The Saint Paul globe., 1904-08-26
BLAST FROM BAILEY
Texas Senator Opens Demo.
cratic Campaign In Brooklyn

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-The CAM
paign in Brooklyn was opened tonight
by meeting held under the auspices
OIL the Kings county Democracy, at
winch Senator Joseph w. Bailey, of
Texas, was the chief speaker. Reso-
lutlons indorsing Parker and Davis
were introduced, and after an intro
ductory address, in which he reviewed
the political situation, Chairman Ed
ward W. Sheppard introduced Senator
Bailey, who was greeted with prolong-
ed applause. He said:
1t has never happened heretofore and it
will seldom happen hereafter that the
personal opinions and conduct of candi-
dates have determined or will determine
the suffrage of SO many voters as in this
campaign.
He would not utter one syllable
about the private character or habits
of the president. He continued:
We sought to nominate a candidate
who, in his private and domestic life. is
as much like Roosevelt as possible and in
all other respects as much unlike him as
we could find. Our Republican friends
laration on the tariff question and their
campaign committee have done us the
honor to partially incorporate our plat
term on that subject in their campaign
candor to repeat it in full and did not even
print the complete sentence which they
pretend to quote. They seem to be fierce
~ aroused because We have dared to say
that protection is a robbery of the many
to enrich the few
AS for my part do not hesitate sim
gle minute to declare it as my belief that
any law which levieS a tax, not for the
purpose of raising q revenue to support
the government, but for the purpose of
compelling the American citizen to pay
more for the goods which he must buy, is
a preYerSion of governmental power and
downright robbery. Our Republican
friends are constantly affirming that the
Democratic party favors absolute free
trade. Whatever any individual Democrat
or, indeed, what all Democrats might
think about free trade as a theory, the
dulest man in all this audience knows per-
fectly we'll that free trade is an utter i'm
possibility in this republic. If congress
could raise revenue to support the federal
government by levying an ad Valorem tax
of uniform rate on all the property of
this country, then the question of free
trade would become a debatabie one. But
as the constitution stands today we can
never levy a direct tax without such great
inequality as to render such a tax impos-
sible except in extraordinary emergencies.
With the expenditures of the federal
government already enormous as to
Stagger the imagination, and growing
greater every year under the reckless eX-
travagance of those now in power, they
ent rate of duty: and even when the Dem
ecratS are called by the votes of an out
ragged people to administer this govern
ment we will find it impossible, however
much we may desire to do so, to reduce
the average tariff duty below point that
will still be higher than the most eX-
treme of the early protectionists ever
claimed was necessary and higher than
any moderate proteetionist of today be-
lieves essential for the protection of any
legitimate Industry. Under the necessity
of raising revenue to support the govern
ment the Democratic party will continue
to levy tariff duties and it perfectly un
derstands that those tariff duties will af-
ford a protection to American manufac-
turers against their foreign competitors.
The speaker denounced the efforts of
the president to produce social equality
of the white and black races and the
announced purpose of the Republicans
to reduce Southern representation i'll
congress. He said Mr.. Roosevelt, un-
like Mckinney, was fomenting discord
between the sections.