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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
KlNSHIP OF HUMANITY.

With all its attendant horrors the
yellow fever epidemic at Jacksonville
serves a good purpose in giving oppOr-
tunity to illustrate that there is such a
thing in human nature as unselfish
generosity. Impressed with the neces-
Sity for combining the plague to the in
fected district, the surgeon general of
the United States army, whose duty it is
TO enforce quarantine laws, adopted what
seemed to be harsh policy in prOhib-
iting all egress from the plague-stricken
city. To many minds it seemed brutal
course to pursue to compel people to re-
main in the midst of the ravages of the
plague, and to allow them no chance of
escape from the infested district. Still
the order was made to protect OUTSIDE
communities from the danger of having
the disease disseminated by refugees
from Jacksonville. The principle of
sef-prOtectiOn is so strong in the
human breast that the suppose
ton was that all communities in
close enough proximity to Sackson-
vile to be in danger would have hailed
the surgeon generals strict quarantine
order with great satisfaction. On the
contrary, loud protest against it went
up from every quarter, and number of
Georgia and South Carolina towns threw
wide open their gates to their plague
stricken neighbors at Jacksonville, and
invited them 10 come and sojourn with
them until the calamity was overpast.
Such exhibitions of generous heroism
make us feel that this world is worth
living in, and that the kinship of hui
manity is a beautiful reality.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
DAILY

found place to sleep and had a
single stove with which to do
their cooking. In the single third-story
room of this house, which is about ten
feet square, there are five beds or cots,
and the filth and the bad smells of this
rookery would pnt an Alaska street ten
ement to the blush. There were two or
three dirty bags filled with straw, and a
rickety bed stood in the apartment used
as a kitchen. These straw-filled bags
were the beds of some of the first floor
bOarders, and one of them was rolled up
In front of the stove out of the way dur
ing the day, but ready to be spread out
as a sleeping cot at night. This
particular 'cOuch'' had once been
white. Its present color is a shade
darker than scullion's apron, but not
quite so black as coal heavens over
alls. The entire house was innocent OF
sheets or tablecloths, and what bed
coverings were in sight were in keeping
with the 'couch" in front of the stove.
In two small rooms in what is known
as McGuire's row there are fifty-two OF
these foreigners, as happy as puppies
in barrel, and about as dirty. Down
on the tow-path are four little
houses known as "NOah's Ark"
and here at night are snugly slowed
away about half hundred men. In all
these places each man buys his own
provisions and pays a clearinghouse
keeper" to cook it. They live on the
cheapest fare. and manage to get along
on much less than SO mouth in many
instances
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
BEN'S BOLT.

Unless it is upon the principle that
drowning men clutch at straws, we fail
to see why the Republicans should be
making such a hullabalOo over BEN
Buffers return to the party. His
candidacy four years ago was only a
side show to the BLAINE circus, and the
fact that he makes his appearance this
year under the big tent adds neither
strength nor attractiveness to the COM
binatiOn. He doesn't take anything
with him that doesn't legitimately be-
long to the Republican party. 1t will
be remembered that BUFFERS support
els in New York in 1884 were all pro-
tectiOnists. If they couldn't support
the Democratic party then, it would be
hardly proper to expect their support
now that it is making a direct assault
on the protective system. BUTLER is
back to stay with the Republicans. and
the Democratic party is well rid of him.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
LOW TAXES
And National Prosperity Go Hand
in Hand.

IN HAMA.
Just the reverse. Then for the first
time the country began to go forward
with giant strides. Commerce increased
at a marvellous rate. Manufacturers
were imbued with new life. Agri-
culture was prosperous to a degree
hitherto unknown, and the policy of
lowering the tariff tax to prevent the
accumulation of surplus was pursued.
In 1857 panic, superinduced by wild
land speculations, ensued, but before
1858 its effects had passed away, and up
to 1860 agriculture, manufactures and
commerce were on the high tide of
prosperity, and we successfully rivaled
England in maritime reatneSS. In 1861,
to meet the exigencies of the war, tariff
taxes were raised substantially to the
protective basis of 1912. In 1864 these
taxes were raised so per cent, and in
1867 they were raised again, although
the war was over. In 1888, under pre-
tense of reduction, they were again
increased to their present standard.
Since the war the millionaires have
grown, while the great agricultural in
terest has stood still. Strikes of work
ingmen against oppression have con-
vulseu the land. In 1878 financial cy
clone swept the country and impOver-
ished countless numbers of people.
Tramps filled the land from ocean to
ocean, and laws against the tramps were
enacted. The panic of 1878 lasted until
1879, and the suffering among our peo-
pie was equal 10 overcrOwded Europe.
Unemployed workingmen was the
rule for seven years, and the protected
few demanded more tax as the
remedy, while they imported foreign
paupers in foreign ships to take the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03

place of American wOrkingmen who re-
fused to accept starvation wages in a
land that should be land of plenty. II
tax burdens were justly distributed:
How do you like the picture of the tariff
of '42 multiplied by at least two?
/ had no idea that all that was in that
book.
Read 1t carefully. Only the outline
has been given. You said that you al
ways believed in the tariff of 1912?
Yes.
1t is all the protection anybody needs
III this country?
Yes.
What was the average tariff tax under
the law of 1912?
~ can not tell you"
Inland me that volume on the Foreign
Commerce of the United States, by Mr..
Nimmo. Let US look down this column
ON page 80, and we find it to be 20 per
cent, and fraction"
Eyes, that's the figure"
i"YOu are willing to stand by that sort
of a tariff"
f''Of course"
''You don't regard it as free trade"
"No, SIR"
"You wouldn't want to see it any
higher-that's tax enough, isn't it?'
s'That's the tariff of AZ, and it is high
enough for me-it's high enough for
anybOdyo
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
THE FOURTH DISTRICT.

The energy with which Capt. SNYDER
took hand in the Scuffie for the Re-
publican nomination for congress had
paralyZing effect on his competitors,
and they are now disposed to give him
clear field. They could very well
afford to do it under the circumstances,
for Mr.. RICE'S denomination is now an
assured fact, and the older Republican
politicians of the district have no idea
of butting their brains out against an
impregnable object. Mr.. SNYDER is a
young man, whom defeat will not hurt
so much, and as long as the party lead
ers have to be fed during a campaign,
they had as well draw blood from him
as anybody.
With Mr.. RICE in the field against
him, 1t will be necessary, after the
election, for Capt. SNYDER to get GER
tifcate from somebody that he was
candidate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
MECH AND NECK.

1t is fairly even race now between
Messrs. SCHEFFER, MERRIAM and Nc
GILL. The ten counties yet to hear
from connot materially change the rela-
tive strength of the candidates, so they
will 90 into convention neck and neck.
There is a widespread impression that
the final result in the convention will be
determined by the amount of Doodle
that is to be distributed.
The way things now look, it is mat
ter of no practical difference who gets
the nomination; he will be awfully
used up at the polls. And if our disin-
terested advice will be needed, the candi
dates will save their money for other
purposes.
MIR. WILSON has such a start in the
race the nominee of next Wednesdays
convention will never Overtake him,
even if he does ride ahigh-priced horse.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
THURMAN,S TRIP.
A Delegation Gets Him to Agree to
Stop at Newark.

COLUMBUS, o., Sept. "A delegation
from Newark, n. j., headed by Gen. j.
Watts Kearney, and consisting of George
II. Lambert, Dr.. j. L. Wrightson, II. II.
Hart and G. A. Duryea, arrived from
the East at o'clock this afternoon and
proceeded to the residence of Judge
Allen G. Thurman. The gentle
men were pleasantly received by
Judge Thurman and introduced by Hon.
j. b. Townsend, chairman of the DEM
Ocratic state committee. Gen. Kearney
formally stated the object of their visit,
which was to secure the presence of
Judge Thurman at proposed mass
meeting at Newark, following that an
nOunced for Madison Square, New
York, Thursday night. He set forth the
Importance of his addressing a meeting
i'll New Jersey, and, after consultation
as to details and the time which
should be made on the return trip,
Thurman agreed to go. 1t was arranged
that the meeting shall take place next
Saturday night, Sept. =, in large hall
at Newark. Judge Thurman will come
direct from that point to Columbus, so
as to be here during Grand Army en-
campment week. 1t has not been de-
termined as yet. but it is ex-
pected that Judge Thurman will
leave for New York either Tuesday
night or Wednesday morning. The
gentlemen from Newark were highly
eated over their success and left for
home this evening at o'clock. Andrew
j. Seymour, the mind reader, who is
filling an engagement in this city, gave
successful private test of mental teleg-
raphy for Judge Thurman at the lat
ter'S residence last evening. He pro-
nOunceS his brain power to be the
strongest he has ever met.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
REPUBLICAN HARMONY.
Republican Papers Still Kicking
at the Free Whisky Platform.

Republican Papers Still Kicking
at the Free Whisky Platform.
New York Post.
The st. Paul Pioneer Press is en-
gagged in denouncing the Republican
platform, and especially the free whis-
ky plank of it. 1t even goes so far as
to say that ''that plank represents the
views of an insignificant minority of the
party" We should like to have the
Pioneer Press present the evidence
upon which it bases this extraordinary
statement. After giving some days of
reflection to the matter, the nominal
candidate of the party said: Il have
some care, and its declarations are in
harmony with my VIEWS" A long
list of the prominent Republi-
can papers throughout the country
may be cited which heartily support
the free whisky policy-The New York
Press, Philadelphia Press, Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, Chicago Inter
Ocean, Knoxville Journal and Wheel
ing Intelligencer, to mention only
half a dozen. The indianapolis
Journal, Gen. Harrison's home organ,
earnestly advocates this policy,
declaring on one occasion that ''all
advanced temperance thought fayors
the repeal of government tax on
liquors." and on another occasion that
there are three classes which yawp
about the free whisky plank in the
Republican platforn-fools, knaves and
dishonest and cowardly free traders,
who do not have the courage
of their convictions;" adding that
gentlemen can range themselves in
either class. they choose" We warn
the Pioneer Press that it will get into
trouble if it does not stop its ''yawp-
ing" and begin supporting what the
New York Press calls this sensible
and enlightened Republican policy"
The Republican party has no room for
''yaWperS,"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
STITCHING TO BUSINESS.

A Brainerd correspondent writes to
ask if ''there is any probability of con-
gress adjourning this summer. or if our
Minnesota congressman intend to come
home and look after their fences" No.
The summer is passed and the harvest
is ended, and congress is not yet
adjourned. And as for our Min
nesota congressman, the very best
means for keeping their fences in re-
pair for them is to stay in Washington
as long as congress is in session, and to
attend strictly to business. That is
what they are there for, and the GLOBE
is gratified to note that all cur congress
men appreciate the Importance of atten-
ton to their public duties.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
NOT FREE TRADE.
The Mills Bill Tax Relief Meas
IRE.

The Mills Bill Tax Relief Meas
"You say that the Mills bill is free
trade?'
eyes, most emphatically."
"Why?"
Because that is what it is called"
''Do you know what the average
amount of tariff tax it provides fOr?"
"No."
"Only AZ per cent and fraction; a
cut of per cent from what it is now"
What"
"Yes, sir, AZ per cent, or II per cent
more than the tariff OF AZ, which is so
satisfactory to you"
"Well, declarew
Haven't you been humbugged into
the belief that the Mills bill means free
trader"
1T looks that way"
"What do you think about it now,
with these facts from your own library
presented to you in an off-hand WayT'
Il have about come to the conclusion
that the Mills bill is pretty good thing,
and would have been better il it had cut
still deeper. Why, it's an outrage for
party papers and leaders to lie so out
rageouSly about matter which is so
plain when one looks at it in sensible
way. Tye a good mind to cut loose from
Them"
don't you think it would be a good
thing for you and your neighbors gen
orally to do?'
Il believe it would, and 1 mean to
think it over seriously"
MIR. Blossom, this is a nice farm OF
yours: what are YOUR $40 acres worth
at q venture?"
Il guess I'd find no trouble in selling
it for $50, 000-it cost me over half that,
without the present improvements"
How long has it been worth $50, 000?"
twenty-five years, at least.
''Have you owned it that long"
Eyes, for thirty years"
'HOw much has it yielded you during
the last twenty-five years."
81 couldn't tell YOU"
''HOw much money have you in bank
and at interest nOW?"
perhaps $1,000. all told"
do you owe any debts?"
"SOme; my growing crops and the
stock l shall sell would pay my taxes
and square all my accounts, | think"
Then your $50, 900 farm has been pay
ing you $500 year?
Oh! more than that!
Tell me how?
I've kept my family during that time
and reared and educated my two chill
dren, boy and a girl. Thew are both
married, and gave them $1,000 each to
set up housekeeping.
AT a venture, how much did it cost
you to rear your family and educate
your children?
At guess 1 will say $4,000.
And you gave them $4,000?
Yes.
And you have $1,000 yourself!
Yes.
Then you have made $4,000 in twen-
ty-five years out of your $4,000 farm?
That appears to be about the size
of it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
NOT RICH.
Farmers Don't Thrive Under High
Taxes.
of it..

Farmers Don't Thrive Under High
Taxes.
You haven't grown rich farming for a
quarter of century under high and
burdensome tariff tax?
Certainly not.
And yet you began twenty-five years
ago with as much or more capital than
any of the millionaires who have be-
come rich under the operation of this
vicious tax system, miSnamed ''protec
tiOn," which takes from the many to
give to the few. DO you know how
many-or rather, how few-men own or
control half the wealth or this country;
who came into ownership or control of
it under this same vicious tax system?
L have no idea.
/ saw curious compilation the other
day, and here it is: Our total wealth of
all kinds is estimated at 5000, 900, 900.
There are five American citizens with
private fortunes averaging S50,000,0 900
each, fifty with S10,000,000, 100 with S.
100000, 200 with $1,000, 900, 500 with ST.
100000 and 1000 with S500,000. In other
words, ], S55 persons own S3,000,000,000,
or more than twice as much as all the
actual money in the country. A less
number of men, not to exceed l.
OOO-railway magnates, princely bank
ers and heads of vast protected
corporations - have absolute control,
equivalent almost to actual ownership,
of S25, 200, 000. 900 more. Less than 5000
men controlling $4,000, 100000 of the
S45, 000, 100000 of wealth in this cOun-
try"
MAY ask you question:"
proceed, Mr. Blossom"
''Are any of these millionaires farm
ers?'
Meier one. Some of them are
ranchers, but they only hold their
ranches as tributary provinces"
'JuSt so. The farmer doesn't seem
to have got under the right wing of the
protection bird. He seems to have come
in contact with its beak and claws"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
TARIFFS AND PANICS.

With remarkable unanimity, all the
opponents of tariff reform are piecing
out their hating logic with appeals to
the fears of business men. They pre-
dict that all sorts of commercial and
financial disasters will result from any
interference with the present schedule
of revenue taxation. Mr.. BLAINE is
especially impressive III such direful
forebOdings, and cites the panic of 1887
as proof that his apprehensiOns are far
from grOundleSS. In this Mr.. BLAINE
loses sight of, or ignores, the enormous
credit mutations and currency eXpan-
Sions Immediately preceding the year
1887, and the course pursued by the eX-
pIring United States bank, and the
horde of paper money mints, precipi-
tated on the country through the action
of the state legislatures, until they
swarmed over the country like the lice
and frogs of Egypt.
The instruction of industry and the
neglect of agriculture and the wild and
visionary schemes for premature i'm
prOvements, engendered through credit
mutations and currency expansions pre-
ceding the year 1887, when the inflated
paper bubble burst, all goes with Mr..
BLAINE for nothing; but he puts it all
on the tariff act or sliding scale of 1888.
1t is in his opinion the scapegoat of
all the sins of 1887. And" he says,
''this experience led logically to the res
toratiOn of the high tariff of 1912. But
as usual, Mr.. BLAINE keeps out of
sight the prime conditions on which
returning prosperity depended. The
utter collapse of credits and suspension
of specie payments in 1887, the natural
reaction from former credit and cur
rency mutations and abuses, was the
commencement of hard times with
which the low tariff of 1888 had
no more to do than the moon.
But just when the low tariff
was about 10 swing the country into
line with healthy prosperity, and was
clearing away the wrecks which i'm
providence had made, the high tariff of
1872 was passed. 1t was not necessity,
but fraud, as its repeal in 1916 and the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
EDITORIAL CHAT.

The patriotism of these manufacture
ers is equal to that displayed by ARTE-
MAS WARD when he wanted to sacri-
fee all of his wife'S relatives on the
altar of his country. Ten years ago the
Waltham Watch Manufacturing COM
pany persuaded congress to advance the
duty on watches and to reduce it on
watch materials from 20 to 10 per cent.
on the ground that it would enable
them to advance the wages of their
wOrkingmen. The FORD investigating
committee have just unearthed the fact
that the first thing the Waltham COM
pany did after carrying its point before
congress was to import an English ell
graver under contract, because he
could be had at lower wages than
American engraverS.
-
The FORD investigating committee
have made a similar discovery in the
case of the BARBOUR flax mill owners,
of Patterson, n. j., who import Irish
girls in order to dispense with Ameri-
can labor, and yet they have sent in
strong remOnStrance against a reduc-
ton of the tariff, for fear of reducing
the wages of American labOrers. The
big silk manufacturing establishment at
Hudson imports weaverS from France,
and at the same time subScribes to the
Republican campaign fund. These are
only few of the many illustrations of
the hypocrisy of the Republican claim,
that the high tariff benefits the working
men.
Twenty-eight congressman are on the
sick list. If the senate doesn't pass the
MILLS bill Washington will be full of
sick congressman by November.
80
Col. BARR is quite proud of his new
barn out on Greenbrier avenue. 1t is
all right enough to have good barn,
for if any class of live stock need an
upholstered stable it is the poor street
car horses. But it is not barns so much
as new street railway lines that the pub
lie are interested in hearing about. The
promise to have the Seventh street
cable line pushed with vigor will be
hailed with delight by our citizens, and
particularly that there are to be none of
the delays that were experienced in the
building of the Selby avenue line.
-
Yesterday was Sunday OF accidents.
The fire fiend held carnival at West Su-
periOr and Baltimore, an earthquake
shook up the New Zealanders, and not
satisfied with the work of destruction
the yellow fever was doing at Jackson
vile, cyclone had to lend its aid in the
way of adding horror to the situation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
WHO HAS THE RIGHT?
May Jay Gould Build a Union
Depot at st. Louis?

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2.-There is hitch
in the new union depot arrangements
that threatens to delay the commence
ment of the work as promised. The
Union Depot company has requested
the governing board to vacate certain
premises to make room tor the new
building, and the issue has been
made as to who has the right
to build the union depGt-Jay
Gould or the five leading lines. the
Ohio & Mississippi, Louisville Il Nash
vile, Vandalia and Missouri Pacific.
In the contractor lease the five lines
have the option to purchase the union
depot if they so elect. That contract
expires in March, 1889, and it is claimed
that the leasing lines are considering
the desirbility ofpurchasing.