St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-11

help the farmers Of the Northwest, stop
squandering the public funds upon the
patchwork, Improvement of unk own
riyulets and undiscoverablo harbors,.
and give us the needed appropriations
for a canal connecting the navigable
Mississippi with the Great Lakes,
deepen our water channels. aud give US
ship canal from the lakes to the All
lantic. Give US cheaper transportation,
to the seaboard and to Liverpool. Ado
TO the prices OF our crops all that can be
saved in the cost Of transportation.
Give US untaXed rails for our railways,
free coal for cur locomotives aud barges,
free ships for our cargoes. You have
not much money left in the treasury for
any purpose; but whatever appropria.
tons are made let them be made fer
these great and benetieent Internal i'm
prevements. ;.
The only tariff legislation which can
in any way benefit the American farmet
Is to give to the money he receives fop
his crops a greater purchasing powers
You cannot by tariffs raise the price on
wheat he sells, but you can, by reducing
the tariff, reduce the price of what he
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wheat you can give to that so cents the
same purchasing power which 70 or 100
cents now have. You Garnet by tariff
legislation give him more money. but.
YOU can by tariff reduction make the
money he gets go farther. And when
you have done this you will have re-
| stored to the American farmer the pros
perity OF which the tariff Of Nc Kinley
| has robbed him.
1t IS to the free list, and not to the
agricultural schedule OF your tariff laws
| that Western farmers must look, for
their economic salvation. Applause.l
| You say that thousands of unem-
| ployed worklngrnen are suffering from
| starvation. These are your protected
workingmen. Has your boosted sys-
| tenn, so long maintained. merely kept
| them alive from day to day, consuming
+ all that they earned, accommodating
nothing,fOr the future. and turned them
adrift in times Of business depression.
homeless, hopeless, helpless? Has q
| century of unbrokeu prOtectl0n thus
| pauperized the workingmen in the pro-
teeted industries? =
| Gentlemen, your prophecies confess
too much. They concede the failure, OF
! your theories. They admit that your
| system so weakens the industries and
| bMPoSCilouCo LIZ WI ~ do
Sames to strengthen that without con-
stantly Increasing protection they can
not stand.
| To this elimination does your policy
lead US. The system which Clay advo-
Gated as temporary expedient for the
encouragement of infant industries has
become under Mckinley the permanent
support Of industries long established
and gray with age. The slight tribute
which Hamilton imposed to develop
new enterprises Mckinley has trans
formed into an ever-increasing and
| eternal tax.
Unroll the mystic scroll Of prophecy
and tell Us, if you can. how many ages
must elapse, how many generations OF
men must be born, taxed and buried be-
fore these centenarian industries will
become Self-sustaining, and AN over
burdened people freed from the i'm.
positions of protection. Applause.
| The beneficiarIes of the system, the
we'll equipped agents Of the trusts and
combines which profit by it. fill the
hotels Of Washington and cram the
| corridors and committee rooms of this
| capitol.
Is it possible that the Wilson bill has
become the test OF mems virtue and not
OF their intelligence? [Applause.I