St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-28
BINDING TWINE.
The Fearless Stand Taken by SEN
ator Davis Not Backed by the
Republican Party.

The Fearless Stand Taken by Sem
ator Davis Not Backed by the
Republican Party.
Many of you have probably read an
other confession of the impotency of
the Republican party of the Northwest
to throw off this awful load of taxation
that rests upon the people of this North
western country. Many of you have
read the magnificent and elaborate argu-
ment made by Senator G. K. Davis dur
ing the Fifty-tirSt congress in support of
his bill to put binding Irvine on the free
list. Senator Davis showed that the
land which raises the raw material, the
raw material itself, the manufactured
output, the price and the amount of
binding Irvine actually sold are absO-
lutely controlled by the binding Irvine
trust. He showed further that the trust
was in violation of the laws of the
United States prohibiting trusts. He
demonstrated clearly and forcibiy that
instead of being represented before the
committees of congress by paid
lobbyists and paid attorneys that
the representatives of the bind
ing Irvine trust should be standing in
the criminal courts of the United States
ment. Despite all the eloquence and
earneStneSs of which Senator Davis is
capable, the Republican party of the
nation did not have the moral courage
or the honesty to put binding Irvine on
the free list, but it reluctantly agreed to
rob the American people for the next
year or SO of one-half of what it
had been robbing them the last
few years. CheerS. The time for
arguing in detail these questions
of the tariff has gone by in the state of
Minnesota. This great state will be
covered within few weeks by men
who will be imported from the Eastern
states, and who will be paid 10y the pro-
tected manufacturers, paid out of the
money which is wrung from you and
me, to tell us why this protective tariff
system should be continued. They will
give us the old stock arguments about
a home market. and about the wages of
labor being increased by the
tariff; but the Republican lead
ers of Minnesota have gone beyond
that point long ago. These doctrines
are exploded in this state, and the lien
who will come here to convert us back
again will know better the temper and
will have more respect for the intelli-
gence of the people OF Minnesota when
the campaign is at an end. Loud
cheers The Republican party for
more than fifteen years has attempted
to make the agricultural interest be-
lieve that its only prosperity, lay in the
hope of protective tariff system. In
the address to which l have referred,
delivered by Senator Davis. he indOrses
and quotes an extract from speech
delivered in congress by Representative
John Lind, in which Mr.. Lind told the
people of this country what the Demo-
cratic party had been telling them for
ten years, that although the farmer of
Minnesota carried on the operations
of his farm, raised his produce, clothed
and educated his children and sup
ported his wife under the disad-
vantages of a protective tariff system,
paying an unnecessary and wicked tax
of from 10 to 200 per cent upon all the
necessaries of life. when he came to sell
the product of his toll no government
stood by his side to artificially increase
its price. Every buShel of his corn,
every pound of his pork and beef. every
busheI of his wheat, when it came to he
sold, has its price fixed, not in the pro-
tected markets of America, but in the
markets of Liverpool, the free-trade
market of the world.