St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-21
By Holding Out Allurina
Hopes to Stiffen the Wa
vering Boilers.
THE BUCKEYE BANQUETED.
A Midnight Start Made by
Spacial Train for an
Eastern Tour.

leSS Cnan lo,UOU mere LOnlgnC IN the Dig
auditorium which was constructed for
exhibitions of pugilism.
There was a comparatively small pro-
portion of negroes, the audience being
composed in the main Of business men
of New Orleans and planters from
neighboring parishes, andsit was con-
spicuously Intelligent :and appreciative
gathering, which was entirely liberal
with its applause and discriminating in
its bestowal. The platform was pro-
fusely decorated with sugar cane. Hon.
T. j. Benham, chairman of the RepuC-
lican state committee presided, and in
troduced Gov. Mckinley, who spoke mt
much length. The substance OF his adj
dress was:
am impre ssed with the profound in
terest OF the people in the welfare OF
the government in which their voice is
supreme, 1 realize now perhaps
more fully than ever before the
ernlnent. come here at the invitation
6the Republican committee of LOUISE
ana to address you upon public ques-
ton of great national importance which
concerns alike not only the prosperity
Of your section, state or locality, but all
sections and parts of our common coun-
try.
From 1889 to 1892. period of 103
years, there has been forty-seven years
when a Democratic revenue tariff policy
had pfevailed and fifty-six under the
protective policy, and noteworthy fact
is that the most progressive and pros
porous periods OF our history were dur
ing the years when the protective party
In ta ffs
were maintained; and the most disas-
trous years were during the free trade
or revenue tariff eras of our history.
A long history of tariff legislation,
showing that in former years the pro-
tective policy was supported by promi-
nent Southern statesmen was, given by
Gov. Mckinley, continuing:
The foreign market for agricultural
products is one of tue delusiohs of free
trade. If it ever had any substance as
against good home market, that has
long since disappeared. We have
Free Trade Among Ourselves,
throughout the forty-four states and
territories. That is because we are one
family. one country. We are one ma
ton, have one standard OF citizenship, one
flag, one constitution, one destiny. That
is why we have free trade among our
selves. Our relations with foreign
states are necessarily different from our
relations with one another. They are
our commercial rivals. We deny to
those foreign states trade with US upon
the same terms we ENJOY ourselves.
Here in the South your people have
been Offering freedom from taxation
for ten, fifteen or twenty years
to those who would bring their
capital here and invest it in productive.
enterprises. With all this working, the
leaders OF the Democratic party are
proposing to tear down our protective
tariff and inundate this country with
foreign products to displace those which
these very manufactures propose to
make, and which the people were will.
ing to tax themselves to establish.
The people are now coming to see
this, and their votes this year will go
Call the roll of the nations. Which
are for protection? Germany,
France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Can
ada. South America, Portugal,
Denmark. Australia. Switzerland,
Austria and Hungary. Russia, Sweden
and Norway and the United States Of
America. Which are against protec-
ton? England, New South Wales and
New Zealand. Tariff for revenue only,
or the tariff reform. is almost exclusive
ly an English decoration. How stand
the people of the world on this question?
At least 430, 900 are IN favor of pros
lection, 33.O0O,UO0 of Britons are against
IL, to whom must be added those Ameri-
cans whose numbers are not known,
who. while living under our flag, seem
to follow another. This is how the
worlds jury stands. The
Tariff Law of s94
is not like any Of the early tariff meas
ures, but is one in which the changed
conditions of the country and its mar.
velous growth and development are ut
terly ignored and forgotten. Its au-
thors do not recognize or appre-
ciate the independence and dignity
of American laborers and can
not understand that the business
policy of the country, under which we
have had such splendid prosperity. is
not to be determined on the lines of
sectiona! prejudice, which appeals to
the hates of the past and not the hopes
of the future. The law is narrow and
provincial measure. unworthy of
the great party in whose name
it was enacted, and wholly insult
ed to the needs OF the country. Nor
are the masses of the Democratic party
satisfied with what has been done.
Congress has disappointed the people,
tritied with the sacred trust contided to
it, excited distruSt among the constit-
uents of its members and impaired their
enterprises and investments.
The country has not failed to observe
that great change in public sentiment
is apparent throughout the South.
Nothing has occurred Of late years
which has been to ME more graft
flying than the action of the
planters of Louisiana, who. if l
am correctly Informed. have turned
away from the Democratic party which
they have been all their lives associated
with. and announced their uncondi-
tional Endorsement and support of the
great doctrine of American protection
TO American industries, and thereby
allied themselves permanently to the
national Republican party.
Cajoling the Boilers.
What this may mean in the future
politics of your state you'll know better,
far better, than l; but it does seem to
ME that your action must have wide
and beneficial influence.
1t is. indeed. gratifying that so large
a body of the best business men of
Louisiana, who for years have been
trying to make themselves believe that
the Democratic party is the friend of
your industries, should be compelled
to abandon that position and declare
that the future welfare of this country
is alone safe in the hands of the
Republican party. cannot but COM
mend your patriotic movement. You
need no assurances of the devotion of
the Republican party to all the material
interests of the South. No one can
charge that in all its industrial leglsla-
ton for Q third of a century past
it ever overlooked a single
Southern interest. Without aid from
the South and with almost its entire
representation in both branches of con-
Republican party. still in the storm