St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-14
HARRISON TALKS ON TAXES
He. DEN0UycES THE "LWiQUIT0VS Or
RECT TAXATION"
PROPOSED Bx THE DEmooR ATs
ana Lincoln League That the
Democratic Party Will Affiict
the Country With the Burden +
some System of War Taxes;
Which Will Prove a Calamity.

the Country With the Burden
some System of War Taxes,
Which Will Prove a Calamity.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 13.-About
three hundred Republicans, represents
ing the five hundred Lincoln League
clubs. met here today. President SulZer
said the meeting was to make more
complete the Republican organization
of Indiana. Mr.. Sulzer was re-
elected president. The following
district managers were selected:
Fourth. John l.. Wingate, Shell
byville; Fifth. William A. Conner,
Martinsville; Sixth. NJ. B. Hunt, Win
chester; Seventh. w. Il. Ripley, Indian
apolis; Eighth, A. Nj. Hadley, Rock
Vile: Ninth, Thomas w. Burk, Lafay-
cite; Eleventh, John r. HadleY. Gas
City. The following delegates at large
to the Denver convention were selected:
Frank Millikan, Indianapolis; Albert
w. Wishard, Indianapolis; Nicholas
Filback. Terre Haute; George w.
Petchell. Union City.
Resolutions laudatory to the Harrison
administration and condemning that OF
Cleveland were passed.
The representatives of Lincoln
League clubs of Indiana, after the busi-
ness meeting today. met tonight in mass
convention IN TomlInson hall. Invita-
tions had been sent to ex-Speaker Reed.
Gov. Mckinley, of Ohio. eX-President,
Harrison and many other prominent.
Republicans. Several letters of regret
were read, and speeches were made by
ex-President Harrison, Col. Tom Nell
son, of Terre Haute. Col. Frank Perry,
of Evansville, and others.
The president of the Indiana Lincoln
league having briefly introduced Mr.
Harrison, the latter said:
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen.
There are some who hold that an ex-'
this l am inclined to doubt. A man
who has been honored by his fellow
citizens with the highest place II gov
ernment ought not to have less interest,"
in all things that concern the prosperity!
| and happiness of the people or the
glories of this great country than he had
BEFORE HE TOOK OFFICE.
Unless lie is all exceedingly dull man,
| his wide experiences and contact with
affairs in the position of president Of
| the United States must have given; him
wide acquaintance and a large UNDER
standing of those principles that lie. at
the foundation of our governments.
have not in view at present the en-
tering into discussion of the intense
| questions that are burning at the
heart of the American people. have
only said this in the nature of an intro
| duction by way of caveat or notice, if
| you please, that some time inthe future
when the people wish it, and think
the occasion fitting, l shall address you
upon the prominent questions of the
day.
The present state of the country is
notone of prosperity. We as nation
were recently prosperous, but this was
not due to any one man. 1t was the re-
suit of a definite policy adopted and put
into force. The present distress we are
now enjoying is not due to any one
| man, but is due to the threat that this
old established policy is to be reversed
and new one instituted. That is the
| cause of the trouble.
Lam not one of the ancient landmarks,
but my memory runs back to the days
when such men as Thomas A. Hem
bricks and Joseph E. Mcdonald were
the leading spirits IN the Indiana DEM
| Ocracy and the eXpOnentS Of the party'S
principles in the state. Often have /
heard my late lamented friend. Mr..
Mcdonald. eXpound the principles of
| the Democratic party. He often and
often said that one of the most impor-
tant principles of the Democratic party
in this state were that
THE NATIONAL REVENUE.
| of this great national government of
| ours should be raised by customs duties
levied upon such articles as not to harm
the interests of the laboring man or the
agricultural classes. These were the
words of the great Mcdonald. Had the
Wilson bill been constructed upon a
principle such as this, there would have
| been no harm done, and our national
calamity would have been ayerted. 4
But there has cou.e new gospel. A
new creed has been adopted by the
| Democratic party, and they have now
promulgated theory which resorts to
| extraordinary and outrageous systems
of taxation. They want to revive the
niquitous direct taxation as the means
of raising the revenues of the national
government. They want to tear down
the grand system of customs duties by
which our factories were reared and our
advanced prosperity acquired and main
tanned.
used to hear much of war taxes
They were onerouS in the extreme, for
they searched out every means. fair or
foul, by which to fill the vaults OF the
national government, and searched out
every possible source of revenue, while
| tho .rafhnrQr Iaid hands oil p,,t
as SOON as the country was relieved
from its distress and eXigencies of the
war these taxes were stopped. l re-
member while in the senate of voting to
repeal the stamp duties Oh patent
medicines and perfumery, the last of
the Odious direct taxation. And now
those who cry out against these very
same war taxes want us to return to
this same burdensome system that
never was intended to be used except
IN TIME OF WAR. "a
They hold that the revenue of the
government by means of custom duties
must be reduced at the expense of the
American factories, American work
men and American farmers to be SUBJ
stituted by this same old and discarded
war method.
Whether these threats of certain re-
duction in the customs duties have;
been the cause of our great national
distress is question for the Lincoln
league to consider we'll at all its meet
ings. You should look into the true
cause of this terrible depression. get at
the root of the evil. and dig it out and,
examine it that the people may know.
have no intent to farther pursuG
this line. 1t is well accepted as the
right principle that city council;
board of county commissioners or a
state legislature should legisiate to
create work for the unemployed,
But have been led by your kindness
s9an Fad intended. [Cries G of Hear y !
go on. p
hope that this meeting will result in
greater activity in every quarter of the
state of Indiana. | thank you, gentle
mln, for your attention.