St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-18
GTLFTLLAN's DILEMMA.

Mr. GIIFITLAE has put his foot into
pretty deep mire. from which he will be
unable 10 eZtricate it, His congressional
chickens are coming home to rOOst When
he sat in his seat in congress last winter
and spat upon the appeals that the labor
ing men were sending him to vote for GER
tain measures in their interest, it probably
didn't occur TO him that the consequences
of his majestic Indifference to the rights of
labor would SO soon be visited upon him.
When Mr. GIIFHLAN got into congress he
was like the rest of the Republican con-
gressmen. He drew the mantle of inn
pelial bosSiSm around him and looked
upon any sort Of suggestion that came from
the common people as piece Of imperti-
nence that could not be tolerated. To his
mind it was q species Of dissertation for the
foot of a lab3ling man TO enter the sacred
precincts of the arstOcratic OticeholderS.
or for laboring mans voice to be lifted
up within the hearing Of a congress
man. Consequently. when the officials of
the labor organization sent an appeal to
Mr. GEIFILLAN urging the passage OF The
Sioux Gay land grant forfeiture bill, the
naughty CONGRESSMAN waved them off with
an intimation that they didl't know what
they were taking about. 1t must have
been a very serious shock to Mr.. Gill
FuLAN;S Sensidveiv ariStOcratic nervous
system to undergo a racket of this kind. for
in his reply to the labor committee he
strongly insinuates that in his estimation
they were no better than gang of bandits
who were trying to get unlawful possession
OF somebody else's property. Having vindi-
Gated his offended dignity to his own salts
faction by thus putting his foot on the rep
resentatives of the tOling masses, Congress
man GILFILIAN again drew the folds of his
imperial drapery about him and sat down
to dream of iong-continued power. Again
his aristocratic rest was disturbed by the
presence of labor suppliants asking
that the labOring classes be relieved
OF the burthen of the public debt by
applying the treasury surplus to its ex-
tinctiOn. This request was not even digni-
fed with & response from the purple-clad
representative of the banks and b0ndhOld-
ers. His ear was shut against the cry OF
labor and there was no sympathy in his
breast for the suffenngs of the breadwn-
ners. He worked and voted against their
interests right straight along.
Now the conditions are changed. The
stone that was rejected has become the
head of the corner. The people whom
MI. GILFlLLAN scorned and despised are
on the throne and he is now the suppliant
at tiieir feet. He is begging for the votes
OF the iaboring men. And they in turn
ROW remind him Of the time when they
asked him for bread and he gave them a
stone and when they desired a fish he gave
them a serpent instead. 1t is beginning to
dawn upon Mr.. GILFILLAN's mind that
labor is a power which no public man can
deSpise, with all the probabilities that he
will have a still more sensible realization OF
that fact by the time the election is over.
The workingmen now have an opportunity
to get a whack AT the late defiant congress
man. and human nature will not be human
nature if they don't improve it. Mir.
GILFILI.AN has had his day. Now it is
somebody eiSes day.