The Saint Paul globe., 1897-06-07


| measure of Mr.. Pettigrew's statesman
ship. He is not only a demag gogue, but
most reckless and dangerous one.
WHY NOT PRINT HIS SPEECH:
our Republican contemporaries have
| not treated with Fairness their fellow
Republican, Senator Cannon, Of Utah,
upon whose speech, following his intro
duction of a bill embodying Lubin's
scheme for making protection go far
clude the farmers. they have made
comment. We have read some sneers,
some repetition Of the old rhodomon-
tade about the home market, in their
editorial columns. but nowhere have
we seen any extracts from the speech,
| that would give the senator's reasons
for the demands of his bill, for the in
| formation of their readers. They have
good reasons for this doubtless, among
which may be the disturbing unset
ting effect it might have on the minds
OF those farmers unfortunate enough
to be their readers. Having insisted
the home market reciprocity of protec-
ton to manufactures was fraud more
or less consciously perpetrated, we are
! naturally more pleased to have a Re-
publican senator reach the point where
he can also see this. fact as a fact and
join US in declaring it to be a fact
We, therefore, while not asserting to
! the Lubin proposition as one hav-
ing any other merit than to expose Re
publican hypocrisy, supply the omis-
sion Of our contempora ries with ex-
tracts from his speech giving his rea-
! sons for his new faith. He says that
| he was and is protectionist, and has
! taught the doctrine for years He be-
! lieves in it still Il advocated Repub-
! lican tariffs as earnestly and as faith
! fully in my humble way as the SEN
i ator from New Hampshire (Mr Chan
! dler), and I believed exactly what I
taught. I believe in a protective sys-
! tenn for the United States today That
I should settle the orthodoxy of the Utah
| senator. But he wants to perfect the
! system. 81 am not disposed any longer
to advocate a system by which one
! portion of the population is to be taxed
for the benefit of another portion =
1 think it unfair to cherish only one
class. It was with great sur
prise, upon examination Of the meas
ure (the Aldrich-Dingley bilD, 1 found
| that the great class of our poulation,
who have from the beginning not only
supported the protective tariff policy
with their votes, but by their indus
try from the beginning of it's operation,
were in large degree excluded from
any of it's benefits" He then asserted
that there can be no tariff protection
to commodities whose surplus is ex-
! ported, nor are there remaining at
the present time in the school of pro-
and none will prove. that the indirect
protection afforded the farmer by the
tariff on manufactured goods is suffi-
cient to compensate him for the vast
cost entailed upon him by carrying the
! protective tariff system upon manufac-
| tured goods" In other words, the
farmer pays and gets nothing in re-
turn.
Making men pay for something they
| do not get, the senator now realizes.
is nothing less than robbery, just as
we Democrats have all along asserted
| Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, having
asked where the $49, 200, 900 for the pay
ment of the bounties was to come from,
| Senator Cannon said that, if less were
| paid for armor plate and warships, and
! other expenditures put on an economi-
! cal basis, "the treasury would have
enough money to discharge this debt of
honor" But, waving the question Of
revenue, the senator very pointedly
said that ''it is a very poor argument
after you have been lrobbing man for
years and he asks you for justice, for
you to say that you propose to con-
| tinue to rob him. Of more, because you
do not know where you are to get the
money with which to restore what you
| have unrighteouslys taken" Then
| Chandler rose to say that he ''sympa-
thized'' with the farmers and wanted
them to have their share, but that
''until today / did not know that the
senator, who has advocated the tariff
all this time, thought all the while that
it was robbery of the people," The
sneers we have fread in the comments
of our contemporaries were but imita-
tions Of this sneer Of the senatorial
gadfly.
To him Cannon replied that Gin
the guilelessness Of my soul, being a
| Republican, 1 went out and advocated
| the Republican idea of a protective
tariff" the home market part of it.,
with the rest. But Il never was
| brought quite so close to responsibility
| concerning it before as 1 am today.