The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-31
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
A Review of the Minnesota Sena-
tors Speech.
Its Absurdities Shown Up in a
Strong Light.

| ~ ~. LAWS SpOhc last night. quote
some of the salient points. He said in eff
feet:
There is one great principle on which
parties divide. 1t is the principle Of pro-
lection on the one hand and free trade on the
| other. We hold that protection is the right
| principle and free trade the wrong prin-
ciple. Great Britain the most rigid
protective country of the world for 200
years. She changed her policy to free trade
in 1874. BY her protective policy she had
built up her industries and her commerce
till she was able to do this fearlessly."
If it is a fact that she built up her in
dustries and her commerce so we'll under
a protective policy why change? But it is
not fact Her industries and her agricul-
ture were depressed. She changed her policy
with the hope of lettering her condition.
How we'll she has succeeded is shown by
the fact that in so years she has become the
| creditor nation of the whole world except
France
1T is only twenty months ago since the
Democratic party came into power. See the
stopping of industries, the failure of banks
the wrecking of fortunes in that short
time If there is any reason for that, other
than the advent of the Democratic party to
| power let some one show it,
Well here they are: The census Of 1880
| shows that for the census year the profits
| on manufactures reached the enormous
sum of $1024 791, III and, that the capital in
| vested was 81, 100, 272 Cos. This makes profit
| of nearly 81 per cent over Sc per cent on
| the capital invested. Ge,v
While the profit on the whole business of
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Railroad companiess II expfess companies,
| telegraph companies, telephone companies
| insurance companies baking companies,
beef combines, lumber combines, wheat
combines, coal combines, pine land rings
jobbers, trusts and what not have sprung up
! in a night it We're like Jonahs goard
| and have Overshadowed the country and
| have saped it of it's substance. Is it any
wonder we've had a panic, industries para
| lyzed, fortunes wrecked and banks failed
In another part of his speech speaking Of
| the Populists he said: .''They met in Ma
tional convention at Omaha and adopted a
platform and in the1 first plank of that
platform declared thatsthe nation was on
the verge of financial disaster and the labor
| OF the country was unemployed" And then
| he said: That's lie Well, then all this
| talk about paralyzed Industries etc, etc,
| lis lie and all this talk about strikes,
the Homestead strike and Others lis lie"
and all this talk about people tramping up
and down the land seeking employment and
| finding none lis a lie.,' O.! consistency,
| verify thou art jewel.
1.-THE administration (Ceveland) was COM
PEELED to put the military into the streets
| of Chicago to put down the men whom
their very policy had made miserable
When Populists complain Of conditions
| cts lie"
1--WE would give the American farmer a
| bounty on sugar The Democratic party
| took the bounty off from sugar" The
| American farmer did not get any bounty
on sugar. The factories got the bounty.
What did they do with wool? Why go
| to Australia for wool?'
| 1 should think a protectionst would not
refer to that. The price of wool fell contin-
T"ally under the Mckinley law, until for a
year or more before it was repealed there
was practically n" market for it. We i~Arort
| wool from Australia because rney produce
a wool that is wanted and cannot be pro-
| duced here.
Let us look for a moment al the practical
difference between the Mckinley tariff and
the Wilson tariff. They are each arranged
to raise about much revenue. The rev.
| enue has to be raised somehow and this
fact is ever kept in mind. The Wilson bill
takes the tariff off from iron and puts
it on to sugar. 1t takes it off from wool
and raises the tax on whisky. 1t takes
| little off from linseed oil and adds a little
to collars and cuffs. And that's the way
it's done all along down the schedule And
that is all there is of this tariff revision
bugaboo A little more tariff on one ar
| ticle, little less on another 1t is a scare
| crow, a straw man stuck up to brighten
the timd wage worker and to deceive the
fool farmer" But the people pay the
| taxes just the same, whether it is a tariff
| on sugar or iron ore. wool on collars
| and cuffs. And the Peoples party says
| revising the tariff a little up or a little
down, shifting it from iron ore to sugar
or from wool to collars and cuffs, is a mat
ter Of detail and not matter of fundamen-
tai principle. The fellows who harp about
it simply lot of clackers, who make
a racket while the monopolies go on plum
dering the people.
1.-THE Republican party brought the South
| American countries to time. Compelled
them to accept our products, devised and
| enforced reciprocity, and the Democra is
| have thrown it all overheard"
| Our exports to Cuba under reciprocity
gained largely The aggrate to all the other
| countries with which reciprocity trea ties
were made fell off. That is not all. Every
| reciprocity treaty made violation Of
existing treaties with other countries and
claims for damages ares coming in con-
stantly Every treaty with civilized coun-
tries contains a clause that their products
| shall be admitted on as favorable terms as
those of the most favored country. Now
congress can't repeal or set aside treaties
with other countries any more than state
| legislature repeal or set aside acts Of
congress. Treaties are contracts.
| Put this in after We import wool from
Australia because etc on
| "Populsm leads towards socialism, nihil-
ism and anarchy" yGl d
| Well what is socialism, nihilism and
| anarchy? The government postal system
is socialstic. The piib1ic schools are social
istic. The army and2 navy are socialistic
The public highways and bridges are So
| calistic. The socialists idea is that gov
eminent ownership of nionopolies be
extended until thera will be no possibility
of private monopoly. -Nhilists are those
people in Russia who are opposed to con-
tinung perpetually the one man form of
government. They believe in government
| Of by and for the people Anarchists are
| those who believe that the human family
| is capable of continuing and advancing
| it's present civilization without man-made
| laws of restraint. But these terms are
used so unfortunately and with so little
regard for their meaning they have come
| to be merely epthets for abuse. Any one
who violates law is called socialist
| nihilist or an anarchist just as suits the
| whim OF the speaker. And so Mr.. Davis
| says Populism tends to these things, be-
| cause Popuists propose to change some of
| the laws BY the same rule he himself
| would be socialist, nihilist or anarchist
| because he proposes to change the laws
| made by the Democrats
Look at Kansas and Colorado. Who