The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-22
Special to The Globe.

Sembled at HeSSian'S hall, in this city,
this evening to listen to the address of
the Democratic candidate for the state
senate from this senatorial district, P.
H. Rahilly.
Mr.. Rahilly's popularity with his fell
low farmers of Wabasha county was
never more convincingly attested dur
ing his long and valuable career at a
leading resident Of this county. The
farmers of the section appeared in
considerable numbers. Mr. Rahillys
speech was listened to with the utmost
attention, and was applauded at fire.
quent intervals throughout All the in
d1cations now are that his majority
will surprise even his most enthusiast
tic friends and adherents. Mr. Rahilly
said:
High Tariff Is Worst Evil
1T is true. we have gigantic trusts
staring us in the face, but, in my
judgment, the high protective tariff is
the father of all our evils, and, among
other things, is the father and pro-
tector of our trusts. The greatest of all
trusts-the United States Steel trust
has at it's head man to whom the
enormous salary of S1,000,000 per an
mum is paid, whose duty it is to so
poration that such salaries and other
correspondence extrayagant eXpendi-
lures and liberal dividends may be
provided. That this is done at the ex-
pense of American consumers of their
wares is conclusively established by
the testimony Of this million-doll
president, G.. M. Schwab, before the in
dustria1 commission, where he testi-
fed that sit is quite true that export
prices are made at very much lower
rates than those here" In other words,
in order to pay large dividends and
interest on it's immense issue of stocks
and bonds, which have been .watered
to no less an extent than 81 ,000, 900 900,
and to pay exorbitant salaries and
commissions to it's army of Officers and
agents, this tariff protected monopoly
exacts worlds competitive prices plus
port or all of the duty from the Amer
lean consumer, while it supplies the
foreign consumer at worlds COMPETE
tive prices net. The same thing is true
of over 200 other tariff protected
trusts.
Buy in Cheapest Market.
II maintain and always will hold that
no government has the right to tax one
class Of citizens for the benefit of an
other-that all protective tariff duties
on the necessaries of life are a fraud
opOll ItiOoC VIII lictNS W pay tuOSG uQ-
ties to those who manufacture such
goods when it is not revenue but in
dividual or incorporate profit that is
aimed at in the enactment of such
laws. Every citizen of a country should
be at liberty to buy goods where he
can get them cheapest and sell goods
where he can get the most for them.
1t is simply robbery by law to tax the
citizens of Western states to enrich
the manufacturers of the Eastern
states. Such tariff is without excuse.
1t merely enables the producers to put
up prices by combining, to throttle
competition; abolish it, and a combine
will become harmless. If harmless, no.
body will object to its existence, if it
still chooses to exist. In other words,
kill the tariff and you kill the trusts.
II desire to call attention to the
working Of the tariff on lumber, which
has cost the people of this state over
$100,000,000 annually. Several years
ago a Republican congress passed a
law levying duty of 81 per thousand
feet on Canadian lumber. This lumber
had been coming into this state in
considerable quantities and acted as an
adjuster of prices, Minnesota and Wis
consin lumber being furnished con-
suners at same prices. The tariff of 50
per thousand feet at once cut out Can |
adam lumber, which sought and found |
other markets. AS quickly as this COM |
petition was removed the home manu-
facturers raised the price from 81 to
SO per thousand and gave us inferior
lumber. They thus robbed the Ameri- |
can consumer to that extent and rob-
bed our state by denuding Minnesota |
of her magnificent forests, which, act |
ing as a reservoir, had enabled us to |
navigate the rivers of our state. A |
few wealthy lumber barons have be- |
come multimillionaires at the expense
of the toiling masses.
Fraud on the Farmer.
IT would further call your attention |
to another fraud, misca1led, if you
please, Protection to the farmer, |
known as the tariff on Canadian barley |
and wheat, which passed Republican |
congress few years ago. Now, my |
fellow citizens, just imagine for a mo- /
ment, if you will, the idea of hood |
winking the intelligent farmer by pro- |
hibiting these Canadian grains from |
coming into the United States, which |
produced that most enormous surplus
of them of any country on earth, when |
the facts are that our greatest Gus !
toner for such surplus is England, and |
she no doubt would naturally prefer to |
purchase from her own colonies.
Permit me to give you an illustra-
ton. We will suppose that the states |
have a surplus of 100000 bushels of |
barley and Canada has surplus of |
100000 bushels. Suppose, by some |
miraculous accident, Canada should |
ship her 100000 surplus to the Unit |
ed States to join our 50,000,006 surplus, !,
what then? Why it would simply place
upon us the burden of shipping that |
2O,000,000 extra bushels to foreign |
countries Well, what bosh to attempt |
to impose on a confiding people.
Work in the Alliance.
For many years past have taken |
all active interest and part in the Ma !
tional and State Farmers Alliance and /
have been elected and reelected |
president of the state, and vice pres1- I
dent of the National Alliance. At the |
request of the state alliance, have /
at my own expense attended TWO ma I
tional conventions of the alliance held |
at Washington and have written and |
read extensive papers before those |
conventions, which were widely copied |
in Eastern papers and fully indorSed |
by many members Of congress, and |
drew forth correspondence from Hon.
Mark Hanna and other distinguished |
senators. You can depend upon it, |
the arguments used were for the bene- |
fit of the people of our state. When I
congress was considering the advisa-
bility of granting a subdidy to the |
AtIdutlC ii1u iuOCu SoI
respondence with influential Eastern |
people and think I convinced them that |
the West knew it's needs and rights |
and would maintain them, and that if |
ship subsidies were to be granted the |
West must have an adequate share for |
the purpose of opening up and develop |
ing a market for Western products in |
the Orient.
During the past thirty years no OPP
portunity presented itself where the |
interest of this county or state seemed |