The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-03
EDDY ANNOUNCES
HIS CANDIDACY
He Wants to Be Governor and
Explains How He Stands
on Certain Questions.

CoKATO. Mimi, Oct. AT the
county fair today thesopening gun of
his campaign for governor was fired
by Frank M. Eddy. He said:
Il am a candidate for the position
of governor of Minnesota. / have been
criticised in some quarters for starting
an early and untimely political discus
sion in this state. ] didn't start It, No
one was obliged to talk politics Just
because said was a candidate No
one can hold political discussion by
his lonesome, or even start one, unless
someone is willing to discuss with him,
and If there is any culpability about
it, those who took UP the subject and
carried 1T on are equally culpable as
myself.
zone of the questions that cannot be
avoided or sidetracked, despite the eff
forts of great interests to shelve 1T, is
the question of tariff revision. l am
Republican and believer in protec-
tton,. but do not believe in tariff on
commodities controlled by trusts. Emil
nent men have declared that a tariff
has no relation to trusts, and they de-
pend upon the lack of information and
vast amount of credulity among the
people to establish the proposition, for
those who make it know it isn't true.
"A tariff that aids monopoly. and
there are such, does not benefit the
government. 1t contributes nothing to
the welfare of the people. ut only aids
those who control the monopoly to
maintain it. and that it aids them i'm
mensely is proven by the tremendous
efforts they are making to preserve all
the existing tariffs intact.
Basis of Trusts.
1.-The basis of trust is monopoly,
and the OnlU n1nnnnnIU he
broken. is by competition, and when
competition is suppressed, in one coun-
try 1t must come from another or not
come at all. So when a, tariff prevents
such competition it aids the trusts to
the extent that it prevents it. II a con-
Germ sells its commodities in the I'M
protected markets cheaper than they
do In the protected, the differences be-
tween the foreign price and the dearer
home price is just that much money
taken out of the pockets of the public
and transferred to the owners of the
industry without any equivalent to
the producers of raw material, the
wage worker or to the consumer, and
1t brings no increase In revenue to the
government 1t Is gratuity, pure and
simple.
"One of the most beneficent results
OF our protective system, If not the
most beneficent, is that 1t protects the
American working man from the con-
d1t1onS that surround the foreign, en-
abl1ng him to surround himself with
comforts and even luxuries that for
eign workers never evene dream Of
Yet-there arecinstitutions In this coun-
try, and their number is increasing,
day by day, that by the constant low
ering of wages, establishment of COM
pany stores, the institution of unjust
systems of fines and penalties and
various other means are endeavoring
to reduce the American workman to
the condition of the foreign, in order
that the protection they are granted
against these conditions may be d.
verified from the wage workers where
the people intended it should go into
their own pockets.
j Plumber, Not Protection.
ANY man who stands for protection
to such concerns is either by choice or
through Ignorance in league with them
TO pervert a system that was instituted
for the benefit of the many into a
scheme of profit for the few, and when
a tariff is thus diverted it is not pro-
lection but plain, simple plumber.
Another question that is before the
people for solution that in my judg-
ment not only overshadows in impor-
lance the question of the tariff and
reciprocity but all others questions, is
the one of trusts and their regulation
and control by the government. This
is a problem that must be- settled by
the state and nation, or, 1t will settle
the nation and the state, and the soon
er 1t is done he better for all con-
cerned. Postponement only odds to
the difficulties of the solution.
! Il believe an amendment should be
added to the Constitution. of the United
states giving congress the control of
this subject, so that a. uniform law
governing the case can be passed. Not
until there is the same law in every
state and territory in the Union can a
satisfactory result be reached.
Taxation, Etc.
Another issue in state politics ia
the matter of taxation. There is only
one just principle in taxation, and that
is: Every dollars worth of property.
outside of exemptions provided by
law, should pay an equal amount of
taxation.
The most rigid economy should pre-
vail in the stale expenditures; but in
this connection it should be remember
ed that there are cases where parsi-
mony Is extravaganza and liberality is
economy"
Mr.. Eddy favored the reelection of
Senator Clapp. He said that the
swamp lands of Northern Minnesota
should be drained by the state and sold
TO- actual settlers at a fair price. and,
tnat all state supplies should be fur
n1shed by Minnesota business con-
Germs.
DELEGATES TO Los ANGELES.