St. Paul daily globe., 1892-10-05


the tariff.
The course Of the Republican party
on the silver question is an apt illustra-
tiOn of this truth. 1t ought to be an
honest money party, and it would be if
it could, but while it demanded in
creased bOunties for its favorite manu-
facturerS 1T could not refuse increased
bounties to silver producers, as the
votes they control were probably neces-i
sary to the passage of the Mckinley bill.5
As stated. the Republican party
Had No Alternative
but to pass the silver law of 1890,
doubling the purchases of silver and re-
quIring gthe building of more warehouses
IN, IN which to store the useless metal.
The total purchases made by the gov
ernment amount to hundreds of mill
ions of dollars and would not
realize, if sold. one-half their
cost, while the poison of a.
debased currency, whose work, how
ever slow, is surely making itself daily
more and more felt in every channel OF
business and finance, is inevita-
bly, driving gold from the country ana
Turing us to all the evils of a fiuctuating
and therefore dishonest currency based
upon silver alone. The Republican,
party cannot take any effective steps
men are very sure, if their bountieS are
stopped, to so vote that the boufities on
the Mckinley bill will so stop too.
Inc abuse of the pension system fur
mSheS another apt illustration of the
evils sure to follow such system of
legislation. Ii congress was to levy
taxes upon the people TO confer bounties
upon certain classes of man ufacturers
1t was very natural that the pension
agents should also JOIN hands to in
crease their fees by an
Ind5scriminate Granting
of pensions. The result is that nearly
generation after the close of the war
there is steady increase of the vast
sums passing through the pension
agents hands, until now the total
amount staggerS belief. and has become
OF Itself very serious burden upon the
treasury.
From the day of Lees surrender until
now not a single voice has ever been
raised against the most generous pro-
vision Tor every person who had any
just claim upon the gratitude of the
country; but surely there is neither rea-
son nor Justice in legislation which de-
stroys all distinction between the dis
charge of duty ahd the shirking of it.
between wounds received in battle and
diseases contracted i'll the pursuits of
peace
There is still another great and in
creaslng evil, chiefly traceable, in my
opinion, to the maintenance of an ex-
cessive tariff since the war end the con-
slant meddling with it to make it
higher. and that is the bringing to our
SnoreS or those vast SwarmS of undeSira
ole immigrants who demean American
labor by their competition, and threaten
the stability of institutions built upon
an Intelligent love of country. Just as
the duties upon imported merchandise
have increased, SO has the grade of
Imported Labor
been lowered, until now. under the Nc
Kinley bill, there are coming here every
month many thousands OF more ignorant
and, therefore, less desirable laborers
than ever before. 1t is not easy to eX-
aggerate the moral evils of this influx
intiIctS upon our social life and our ma
tiOnal institutions.
The Republican party is now def
nitely committed to the policy of taxing
the people for the purpose of giving
bounties to such persons or interests as
can secure the necessary votes in con-
greSS; SO the Democratic party is now as
definitely committed to the policy of re-
Strctlng taxation TO the needs of the
government for public purposes alone
The gulf fixed between these two poll
cIeS OF taxation is as wide and as deep
as can well exist between political par
ties; and am also convinced that the
other causes in which | am interested
can not hope for success until the
avowed policy of the Republican party
Oh this subject is overthroWn.
Until then the right of each state to
control elections within its borders will
not be secure. Until then there is no,
prospect of our enjoying the single and
stable standard OF value which other,
civilized and commercial nations DOS
Sess. Until then
There rs No Hope
of placing either our pension system or
the regulation of Immigration upon a
just and proper basis. Until then the
publication of our elections will con-
tinue 1.-The iridescent dream'' which
Republican authority has declared it
must always remain. Until then any
pretended reform of the civil service
must prove, as it has proved these last
four years, deluSion and snare. And
until then even ballot reform, the best
help yet discovered to honest elections,
and already threatened with overthrow
by the Republican managers in Maine,
Vermont and Indiana, must share the
same fate of betrayal in the house of
its pretended friends.
All these good causes are, in the very
nature of things, the relentless foes of
system of government by bounties to
favored Interests, and such system is
their relentless foe, as | believe. For
the reasons l have given that the true
welfare of the country would be pro-
NOTED by Mr.. Cleveland's election, it is
my duty to vote for him; and as | recall
the capacity. the fidelity and the cour-
age with which he has heretofore dis
charged every public trust committed
to him, the duty becomes a pleasure.
Sincerely yours,
WAYNE MACVEAGH.
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