Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-08

ed, while in fact they are drawn solely in
the interests of the monopolists and will
increase rather than diminish the taxation
upon the necessaries of life. Wherever it
has been possible taxes have been removed
from the business of corporations, and the
tariff upon all articles that enter into the
daily consumption of the masses of the
people has been increased. If either of
the pending measures shall become law
it will be far more expensive to support
family than at present, but far cheaper to
run national bank.
The eleventh hour effort to revise the
tariff-we would not pervert the truth
by speaking of it as reform of the tariff
will fortunately prove abortive, for it is
physical impossibility to mature meas
ure of this sort in the limited time that re-
mains of the session. This will prevent
perpetuation for an indefinite period of
the iniquities of a prohibitory tariff, and
give the new congress elected last fall an
opportunity to deal with the question, and
to make what will doubtless be sincere
effort at reform. All the eloquence
of the present representatives
and senators will avail them
nothing, for the people SEQ through their
hollow pretensions, and know that there is
not even remote intention of reforming
the tariff, but rather of more securely riv-
citing the shaelles upon the limbs of the
industrial classes.
Another very transparent attempt to
make political capital is the inquiry begun
this week by the committee on education
and labor as to the condition of the labor
ing classes. This is a work that cannot be
completed in less than six months, and the
labor of preparing and remedying the
evils that may be developed in the course
of the inquiry would occupy at least two
months time. And yet, twenty-tw days
before the expiration of the term of the
present congress, this gigantic work is I'M
dertaken, not with view of accomplishing
anything for the benefit of the laboring
Glasses, but to create the false impression
among laboring men that the majority of
the present congress are in sympathy with
them and desirious of lettering their con-
dition. There are, we feel confident, no
working men in the country SO idiotic as
to swallow such dose. It is an exceed
ingly gauzy device, and will fail miser-
ably of its purpose. Something might
have been done, or the pretense
might have been more easily
maintained if the inquiry had been begun
at the beginning of the session, but com
menced on the eve of the expiration of the
congress it is "a dead give-away" which
will! deceive no one.
The Republicans have sinned away their
day of grace. They have had thousands of
opportunities to redeem themselves from
the errors of the past, but have neglected
them all. Now it is too late, for the seal
of the peoples condemnation has been
placed upon them. They are now power
less to undo what they have done, and,
fortunately, they are also powerless to
work any greater harm to the country.
The dawn of better era is upon us, and
the promise of hope is bright in the
heavens. There is confidence in all direc-
tions that this promise will be fulfilled,
and that partizanship and partiality to
favored interests will no longer be the
policy of the governing power of the
country,