St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-29

| Every affirmative vote was cast by a
Republican and every negative vote. ex-
cept four, by Democrat. 1t received
| the cordial support of William b. Alli-
son. George S. Boutwell,, Henry l..
Dawes. James A. Garfield, William ID.
Kelley, Ehhu b. Washburne, William
b. Washburn and William Window. 1t
| was opposed by such Democratic lead
ers as Samuel S. Cox. George II. Pen
dleton, Charles A. Eldridge. William II.
Morrison. Francis IL. Herman and
Samuel j. Randall and James S. Boil.
| Inns. In the senate, among
IT'S STRONGEST CHAMPIONS
were JOHN p. Hale. Charles Sumner.
John Sherman and Henry Wilson. and
among Its ableSt opponents were
Charles L. Buckalew. Willard Sanls-
bury and William 4. Richardson. These
| are fair instances of the atti ude of the
| Democratic party at that time.
| The system has been condemned by
| all the Democratic presidents except
Mr.. Cleveland, and has been repeatedly
characterized in Democratic platforms
las uncomfortable i'll its exactiOns."
Such taxes have been constantly de-
n0unced as war taxes" and Democrat
! lie platforms have loudly and clanUr-
~
! years after the close of the war, in a
| time OF peace, they now propose to re.
| enact, In part, this odlouS system OF in-
ternal revenue taxation, which James
| Madison and other lllustrious Statesm II
| pronounced to be "mOSt grIevouS
and un American, and only to be JUS
titled i'll the presence of great national
emergency" TO my mind another
hurtful provision of the Wilson bill,
entirely unwarranted by experience
and unjustitiable as matter of wise
international policy, is that which re-.
peals section of the act Of 1890, CON-
| monty known as the reciprocity
| clause" This, it will be remembered,
was enacted to secure reciprocal trade
| between the United States and coun-
tries largely producing sugar, mo-
| laSSeS, coffee, tea and hides,
and under which this country
has opened up foreign trade
profitable TO the people and OF the most
promising proportions. Commercial
agreements relating to reciprocal trade
have already been made with the fol-
| lowing countries: Brazil, the DomIn-
lean republic. Spain. for Cuba and
| Porto Rico; Guatemala, Salvador, the
German EN- pire. Great Britain, for GER
! tain West Indian colonies and British
| Guiana; Nicaragua. Honduras and
| AustrO-Hungary. In these arrange
msnts it has been the aim of the gov
eminent to secure
| ENLARGED MARKETS
| for the products of agriculture, which,
added to their splendid home market,
would permanently secure them from
the occasional depressions which visit
| our agriculturSts because of their sur
plus produces. As the result of these
commercial arrangements, and for the
most part due to them, our trade has
shown gratifying increase. The
domestic exports to Germany and
| Austro-Hungary had increased in value.
up to December, 1892, from SAT, 900. 0OO
| TO S57 200, 900, or more than 81 per cent.
! With American countries the value of
our exports had increased I'D to
that date from S44,000.O0O to So, :
900, or upwards of % per cent. The
total increase i'll the value of exports 10
ali countries with which reciprocal ar
| rangements have been made had been
$40. 772, 621, which sum is chiefly from
wheat, flour, meat and dairy products,
from lumber and the manufactures Oi
iron and steel. Our imports from these
countries have increased also in the
same period. consisting of article;
which we do not ourselves produce,
like sugar, coffee, india rubber
and crude drugs. During the frs,
half of the year 1891, we exparted to
Cuba 14.OG3 barrels of flour. Dur.
ing the first half of the year 1892. under
the reciprocity clause, we exported to
the same country 337, 900 barrels. Fol
the year ending Aug. 81, 1891, our tota
exports to Cuba were S1l, 9t9, 600. Fol
the corresponding period, ending Aug
81, 1892, our total exports were sig, 790
| a az .tun IN
operation. or this great increase nearly
$4,000, coo were in flour, about $1,000, 00i
were in bacon. pork and other pruvis
ions, and large proportion of the re
naming exports we're also >
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. IS
And yet the Democratic leaders in con
gress seriously propose TO shut the dBol
Of this splendid opportunity in the lace
OF the American farmer. | am not here
to discuss tariff rates or schedules
These are subject to cnauge up Of
down, as new conditions require it; bu
my lnSistence is that these change!
must ever be governed by the protective
principle, and within that principle
rates may be, should be and will bt
amended as time, new processes O
manufacture and changed commercial
conditions require; but they must no
tail below rate which will adequate,,
measure the difference between thu
American scale of wages and that OF
competing countries, and must Away.
be i'll the favor of the labor of our owl
country, aud the home market for ou
people. The principle upon which the,
were made is not subject to amend
ment. The tariff policy of this countr,
must be protective. That is what W,
contend fOr-that is what the American
| people mean 10 have
The preteXt for the proposed bill il
not to raise more revenue. The uecla
ration of its author and the house com
mittee is that it will reduce the reve
nue.. The same effort at tariff reduc
) ton has been repeatedly made in tn
past when we had surplus revenue il
the treasury. 1he present law wa
, adequate To meet all the expenses 0
!, the government, and did meet them 70
the first two and half years of it
operation. During no year of Presiden
HarriSon'S administration did the re
| ceiptS fell
BELOW TIE EXPENSES
of the government, and when Presiden
: Harrison went out OF power, while hi
administration had paid off more tina!
1896, 600, 900 of the principal and interes
| Of the national debt, yet he turned owe
, to the administration which succeeds
MIN surplus or upward OIL STA ,0U0, 000
, including the reserve fund which. undo
the republican policy, had never beef
: encrOached upon.
Ii there is not enough revenue now i
5 is because the proposed change of poi
ICY has had The effect of diminishing il
The proposed policy has not only dis
turbed domestic trade, but the impor
trade. The reason the revenues ar
less under the present administration i
) because importations are less. becaus
our people buy less of foreign good
just as they are now buying less of do
: mesiic goods. also owing to their pecu
1 MARY distress. and all this is becaus
| their incomes and wages have beef
. either cut off Or greatly reduced.
You cannot have large Importation
/ permanently unless the people are pros
: porous, and the more prosperous the,
f are The larger the importations. Whei
| hOmp DrOSDeritV is retarded imnOrt a