St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-20

naval officers get out of job, they put in a
bill providing for new navy, and the Repub-
lican legislature would Immediately proceed
to build few ships for their accommodation.
If Blaine is elected he will want to show
the world that he is greater statesman than
Bismarck, and as he could not do so by
letting the people run the government he
will undertake to run it himself by some of
his improved methods. The people who
favor him are hero worshipers and novel
readers, many of whom will vote for him
merely because he is known as the "plumed
knight" and because he is said to make a
very fluent speech. Although Blaine is sup
posed to be a temperance man, a great deal
of his whisky will help TO furnish enthusi-
asm for the coming campaign. The mono
poles will furnish money to buy the votes OF
the worst class, and the tax payers, who are
farmers, merchants, mechanics and the
balance of the middle classes will pay high
tariff and taxes to pay back the monopolies.
The Republican party claims that it is
their policy which has built up the country,
which has made times good. and would even
| like to claim the credit for the good crops, the
sunshine and the rain, while the Democratic
party is to blame for the mud, for grasshop-
pers, hard times, etc. They claim that the
tariff has made the country rich. But let us
see, During and Immediately after the war
everything was high; there was demand
for everything; the circulating medium was
very plentiful; the resources of the country
were very great and only needed developing
to make millions of dollars. Men had broken
out of the old ruts; everybody was specula-
ting or rather trying something new. There
was unlimited faith; railroads were being
built; there was work for all at good pay, for
the demand for labor was greater than the
supply. Most people thought the good times
had come to stay, and the money that came
easy went easy
| Men who were not hogs and didn't want
| the world, mixed pleasure with their labor
and enjoyed life, many of them laying up
a nice little store for some rainy day; while
the selfish grasping people who live only for
! self bent all their time and energies to get
ting all they could and keeping all they got.
AS combined effort was better than individ-
ual effort companies and corporations were
| formed for the purpose of better accomplish
| ing their aims. Not satisfied with the profits
they could make this way, and finding that
the party in power OF the national capital
was very willing to donate the peoples
money to any enterprise that would divide
profits, they worked all kinds of schemes to
get aid from the government and succeeded
in manner that does credit to their ability
if not honor to those who gave so freely OF
that which does not belong to them. Tile
consequence was that the money gradually
but surely centered toward these men and
monoplies. And while the country to-day is
richer by millions than it was imm ediately
after the war, the working class of people
are much poorer. The men and monopolies
who made millions while money was circu-
latng freely have now got control of all the
money and are crying because there are no
more millions to conquer. Tariff was made
for their benefit, and they are afraid if it is
reduced or done away with they will be una
bic to take all the profits from every in
dustry. They have been hogs so long it is
hard to reform. People must learn that the
cry in the Republican organs, ostensibly
from the laboring classes, is not their cry but
that of the manufacturers who had the laws
made, who receive all the benefit, who con-
troll the Republican party and consequently
Republican papers. Labor does not speak
through newspapers that are monopolies in
themselves. ''CARL BoN."