The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-02

and blood, the very sinews of the
growing empire" proceeded Mr.. Bal
Tour, are building up another system
OF protection which, when it reaches
us logical conclusion, will make it as
nard to export to them as to America
or the other protective countries. And
during the whole lifetime of those am
now addressing we have done nothing
Whatever to hinder a state of things
SO absolutely inconsistent with free
trade as Golden understood it.
consider that there is absolutely
no dl1ference between retaining a tax
Tor diplomatic purposes which you
would otherwise repeal and imposing
tax which you would otherwise not
impose for carrying out the same OBJ
ject.
There has been a DEVELOPMENT of
winch Golden and his contemporaries
never dreamed-the DEVELOPMENT of
the trust system under protection In
the alliance of trusts and tariffs. there
is danger to the capital and enter
prise of this country, which acts and
reacts not merely upon the capitalist,
for he is at liberty to go to those re-
gions where his industry will be look
ed after, but it will fall with its heav-
lest weight upon the artisan and the
labor classes, which are incapable of
protecting their interests against such
calamity.
No Cure, but PaIIiation.
Il know of no cure, but l do know
of palliation. The i'll has gone too
far. You will not get the great COM
merc1al nations of the world to aban-
don protection. I fear that you will
not get the great self governing colo
MES to retrace the steps which we
without remonStrance permitted them
to take. [ am here, therefore, to rec
ommend palliation, which l believe
to be still possible. What In fact we
have got to deal with is a world where
international commercial relations are
regulated entirely by treaty.
My fundamental and essential re-
quest to you tonight is that the people
of this country should give to it's gov
eminent that freedom of negotiations
OF which we have been deprived, not
by forge of circumstances, or by the
pressure Of foreign powers, but by
something 1 can only describe as our
own pedantry and self conceit."
He thought that public opinion was
not yet ripe for the taxation of food.
therefore, as an adviser of a great
party he was bound to tell them plain
ly that 1t was outside the limits of
practical politics. He was not antic-
ipating a general tariff war, but he
IiiOo6AI we Hight Inform any 1Or-
e1gn country that we thought was
treating US with outrageous unfairness
that unless they modified their policy
We should take certain steps with re-
gard to certain articles exported by
them"
Controversy of 1916 Passe.
Concerning the question as to wheth-
er 1T was intended to reverse the YER
dict of the great case of free trade VS..
protection of 1916, his answer was that
the controversy of 1916 was of no in
terest to the present generation and
was utterly inappropriate to 1903. He
said:
THE second question is, DO you
desire to reverse and alter the funda-
mental fiscal tradition which has pre-
vailed for two generations? NV an
sWer is. Yes, do" Gour cheers.)
He proposed to ask the country to
reverse, annul and altogether delete
from their maxims of public conduct
that they must never impose taxation
except for revenue In his Judgment
the country ought never to have stood
self-deprived Of that liberty and 1t
should publicly resume in the face of
Europe and the world the liberty of
which it deprived itself, the liberty
which every other country in the world
possessed and that no country would
deprive itself or, the liberty of nego-
tiating. and also having something to
negotiate.
1.-The proposed remedy Will not be-
come complete even If tried in its in
tegrity, because i believe the country
will not tolerate tax on food, but
undoubtedly it will be useful" He had
been asked to give a lead and the re-
quest was reasonable. A leader, how
ever unworthy of his party, must lead
1t and so long as he held that position
he meant to lead. He had given the
great question his earnest considera-
ton and he was firmly convinced that
the policy which he now recommended
was not only in harmony with Eng
lands best tradition and not only
found precedent in the statements
of her greatest leaders, but was also
the best which the country, dependent
solely as 1t was on its commercial
manufacturing position, could adopt.
In that faith and in that belief he rec
commended it to their favorable con-
sideration. The premier afterward
addressed the overflow meetino