St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-23

Tue Dill tilaC pears MS name. lney see
that meaning written large today in
Frustrated ayr iculture, in shackled
commerce and in stricken industries; in
the compulsory idleness of labor, in law
made wealth. and the despair of the
farmer. They know by hard experience
that protection as system of taxation
is but
The Old Crafty Scheme
by which the rich compel the poor to
pay the expense Of the government.
They know by hard experience that pro-
lection, as a system OF tribute. is but the
old and crafty scheme by which the
power of taxation of the people is held
as the private property of few of the
people. Tariff reform means to read
just this system of taxation and to purge
away this system OF tribute. 1t means
that we have not reached the equality
OF true freedom so long as any citizen is
forced by the tn * to pay tribnte to any
other citizen.
Gov. Nc Kinley further declared that
the Democratic party believes in taxing
themselves. | am afraid, gentlemen, we
must admit this charge. What right or
excuse have we for taxing anybody
| else? Why, with continent for coun-
| try, with freedom ana intelligence as
| the instruments for its development, we
stand disgraced in the eyes of mankind
| if we can't, and if we do not, support
our own government. We can throw
that support on other people only by
beggary or by force. If we use the one
we are pauper, if we use the other we
are p irate nation.
Demoeracy's Essential.
The Democratic party does not in
tend that we should be cit her. No more
does it intend that they shall allow
other people to change the expenses of
the government from the possession of
those who own the property of the
those who do the work of the country.
1t believes that frugality is the eSsen-
| tial virtue of free government. 1t in
tends to limit taxation to public needs
and defray expenses by the plain rule
of justice and equality.
But we are confronted by new cry
in this campaign. The Republican
party says Gov. Mckinley now stands
for protection and reciprocity. He was
for protection alone when he fra med his
bill in the house, or rather hen he
permitted its beneficiaries to frame it
for him, and firmly resisted all efforts of
reciprocity to it. No wonder that he
favors the reciprocity added to his bill
by the senate. You may explore the
| pages of burlesque literature for any
thing more Supremely ludlcrOrS than
the so-called reciprocity of the Nc
Kinley bill. 1t is not reciprocity at all.
1t is retaliation; and, worst of all, re-
taliation OH our own people. 1t
Furnishes American Citizens
for the necessities or follies of other
| people. 1t says to few little countries
south of us: ''lf you are forced by your
necessities, or led by your follies. to
make bread higher and scarcer to your
people, we will make sugar and shoes
higher to our people," And now we
are told that reciprocity is to be their
battle cry.
We are RECALLED with pictures of Ben
| jamln Harrison clad in armOr and going
forth to battle for reciprocity on a
plumed steed. Simple Simon fishing
for whales in his mothers rain barrel,
in great triumph capturing an Occa-
sional wiggle waggle. is the best picture
of the rociproci ty of the Mckinley bill.
| We are for the protection that protects
and for the reciprocity that reciprO-
Gates. We are in favor of protecting
every man in the enjoyment of the fruit
of his labor, diminishing it only by his
proper contribution to the support of
| the government: and we are for the
reciprocity that throws no unnecessary
obstacle between the Am erican pro-
| Queer and the market he is obliged to
seek for his products.
Healthy Differences.
But. gentlemen, must not keep you
from the work that is before you. Let
| us take up that work as brisk as pa
triots. In so large convention as this,
larger in numbers than any previous
| gathering of our party, and represent
| ing larger constituency, it would be
strange, OminOusly strange. If there
were not some differences of CD inion on
matters of policy. and some differences
of judgment or of patience as to the
| justice of the candidates.
1t is sign of free Democracy that
it is many-voiced. and, within the linn
its of true freedom, tumultuons. 1t
wears no collars; it serves no master.
| We cannot shut our eyes to the fact that
many who have heretofore followed
our plan with enthusiasm are today
calling with the utmost Impotence
| for immediate relief from the
evils that encompass them. Whatever
can be done to relieve the burden; to
restore, broaden and increase the pros
perity Of the people, and every party of
them, within the limits and according
to the principles of free government.
that the Democratic party dares to
promise them, and will do it with all its
might Whatever is beyond this, what
ever is incompatible with free govern
ment and our historic liberty, it dares
not promise to any one.
Inveterate Evils
in the body polite cannot be cured in a
moment, any more than inveterate dis
eases in the human system. Whoever
processes the power to do so is himself
deceived and deceiver. A party is
not uuack or worker of miracles.
1t is not for me, gentlemen, the I'M
partial servant of you all, to attempt to
| tOreshedow what your choice will be
OF ought to be in the selection of our
candidates. You will make that selec-
ton under deep sense of responsible
ity to the eople you represent and to
your people. One thing only venture
to say. Whoever may be your chosen
leader in this campaign, no message
Will flash across the sea from the castles
of absentee tariff lords to congratulate
| him; but from the home of labor, the
fireside of the toiler. and from the heart
of all who wish and intend that our
matchlesS heritage of freedom shall be
the common wealth of all of our people
and the common opportunity Of our
youth, will come up prayers for his sue
cess and recruits for the great Demo
cratic hosts that shall strike down
the beast of sectionalism and the Moloch
of monopoly, and restore once again to
our happy land government of the
| noonIa I,v tho nnOOIp and for the npO-