St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-05


the country with "free whisky and
taxed woor' for its battle cry. 1t is a
badly demoraliZed party and capable of
much folly, but it will not go into the
presidential campaign with that issue.
Washington Post.
Ex-Congressman Warren Keifer
crawled out of his hiding place the
other day and attempted to meddle with
Ohio politics. He was promptly dis
posed of by gentleman named Foos,
and it is gratifying to notice that Mr..
Keifer has once more disappeared in his
hole and replaced the lid-.Chicago
News.
Garfield's nomination was led by out
side votes. Ohio went to him. If out
side voters lead to a proposed nOmlna-
ton of Mckinley, Butterworth or For
aker, we say Ohio, provided there is no
chance for Mr.. Sherman, should go to
the Ohio man who is the general favor
ite OutSide.-COlumbuS Dispatch.
The whole country will approve the
Chinese treaty, for the Chinese here
have become public nuiSanceS in almost
every state. In the East they have not
been sufficiently numerous to drive la
bOrers to the wall, as they have in the
Pacific states, but they are felt as
curse. depreciating property and intro
ducing new vices wherever they locate.
Philadelphia News.
The Republican play is to keep the
Court Republican under the Specl0uS
plea of making it non-partisan. But
whether the court is to be partisan or
Sc M fJ0 fJIr
to be at the head of it. The Democrats
of the country want Democratic chief
justice, and they do not want to have
any doubt about the ruggednesS of his
mOcracy.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Col. Elliot F. Shepherd, the new pro-
prietor of the Mail and Express, justifies
tine confidence of the clergy by publish
ing Scriptural texts as his leading
editorials. Col. Shepherd is considered
crank by his enyious competitors. but
he seems to have clear idea OF what
will be news to his New York conStitu-
ency.-St.Louis Republican.
John Sherman's fences seem to wob-
BILE in Ohio. He had set his heart upon
the unsavory Keifer-who may be re-
membered as!the last Republican incum-
bent of the speakers chair in Washing
ton-as delegate to Chicago. The NOM
mating convention listened to Sher-
mans letter beseeching place for his
favOrite. and the delegates, with one
voice, proceeded to select somebody
else.-New York Star.
Representative Nelson, of Minnesota,
is one of the few Republicans i'll con-
gress who are not obstructionistS of
tariff revision. His course on the tariff
question is sustained by the Overwhelm-
ing sentiment of the district. The war
advocates found Minnesota a poor state
to make headway in. Mr.. Nelson took
occasion in the house yesterday to point
out what the sentiment in Minnesota
and other Western states is, and it will
be we'll for some of his Republican col
leagues to take note of it.-DetrOit Free
Press.
Members of both political parties in
Minnesota are heartily indorsing that
''free trade message" 1t is well for a
man to be loyal to his party, but no man
wants to be taxed to death merely be-
cause short-sighted party leaders may
have got themselves into false posi-
tion.-Louisville Courier-JOurnal.
The Republicans in the lower house
of congress who are trying to defeat rev.
enue, reduction and tariff revision by in
terpOsing all sorts of obstacles received
a warning that they ought to heed, but
probably will not. One of their own
number, Representative Nelson, of Min
nesOta, took occasion to tell them that
the Republicans of the Northwest will
not support them in such policy
Cleveland Plaindealer.
The speech of Congressman Nelson, a
Minnesota Republican, in the house yes
terday, in which he took strong ground
in favor of revision of the tariff on the
lines laid down by the Democratic party,
was further evidence that the Repub-
licans are fatally divided among them
selves on the tariff iSSue.-PittSburg
Post.
Congressman Nelson, of Minnesota,
who is a Republican, said yesterday in
the house that 80 per cent of the Demo-
Gratis of his state and rs per cent of the
Republicans are in favor of tariff re-
form. He himself is willing to place
free salt and free lumber against free
whisky and free tobacco. Mr.. Nelson
seems to carry level head.-Omaha
Herald.
"The people are paying to-day, under
color of tariff taxes, much more money
than the treasury gets, and yet the part
that the treasury gets is vastly more
than it needs for economical govern
ment. After lOng-cOntinued study of
the proportions, it is my firm belief and
conviction that the treasury only gets
about 81 out of s. paid by the people un-
der the protective taxes since 1852
Prof. Perry, in New England Magazine.
This treaty, if ratified, would doubt
less prove effective as a means of eX-
Guiding the Chinese. There is said to
be possibility Of its rejection by the
senate on the ground that it will never
do to allow Democratic administra-
ton the credit of settling the Chinese
question so completely. The refusal of
the senate to allow the publication of
the treaty, which has now been before
it for a fortnight, is in line with such
policy.-Philadelphia Times.
A number of New England manufact-
urers and members of tariff trusts and
combines pretend that they would rather
pay taxes on raw material than not in
order to be friends of American labor"
Alexander Hamilton, the daddy of pro-
lection in this country. declared that the
taxes on raw materials are taxes on the
wages of labor.-BurlingtOn Gazette.
The State Farmers Alliance of Mime
sofa, at its late session at st. Paul, did
not seem to be in harmony with the pro-
tects. 1t is long time before the No
vember election, and the question of the
tariff is going to be considered by the
voters of the great Northwest upon its
meritS.-MadisOn Democrat.
The refusal of an Ohio convention to
elect elect ex-Speaker j. Warren Keifer
adelegate to the Chicago convention
shows that the Republicans of that state
are tired of being represented by pOlit-
ical agitators, and bloody shirt waving
is no longer considered craftsmanship.
Philadelphia Herald.