St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-20
A MISTAKEN IDEA.
A Failure to Comprehend the
Human Race.


Whoever considered the human
being as creature alone by himself,
isolated and separated, and tried to
comprehend mankind by mathematically
adding these atoms together, had ut
terly failed to comprehend the human
race and its tremendous mission.
Here, in the United States, were &c, O,O0O,-
COO people with all the varied character
the numbers indicate. Some had facul-
ties fit for farming, some for the man
agement of machinery. some for inven-
ton. The problem before congress was
what system would get from all these
creatures, so different from each other,
the maximum of work and wealth and
wisdom: There was only one way to
get the best work out of men. and that
was to give each the work he can do
best. You can only accomplish this bv
diverSifying industry.
TO DIVERSITY INDUSTRY
completely in a country such as ours,
there was but one way given under
heaven among men. To enable the
American people themselves to supply
all their wants you must give and assure
to the American people the American
markets. What did this phrase mean in
practical life? 1t means that we, the
nation, say to capital, ''embark yourself
in the manufacture of such articles and
you shall have a market to the extent of
the wants of the American people,"
Capital then said to labor: go with
me into this new field all of you who
like this work best and we will share
the results" Outside the patent office
there are no monOpolies in this country
and never can be. All, but what is that
see on the far horizons edge, with
tongue of flame and eye of fire, serpent
headed and griffin-clawed? Surely it
must be the new chimera trust"
Quick, cries every masked member of
the ways and means. Quick, let us
lower the tariff. Let us call in the Brit
ish. Let them save our devastated
homes. Courage, dear brethren. Be not
too much disturbed. The Lord will
reign even if the board of mayor and
aldermen should adjourn.
CALL IN THE BRITISH.
When the day comes that this repub-
lie cannot save itself from a dozen of
its own citizens without aid from over
the sea, | hope to be buried thousand
leagues under some respectable and
permanent mountain range. What un-
reasonable talk this is. A dozen men
fix the prices for 60,0O0,O0O free men.
They can never do it. There is no
power Oh earth that can raise the price
of any necessity of life above a Just
price and keep it there. More than
that, if the price is raised and main
tanned, even for short while, 1t means
ruin for the combi nation and still lower
prices for consumers. That is one of
the laws of God working for his chill
dren. Compared with one of your laws
of congress it is leviathan to clam
But if the revenue reform orator on the
monopoly is terrible, like an army with
banners, there is theme on which he
can take up the notes of the dying swan.
How we do love to hear him on the i'm
poverished farmer. Then he is not
sublime, but pathetically great. l
heard him first ten years ago. TO me,
innocent, untraveled, it seemed as if
the Western farmer was the most woe
successful, dispirited devil on the face
of the earth.
THE EASTERN VAMPIRE
had mortgaged his farm and thrown
down his fences and scattered his sub
| stance with wantOnneSS to the Winds
In the fullnesS of time / travelled west
myself. You may well imagine my
aStOniShment, who had never seen ten
| acres together in corn, to behold fields
| of that great staple stretching way out
| to the horizons edge; to see tracts of
| land winch seemed TO nave no bound
aries but the visible sky; land so rich
that if we had one acre of it in Maine
we would have sold it by the bushel,
while on every side were the great brick
houses, such as only the squire lived in
| in our villages. After some days Of this
1 became sulky. I said, gentlemen, of
| course we have robbed you; your con-
| gressmen would not lie about trities like
that. But what disgusts me is that we
did not do it more thoroughly. The
| cleaning looks bigger than the harvest.
Then they confided to me that the West
ern congressman were great orators and
did this for practice. Since then l have
not been so much moved by it.