The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-26
SILVER ISSUE ACCEPTED.
READY TG FIGHT 1T OUT ON THAT
LINE UNTIL NEXT NO.
VENEER.
TARIFF IS FACTOR AS WELL
The Gold Standard Alone, the Nom
inee Says, Not just What the
People Need.


Pleasant weather and good crowd
greeted the candidate Short addresses
were made by Congressman Hager,
Congressman Dolliver and H NJ Mill
man, candidate for lieutenant governor
Mr.. Shaw said in part:
l suppose l should disapoint my Demo-
cratic friends if l should not refer to pres
ent conditions and add I'VE told you So
Last year the readers of free silver papers
were openly urged to buy Mexican silver dol
lars for it was said they would soon be worth
their face in gold But the Mexican dollar
that was worth 80 cents a year ago is worth
today 43 cents. Happy the Chicago Democrat,
the silver Republican and the Populist, who
did not follow the advice of the leaders of
their parSes RepIi lican speakers ev rywhere
urged their auditors just so soon as a tariff
schedule for protection should be enacted, to
buy everything in the line of farm produce
and to produce without fear of a glutted mar
ket.
Your representative to congress from the
Sixth district was telling me the other day
that on his return home from Washington,
signed; Democratic client had asked him
what he had better do with $4,000 he then
had in the bank. Maj. Lacey told him to buy
anything that the farmer had to sell. Says
the Democratic client: shall buy horses"
No" says Mr.. Lacey. Il think l would
draw the line or horses and silver. 1 don't
you would lost on silver. Buy anything
else" If this man had followed the advice
of his party year ago he would have
lost his interest for a year and 20 per cent of
his principal. If he had followed the advice
Of his Republican friend he would have
made 25 per cent.
The platform of the triple alliance,
adopted in Des Moines in June, soemnly
declares that farm products had deprecated
ever since the election of Mr.. Mckinley.
The market quotations in their own papers
show this utterance to have been false as
applied to nearly if not quite everything that
the farmer has to sell. Butter, eggs, corn,
all higher than year ago l can't see how
sane men, Intentionally honest could fall
into such a grievous error. They could not
have supposed that the rank and file of their
party did not read their own papers at least.
| They could not have supposed that the voter
they were trying to catch had no products
to sell ana ana therefore h would I not be 4keiy
| find is that the platform declared the wish
| of the convention.
! 1t is now charged, however, that all of
| these advanced prices which they
| PEELED to admit, are due to the fact of a
| famine abroad. When did this famine abroad
begin? When was it most severe? In 1896
or 1897? Assuredly in 1896. But when did
! any one hear CT a foreign famine affecting
the price of butter and eggs? Bear in mind
| that there but two farm products that
are affected materially by foreign demand
and those two are wheat and cotton. the
| price of corn in Liverpool does not affect
! the price of corn in Red Oak; nor does the
! price Of cattle in London materially affect
| the price of cattle in Chicago. On the I'd
day of August. 1896, the best American steers
! were quoted in London at y cents and sold
On the I'd day of August, 1897, they were
| quoted in London at 103f cents, a cent and
| quarter lower than the corresponding day
the year before, and sold in Chicago at 10
cents, 40 Of cent higher than on the cor
responding day of the preceding year All
through August, 1897, American beef aver
aged iower in London and higher in Chi
cago than during the corresponding month
a year ago The foreign market does not
control the price of American beef or Amer
ican pork, or any product of the Iowa farm
N>Nf' TowNE AND BRYAN
I had the pleasure early in this month of
listening both afternoon and evening to two
orators of national reputation, one from Ne
braska claimed to be the most ei1quehf; mt
most logical of all the advocates of bimetal-
lie theories. While these gentlemen may
not have had the authority to speak for the
TRIBE Alliance they both assumed to speak
for it. and declared that free silver was the
issue in Iowa politics today, and that upon
| it Democracy would either win or lose; that
this issue must not be abandoned; that the
whole financial world was looking to Iowa
to see whether she would show a gain in
free silver sentiment. 1 willingly accept the
challenge and propose to fight in out on tnlS
line if It takes till Nov. 2.
Personally. | believe the silver question
is fraught with more possible danger tnan
any ether issue and the tariff question
The free coinage of silver, II adopted, as
now proposed would certainly revoiutlonlze
our financial system, and l belleve would
practically bankrupt us as a people But the
continuance of the gold standard Will not
in itself alone bring us that measure of
prosperity which enjoyed in lS92.
To the tariff question l now invite your
attention | do not suppose that you care
to hear very much in the line of generallties-
What you desire. if anything, | must assume
is logical discussion. 1t becomes heces-
sary then to define the position of the two
parties upon this question. l have heard
great many undertake to state what dlI-
70 the levy of impoSts, but | think the best
and the fairest is from the New York Sun
The Sun is intensely partisan, but usually
fair in its statement of issues. AT ABOUT
the time congress convened in extra session in
1898 the Sun, in an editorial. sald
Respecting federal taxation, we Will now now
state the pOsition of the Democracy as de-
fined by the Chicago platform, upon Whlcn J
the overwhelming victory of 1892 was gained
Ascertain the value of the goods to be I'M
ported Ascertain the amount Of revenue to
he raised from imports for the expenses CT
the government honestly administered. Fix
the rate and collect it without dlscrlmlna-
is uniustiiable. Anything else is unconSt-
tutional Anything else invades the rights
of the citizen, and is unlawful as Wei as
un-Democratic. This is clear ana cot4pre7 4fprt1,
of 1892 declared and what the people ap-
proved. The Republican position Is alalIee- no
really different. Tariff duties. say the Re
nuhlicans should not be levied for the mere
purnose of revenue, but largely with view
IF promoting American manufactures anu
labor. and relieving the farmers anu i!g
chanics from unfavorable foreign colnpeti-
The Republicans say that it is one OF the
mowers and duties of a government 10 Plo-
tect the people who maintain II from Iai unla,I
foreign competition as Wen as lronn h9IuaiV t'aiT
foreign invasion. The people. through thelr
representatives impose the taxes on goods en-
tering into American ports from other coun-
tries and they have the right (ano IL Is nat
ural that they should exercise ~ SO 70 III
nose the duties that the interests OF Amer
leans will be favored and the interests OF
foreign rivals in the same industries or pur-
suits Disseminated against. That is the he
publican doctrine s a;a.,no
+ion between a tariff levied for revenue only,
though it may afford incidental protectlon
to a few industries, and tarlH leVleu Ior
protection though it affords abundant rev
enue 1t is the theory of the Republican
party that prosperity come to no partlc-
uIar class unless it comes to all classes:
That our people are so linked together thaC
a blow at one affects the whole. Inc oppo-
sition even admit that we are great peo-
nile. and they must admit that we live bet
ter enjoy better houses and better healtn,
eat better food and more of 1t, wear better
clothes educate our children better, look
better feel better and are better than the
people of any ether country on the face Of
the earth. Standing then on common ground
for a moment, let proceed. Such peo-
pie must be protected against unreasonable
competition, Once admit that We are a
peculiar people and you must admit that
too cc1ose competition with people not pucul-
lar will rob us of our peculiarities and bring
us to the level Of the average. If not Of the
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