St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-28
MUST PUSH ONWARD.
Address by the National AS
sociation Of Democratic
Clubs.
The Benefieiaries Of the
Robber Tariff Still in
Power.
Democrats Urged to Perfect
and Extend the Club
System.
Support Of a Vigilant Party
Needed by the Demo-
cratic President.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Ihe 1OllOW-
Ing address was issued by the National
Association of Democratic clubs today:
The address of the National AsSocia-
ton of Democratic clubs issued in April
last, outlined the issues upon which the
contest of 1892 must, it appears, inevi-
tably be conducted. We were not mis-
taken in the views ,-hen expressed. The
great battle was pitched at every point
upon the lines indicated. The vital
principle of strict construction
was put at issue, and it was
deliberately approved by great ma =
jority of the votes cast. The tariff
question, resolved and settled by the
application of the rule embodied in the
tenth amendment, is question no
longer, if the overwhelming judgment
Of the people expressed at the polls is
to be respected and obeyed by their
representatives. The details of tariff
reform a system of taxation loolli NJ
only to the largest returns OF revenue
consistent with the widest liberty Of
trade-remain to be adjusted by a Dem
ocratic congress with the aid of an ell
lightenedeXecutiye chosen to serve alike
the interests of all classes of American
citizens. In the address above men
toned we declared:
4 Power to EnSIave
Congress may, under the con-
stituton, tax the people to sustain their
own government. 1t has, however, just
as much right to take their lives. or to
sell their children into bondage, as it
has to take dollar from them for any
other purpose. But the Federalist
party, purely to create mOnOpolieS upon
which it may rely for political support,
and to further enrich its wealthy favor
ties, boldly assumes the ungranted and
unforbidden power to lay taxes, with
no view whatever to public revenue,
but with a sole and av0wed view to
transfer untold millions of money
annually from the pockets of the many,
who have earned it, to the Golfers of the
few, who are licensed to seize it in vir-
tue of their unconstitutional mOnOpOieS.
If this can be done, there is an
end of liberty; our federal govern
ment is utterly perverted; it IS not
merely fraud, but a deSpotism; and
there is nothing left worth a struggle.
The power to take and appropriate to
others the proceeds of the peoples
labor, is the power to enslave the
people. None such can be found in the
federal constitution. And the question
whether 1t shall be exercised, though
ungranted. and therefore, forbidden, is
the question, as Mr.. Jefferson stated it,
between a limited and unlimited
government between government
and corrupt Capitalization, between
popular liberty and grasping and
greedy tyranny, between the masses
and the classes, between the Federalist
Republican and the Democratic parties.
With great deliberatiOn aud solemn
emphasis the Chicago convention took
the same position. 1t is unnecessary to
set out here that clear and definite
Provision OF the Platform.
1t was one which could neither be mis-
understood nor miScOnStrued. 1t
planted the Democratic party and its
candidates of ali grades, from the high
est to the lowest in that campaign, on
the original and impregnabie Demo-
cratic ground-upon the constitution
strictly conStrued-Which forbids under
any pretense whatever every form of
taxation. except taxation for purely
public purposes. The people, plundered
by gigantic combination of monOpolies
u
threatened with the SubyerSion of free
institutions by force and corruption,
united for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of pri-
vate interests at the general expense,
approved the Chicago platform by un-
precedented majoritieS, SO distributed
geographically as to demonstrate the
universally of the sentiment and the
permanence of the results.
But, while power steals readily and
almost imperceptibly from the many to
the few, the process of reclamation is
ever painful aud slow. The enormously
rich beneiiciareS of the tederaliSt
policy, taxing the many for the benefit
of the few, circumscribing the indus
tries of the mass to enlarge the license
of class. are still ''in power" as they
have been for more than quarter of a
century. They are in full possession of
the monopolies, which have enriched
them as no privileged class was ever
before enriched in the same length of
time and enabled them to protect the
party protecting them. They will re-
main Gin power" until just revision of
tax laws on the lines of the constitu-
tion, as decreed by the people i'll the
late election, shall IOp Off
Their Undue Profits
ana restore 10 tic common people tnat
PROPORTION of their own earnings which
the federal government does not plainly
require for objects legitimate and speci-
fed. They are banded still, as hereto
fore, in defense of their unconstttu-
tional privileges. They Will resist stub.
borniy at every point and stage, and
tariff refoTm-taritf reform in its whole
wide benelCent scope -aS contemplated
by the Democratic party and the major
itv Of the people, will be accomplished
only after a fierce and prolonged strug-
gle. The people, it is true, have selected
their instruments, an executive and a
congress, to make this battle for them.
But the battle is TO be made and is vet
to be won. Everything substantial re-
mains to this hour with the enemy, in.
cluding the vast wealth OF the MONOPOLY
combination, increased every day the
monopoly Jaws stand unrepealed.
The object Of this address is to urge
the Democratic people and those who
united with them at the election in Nc
Vember last, to maintain, perfect and
extend the system of affiliated Demo.
cratic societies, whose recent service 10
the great cause was so conspicuous as
to be known of all men, and which
must, until the fruits of the late victory
are gathered and garnered, be rGuulred
TO uphold the hands CT our official rep.
resentatlves IN tie long and desperate
Struggle with private interests, which il
Still before them. 4 Democratic presi-
dent and Democratic congress will
need, i'll the next four years, more than
ever before, the support Of a vigilant