St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-25
EWING THE ELOQUENT.
A Speech Bristling With Fact,
HumOr and Wit.

Hon. ". G. Ewing, better known as
''Whig' Ewing. the eloquent cam
paigner of Illinois, was next introduced.
Mr.. Ewing is tall. slim, smoOth-faced,
and bears a resemblance to the pictures
of Henry Clay taken when the great
Kentuckian was on the shady side of
fifty. Mr.. Ewing'S speech was gem.
and he held the audience i'll rapt at
tentiOn from start to finish. He told
many amusing stories, but each one of
them was directed to proving some
statement.
II want to talk to you," he said, tire
garding some great questions the people
are called upon to decide in this cam
paign. | want to talk to you as on hon
est man, one having no interest in this
election that you or any other good citi-
zen does not have. l believe that there
is no great issue the settlement of which
would bring great benefit to the great
mass of the Democratic party that would
not being the same benefits to the great
mass of the Republican party. After all
we are great, homogeneous people,
alike honest In our convictions and in
our sense of duty. We ought to get to-
gether and discuss these questions and
get at the right, because it is the right
that the great mass of the people want.
l have nothing to say against tine Re-
publican party, and l believe President
Harrison has tried to give the country
an honest administration. l know of
nothing in his career that would pre-
vent any one voting for him, and if
there were, no Christian gentleman
would utter it in this hour of his aff1ic-
tion."
But the great question in this cam
paign is the one of taxation" continued
Mr.. Ewing. ''ln the Republican ma
tionai convention, which met in a
neighboring city, Gov. Mckinley de-
clared that the difference between the
Democratic and Republican parties is
that the former believes that the people
of this country should pay the taxes
while the Republicans believe that for
eigners should be made to pay the
money demaneed for this purpose. Of
course know that Maj. Mckinley did
not believe this statement when he made
it. The Democrats believe that until
some better system can be devised all
taxes needed for the support OF the gov
eminent shall be raised by duties on
imports so levied that the burdens of
taxation will fall like the ,.dews of
heaven, on the rich and poor Impair
TALLY. The Republicans believe in
tariff for protection, they be-
lieve in licensing highway robbery and
piracy, in licensing man to put his
hand into your pocket and take there
from property earned 10y you. and which
under all the laws of God and man
ought to belong to the man who earned
it. The Democrats do not believe in a
tariff for protection. They believe every
tub should stand on its own bottom, and
if it is bad tub, let it go down. When
they first began to talk protection,
they urged it for infant industries.
Now, my friends, there is not protect
ed industry that is not older than
the oldest man here; in fact.
any one OF them was 1000
years old when Abraham was young.
Take the wool industry for example.
1t is hoary with age, and forty centuries
old when Jacob painted Laban's lambs.
when the talk about infant indus
tries played out the advocates of pro-
lection began to talk about protection
to American industries. Now, there is
not protected industry that is not re-
ceiving more protection than the entire
labor cost of the article. Take the case
of Mr.. Carnegie. In one year he re-
ceived the entire labor cost of his
product and a net bonus from all
the people of more than $1,000 900. If |
believed that protection helped labor l
would favor 1t, and so would every
Democrat, because the Democratic party
has got the most of it. But bow does
this work? When manufacturer de-
SireS labor he goes into the markets of
the world for it. He gives to the old
world the place the laboring men want
protection against and gets his labor.
In the Mckinley bill there is protection
for every one except the men who do
the labor. Protection increases the
expenses of living of the laboring
man and lengthens his hours OF
toll. But the Republicans tell us
the country has prospered under pro-
lection and cite the fact that wealth has
increased. So it has. In 1861 the per
capita wealth was $500. 1t is now 1866,
an increase of S. in thirty years. But
some have prospered. Mr.. Carnegie has
proSpered and the tariff has helped him.
He has absolutely gathered together
more money than robust man would
have made had he commenced iaboring
at the birth of Christ and labored to the
present time, laying by as net gain
$4,000 per year. In fact, that man today
would not have half Mr.. Carnegie's
wealth.
II am IN favor of helping the laboring
man III any way we cali. and l do not
think it can he done by making it SO
that when he buys WOODEN shirt for
$3.50 he gets 81 of protection and so
cents of Shirt
Mr.. Ewing closed with glowing trib-
ute 10 Grover Cleveland, whom he char
acteriZed as the foremost American,
quoting the estimate of the ex-presi-
Gent made by Chauncey NJ. Depew.