St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-12
GOV. JACKsox's ADDRESS
Devoted to the Tariff, Silver and
Prohibitory Liquor Laws.

dress, said:
The stability as we'll as the perpetuity
of a republican form OF government
rests upon the intelligence of its COM
mon people. Poverty is the natural
enemy of education and development.
A republican form of government can
not afford to have poverty fasten its
clutches upon the masses of its people.
Neither can the people of wealth in
such a government afford it. That
which most threatens the glory and
progress of our country is the gradual
forcing upon the millions of American
laborers the schedules of pauper wages
paid the laboring classes of the old
world. Ola world wages are not suffi-
clent to enable an American la6orer to
properly clothe his family, educate his
children, and make of them good Amer
lean citizens. Anything less than this
is menace to the very foundation of
our system of government. The sched-
ules of wages referred to beget poverty
and
POVERTY BEGETS IGNORANCE.
DeSpOtic forms of government can live
and thrive with poverty and ignorance
among the masses. This is impossible
with a republican form Of government,
like ours. A schedule OF wages that
enables the American laboring man to
support his family respectfully and to
educate bis children properly has been
recognized as a national necessity dur.
ing the greater part of our nations eX-
istence. To maintain the American
schedule OF wages liz the future requires
that the American people buy and use
the products of American laborerS, and
not the producers OF other lands, and
this. although they cost more. Patriot
ism is absolutely necessary to The exist
ence of all governments, and especially
so as to the existence of re-
publican form of government. A
patriotism that reSents an insult to a
nations flag is highly commendable.
A patriotism that furnishes half mill
ion men to defend and protect the
rights and liberties of even a few of its
citizens under the flag, wherever they
may be. is indeed chiyalrous and glori-
Gus. The patriotism of an American
citizen should certainly be as broad and
deep as this. 1t must be even broader
and deeper. 1t must be patriotism
that shall insist that the purchasing
price of manufactured article shall be
such an amount that the American la
borer whose brain and muscle produc e
ii. who lives under the same flag, who
breatheS the same air, and whose in
tereSt and welfare are the nations inter-
est and welfare, shall receive for the
product of his brain and muscle such
compensation as shall enable him to
live as an American citizen ought to
live, and to educate his children as
American children
MUST BE EDUCATED.
To accomplish this, those manufact-
ured products of foreign countries
which can be produced in our own
country must be kept out of competi-
tiOn with American labor. This coun.
try can consume the products of the
American laborer, but it cannot con-
sumo the products of both American
and leign labor. What class of labor
erS, therefore, are to remain idle? The
policy of our government for more than
thirty years has been in favor of giving
employment to the American laborer,
and at the same time creating and build
ing an American home market for the
products OF the American farm. Under
this policy the people of Iowa have ad-
vanced in wealth and prosperity. Shall
this prosperity be continued, or shall
we adopt an experiment, and try a
change? Even the anticipation of such
change has already brought disaster.
1t is asserted upon good authority
that there are over 1000, coo idle labor
ers in this country today, and upon
equally good authority it is stated that
this idleneSS is due to the anticipated
changes of the tariff laws of our country
by congress hostile to the principles
of protection. While the laboring mill
ions OF Europe are given the hope of
finding market in America without
any corresponding benefits to our agri-
cultural products, the charity of Amer
lea is being taxed millions of dollars to
keep her own unemployed laborers from
starving. A much safer business policy
would be for us To furnish employment
to our own labOrers, and thereby pro-
tect our American home market for
American farm products. and tax our
charity in behalf of the unemployed
laborerS of
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Mr.. Jackson also devoted considerable
time to the silver question and prohl-
bition.
The metallic money of our govern
ment," he said, "in the past has peen
gold and silver, and can see no reason
why either metal should be dispensed
with now. The silver product of Amer
lean mines should be utilized commen-
surate with financial safety, in prefer
ence to issuing government bonds with
their attendant interest burdens. Let
us have both gold and silver as we'll as
paper. securing to each and every dol
lar the same purchasing power. The
present embarrassment arising from
our financial system seems to be an ob-
lection on the part of foreign countries
I'D their business dealings and transac-
tions with US to the use of silver as a
basis. 1t is clearly possible to relieve
ourselves from the embarraSsments of
this objection in large degree through
an American policy, buying the manu-
factured products of our own factories
with American silver dollars rather
than buying the manufactured products
of the foreign factory with our Ameri-
can gold dollars"
Discussing tho question OF prohibi-
tion, he continued:
A trial of ten years has demonstrated
that In many counties the prohibitory
liquor law has fully met the expectation
of Its friends, having successfully
driven the saloon system out of exist.
ence in those counties. While this is
true, there are other localities where
open saloons have existed during this
period of time in spite of the law, and
in spite of the most determined efforts
to close them. In such localities the
open saloon exists without restraint or
control, constant menace to the peace
and safety of the public. From these
localities there is an earnest demand for
relief-a demand not from the law-de-
flying saloon sympathfzers, but from
the best business elements, from the
best moral sentiment of such cOmmuni-
ties from the churches and from the
pulpit.