St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-10
ELOQUENCE ANDLOGIC
Shining Lights Of Western
Democracy at the Grey
stone Banquet.
Gov. Boies Dwells on Issues
Of 'Ninety-Two in Vigor-
Gus Vein.
Cir. Cleveland Commends the
Virtues and Example Of
Tilden.
Gov. Crittenden, Senator Vest
and Other Leaders Talk
or Write.

and logic of Western Democracy
gushed forth in an ample and brilliant
tide at the banquet rendered by the
Greystonc club tonight in honor of
Samuel j. TiIden's birthday. Never in
the history of Colorado was there more
Respondent scene than was witnessed
by the tremendous crowd at the Broad
way theater. At the head of the table
Sat the president of the Greystone club,
with Gov. Boies and eX-Gov. Crit
tenden in the places of honor
upon either hand. Then eX-Gov. Alva
Adams, of Colorado; Hon. J d.
0'Brien. of New Mexico; Hon. David
Obermeyer, of Kansas; Hon. Charles
a. Clark, of Iowa; Hon. Robert j.
Smith, eX-president of the Iroquois club,
Chicago; Hon. George w. Baker, ex-
governor Of Wyoming; Hon. Caldwell
Geaman, of Colorado, and eX-GOv. j. 3.
Grant, of Colorado.
dress of welcome for the GreyStone
club, and Hon. Alva Adams, ex-gov-
ernor of Colorado, followed with few
remarks in answer to the toast, 1.-The
West in Politics" The
Event OF the Evening
was the reply to The Democracy in
1922 10y Hon. Horace Boies, governor
of Iowa. When Gov. Boies arose to
speak he was greeted with deafening
cheers, and it was some time before he
could proceed. He spoke i'll part as
follows:
1.-The Democracy in 1892" What will
the people expect of it? On what lines
must its battle lie sought? For what
principles must it stand to be worthy of
success? These and kindred questions
crowd the mind as we look forward to
the political struggle in which we are
soon to engage. In a broad sense the
Democratic party must continue to
stand as the champion of the personal
rights of the individual. 1t must at all
times recognize the fact that men in
herit from their maker certain natural
rights that neither kings. potentates nor
majOritieS can rightfully despOil. No
doctrine was ever more thoroughly i'm
bedded in the creed of n political organ
ization than that asserted by modern Re-
p9bicaniSm that the powers of govern
ment may be used to promote the pecu-
mary interests of distinct classes of
citizens, and no result was ever more
certain than that Which follows, if this
can be done, that the same powers may
classes.
Three years ago a Democratic preSi-
dent aroused the country by his decla-
ration that unnecessary taxation is I'M
just taxation" This was no declaration
of hostility to the manufacturing indus
tries of this country. 1t was the
Assertion of a Principle
that put into practice would give to
them mafPrl1I-th1t
stimulate the commerce of the nation
and open 10 the products of their mills
the markets of the world-that would
send the American flag at the masthead
of our own merchant marine into ports
from which it has been banished for a
generation. Nor does a tariff for reve-
nue. only imply that American manu-
featuring industries are TO be deprived
of all benefit thprefrom. 1t does. how
ever, imply that the purpose of the levy
must be revenue, not protection, and
it follows that it should be so laid as to
place the burden of the tax it imposes
on the shoulders of those best able to
beaI it. 1T would lit the burden of
taxation from the shoulders of the toll
ing millions of this nation, and place it
where it belongs, on the shoulders of
those who possess its wealth.
Just and benefcient as would be the
result in this respect it is not from this
source that the chief advantage to the
masses of our people would come. The
United States is today in its agricult-
ural advantages the Egypt of the whole
world. 1t is from her granaries the
food should come to supply the con-
stantly increasing deficit in the mar
ketS of the more populous countries of
the Eastern hemisphere. Nearly as
many of our people are engaged in this
Une industry as in all others combined.
1t is from the products of their labor
that three-fOurths of that vast volume
of our foreign exports have come to
that has developed our trade with the
the countries of the world, and EN-
riched us as a nation more rapidly than
any other that existed. 70 them, if
they are not to be
Enslaved by Laws
that foster our Industries at tie EXPENSE
of their own, open markets in the great
centers of civilization are a necessity
not those of the undeveloped countries
of the southern half of this hemisphere.
and islands OF the sea. that produce
more agricultural products than they
consume, and furnish vastly better mar
kets Tor the products of our mills than
our farms, but those of the most. pop
ulouS countries of the old world whose
hungry millions are ready to take all
our surplus food productions at fair
prices in exchange for those staple ne
cessitles of life that they produce and
we must use.
Circumstances have ordained that the
price of the products of their labor shall
be fixed in markets open to the compe-
tltion of the world. Simple justice de-
mands that so far as the necessaries of
life are concerned they should be per-
mltted to buy in markets where prices
are fixed by the same competition.
Nor are the farmers of this nation the
only class intensely interested III this
great problem. To all who live by toll
of any kind it is the browning question
in The whole list of economic problems
that we must soon settle one way or the
other as the future policy of this gov
eminent. Can a few men absorb the
wealth of this nation and leave the
masses independent? DO not let us
be deceived. For every immensely rich
man there must from necessity alone
be many wretchedly poor. All wealth
Is the product of labor. Great fortunes
simply represent the earnings of great
numbers. They can only be acquired
by an individual through the aid of
some process that enables him to appro-
pirate that which many produce. What
is 1t that has changed the current of
The Nations Wealth
and that is directing it away from the
many into the hands of few? Thirty
years ago great necessity compelled
the levy, among other Things, OF an