St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-30
articles on the opposite side of the store.

articles on the opposite side of the store.
All the wealth of the country comes
from mother earth originally, and it is
labor that brings it to the surface. Pro
lection puts this wealth into the pockets
OF 10 per cent of the people of the land:
protection means the taking of money
from one class of people and placing it
In the pockets of another class through
the sanction of the law, by two meth
DDS, that or protective tariff and that of
bOuntieS.
Prosperity and Taxes.
MIR. Warner then treated of both of
these questions at length and illustrated
the injustices tLey fostered. lie said
the Chicago platform contained many
plankS of great Importance, but in
those days when agriculture was driven
10 the wall and the great sea of labor
was tossing reStlcSSly over the rights of
the common people, the question was
being asked where lies the road to re-
form? Could the nation be taxed into
prosperity?
If tariffs are predicated upon sys-
TEN of justice and equality. then anv-
thing which grew out of them, he said,
must necessarily be right, and no man
could tell that a 40per cent rate was not
better than a % per cent rate. If tariffs
were founded on a wrong foundation,
upon system Of lnjnstice and Unequal
lty, one might bring the wisdom of ages
to bear upon their schedules and rates
and they would END with injustice.
Mckinley Tackles Taxation.
When Gov. Mckinley arose to speak
he said he was not present to represent
the Republican party or to discuss the
tarlff In partisan way. but to present
i'll plain language the great business
questions of the day. He knew of no
subject so dull, he said, as taxa
ton. ''If we had the power to
do away with it altogether it would
be the policy of the Repub-
licans and Democrats alike. but so long
as we have government we must have
revenue. We can secure that revenue
in only one way, and that is by the gov
eminent. involving the constitutional
power of taxation upon its own people
and the taxation of other people seek
ing market in the United States.
1t requires in this country nearly
S40O, 100000 every year to pay the ex-
penses of the federal government. more
than a million dollars every twenty
four hours. This is what makes the
subject under discussion of Importance.
and that is what the citizens of this and
other states are to determine, what sys-
TEN OF taxation snail raise that 81, GEO.
600 required every day to prevent the
wheels of this government from being
clOgged.
The Two Ways
You can do it in one Of two way, by
direct taxation, or by tariff taxation.
\ lou can do it by taxing yourself, your,
land. your land property, your goods
your investments. your labor, your
property. real or personal, and you can
do 1t by taking the product of every
people of the world seeking a market in
the United States. How will you do it?
The Democratic leaders today seem to
look to diret taxation, he said, or the
system of Henry George, to put the
single tax on lands, to raise the nearly
OO,0O0,000 required annually for pub
lie purposes.
The speaker then dwelt on the disad-
vantages of direct taxation. and quoted
Madison as earnest opponent of it. In
closing, he said that the tariff or free
trade has nothing to do with strikes and
lock-outs. and has nothing 10 do with
differences with labor. He accused the
Democratic congress of defeating the
worlds fair bill. and doing nothing for
the benefit of the country. He said a
protective tariff was true ideal for a
nation like lis.