The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-06

duced the funds to carry on the great in
ternecine conflict. This policy, he said,
had raised the United States from fifth to-
third place as manufacturing power
during the period of the Civil war. seven
billions were shot away and much blood
was spilled for keeping the best gov
eminent in the world intact and the re-
suit warranted the expense. Protection
had made it possible to meet this heavy
burden and pay liberal pensions. Uncle
joe then gave some statistics to show
the growth of wealth and manufactures
since 1860, and all but insisted that the
policy of protection had cause the rain to
fall and sprout the wheat sown by the
farmer.
Repeats His MaxIms
Free men and cosovereigns Of the
best and greatest government on the face
of the EARTH" was a favorite expression
Of the speaker, and he repeated it sew
eral times.
The policy of protection, according to
Mr.. Cannon, permitted the Importation Of
raw material its manufacture and then
its expectation with a rebate of duty.
Mr. Cannon talked protection for over
forty minutes and then got down to the
Mckinley administration and told how the
balance of trade had been made to favor
the United States.
lie thought The DSmOcTaUC Success VI
1892 was due to the fact that the men of
Lincoln's time had passed away and the
younger generation sought change by
fooling the farmers and laboring men by
holding up the bugaboU of protection. The
people We're deceived, said the speaker,
on a pledge to remove protection. and
the administration lasted only, four years.
Somebody yelled Soup" and the man
from Illinois assented.
GTThp devil Tyac fO and M MITCH
hat" he shouted, and a few people
laughed. "One thing the Democrats did
was to make things cheaper" he con-
tinued, 'but they took away the where
with to buy
Mr.. Cannon said that in 1896 the Demo-
Gratis said such mean things about Grover
Cleveland that there was nothing left for
Inc Republicans to say.
This was his Introduction to the dis
cussion of the financial question, which
he considered briefly, and then dropped
back to the tariff and the enactment of
the Dingley law, which he admitted was
not perfect, but the best protective reve-
nue. law ever written in the statute books.
From its enactment" he exclaimed,
1.-The people have assembled the mount of
prosperity without let or hindrance."
Under the Republican financial policy
the amount of money per capita had in
creased and the rates of interest had de-
creased. Only under Cleveland and
Buchanan had bonds been issued in times
Of peace and hawked about the markets
of the world.
During the Spanish war Mckinley did
not place any bonds in the hands of a
syndicate for sale, but sold them to the
people at per cent, and they were sub
scribed five times over.
The Democratic tariff plank of 1904, he
said. was like that of 1892, and the ex-
pertinent would not be repeated.
Draws Dismal Picture
The distinguished speaker then proceed
ed to draw dark picture of what will
happen should the Democrats be success
full at the election next month. Dire dis
aster would follow.
To the charge of militarism he said
there was nothing in it,
Zone soldier to $500 people will not de-
stroy the liberties Of the people This
Caesar who lays awake nights laying plans
for the destruction of the liberties of Hen
ry WatterSon and a few Boston mug
wumps has, by the exercise of his own
discretion, reduced the army from 100, 900
to $4,000 menu
The United States had been forced to
take possession of the Philippines, and
now could not give them up, and he didn't
believe a single Democrat would counte-
nance such an act.
Mr. Cannon declared that there was no
attempt on the part of the executive to
overstep constitutional limitations for the
congress was a check upon the president.
"A change of sixteen votes will give our
friends, the enemy, control of the house."
said the speaker with intense earnestness,
and he insisted that the welfare of the
nation depended upon the return of the
Minnesota delegation, which is one of the
strongest if not the strongest, of any
from any of the forty five states
Pleads for Fletcher
Then he pleaded for the return of Uncle
Loren Fletcher, whom he characterized as
a model and persistent congressman who
never made a speech of more than ten
minutes in length.
The former congressman grinned and
Rev. G. L. Morrill, yelled Whats the
matter with Uncle Loren?'
Hes all right said a man among the
university bunch.
Speaker Cannon declared that talk ''un-
less you have a message, is disturbance
of the air" The man who was defeated
by John Lind he characterized as a work
err and not talker."
Before concluding his address Mr. Can
non sounded note of alarm. He asserted
the solid South would give Parker 151
votes in the electoral college, and John
Sharp Williams, Senator Tillman and
other leaders of the party would make an
effort to secure more in the North From
the tenor of his remarks he seemed to fear
that the chances for Democratic success
were excellent in this direction.
oft-Told Tales
Following the speaker came J. Adam
Bede, the joke-master of congress and
some of his oft-told tales.
He told stories. said R. c. Dunn would
have the solid Irish vote believed that
Moses E. Clapp would be re- elected United
States senator-this last to the disgust of
| ]. B. Gilfllan and other candidates then
| and there present.
He said that former Congressman
Fletcher looked to him like a certified
check, and the politicians who have OPP
posed him smiled, while the former con-
gresham WINGED.
When he got through William Henry
Eustis talked.
He lamented the fact that Minneapolis
had lost prestige and gave few 'trevela-
lions Of an ex-mayor." discussing to some
extent the troubles of an executive
D. P. Jones. candidate for mayor was
not present.
w. H. Grinshaw and F. NJ. Nye adj
dressed some people outside the hall who
could not find seats.
! Il 4 - -.