The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-15
Bottineau Pioneer
no VI. BEaaETT, EditM and Publisher.
WHAT THE TWO LEADING JOURNALS

MhAI InE INV AhhUiNU JuUhNhLO
OF the Northwest Have to Say Of the
Meaning Of the Late
Election.
Sp. PAUL GLOBE: 1t it better to
have fought and lost than not to have
fought at. all, particularly when a
principle vas at stake. We have
met the enemy, and we are theirs. 1t
was a landslide all around, and when
there is no ground left to stand on
what is the use trying to stand up ?
Naturally, the first thing the general
public will inquire about will be the
causes which led to the result, when,
as a matter Of fact, explanations are
not at all necessary. There may
have been one cause, there may have
been a combination Of causes; but
whatever may be the explanation, it
doesn't change the fact. The corpor-
ations are mainly responsible for it.
Their vast power was concentrated in
the doubtful states, and the cause Of
the people went down under it. That
is the long and short of it. The thing
to do now is to make the best of what
has happened. W. have been prom
Used an unprecedented business boom
in case Harrison were elected and the
high tariff policy maintained. Now
let us have it. Let the democrats go
to work and help our republican
friends to bring it about. No good
will be accomplished by sitting down
to grieve over a defeat that can not
be reversed. The proper thing to do
is to laugh at misfortune, and, turn.
ing our attention from politics to the
material interests of the country,
endeavor to inaugurate hat era Of
prosperity which was promised if the
manufacturing interests were to re-
main undisturbed. If we are to con-
tinue to pay high taxes OF everything
We eat and year., it behooves us to
give an impetus to industrial life in
order that business may be set a.boom-
ing, aud we can have a chance to
make enough to pay these high taxes.
The Globes advice to Its democratic
readars is to turn their faces to the
front and let the dead past bury its
dead. For the next four years we
will have no politics, except among
the comparatively few who are scramb-
ling for the Offices that drop from the
lap of patronage. The rest of us,
republicans and democrats, will be
standing hand to hand, shoulder to
shoulder, in the wiser and noble1.
struggle for national prosperity az
individual happiness. r.
ST.. PAUL PIONEER PRESS I The
relation of the tariff issue to the camp
align closed by the triumphant election
of Mr. Harrison is nowyclearly dis
cernible. Any d~enial|of the part
which it played wouNb be sheer folly.
And the dispositiS6 of the people to-
ward tariff changes can now be un-
derstood With the utmost certainty.
1t is one Of the mistortunes attendant
upon the submission of even an eco
nesaic question to the test of public
opinion, that it is rarely stated in true
or in approximately accurate form.
Such Al issue d~egenerates, almost
always, into a conflict of extremes.
So the tariff contest, this year, was
converted into a fight for the protec.
tive system and against free trade.
For the people who beliexs in a sys.
tenn Of moderate duties, with progress
sive reduction, retaining carefully the
protective feature, such people con-
stituting probably three. fourths of all
the votery in the country, there was
no definite issue made. By the atti-
tude which the two parties assn med,
by their records in congress, and by
the utterances of leaders through the
press and on the stump, it was made
u straight fight between the protective
system and the principle of a tariff for
revenue only. As between these, it
was at no time doubtful which would
win. Even the Jealous tariff reformer
prepared to sacrifice something ifneed
be in behalf of lower duties, found
himself confronted by the necessity of
choosing between the party of protec-
ton, with tariff reduction, and the
party Of progression to the free trade
basis. It is : sensible American habit
to settle one fight at q time. This