St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-10
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either confession Of error or an eXhi-
bition OF cOwardlee. Ii in error, yEu
ought to be patriotic enough to promptly
avow it. abandon the policy upon which
you have entered and permit the cOun-
try 10 resume its industrial prosperity
If, on the other hand. you still adhere
TO the principles Of the Chicago plat
form. and have failed to cmbody them
in this measure, you have openly be-
traved The confidence of the people who
entrusted you with power. The first
proposition arresting attention in
this bill is the proposed transfer OF
13l articles from the dutiable to
The free list. 1t will not escape notice
III this connection that upon examina-.
non OF the list OF articles thus trans.
ferred from the dutiaOle to the free list
the interests OF the farmer seem to have
been selected for special assault and de-
Struction, as nearly One-half of the
items embraced in this proposed trans
fer are the products OF domestic huS-
bandry. Tie bill is free donation to
foreigners, at time, too, when the
treasury of the United States is in
pressing need of increased resources.
There is not in 1t even suggestion OF
reciprocity by which some concessions
might be secured for our surplus prod
favored by free entrance into our own.
1t is q
BOLD FREE TRADE GIFT
the price paid for Il Democratic the
ory. Such q proposition would at any
time arrest public attention. but To be
made IN the presence CT depleted
treasury, and with its secretary asking
to be clothed wit power to issue bonds
on which lie may borrow money TO meet
the current expenses of the government,
Is a proposition so startling as to chal-
lenge the credulity of mankind. There
is only one explanation possible, and
that is found in the exclamation of an
English statesman, 1T is free trade God
made The present free list ought to
be sufficient to satisfy the demands of
the most advanced free trader. I he act
OF 1899 enlarged it TO the very limit of
safety TO American industries and
American labor. When you have COM
pleted this proposed transfer to the free
list 1t is the beginning of the end of the
protective system in the United States.
and | aDprehend it is the knowledge OF
this fact which inspires the free trader
OF today with untiagging zeal in the adj
vOcacy of free raw material" Mr..
Burrows next turned his attention to
INDIVIDUAL. ITEMS
Of the bill. AS to free iron ore and free
wool he said: This will inevitably
result in one of two thingS-the deStruc-
ton of our tlocks and the closing of our
mines, or the lowering of our conditions
10 the level of our foreign competitors.
Already the suggestion of free trade in
iron ore has closed our mines, forced
our miners out of employment and
driven people who were never before
dependent upon public charity to beg
gary and want. The good people of my
state, in every hamlet. are already
contributing to their necessities. We
or the minority intend to resist to the
last this WantOn destruction of American
interests. We believe in the develop.
ment of our industrial forces to the
fullest possible extent. and to that end
would extend the same measure of
protection to the producers of raw
material, to the workers in the
more advanced product. We would
not only be independent of foreigners
for our manufactured goods, but for the
fabricated. | can conceive of no policy
more detrimental to American manu-
facturers and american labOrers than
the abandonment of protection of pro-
ductlon so far as possible of our own
raw material. Such policy would not
only drive labor from the largest field
OF its employment, but 1t would dry up
one of the NEST buuntiful sources OF
national wealth and reduce our manu-
featuring industries to
COMPLETE DEPENDENCE
on foreign nations for the supply of the
raw material. Such result would be
disastrous even to the interests it is
proposed to promote. for when we have
Gl ~ U he nj mil,
and wholly abandoned the production
Of our own raw material the foreigner
would take advantage of our helpless
condition and impose upon US whatever
burden his cupidity mightSuggest. ave,
therefore. would protect all interests,
whether of the mine or the furnace, the
field or the factory, to the end that all
our people may receive profitable en-
ployment, and the nation attain its
highest possible development. And in
this connection, l cannot refrain from
expressing my amaZement that you
people of the South are so blind to your
own interests as to cringe beneath the
party lash and give this measure your
support. Let NE implore you to turn
your backs on the dead past and face
the future. Place yourselves abreast
with the spirit of the age by laying hold
of the mighty possibilities within your
own grasp, and so aid in serving the
highest prosperity Of your people and
the industrial advancement of our COM
munity. But, passing from the consid-
GRAFTON of the free list to the dutiable
schedules, we find here the same spirit
of hostility manifested in every pro-
vision. There is not schedule in
which there are not some industries
which will be impaired by the passage
of its bill, many will be
UTTERLY DESTROYED.
"On the other hand, ii there is any
provision in this bill which will stimu-
late single domestic industry or give
to labor. it has not been
pointed out. The measure as a whole
looks only to lessened industries and
lower wages. 1t ought to be entitled "a
bill to lessen revenue, destroy American
industries and pauperize American
labor The majority seem to have been
actuated only by the desire to lower the
duties all along the line, regardless of
the consequences to American industries
ani American labor. But the most
startling feature connected with and
through the entire dutiable
schedule is the general substitution of
ad valorem for specific rates. Under
such a policy. coupled with the reduc-
duStries will alike diminish, and the
latter in many instances disappear"
Mr.. Burrows then quoted from lead
ing authorities as to the advantage of
specific duties. He added: Starving
clutching for the last morsel
of food, cannot be lulled into forgetful-
ness of present misery by the announce
ment of lower adj valorem OH the neces-
saries of life. Tramplng the streets, out
of employment, receiving aims, lower
ad valorem will not heal the wounded
pride of the brave men who never be-
fore were dependent upon public char
ity. The laboring people of this coun-
try ask not lower al valorems, but
work. They prefer high ad valorem,
constant employment and abundant
wages to low ad yalorems, idleness and
want"
After showing the growth of the coun-