St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-03
MIR. LIND TALK S.

Congressman JOHN LIND, OIL tile oec-
ond district of Minnesota, has been IN
terviewed. He has unburdened himself
on the MILLS tariff bill.
After reading what Mr.. LIND has to
say it is disappointing to find that he
has neither political honesty nor cour-
age to rise above his party, nor to be
true to his constituents.
In plain language, Mr.. LIND will OPP
pose this honest endeavor to reduce an
Ubiquitous tax because it has a Demo
cratic origin and he is high protec-
ZIONIST and partisan Republican.
No other construction can be placed
upon an interview whose author has no
weightier objection to offer to the bill
than that ''it seems to be directed par
ticuIarly against the farmers of the Sec
ond district"
Undoubtedly the trainers of the bill
had but one locality in the Union
against which they intended to direct
their dreadful animosity; and that the
district of Congressman JOHN LIND.
1t has taken twenty-five years of Re
publican misrule to fasten upon the
people tax of $3.50, 100000; and because
the tariff reformers in one day do not
wipe out of existence this mOnstroSity,
forsooth, Mr.. LIND will have none of
reform.
In touching language he cites that the
flax seed, potato and bean industries
of the Second district are Immediately
to be annih Hated, adding pathetically
that this great government, which raises
S225,000,000 on imports. received last
year $25O,O00 from the importation of
potatoes alone.
MI. LIND in his distress sees the Sec
ond district flooded with foreign beans.
He pictures the unsophisticated granger
eating, with manifest disgust, foreign
beans. and his gorge rises. Oceans or
bust" vulgarly put, is evidently Mr..
LIMBS motto, and with that poor dis
guise he will fight any attempt to re-
duce the cost of the necessaries of life.
cit is the Second district of Minneso-
ia which represent" announces Mr..
LIND, land because this Democratic
tariff reduction affects beans, potatoes
and flax seed will oppose it,"
What arrant hunlbuggery this is, can
be illustrated by few figures. In 1885
Brown county, where Mr.. LIND has the
honor to reside, raised just 219 bushels
of beans. Blue Earth county, one of
the wealthiest sections of the Second
district, raised $50 bushels of beans,
Redwood county, in the same district,
raised 56 bushels of beans.
The entire product of the state in
beans in 1885 was $4,000 bushels, of
which the Second district produced
about 1000 bushels. Yet Mr.. LIND, in
his anxiety for the farmer and desire to
defend the iniquity of protection, will
oppose a tariff reform measure. Oh,
Beans, what sins are committed in thy
name.
Mr.. LIND displays the to-be-expected
selfishness and provincialism of the
average protectionist. He is willing to
have tariff bill passed if no measure
is connected with it that might affect
his own locality.
In his devotion to potatoes and beans
he is but illustrating the affection of the
iron manufacturer OF the wool raiser
for his own pet schemes.
Because the largest (the only one we
belieye) oil mill in the state is IN his
district, and gives flax seed market,
he must pose for fax seed. His wild
assumption is that fax seed can be
raised abroad, shipped to New York,
transported to Minnesota and laid at the
doors of this oil mill cheaper under free
trade than the farmer living within five
miles of the mill can raise it. Mr.. LIND
evidently is afoe to the logic of facts.
1.-THE potato crop of the Second district
was about one-fifth that of the entire
state, and the state ranks tenth i'll the
production of this crop. Mr.. LIND feels
keenly that the price of potatoes must
fall perceptibly under foreign COMPETE
ton.
Binding himself to the tribute that
the agrieulturist is paying to-day on al
most every article that he buys. Mr..
LIND would keep him taxed from Is to
copper cent on the cost of the necessaries
of life to save the price of potatoes.
1t is a mistake that the Republicans
of Minnesota have been making for
years, this sending of narrow-minded
men to congress. They persistently re-
fuse to keep abreast of the times, and
misrepresent, not represent, the state.
Moved by local prejudices, untitled by