St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-17
FOR PRESIDENT,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
ADLAI e. STEVENSON.
SOME NORTHERN CONFEDER-
ATES.

Republican papers, trailing after the
Chicago Tribune, are noting the fact
that the constitution Of the COnfederacy
prohibited protection by taxation, boun-'
ties or any taxation of imports save for
revenue; and they assert that the Dem
ocratic tariff platform is virtually the
same, and point to the resemblance they
thus affect to see as proof positive of the
survival of the spirit of secession in the
Democratic party. 1t is a pitiful at
tempt to revive sectional feeling that
is fast dying out.
But, ii the Confederates and the DEM
OcratS were one in their fiscal policies,
and, therefore, all free traders are Con-
federate sympathiZers, the GLOBE asks
permissionsto show that there are good
many eminent Confederates in the same
party with these papers. For instance.
long before the Confederacy, the Free
Soil party. out of whose loins sprang
the Republican party, in 1852 declared
''that a due regard to the federal consti-
tuition and sound administrative poll
CIV demand that no more reve-
nue. be raised than is required to defray
the strictly necessary expenses of the
public service and to pay off tine public
debt"
Of President CLEvELAND's famous
message, Gov. MCGILL, an undoubted
Confederate. said:
arl glad to see the president take such a
radical position on the question. l am sure
it will meet with general approval all over
the Northwest,
K,-rrr,r, fbo,x oo-n,oo,
showed himself also true Confederate
when he said:
In the face of these platform pledges; in
the face of d large, evergrowing surplus.
taken from the people by taxation and used
by certain banks without any consideration
therefor: and in the face of the fact that so
many of the barest necessaries of life are
loaded down with the highest kind of tariff
taxes, it makes me sick at heart to think that
there are leading men on this side of the
chamber who can find at this juncture and
under these circumstances no other field of
deduction than the internal revenue on spirits
and tobacco. Surely, these are not the diet
on which the poor man keeps his family
Worthier better and juster it seems to my
mind. would it be to give our people-the
toiling masses-cheaper food, cheaper cloth
ing cheaper shelter-cheaper b ecause re-
leased from the heavy and unnecessary bond
age of high taxes.
Senator ALLISON, whom the Republic
can papers will all admit was a staunch
Confederate. said in 1870:
The tariff OF 1886 though confessedly and
professedly a tariff for revenue was, so far
as regards all the great interests of the coun-
try, as perfect tariff as any we have ever
had.
Senator JOHN SHERMAN, whom even
the Chicago Tribune Will admit was a
prominent Confederate, said in 1868:
Every advance towards free exchange of
commodities is an advance in civilization:
every obstruction to a free exchange is born
of the same narrow, despotic spirit which
planted castles upon the Rhine to plumber
peaceful commerce; every obstruction to
commerce is a tax upon consumption; every
facility to free exchange cheapens commodi-
ties, increases trade and production and pro-
notes civilization. Nothing is worse than
Bectionalism within nation, and nothing is
better for the peace of nations than an unre-
Etricted freedom of commerce and inter-
course with each other.
Even in 1882 he said:
A few years further experience Will con.
vince the whole body of our people that a
system of national taxes which rests the
whole burden of taxation on consumption
and not one cent on property or income, is
intrtnsically unjust.
And so columns might be filled with
the opinions of Republicans all logically
running to free trade. Our contem-
poraries may as well haul down the
remnant of that Confederate flag.