St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-09
FREEpoM,s CAusE.

The news comes from Illinois that
WILLIAM NJ. SPRINGER has returned to
his home restored in health. He took
the stump yesterday, and says he will
speak five nights out of every week from
now until election time. Senator VEST
has opened the campaign in Missouri
and is reported as displaying a power
and fertility of oratory above even his
own high standard. Similar accounts
are given of the Democraey's other lead
ers. The hours cause is noble one
and the laborers are proving equal to it's
demands.
We want to get some Of these great
takers in Minnesota. and have their
voices heard. Here is the ripest field
for sowing the seed of truth. The bur-
zen of the Republican system of tax
alton is carried by the agricultural states
like our own. The manufacturing COM
muuities of the East are sucking our
blood like stealthy vipers. We get up
at sunrise and work till after nightfall.
God has favored US with the richest soil
and the most salubrious climate. Glad
streams of living water go laughing
through our midst, and our fields cheer
fully yield the fullest increase. And
yet we are poor. while the barren, rock
bound hills of New England support
teeming population in wealth ana COM
fort.
What is the explanation? 1t is not
hard for the thoughtful to find. We
have to sell our wheat in free competi-
ton with all the rest of the world. The
price in Liverpool fixes the price for us
and no governmental bonuses add to our
incomes. When we come to buy we
have to pay for all of our commodities
the fictitious and inflated prices which
the protected establishments of the
manufacturing zone exact of us. We
sell iii the cheapest market. We buy
in the dearest. What we produce
stands on its own intrinsic merit and
on this alone. For what we need for
consumption we have to give double
price; first what it is really worth, and
SECOND what the tariff laws empowe L
the moneyed barons of the East to COM
pei In addition.
Agriculture is the basis of the ma
tons wealth. 1t is more than that. 1t
is the ultimate source from which comes
the whole fund the Republican party
gives away to this man and that for
the sO-called encouragement of home
industries. That is. we, on our Shout
ders, bear the weight OF the protective
system. We are the victims who make
others Itch. And yet we do not seem to
realize it. Minnesota goes on year after
year indOrSing this wicked and thieving
policy. We are slaves and we do not
know it. The fruit of our toll goes in
strangers pockets, and we smile and
say it is all right.
Was ever such discouragins spec
taele? Was ever filter field in which
W pic"oii Ih0 l0ooou vi llueTty! w as
ever an hour more Opportune than this
to sound the cry of alarm that men NAV
wake to sense of their condition? A few
people understand the situation. They
must contribute the means to teach tn
rest. We must have speakers and the
money to pay their expenses. For this
purpose the GLOBES "Speakers' FUND.-
IS designed. 1t must be made three or
four times the size it has reached if it is
to be of any value. The Democracy's
and Minnesota's cause are identical.
VIII not the high-min ded and the pa
triotlc come to their native states res
cue? Every little will help in the work.
VIII not every one give a little?