The Irish standard., 1892-09-03
A GRAND EFFORT,
Such Was Hon. D. w. Lawler'e e
Address Delivered Before a
Large Assemblage
OF PEOPLE AT ST. CLOUD.

An Able and Fearless Expression
Of Principles by the Party's
Standard-Bearer.
The largest and most enthusiastic mass
meeting ever held in Stearns county was
that which greeted Dan W. Lawler at
the Opera house in ST. Cloud on Satur-
day evening, Aug. 27, The next governor
of the state was accompanied by Major
Baldwin, Of Duluth, candidate for con-
gress from the Sixth district, and by
Judge Nethaway, the nominee for attor-
ney general. After the two latter had
briefly addressed the assemblage, Hon.
D. w. Ilawler stepped to the front Of the
platform and delivered the following able
address amid tremendous applause:
In all the political history of the world
there have been no nobler tights for lib
erty than those which have been waged
upon questions Of taxation.
In questions Of taxation the Democratic
party in this campaign, confident as the
Democracy has always been in the intel
ligence and in the integrity of those whom
Abraham Lincoln called "the plain peo-
Pile of America" expects to receive the
approval of the people OF Minnesota and
Of a majority Of
THE FREE AND ENLIGHTENED VOTERS
of the United States loud and prolonged
cheers] History teaches us that great
political abuses do not come suddenly.
They are the result of long years of cum
ming guile and machination ON the part
of their benefciaries and remissness on
the part OF the people, From 1916 to
1862 the Americsn people .livei happy,
contented and prosperous under tariff
for revenue and tariff for revenue only.
In 1862 the greatest war OF civilization
threatened the very existence Of che
American republic. At time when the
national treasury was drained OF it's last
dollar, in the hour of dire distress and
need, the leaders al Washington proposed
to the American people that the tariff
which then exieted should be put upon q
protective basis in order that the old flag
might be kept flying at the head of our
armies. At that time Senator Morrill,, of
New Hampshire, the man who introduced
the bill which is the foundation of the
present tariff system, in words of appar-
ent honesty and candor promised the
American people that if they would per-
NIT the establishment of protective
tariff system, the moment the Union was
saved the tariff should be put upon a
revenue basis. With all the sincerity
which the English language could ex-
press, that bill was defended and apollo
gized for by the leaders of the house Of
representatives and by the leaders of the
senate of the United States. It was con-
sidered war necessity, not permanent
| measure.
To-day, in time of profound peace, q
years after the surrender Of the confed-
crate armies at Appomattox, the protec-
tive system remains as the only horrible
relic of the great war of the rebellion. It
remains higher, immeasurably higher in
time Of profound peace, with no govern
mental necessity for it's existence, than it
was during the darkest days of the civil
war. This is the issue upon which the
Democracy of the nation and Of the state
plants itself in this campaign.
Acting upon the advice that was given
by Grover Cleveland to the 50th con-
gress, the house of representatives, being
controlled by the Democratic party,
passed the Mills bill, which attempted to
reduce the rate of taxation from ~ to AZ
per cent. Upon that issue four years ago,
in campaign of misrepresentation and
of calumny, in campaign when the pro-
tected industries
"FRIED THE FAT
until the Golfers of the Republican ma
tional committee overfowed with gold
which they contributed, in campaign
when the American people we're deceived,
Grover Cleveland, joyously as the bride
groom walks to the altar, walked to de-
feat more glorious, ten thousand times
more than the victory which Benjamin
Harrison won in that year. Loud Cheers
I have no word OF disrespect for the
Republican party Of 1850, or the rank and
fleof the Republican party Of to-day; but
/ do say that the Republican party of to-
day has fallen into the hands Of the
money. changers; that the Republican
party Of today is the party Of Thomas
Platt, OF Boss Quay, Of Philadelphia, oi
Wana maker, who subscribed $l00,0OO q
| its ca mpaign fund four years ago, and o1
ANDREW Carnegie Of Pennsyl ylvania
l[Loud and prolonged cheersl The bar