The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-04-05
cratic leaders In congress seriously propose
to shnt the door of this splendid opportuni.
ty inlthe face OF the American farmer.
The People VIII Have Protection.

cratic leaders In congress seriously propose
ty inlthe face OF the American farmer.
The People VIII Have Protection.
/ am not here to discuss tariff rates or
schedules. These are subject to change up
or down, as new conditions require 1t; but
my insistence Is that these changes must
ever he governed by the protective princi-
pie, and within that principle rates may be,
new processes of manufacture and changed
commercial conditions require; but they
must not fall below q rate which Will ade-
quately measure the difference between the
American scale of wages and that of COM
peting countries, and must always be In IA
v0r OF the labor of our own country and
the home market for our people. The prin.
ciple upon which they were made Is not
subject to amendment. The tariff policy OF
this country must he protective. That Is
what we contend for-that is what the
American people mean to have.
The pretext for the proposed bill Is not
to raise more revenue. The declaration OF
Its anthor and the house committee Is that
1t will reduce the revenue. The same ef-
fort at tariff reduction has been repeatedly
made In the past when we had surplus
revenue in the treasury. The present law
was adequate to meet all the expenses of
the government, and did meet them for the
first two and half years of it's operation.
During NJ year of President HarrisOn's adj
ministration did the receipts fall below the
expenses OF the government, and when
President Harrison went out OF power,
while his administration had paid off more
than $296, 600 600 Of the principal and inter-
to the administration which succeeded him
a surplus Of upwards of $124, 1000, incIud-
ing the reserve fund, which under the Re-
publican policy had never been encroached
upon.
The advocates of tariff taxation are d.
vided into two schools. Both schools be-
Heye in raising public money by q tariff,
and only differ as to the kind Of tariff to
accomplish this purpose One school, the
Democratic school, advocates a tariff for
revenue only; the other, the Republican
scnool, advocates a tariff for revenue and
other aim or purpose and disclaims every
otner save revenue. A protective tariff,
while raising all needed revenue, is ever
mindful that the taxes imposed shall be
upon those foreign products which will
most encourage domestic production and
rest most lightly upon the consumer The
revenue tariff Is unmindful of the develop
ment and prosperity of our country. The
protective tariff, while having revenue and
the needs OF the treasury always in view,
steadily keeps in mind our own people. A
revenue tariff seeks out articles of prime
necessity, often such as we can not pro-
duce In our own country, and makes them
the subject of taxation. Ihe senate has
just introduced an amendment to the Will
son bill which is a striking illustration of
revenue tariff. 1t takes sugar, an article
which enters into every mans household
and home, from the free list and places 1t
upon the dutiable list.
n Revenue TaT1H
VIII raise revenue for q time at least, but
1t Is inadequate to encourage, promote and
protect production in our own country.
Protection seeks out those articles of for
home and puts a tariff upon them, and
while every importation Of such articles
produces revenue which goes into the treas
ury, 1t at the same time stimulates our do
mestic production and sustains and defends
our domestic enterprises. So long as we
have to use the taxing power, why not use
1T nf w n nd
their occupations? What is the gain If we
do put money into the public treasury
age domestic enterprise and destroy the
opportunity for capital and labor to earn
money? Why tax foreign article which
we cannot produce rather than one which
we can? In the former case we help no do"
mestic industry; in the latter. our tariffs
discriminate against the foreign and In
favor Of the home product. A tariff levied
| exclusively for revenue encourages foreign
importations-that is what 1t Is made for,
and when such a tariff Is levied on articles
the like OF which we produce produce at home, 1t
| ing them Of the home market which justly
| belongs to them. A revenue tariff encour-
| ages no home enterprises; 1t supplies en-
pfoyment to no American workingman; 1t
| takes employment from him because In tho
|. encouragement Of foreign importatiors 1t
ucts. To the extent that 1t diminishes the
demand for American products, it dimin-
| ishes the demand for the American pro-
T. a
| a democratic revenue tariff encourages.
means less use or no use OF a like domestic
article So Long labor o in E
competing goods tends either to destroy do;
mesic or to eys labor an
ard A revenue tariff is an enemy. to the
American shop, the American workingman,
aPa has not Single
Element eIement Of patriotism. It has no national
spirit or instinct 70 supply the needs Of
eeFp eer 'fgtSI It has - no - other It is sure pre-.
cursor of national poverty, national bank.
ruptcy and individual distress. It is the
| Forerunner of Hard Times.
| It is without a single worthy triumph.
The years in which it has been tried In the
United States excite neither our respect
pride It 6S beeRn
of deficient revenues, greater bonded In
| debtedness and universal want among the
people, ..u.
men of the State of Minnesota, take in the
| settlement Of these great and pressing public
questions? May we not hope that the spirls
you in the critical days Of the past when
the people of the Northwest led the hosts Of
| freedom in the great contest with the slave
power may still inspire you to even migadsF tg
| pies Of our government, and OF our Indus
trial independence and prosperity? Standing
| before this vast assemblage, 1 recall the
words of William II. Seward, spoken to the
people at st. Paul on Sept. 1S, 1860, when
he said:
must reside in the Northwest. On both sides
! of this stream are the people who hold in
their hands the destinies Of the republic.
That some great states are to be built up Id
the valley Of the Mississippi know. You
| will no longer hear hereafter Of the old
Dominion State;' dominion passed away from
Virginia long ago. Pennsylvania Is no longer
| the keystone Of the American Union for the
arch has been extended from the Atlantic
coast to the Pacific ocean, and the center Of
the arch is
Moved Westward.
"a new keystone is to be built in that
| pire State and a. new Empire State will
grow up in O. Northern latitude, where the
lands are rich and where the people who
| cultivates them are all free and all equal,
That state which shall be tguesf ia the great
fundamental prineinles af the government,
that state which shall be most faithful and
the new Dominion State, the new keystone
state, the new Empire State
The question for which the great New
fork statesman spoke SO eloqdently las
been settled, righteously settled, as he
pleaded and prayed it might be; settled In
consequence of the decfeas III, the, great
great hberator for whom he spoke, the Inn
mortal Lincoln; settled in eternal Justice,
| for freedom and mankind. Citizenship is
beneath the flag. The differences Cxisting
then are no longer present to impsde tfia
progress and unity Of, the espublfc, or to
highest interests Now all sections end ali ali
states bow at the shrine Of freedom. All
have a common and glorious citizenship:
| all like interest In the perma lencY ana
which Seward spoke has been seclred and
the Union saved stronger and better than
ever. The virtue which Is 70 advance the
glory must reside in the people, not Of the
Northwest alone, hut In the peonle OF every
part OF onr eefnm9n country. The Nerth-
! vest can be relied upon n1w and Ia tbs
future: as In the past, to .:antEhnte 70 ihe
onward MARCH Of the best government on
the face Of the aavt6.