St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16

freedom, not Republican force bill nor
congressional leading strings, that will
enable you, the strong and highly civil
lied race, to guide forward your less
gifted fellow citizens from the plane of
equality before the law to the higher
level OF thrift, economy. good huS-
bandry, social order, self-imposed and
household virtue. and thus transform
the present difficulties and unshared
burdens of the South into the solid
foundation Of still more prosperous and
still more powerful states. We must
live up to that constitution. New York
should stand by Mississippi and Missis-
slppi stand by New York i'll its sup
port.
Republican Wrecking.
Every trouble that exists, every diSas-
ter that impedeS and every danger that
is feared ut this time throughout our
whole land, not merely in some part of
it, is the direct and obvious consequence
OF Republican legislation in disregard
of this spirit of the letter Of the consti-
tuition. Not for one hour during the
last thirty years has the Democratic
party possessed, nor does it now pos
seSs, the power to repeal or amend
these other laws, the fount and origin
general peace and prosperity. so that
ali these evil-producing laws have been
absolutely beyond our reach and went
on operating, and 20 on operating, now
just as if the overwhelming Democratic
majority in the house of representatives
were a Republican majority.
DfshOnOred Their Trust.
Three years ago the Democratic par
ty experienced disastrous overthrow
and lost the house of representatives,
which till then it had controlled for many
years. Both branches of congress and
the executive being then in Republican
hands, their power was complete to
write new laws upon the statute books
and do with the government and it's ad-
ministration whatever they would. The
block upon any further new, bad. un-
constitutional legislation, which either
q Democratic house or Democratic
executive could have etfectually inter-
posed, was thus lost.
For two years our country was aban-
dOned to their designs. What did they
do with their unhindered power? Did
they repeal one OF those unconstitutiOn-
al laws for which they had been plead
ing the false excuse of war, its burdens,
its necessities? Let our worse than-War
tariff taxation reply; let the disorders of
our currency make answers. No: they
first cheated more power into their own
hands and then doubled its prostitution.
Applause. Their speaker in the house,
by violent and supplementary pro-
cedures, distended the actual small to
fraudulcntly large majority.
all of whom followed him
with dog-like dociIity. [Laughter.l
In the senate six new Republican
senators were seated to represent
smaller population than their census
left uncounted in the city of New York,
and one state was defrauded of its Dem
ocratic choice. Their object was not
only to enact more and worse uncOn-
constitutional legislation, but also TO
put that legislation beyond the peoples
amendments or repeal.
Unwary Democrats.
This they did and their occupation
within those Entertainments, and the &C.
cupatiOn of the whole Republican and
and mugwump press, has ever since
been to plant political discussion on
preferred bills which their president
would veto and their senate won't pass.
L regret that some unWary Democrats
in congress and IN the press render as
siStance in taking off public attention
from the indispensable monstrosities of
their living laws and assist the Repub
lican party in hiding the scope of that
revolution it pursues.
OF course they tried to pass force
bill. They did pass the two Mckinley
laws, superadding to the protected
humbug, and the new subsidy and
bounty swindle. The tariff on imported
sugar every dollar from which went
straight to the federal treasury, they
abolished for the sake of crOWding up
and perpetuatlng higher protected
taxes which. besides taking no less a
sum from the peoples pockets for the
needs OF the peoples treasury, take also
many times greater sums from the
peoples pockets, not one dollar of
which goes to the peoples treas
ury, nor to raise workmen'S
wages, but all goes into. the private
cash boxes of few employers of less
than z per cent of our Industrious, toll
ing millions. Applause. TO call Re-
publican taxation like that unconSLitu-
tiOnal is like calling highway robbery
fault of conduct and fiat burglary an
indecorum. Laughter and applause.
The Republican congress also passed
the Sherman silver law, into which
every Republican monetary heresy is
crowded, that has kept our finances in
perpetual disorder for thirty years,
tortured our merchants with uncer-
tainty and fear, turned our foreign
commerce, our sales of wheat,
our sales of cotton into daily
gamble. 1t reviveS the most
dangerous heresy which the Republican
party once packed the bench of the SUI
preme court to get false Judgment
the last and final tribute of their polit-
plauSe. Never once since they COM
PEELED this supreme court to reverse its
own righteous ruling, to tiout history
and put our public law to public shame;
never since then have they cared enough
to get fig leaves for their indecencies.
Laughter and applause And while
Sherman's silver law is draining off
our gold to turn into steady stream
and driving us headlong into
an exclusive silver basis, not one
Republican lawyer, not one Republican
merchant or board of trade or chamber
of commerce in all the North has raised
against that law the demand that we re-
peal 1t, for that constitutional reason,
revivlng the less bad law which it
superseded, but that would be first
step toward living up TO the constitu-
ton and would keep in plain sight of
the people till next November, the Re-
publican crime. the peoples verdict and
the peoples duty to unite in its renewal.
We must never despair of
the republic; but can truly say that if
these
Enemies of the Republic
who now possess its powers shall escape
an overwhelming defeat next Novem-
Der by our divisions, by our failure to
unite and conquer, they will be able,
with that reprleve, so to buttress about
their stolen powers, so to fortify and
entrench themselves, that another gen
Grafton, wiser and more self-sacrifcng
than we, may have to suffer and take up
the noble effort which has failed and
dropped from our unworthy hands.
[Applause.]
But by unity and concord in our
ranks now we can surely triumph.