The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-18
MINNEAPOLIS NEWS
KOHLER SPEAKS
UPON THE TARIFF
Candidate for Congress Gives
His Views Upon This
Question

Ten years of reciprocity with Cam
ada, with free raw materials from
Manitoba, Ontario and the Northwest
Territories, together with tariff walls
removed from the pathway of our fac
tory shipments north, would transform
the Twin Cities into a united metropo-
! lis of 100000 persons and we would
rank next after New York, Chicago and
Philadelphia in commercial and Indus
trial standing and influence"
This was the declaration made by
| DR.. G. II. Kohler, the Democratic can
didate for congress from the Fifth con-
gressional district at meeting in Ger
mania hall in Minneapolis last even
ing.
The meeting was a largely attended
one, and DR.. Kohler took occasion to
outline the issues of the campaign for
congress in Hennepin county as he be-
lieved them to be.
1.-The issues of the present campaign
as between my opponent and myself" he
continued, ARE defined clearly. The tar
| iff, directly and indirectly, concerns the
great interests of the Northwest, and I ap-
peal from the decision of my opponent on
these three propositions:
HIS arm views
ST believe in an immediate revision Of
the tariff and revision downward.
Il believe in the removal of the tariff
from trust-made goods.
"I stand for reciprocity with Canada. :"
He asserted that rs per cent Of the
voters in the country were at heart tariff
reformers and in the Northwest the per-
centage was at least so and that while the
parties are, in a sense fundamentally di-
vided on the tariff, it is more of a divis-
ion of how to accomplish the revision
than the necessity of a change.
while the ultimate goal of the Demo-
cratic party may be tariff for revenue
only, we realize that in attaining the
end the most careful consideration for ev-
erybodys interest, common sense and
| good judgment must prevail, continued
the speaker.
Reciprocity with Canada, declared DR..
Kohler would double the trade territory
Of the Minneapolis manufacturers and
jobbers and also develop the manufacture
ing industries as well as increase the
investment of capital and employment of
labor in the Twin Cities.
How Minnesota VIII Thrive
Minneapolis ranks as fourteenth among
the manufacturing centers of the country
in volume of population. There are $500
mills and shops employing $4,000 persons
and paying wages amounting to $18,000,-
600, and the annual output is about $780,
000,0 00
with an increase Of only so per cent
in the volume of trade the number of peo-
pie employed, the wages earned and the
output would be increased to a marvellous
amount, and the effect of five years of
reciprocity with Canada would be worth
more than all the BONUSES that we could
tax ourselves to contribute in a century.
minnesota cannot hope to rise out of
its present rank as an industrial and COM
mercial center until it is given by law the
opportunity to avail itself of all the re-
sources bestowed on it by nature and It's
commercial location"
other speakers were D. w. Lawler and
IT, j. McDermott, OF st. Paul, F. N.
Stacy, T. j. Skellett, c. A. Proctor and
others, of Minneapolis. ]. H. Smith, the
ward chairman, presided.