St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-18
LAYING THE AK TO THE ROOT.

LARRY" NEAL has not lost whit of
the courage of his convictions since that
June morning when he came out of the
platform committees room and poured
into Ton JoHNsoN's ear his disgust
forths tariff plank which Mr.. WHITNEY,
timid and inundated by the interests
he deemed needed for success. had per-
snaded the committee to adopt. He is
just as earnest and direct as when he
shot into that convention his minority
report which he and Tom had drawn,
and which the great convention hun
grily grasped at aud adopted.
He challenges Mr.. MCKINLEY to joint
debate, but that doughty knight of pro-
lection declines and stands afar off and
wants to know what kind of a bill Mr..
NEAL wodld frame. He applies the
wisdom he learned in that joint debate
with CAMPBELL two years ago at Ak
ron, and has no stomach Tor repeti-
ton, When Mr.. NEAL tells them that
he would have bill framed on lines of
inquiry as to how large revenue the
smallest tax on each article would
afford, and that nowhere should the
question be how much protection will
this afford. to any one unable to grasp
principles and only able to calculate the
details of plumber. ;he organs, big and
little. cry out that Mr.. NEAL is dodgi ng
MIR. McKINLEY's challenge. But then
they must say something.
Mr.. NEAL declares that the AK must
he laid to the root of the evil. Mr.. NEAL.
has the AK, and knows how to WELD it,
and knows where the root is and does
not hesitate to sink his ak in it. He
does not mince matters. He has no use
for soothing syrup. He does not say, as
some cowardly Democrats are saying,
that protection is good in limited doses
and only bad when administered by
MCKINLEY allopathlstS. He does not
even bow his head in worship of that alb
surd and solemn old fetch, revenue
tariff. He launches his blows straight
from the shoulder at the whole iniqui-
tOus system. He tells his hearers that
any tariff system, whether for prOtec-
ton or for revenue, is a tax laid on
what men eat and wear and use; what
they must have in order to exist; and
that under either of them not one dollar
of all the enormous wealth of this coun-
try, not rood of land, not dollar of
personal property of any kind. pays one
cent towards supporting the federal
government. Not one dollar of all the
wealth Of this country, save those
earned by the consumers Of the coun-
ry, is diminished to its owner one cent
by any eXaction of the tax-gatherers of
the nation.
This is the gospel FRANK HURD has
preached from the hastings of Ohio for
years, and for the preaching OF which
Democrats once joined with Republic
ans to Ostracise him politically. But the
seed he sowed has sprouted. Tom
JOHNSON preached it III his congress
sional district, embracing the manufact.
uring districts Of Cleveland. and his
people have twice sent him to congress.
HARTEE, the manufacturer of farm i'm
PIGMENTS, preached 1t, and he is in his
second congressional term. Gerry
mapders could not stitie the opinions of
the electors. Ohio Democrats no longer
placate prOtectionlstS in their platforms.
They have learned that again is an ire
pressible conflict on between two princi-
pies so antagonistic that compromise Is
Impossible. and that one or the other
must wholly triumph. Seeing it, they
have the courage to proclaim it and-i in
VITO thn ooptaCt