpe-
titIon with foreign pauper labor; in
order, as they claim, to buiid up Amer
lean industries by fostering and en-
couragfng the domestic production of
the article kept out by the nigh Ia te of
duty. They claim that by keeping out
these foreign goods and giving encouf-
agement to the production OF like
labor by increasing the price Of
the domestic production and thus
encouraging its development, that they
will naturalize these industries in this
country and make the American people
independent, self-sustaining, and free
from any possible contact with any
other people on the globe. [Applause.]
They say that they want to build up
home market. They promised that if
I've would give them this protective
policy, they would soon bring the pro-
ducer and the consumer side by side:
that they would bring manufactures
into this country, and manufacturing
laborers sufficient to consume all the
agricultural labor of the country, and
that after short time you would see a
blast furnace and woolen mill by the
side of every wheat field. turnip patch
and pig-pen in the land. [Applause.]
Now, my friends, we have had this
policy for, 10! these thirty years. We
have had projection, and in the latter |
part of that period
Protection Run Mad.
We have got the highest protective |
duties today that any country on the |
globe has eyer submitted to: Where is
that home market? We are today Ship |
ing out Of this country thousand mila |
ion of dollars Of the surplus product Of |
American labor, and all these pl omises
have turned to ashes On ouEhlippss. ips. Ap-
plause.l we are shipping 20 per cent |
of all tie Cotton that is grown in this |
Country. Only so per cent finds |
a home market, while the peo-