St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-18
HON. C. s. HAAILIN,S TOPIC AT THE
MINNESOTA DEMOCRATIC AS
ISOLATION BANQUET.
THE PROGRAMME OF T0ASTS.
HO-.. J. STERLING MORTON WRITES
A CHARACTERISTIC LETTER
OF DECLINATION.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE BANQUET
1t VIII Not Be Restricted to Mem.
bers of the AssociatiOn-AH
Democrats May Attend.

The annual banquet Of the Minnesota
Democratic association will be held at
the Ryan hotel Saturday evening. The
intellectual pabulum promises to equal
the spread which Mine Host Welz will
have prepared. as will be seen by the
following programme Of toasts and
speeches.:
Hon. o. M. Hall, POSTMASTER.
Hon. c. 8. Hamin, assistant secretary of
the treasury, Tariff and the Currency
Hon. seagrave Smith. 1.-THE Twenty-second
of February
Thomas D. O'Brien. 1.-THE Democratic Par
ty.'
W. s. Hammond. 1.-THE other Fellows"
.. Adam Bede, THE President of the Unit
ed States.'
The address Of G. 8. Hamlin assistant
secretary. OF the treasury. will be the
feature of the evening. Mr.. Hamlin will
arrive in st. Paul Saturday morning,
and will leave for Washington Sunday
night During his stay in the city he
Will be the guest Of the Ryan. 1t was
hoped that Hon. j. Sterling Morton
would be able to accept an invitation
to be present also, in view Of the fact
that the date had been changed and a
second invitation was sent by Secretary
P.J. Smalley to MI. Morton to accompany
Mr.. Hamlin, with the suggestion that
his plain speaking and sturdy insist
ence on Democratic principles in adj
ministration would make his presence
here especially desirable To this the
following reply was received:
My Dear Mr.. Smalley: Your letter of Jan.
49, cordially inviting me to be present on
the 22d of this month to address the Mime
sofa Democratic association, has been held
in allegiance by me for some days, with the
hope that might possibly be able to accept
the same. But, unfortunately for me, 1 find
that my time is all scheduled for the whole
month.
Very sincerely I thank you for your unde-
served Endorsement of my plain, bucolic
method of treating the economic questions
OF the day. Calling things by their right
names in other sciences is a prerequisite to
a reputation for common sense, and I can
not see why the same rule should not apply
When one speaks OF the economics of great
republic. How can there be liberty
when no. citizen of Minnesota is permitted
to buy with his labor, in a foreign market
those things which he can there get more
OF for days work and bring to his Mime
sofa home without being arrested as a vio-
lator of the law?
How can there be liberty when the farmers
OF the United States, who furnish from 70
to 80 per cent of all the exports of the re-
public, are forbidden to exchange those ex-
ports for articles of import, without the pen
ATTY Oh protective tax thereon to maintain
the pauper protectees of this country who
like Carnegie, are building castles and be-
slowing public libraries in Great Britain? How
can there be Liberty for senator-or any other
erudlte statesman-to discourse about so
long as McKinleyism teaches that, while this
Is the greatest in resources of ali the coun-
tries OF the globe, it's people the most in
telllgent, and its artisans and laborers the
most skilled, they cannot have the liberty
to compete with English "pauperism and
Ignorance" for fear of defeat in the econom-
1c encounter? How can there be Liberty
when the commerce of the country is re-
stricted and fettered by protection, and all
lts farm people are compelled to sell sur
plus abroad in competition with all the
Wcrid and to buy at home, where all the
competition of the world is shut out?
But l did not intend to write so much.
ana again expressing my very grateful ap-
probation of the kindness of your invitation.
remain, my dear SIR very faithfully yours.
j. Sterling Morton.
Washington, D. c., Feb. 5, 1896.
The banquet will be held in the ladies'
ordinary IT 1T is found that it will fur
n1sh the necessary seating capacity.
1t will seat no. and if more than that
number signify their intention Of be-
ing present, the large dining room will
be called into USE
Admission to the banquet is not re-
str1cted to members of the association.
but all Democrats are cordially urged
to come and enjoy the evening. Tickets
can be procured of G. J. Buell., or of the
secretary at his office, 81 Newspaper
Row. 1t is necessary that the commit
tee know by Saturday noon how MANY
plates will be taken.