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APRIL 22, 1910
The Commoner.
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Forty Years Ago
Paul" W. Colo, St. Paul, Minn. I
enclose the following brief excerpts
from a speech made forty years ago
in St. Paul by Ignatius Donnelly. It
is not unlike the situation today. I
hope this may find a place in your
excellent paper:
The following brief excerpts are
culled from Hon. Ignatius Donnelly's
caustic remarks regarding the repub
lican party, high tariff and other mat
ters in his speech at Ingersoll's hall:
The question, as I understand it
today, is whether the republican
party is ready to walk back and step
Into the boots of that old defunct
whig party and take up the standard
of high tariff which the latter laid
down in defeat. There were two
great parties which took issue on this
question; one the democratic party,
whose platform -was a tariff for rev
enue only, the other the whig party
whose platform was protection or a
high tariff to exclude foreign goods:
and the war was waged on this issue
for years. It pervaded all parts of
the country from Maine to Texas, and
what was the result? The whig
party, with every increase of experi
ence and knowledge on the subject,
was driven year after year into the
minority in nearly all the states of
the union. The democratic party
controlled the legislation of the coun
try. The whig party was compelled
gradually to whittle down its doc
trines; and it was a common remark
that when the last national whig con
vention was held there was little dif
ference between its platform on the
tariff question and the democratic
doctrine. In other words, they had
to abandon their distinctive princi
ples in the hope of success.
Now, my friends, I say that this
high tariff question never was a doc
trine of the republican party, and
never will be. Turn to the platform
on which General Grant was elected
president. It reads: "It is the duty
of the nation that taxation should be
equalized and reduced as rapidly as
the national faith will permit." Now,
as the tariff is only a form of taxa
tion, this plank clearly pledged the
republican party to the reduction of
the tariff.
Mr. Donnelly illustrates the practi
cal working of a high protective tariff
thus: You live in St. Paul. Suppose-
you make a law that in the Third
ward no man shall buy manufactured
goods in any other ward. The mer
chants of the Third ward, having a
monopoly, put up their prices this
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The people of the Third ward, paying
higher prices for everything, are soon
poorer than their neighbors in tho
other wards. Trade between tho
Third and other wards ceases because
prices have been raised so in tho
Third ward that the goods can not
bo sold elsewhere where the goods
are cheaper. Hence the Third ward
exports nothing; and tho law pre
vents it from importing largely. Thus
commerce diminishes. Tho people
are robbed at home, while at tho
same time they are cut off from the
external world.
Take the one article of paper, so
essential to the spread of intelli
gence. The amount manufactured in
1868 was $25,000,000. The amount
imported for the same period paid a
duty of $35,000, and to got that sum
the people are taxed to tho amount
of $5,000,000 on the paper made in
the country, and you pay for it in
every newspaper and every book you
buy. But if a person makes 'the least
remark about it they bring party
lines down upon him. They fear the
robbery will be stopped.
These fellows have no idea of what
the republican party is for. They
consider it in the same light that
matrimony was regarded by an old
Mormon lady. A young man in Salt
Lake City fell in love with a beauti
ful young girl, who was a Mormon,
and proposed to marry her. She
could not endure the thought of part
ing with her family, which consisted
Of Several blalcro, Itov motbor ond
enrandmother, and so the young man
nronosed to marry the whole family.
"When the old lady was informed of
this she exclaimed: "Thank the
Lord! Now I'll get my gruel regu
lar!" These fellows think the only
object of the existence of the republi
can party is to furnish them their
gruel regularly.
I think the republican party, the
democratic party and the whole peo
ple are under obligations to me for
stirring things up. There was a
preacher down east who used to read
the most dreary and long-winded ser
mons Sunday after Sunday, and as
an invariable rule his parishioners
would nap while he preached. One
hot summer day he noticed a wag of
a boy in the gallery, who, with his
pockets full of white-beans, was en
gaged in throwing them at the fat
old fellows who were comfortably
asleep, bringing them up wide awake
with a start. The preacher cried
out: "What are you doing, you
young villain?" "Go on with your
preaching," said the boy, "I'll keep
'em awake!" Now, I represent that
boy. I am neither torpid nor asleep,
and I propose to keep 'em awake.
of it." Why let tho state take any
of it if the men make it? Tho stato
isn't a pirate. At any rate it ought
not to bo. And If tho men don't
make it but only take it, why should
tho stato let them keep it until they
die? Tho state doesn't protect men
in piracy. At any rate it oughtn't
to. Louis F. Post, In Tho Public.
THOUGHT IT A HAT
Miss Yangkie "And what has
Lord Chichester dono that you think
him so interesting?"
Lord Do Fcndus "Ho won a
Derby, y' know."
Miss Yangkie "How lovely! On
an election bet?" Cleveland Leader.
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All care and worry put to rout
As clouds before the sun.
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Thou treasure richer far than gold,
The Spirit of my Youth!
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"Let men make all the money they
can in their life time," he says, "but
when they die, let the state take half
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