St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-08

and actively aided by a compact Repub-
| llcan minority. Ali that wea tn, all that
energy ana all that great intelligence
and capacity could do was daily and
hourly done to defeat the cause OF the
| people. Under these conditions our
| progress was slow. The house framed
| and passed tariff bill. This went to the
senate. After a long and tedious
| struggle the senate passed this bill
with amendments. Finally the question
was presented in such a fashion that we
must either accept the senate ameud-
ments OF have no bill. thus permitting
the odious Mckinley law to remain upon
the statute books. When we were
convinced such was the true situation
we ala not hesitate a moment; we ac-
| cepted the senate amendments. and so
the bill became a law. This bill is not
we hoped for. 1t contains provisions
| we depiore, provisions which the house,
| by seperate bill, Immediately repealed,
| and yet
ltGOes Further
in the direction of relief to tax.riddeu
| people than any bi II that has been con-
| Sldered in any congress since the war.
| Its reduction of rates is greater than
| that proposed in either the Morrison
bill or In the Mills bill. 1t places wool,
| copper, tin, lumber, salt, binding twine,
bags and bag giEg, agricultural imple-
| ments and many other articles on the
free list. In nearly every schedule
| there are large reductions. In the iron,
! steel and woolen schedules there are
| many reductions exceeding rs per
cent. On the basis of the i'm.
! portatiun of 1929 on woolen
manufactures alone, there Is reduc-
tlon to the consumer of more than
In, fl.lt
common velvets and on hundreds of
other articles the reduction is greater
than 50 per cent.
The bill places a tax on sugar. A
large majority of the Democrats in the
house opposed this, and as the bill
passed the house sugar in all its forms
is OH the free list. The cane.grower
got no aid from the government. the
sugar trust got no aid from the govern
mrnt.
have thus outlined the most impor.
tant provisions Of the great reform
measure.
1t Strikes at Trusts
and monopoles. 1t reduces the cost of
| necessaries of life. 1t to some extent
opens our markets at home and enlarges
our markets abroad. 1t promotes agri-
culture. 1t encourages manufacturing
and it will add TO The comfort of millions
of our fellow citizens. Wevoted npon a
proposition to repeal the tax upon the
circulation of state bank currency. /
believe that our people would derive
more immediate benefit from the
repeal of that law than from almost
any other legislation that could be
had. Against us on the question we
found many Democrats. all the Repub-
licans and all the POpuists. A majority
thus constituted defeated our efforts
and the repeal of the bill failed. This
| question is not settled. We have re-
| pealed all federal election laws. Laws
| which permitted the interference of
! outsiders with our domestic affairs, and
which were used only to defeat the will
| of the people. HenceforLh Georgia, as
| we'll as every other state, will manage
elections in accordance with its own
6ws, and elections will be free and fair.
We have passed a law which subjects
| to taxation by the states more than
| $500, 100000 which under Republican
| laws was exempt from taxation. thus
| relieving 10 some extent the burdens of
! the taxpayer. We have reduced public
| expenditures some $4,000. 600 for the
| current year. With this record who can
| assail us? Our ancient adversary, the
| Republican party, though not strong in
u
When Democracy suffers defeat. Repub-
| licanism Will be triumphant. Here at
| home we are challenged 10y the Peoples
| party. This organization has candidates,
| and 1t has platform of principles. Or
| its candidates shall say nothing. They
are presumed to be as good, | hope they
| are
| Better Than Their Platform.
That platform contains some pIanks
| which are new and some which are old.
| Those whicE are valuable are not new,
| and those which are new are not valua-
| bic. Oar Populist friends want to buy
the railroads. the telegraph lines aud
| the telephones. The thousands OF mill
| ions of dollars necessary to do this does
not stagger them. The great army
of Otficeholders necessary to man
age and protect these enter
prises does not embarrass them.
| Our POpulist leaders deal with mill
ions as ordinary people deal with dol
lars, and as for otfices-'hey all want
them. While we have not done as we
hoped to do, We have done more in the
| past year to redress .he wrongs of the
| people-wt have done more for their
| relief than was ever done by any party
| in the same length of time in any coun-
! try under the sun. These are bold words,
| yet L bear myself at all times ready to
| defend them. We came into power at
time of panic, when business was
| at standsIili, when labor was un-
employed. wheE our treasury was
empty; with courage and fidelity we EN-
tered upon struggle with the enemies
| of the people; we emerged from strug-
| gle victorious in this: we have repealed
the Mckinley law; we have greatly re-
duced taxation; we have made living
| cheaper; we have made all money taxa.
BILE; we have taxed surplus incomes; we
have restored freedom of elections; we
have reduced public expenditures and
we have declared undying hostility to all
trusts and ,uonopOlies organized for
the oppression of the people. On these
foundations I'VE build our house." OH
these issues we 90 before the public;
for them we have fought the good
fight" TO them we nave kept the
faith. and of them we nave no fear.
| Secretary HOke Smiths speech will
| be found in another column.