St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-10

American workmen against unequal and
| injurious foreign competition.
I'm its practical workings it accom-
| pliShed both these results. That act
went into effect Oct. 6, 1891, and as a
measure for revenue it met. so long as
as its operations were undisturbed, the
needed requirements of the govern
| ment. Since the first of July, 1888,
| however, there has been marked de-
| cline in the revenues, until they have
actually fallen below the requirements
| for the public service. l venture to
suggest, however, i'll this connection,
that this decline in the public revenues
during the present fiscal year is not
attributable to any defect in the law of
1890, but rather to the general derange-
ment and prostration OF business
throughout the country. The ascenden-
cy of il political party pledged to the de-
| StrucIion
OUR PROTECTIVE POLICY
has not only crippled and suspended
the operation of our domestic manu-
facturers, but the importer of foreign
fabrics naturally curtails his importa-
tons In the hope of securing their ad-
mission into our markets upon more
favorable conditions. ! confidently as
Sert that if the election of 1892 had re.
suited III the retention of the Repub-
| llcan party in power, accompanied as
it would have been with the assurance
of continuance of the American policy
| of protection, the effect upon the public
revenue, as well as general prosperity
of the country, would have been Ell
tirely reversed.
"President Harrison only affirmed the
truth Of history when, in his last an
nual message to congress. lie said: so
high degree of prosperity and so great
a diffusion of wealth were never before
enjoyed by our people, This eXultant
! declaration. made but a little over one
| year ago, as it seems in the midst of
present appalling conditions, was, never
theless, grounded on
| INDISPUTABLE FACTS.
You 0he Democrats said the act of
1890 would develop no new industries;
| 1t created them by the hundreds. You
said it would bring no resultant benefits
to our workmen--it secured for them
enlarged employment and Increased
wages: You said it would enhance the
cost of the protected article-it cheap
ened it to the consumer. You said it
would diminish our foreign trade-it
| augmented il in 1892 to 81. S57. $50, ,6I0, an
| increase over the previous year OF Sl2S,-
2S3, ,604. You said it would shut out our
| products from foreign markets-our ex-
! port trade increased S145, 797. 1888, swell
| ing its volume 10 S1,O30 27S, l4S, the
largest ever known in the history of the
country, and exceeding the value OF our
imports by S202, S75, $50. You said it
! would paralyZe our domestic trade-it
was never more vigorous than in the
years Immediately following its enact
ment; aud so every prophecy of i'll found
swift and complete refutation in in-
! creased industrial activity on every hand
and enhanced Individual and national
| prosperity. We are, therefore, justi-
fed i'll asserting that the act OF 1890,
could its permanency have been as
| sured, would have accomplished the
double purpose for which it was en-
acted-revenue and protection. The
Mckinley tariff never closed mill in
the United States, shut up a mine.
stopped a wheel, blew out a furnace
| fire or drove single workman into the
streets. This general
IAhAL1 SIS Is SINESS
throughout the country comes solely
| from the asceDdency OF a political party
pledged to the repeal of the act of 1890
and the substitution therefor of tariff
| Invested of all protective features. With
| such party in full control of the gov
ernment. is II any wonder that domestic
manufacturers suspend operations until
| advised of the conditions under which
| they must market their output.
This industrial depression came,
| therefore, not as the result of existing
tariff rates, but from an apprehension
! Gt seems now TO have been well fCuuued)
that these rates were to be so modified
| as to overthrow and destroy our pro-
tectiye policy, exposing our domestic
manufacturers to ruinous foreign COM
| petition. and lnaugurate in this country
an era Of free trade, with all its at
| tendant evils. How easily YOU might
| demonstrate the beneficent effects of
restored confidence? You have but to
abandon tile policy upon which you
have entered, recommit this bill and
permit existing tariff regulations to re-
main undisturbed and all our industries
WILL QUICKLY REVIVE.
Mr.. Burrows then took up the tariff
| plank of the last Democratic national
| platform and compared it with the
J SdlOllud Ol UulllIlCd-
| ton. He continued: 1T will be seen.
therefore, that the ground OH which the
! Democratic nullifierS stood in 1882, and
| from which they were driven by the
stern patriotism of Gen. Jackson, is at
last reoccupied in 1892. sixty years later.
in force by the whole Democratic party.
And it is not difficult now to under
stand the alacrity with which the North
ern Democrat obeys the command to
take position in support of the uncon-
stitutionallty OF protective tariff and
the confidence with which it seems
to be enforced as it is by the
Southern wing of the Democratic
party NOW unhappily dominating the
republic). 1t is not surprising. there
! fore, to find the Democratic party in
| 1892. with its two wings reunited, the
| South in the lead, moving under the
| Confederate banner of free trade TO the
complete overthrow of our protective
system. 1t may be safely asserted that
both parties believe in raising some
portion of the needed revenue for the
support of the government by imposing
duties on foreign products coming into
our markets, and the only
POINTS AT ISSUE ARE:
"Flrst-The class of articles unon
which these duties shall be levied: and.
second, the rate of duty they shall
| BEAR"
Mr.. Burrows then argued at length OH
the cOnstitutionality of a protective
tariff, citing Webster, Adams, Jefferson
and others in support thereof.
Tariff REFORM" he continued, "is
! Interpreted to mean free raw material
and reduction of duties on competing
foreign products entering our markets
below the protective point, regardless
of the consequences to American indus
tries and American labor. This Is tariff
REFORM Before proceeding to a specific
explanation, l desire to say that the
measure as whole stands without
parallel in the history of the proposed
tariff legislation in the country. 1t was
framed with intentions of carrying out
form and policy which declared for