The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-24

protective tariff system. He stood by the side
of Henry Clay throughout his great career
and he was found with William Mckinley in
the decisive contest of the last campaign
applause on the Republican side)
On the very day when the millionaires OF
the Rocky mountains were riding in their
carriages to the voting places TO give in their
ballots, the farmers of the Mississippi valley
weary and burdened under the weight OF
IOur miserable years, walked in the rain to
the polling places, and cast their ballots for
the integrity of American business and the
tarlH policy of 1890. applause on Republican
slde.) The appeal made to them was a mas
terp1ece of shiftless and INSCRIPTIONS pol
ltlcs. NO such effort was ever before made
to capture the passions and prejudice of bur
dened and troubled men. But the farmers
of the Mississippi valley again vindicated the
credit OF the American farmer by choosing
rather to suffer affiction with the people that
pay their bills than endure the advantages
OF l6 to l. Laughter.)
They did not have to go to Chicago tc
md out what the issue was. They remem-
bered that curious spectacle in this house
which most of us here present saw, when
Prot. Wilson had finished his speech on the
tariff law, which, for want Of competition
will probably always bear his name. Laugh
ter) young Democratic champion of free
trade from our Western country who has since
monopoized nearly the entire visible sup
ply OF Democratic enthusiasm plunged down
the aisle amid the enthusiastic yells of his
associates, lifted the exhausted statesman to
his shoulders and bore him kicking and pro-
When, a few months afterwards, the same
gallant young leader came among our people
and beamed benevolently upon them from the
platform Of his advertising car, and offered
them new and untried remedies for their trou-
bles, warranted to kill or cure-God only
knows which-the farmers Of the Middle West
again Illustrated their wisdom and sagacity
by being able to perceive the somewhat di-
mlnished figure of Prof Wilson kicking and
protesting, but still on the boy orators back.
l am sorry that the broken and crumb!ed
10T14 Of
from the tomb to which slavery was COM
mltted, to find more comfortable grave a
more perfect repOse in the speeches of the
gentleman from Alabama and the gentleman
from South Carolina. preserved in the records
OF congressional debate. Naughter)
we are told in histories of the United States
that in Boston during the revolution corn
sold for $50 a bushel- II we have political
friends out in Nebraska and elsewhere who
are anxious to do something for. u.s. why
do they not do something handsome like that ?
Daughtero But the historian gravely adds
that it was paid for in Continental money,
which was not worth continental Q4augh-
teri High prices can be had of course eX-
actly as if you should make a foot out of
six inches. Instead of standing before you,
timid traveller to the tomb, l might in the
same way look up in this stately presence a
gigantic Populist statesman, ten feet high.
Laughter.) Gentlemen, the farmers of the
west do not want prices doubled by the cyan
ide process.
The theory of the present law was that we
were not only to hold our own, but we were
to go out with our free wool cloth and divide
with Bradford and Komnitz the task of cloth
ing the naked inhabitants of the earth.
Qaughter.) That was the theory. What has
actually happened may be stated in a few
plain words and figures: Ten million sheep
driven to the slaughter, so 900 600 pounds OF
American wool displaced in our own market
the importation of cloth multiplied by two.
half the woOlen mills idle and locked up and
the other half on scant wages and short time
the treasury of the United States $21. 600 600
shy Qaughter), our choice and select generally
disporting themselves in Germany English
and French clothes and the rest of US shin
ming around in overcoats purchased during
Harrison's administration. applause and
laughter.)
The Wilson bill still stands and has for
three years stood on the statute books of
the United States without a friend and with
out name, stealing the revenues from the
treasury, wasting the resources of the gov
ernment, stealing away the earnings of the
American laborer, taking from American
farms the market places of the United States
and of the world That law stands on the
statute book today and brings this congress
together in extraordinary session. Now
ordinarily, sessions of congress do not at
tract any public interest. except a cheerful
expression of relief sometimes when the ses-
sion is at an end. TIE American people in
ordinary times look to congress very much
as the shipwrecked mariner looks to Provi-
dence in a storm, not particularly because
he expects anything, but because everything
6lSG has D66u WdSn6Q ONGTD0drQ. NldUSnIer.l
Nor is this slim and feeble faith OF the
people in congress entirely to be reproved
for in the world in which we live. whatever
we politicians may say on the stump, the
most that is done for us-and you will par
don the fgure-we have got to do for our
selves.
If the American people ever get their pros
perity back it will come by their own indi-
Vidual enterprise and courage not by edicts
and proclamations, but by the honest and
careful settlement of conditions favorable tC
industry and investment. If William Nc
Kinley has been described as an advance
agent, fastening to the seat of government
in order to distribute prosperity from the
east portico of the capitol in few we'll
chosen words, the conception belongs to the
world Of dreams and not to the earth or
which we live. No man bears any such re-
laton to the prosperity of a great people
but the man may stand. and | reverently
believe that Mckinley does stand as the
chosen instrument in the hands of Provi-
dence, to restore to the United States a pub
lie policy which has never yet failed to en-
able the American people by their own
honest hard work, to secure out of their own
resources fair level of prosperity, a reason
able reward for their labor and a reasonable
dividend on their investment. (Applause on
the Republican side.)
Mr.. Swanson Oem., Va), a member
of the committee on ways and means
commenced his speech by referring tc
the great political revolutions which
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last twelve years at every nationa
election. He claimed that it did not in
dicate any f1ckleness on the part Of the
people, but an honest effort on their
part to obtain the prosperity they
sought. He insisted that the present
evils could not have arisen from def
cient revenue or from impaired cred;t
of the government. He argued that
the want of adequate protection for
American industries could not be the
cause Of the present depression: that
the substance of this assertion, if true
would be that there had been an in
creased importation Of foreign goods
and that this importation had flooded
the markets and prevented the sale OF
home goods
Mr. Cochran Oem., MOI. the last
speaker Of the day, while denouncine
the Republican policies. produced 3
burst Of applause on the Democrat tic
side by referring to Mr.. Cleveland as
That great Republican leader
The night was given over to set
speeches. There were not over fortv
members on. the floor. but the galleries
were crowded to the DOORS Mr.. How
ard Pop., Ala.) delivered a speech
reeking with denunciations Of capital
and charges of corruption and jobberv
against all branches of the government.
AT 1890 the house adjourned.