The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-17

does this thing, we will expel her from
our shores by the enactment of still high
er retaliatory tariffs" May I ask. in all
humility, how this battle Of tariffs will
help our farmers? What they want is
the continuance Of their market in Ger
many ana while we may avenge the ma
nonal honor as viewed by certain lead
Ing statesmen, by excluding German i'm
ports, under what treaty of peace will
Inc producers of our. meats and bread
stufs be Unidentified or reimbursed for
the cost of the war? The subtle susges-
ton that this session of congress is too
short, or that one too busy; that this
session is too near an election, or that
one too remote. should no longer be ac-
cepted. There is just one time to begin
a righteous reform, and that is now.
Demand for Consideration. -
Our initial demand must be for con-
slderation. It is impossible to discuss
mere or in any general meeting the exact
revision of the tariff that should take
place or the terms of any treaty to be
proposed to a foreign nation; but it IS
possible to either change the minds of
the leaders of the present congress so
that the subject may be taken up and
dealt with fairly, or to change the mem
bership Of congress, and fill it's seats with
we are endeavoring to promote, and who
Will not be dominated by the advocates
OF few special interests, nor be fright
ened by the threat that if a single duty
be changed the whole fabric Of protection
Will be destroyed.
The demand we make is not new. The
men who today are the opponents of the
standpat theory Of government are not
protectlontsts; they are the exclusionists.
a No - %I1@ 1@11 -
the party Of protection and they are u.s.
ing the policy for a purpose that would
be Indignantly Populated by it's most
distinguished champions, were they now
in the land Of the living.
The whole purpose of my discussion is
to make it clear that the first step toward
reciprocity is to plant deep in the minds
of the people the truth that many of our
schedules are too high and should be re-
duced to create a sentiment that duties
can be changed without imperiling BUSH
ness stability and to make the men OF
America feel that protection in its true
| sense not only builds barriers around
some markets, but breaks down barriers
around foreign markets. So long as it Is
popular to assert that duties cannot be
too high, and that they must be univer-
sal, so long as applause accompanies the
declaration that it is brilliant statesman
o14p " COllSCiuCt d system Indt makes the
! home consumer pay more than the for
eign consumer for the same product from
the same factory, there is no home for
reciprocity.
I appeal to the protectionists of the
United States to stand by the old doc
trine; to follow Blaine and Garfield, Sher-
man and Mckinley, and not to confound
the time-honored and time-tried policies
exemplifed in these leaders of men and
leaders of thought, with the selfish fall
lacies that are now proclaimed as the
faith of the fathers. .,''.,
States Minnesota's Case.
W. B. Dean of st. Paul addressed the
conference at some length, saying that
a delegation had como from Minnesota
because of the fact that their state not
being protected under the present tariff
laws their commercial prosperity was
threatened, and people Of Minnesota in
! consequence were stirred to their very
depths. AS means of bringing about
a revision of the tariff he urged that the
| representatives to congress be impressed
with the fact that their election would
Ebe doubtful unless they honestly and
diligently represent the wish of their
constituents in the matter of tariff re.
vision.