New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-10-05
DEMOCRATIC CIVILIZATIONS
The Faithful Hold Big Rally and Listen
to their Candidates for Governor and
Congressman.
Lawler Reads Printed German Speech
and Thereby makes aBoyish Bid Ter
German Votes.
He also Makes Directtslap at the Repub-
leans Because they Nominated q
Norwegian.
DEMOCRATIC CIVILIZATIONS


dates respectively for the offices OF gov
erner and congressman on the Democra-
tic ticket. were in the city and made a
pure and unalloyed bid for German votes
Lawler made a particularly bold stagger
in this direction when he made his adj
vertised German address by reading a
printed extract from the st. Paul Volks-
zeitung and when he referred to theGer-
man blood that eoursed through the
veins of his children. How any one
could be caught by such :pretensions as
these is hard to understand. Before
congregating in the hall a brilliant torch
light procession paraded the streets and
escorted the visitors to the place Of speak
inc. There Col Francis Baasen presided
and Lawler and Hammond divided the
time about equally. Lawlerwas first in
troduced and as stated above read a
clipping Of about column'slength Al
ter he had succeeded IN wading through
this, much to the disappointment ofmany
he branched out into his native element
and became more eloquent as he talked
of Hamilton, Jefferson, Cleveland, Law
Ter and Nelson. Among other things he
said:
It is admitted on all sides, that so far
a. the two old political parties are con-
cerned, that the principle, and In fact
the only principle, the only dispute be-
tween them is on the question Of reform
of the national government relating to
taxation.
1t is not necessary to say that ever
since the foundation of this government
there has been a school of protective tar
if and aschool for revenue. The foun-
der of our protective tariff was Alexan-
der Hamilton, the first secretary of the
treasury of the United States. Among
all the great statesmen Of America, among
all the statesmen of the world, when
ever the questions and principle of finance
are to be settled, the works of Hamilton
are the first consulted.
With all his splendid qualities Of mind
and traits of intellect, Observation-Disclosures
was not in the true sense a republican.
Born and bred in the political scenes of
the old world, he feared and distrusted
those whom Abraham Lincoln and Gro
yer Cleveland have called ''the plain peo-
pie of the world" He was firm and
conscientious believer, according to his
political light and political ideas of Eur
ope, in the Divine Right of Kings. That
is the political doctrine and has been the
doctrine from all eternity that picked
obtain the possession and control of the
government by the strong hand of the
law. One Of the greatest addresses
that Alexander Hamilton ever delivered
and I state the character of the source
which the protective tariff sprung, was
his address in the Constitutional Con-
vention that framed the Constitution of
the United States, in which he for more
than hours, with all the marvellous
gifts of intelligence and intellectual
powers and force of argument that only
he possessed, expounded with his insight
into the matters at issue at those times,
questions of finance and revenue "
He argued that the president should
hold his Office during his entire life, the
legislative body and senate to be one
body, the members of which should
hold their Office during all their entire
life; that the governors of the states
should be appointed by the senate and
hold for their entire life.
From a man who dreaded and mis-
trusted the people, who feared the pow
er of lf-government, he SO little APP
preciated the true meaning Of the Decla-
ration of independence and the result of
the successful war for which the lives of
thousands OF patriots were sacrificed, yet
he so feared the people that he was I'M
willing to give them the right of self
government and the right of frequently
changing the public servants; from such
a man came first the American history
and idea Of the protective system. He
honestly and firmly believed in the doc
trine of a privileged class, the doctrine
upon which the tariff is based He be-
lieved twas good policy to build up for
this country a favored class, a moneyed-
class which should be under such obliga-
ton for a special tariff to the govern
mental institutions and support their
treasury and their buildings. It is easy