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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10

among the various syndicates and COM
binations which have come to be such
forces in commercial affairs.
Here lies the evil of an inflated and
fluctuating currency, such as we had
few years ago. The first demand of
every people should be for a stable cur
rency founded on specie basis. 1t is
pledge for the future. 1t is such n
guarantee as capital must have before
1t vii venture into new enterprises for
extending commerce or developing the
country. we had during the period of
an rredeemable currency a feyerish
condition of affairs; the standard of
value was perpetually changing; fic-
tltlous wealth was accumulated only to
disappear in a moment. The habits of
the people We're changed; everywhere
were seen evidences of the evil infiu-
ences. moral as well as commercial, of
All lrredeemable paper currency.
In returning to specie basis we
eliminated one, but only one. element
of risk and uncertainty. The other is the
war tariff, and it remains with us to
veX us. 1t was intended only as an eX-
pedlent to accomplish temporary pur-
poses. 1t has promoted false ideas of
economy, built up gigantic monopolies,
spread everywhere communistic feel
ings. stalking from one man his property to
give it to another; it has stimulated the
reckless spirit of gambling in CONNER
cial circles; it has disturbed all business
calculations and made possible the wild
est fluctuations i'll the most necessary
articles of life. The harm it has done
in this direction is incalculable, and it
is inseparable from any system of taxa
ton maintained for the avowed purpose
of protection. The only safety lies in
return to the cardinal principles of the
Democratic party, which assert that
taxation is only for the uses of govern
ment.
Our industrial structures are builded
on the sands. Their growth is uunat-
ural, forced and unhealthy. They lack
stability and the power to endure. They
have been pampered and developed
until they are like sickly child, hav-
ing no vigOr or energy. Our railroads
are expensive structures, built with iron
and steel which have cost nearly 80 per
cent more than they should do; and
this increase is represented by fixed
capital, which must have perpetuaIly an
annual dividend unless the government
determines to cOnfiscate the roads. Our
mills have cost in the same proportion;
so have our cities. our streets, our
bridges, all the necessary works of a
new nation. Here is a gigantic Struc-
ture reared on an uncertain foundation,
which is shaken by every break of the
waves.
One cause of this instability is due to
the fact that we are, with our manu-
featured articles, shut out of foreign
markets. We have BOOM the de-
mand is good, profits are large, and
capital is invested in all branches of
business. Soon the home market is sup
piled, the demand Slackens, and then
we have commercial distress, because
for this surplus product we have no
foreign outlet. And this condition of
affairs will menace so long as our in
dustrial institutions depend on sub
sides and the people are taxed to main
tain Them
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
A REPUBLI GAN BOOMERANG
Which Will Probably Do the
Party Some Harm.
Special to the Globe

Special to the Globe.
BISMARCK, Dak., Sept. 81. w.
Harden, the Democratic candidate for
congress, who is now here, received a
letter to-day from one of the highest Of
ficials of the Farmers alliance inform
ing him that the article in the Dakota
Ruralist, construed to favor the election
of Mathews, was trick on the part of
the Republicans. who took advantage
of the absence of Editor Crosse. The
matter will be fully aired, and the arti-
Gle will prove the worst boomerang of
the campaign for the Republicans. The
farmers of Dakota are intelligent read
ing men and woe be to the man or party
that mistakes them for ignorant depend
ants, who can beherded to the polls by
a party whip or deception. Mr.. Harden
will have no better evidence of the
straits to which his opponents are
driven than this attempt to fool the
farmers through their official organ.
Another thing that will aid Mr.. Harden
very materially in his canvass is the
blackballing of President Loucks, of
the Dakota alliance, by the chamber of
commerce of Minneapolis. The reason
for blackballing him given by the cham
Der of commerce was not that Mr.IOuckS
personally was Objectionable. but because
he represented the farmers whose
methods are distateful to the elevator
men. This is severe slap at the farm
ers. and it is strengthening the alliance
in its support of Mrs Harden, who has
been known for years as a conscientious
advocate of the farmers interests.
There are many men in Dakota who are
willing to stake their political reputa-
tons on the prediction that Mr.. Harden
will be elected.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
LACKED FILIAL RESPECT.
An Anecdote Of Banker Merriam
Sharply Analysed.

An AnecdOte of Banker Merriam
Sharply Analysed.
To the Editor of the Globe. .o
l think you'll agree with me that the
writer of the subjoined voice" from
the Pioneer of this morning is too mod
est in saying:
Governor William r. Merriam always
had great head for business and it is gen.
orally admitted by those who knew him in
MS younger days that there were never very
many flies on the young man. AS long ago
as 1866, almost before the down had begun
10 sprout on his upper lip, Mr.. Merriam man.
nested great solicitude for his father bust
ness, and, with characteristic energy, helped
carry 1t on. In that year Merriam pere was
IN some sort of a partnership with A. Ii.
Wilder He had occasion TO 90 10 Win
nlpeg, journey which III that day was con-
sldered great undertaking beset with many
dl1hcultles and perils. How long he would
nave TO De away to accomplish his GRAND
was an unsolyed problem. The future gov
ernor of Minnesota, then eighteen or nine
teen years old, took occasion to comfort Mr..
Wider, who he feared might be worried
about the business Never mind, Uncle
Wilder" he confidently said, IF father
don't come back the business can go on just
the same" Mr.. Wilder felt perfectly safe
after receiving this assurance from the
beardless business man. The incident
N'SSA oAHOuiIJ " uluCl. DuI II SUes W
prove the assertion that Nv. r. NJ. never
permitted many flies to light on him.
The Incident he narrateS doesn't
amount tomuch," though the real point
it illustrates has an application quite
foreign to his intent. L should say, if
the story is true, that it shows the fu-
ture governor far more solicitous
about his fathers business than about
his fathers life, and, as the boy is ever
father to the man, it throws a flood of
light upon a circumstance that seems to
have been actuated mainly by dis
tinctly cOld-blOoded, mercenary and
self-Seeking motives. 1t is doubtless
true that Nv. Il. NJ" never permitted
many flies to light on him, but the
equanimity with which he is repre-
scented by his personal organ as regard
ing the prospect of flies permanently
taking possession of his father will
hardly elevate him in the estimation of
those old-fashiOned enough to still en-
terrain notions about filial duty, rever-
ence and affection.
OIn-F CUJnsSFn
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
TIA, Ia, Andrew.

Red Wing Republican.
Goodbye, Gov. McGi1l Goodhue county
has been sorry for your failure, which began
in January, 1887, but it rejoices that it is to
continue but two years. A man great
enough to be governor would have followed
the constitution, the laws. the policy of his
party, the practice of his predecessors. Such
a course would have gained him friends and
would have left his opponents plainly in the
wrong and powerless. You chose to pas
most attention to serving your boss friend
and violated custom, theory, law and consti-
tuition in the puttering business of keeping
Loren Fletcher's support with the thirty
eight votes of Hennepin county. If you had
resembled the other governors of this state,
YOUR fate would have resembled theirs. We
do not blame you for failing, You were only
wrong in ASPIRING to be governor and only
wronged in being given the first term.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
BUSINESS INTERESTS.

The one thing requisite in business
affairs is stability and permanence.
The speculative element in any com
mercial transaction is present to a
greater or less extent. The purpose of
every man of business is to reduce this
element to aminimum-that is, to lessen
his risks and deal with known factors.
1t is the Spectator and gambler, and
not the man of business, who is bene-
fitted by wide fluctuations; by booms at
one time and season and depression at
another. Such condition of affairs is
demoralizing. 1t multiplies risks, sac
rifices the many to the few. takes the
ordinary and legitimate profit of the
small dealer 10 swell the gains of the
man of greater means, or to divide
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10

wark" let the protectionists point out
where it is. Let him show what it does.
Let him give us facts. not idle words.
What are high wages III the protected
industries? Is it S5.06 in New Orleans
sugar refineries, Sl.79 in Ohio silk mills,
S4.S3 in New hampshire glasses houses,
S2.32 in Louisiana cotton mills, $3.50 i'll
PENNSYLVANIA w0ol-hat factories, 1919
for New Jersey carpet-weavers, S1.67
in Indiana hosieary and knit
goods mills, S6.79 in Proyi-
denoe cutlery shops, 1888 in Phil
adelphia file-shops. S2.42 in North Caro-
lima iron and steel industries, S3.l9 III
Tennessee blast furnaces, 1923 in
Georgia bloomeries and FORCES, $500 in
New York Bessemer steel furnaces,
$500 in Tennessee rolling Mills, Sl.73 in
South Carolina woGlen mills, S2,37 Id
New Jersey worsted mills?
How can protection prevent the
wages paid in other states falling to the
leVel OF the wages paid protected work
men in these states?
If protection has not prevented the
wages paid in our protected Industries
IN some states from falling far below
the pauper wages paid in foreign cOun-
tries in like industries, how can prOtec-
ton prevent wages in the protected in
duStrles in all the states from falling
far below the pauper wages paid in
foreign countries in like industries?
The Republican protectionists insist
that competition" either does now or
i'll course of time will compel the pro-
tected mill owner to sell to his country
men at or below the price of the foreign
manufacturer.
Is it not true that competition" now
forces some protected workmen to work
for the same or less wages than are paid
the foreign pauper in the same in
duStries, and in course of time will COM
pei all protected workmen to work for
their countrymen at the same or less
wages that are paid the foreign pauper
in the same industries abroad? How
many of the 13,SS6,304 workmen in I'M
protected industries desire to get be-
hind this 'bulwark" and share the
blessings enjoyed by the 905,5S5 pro-
tected bread winners?
Is it not true that competition with
the foreign pauper is confined eXclus-
lively to protected American workmen
engaged in making here the same pro-
duct the foreign pauper makes abroad
in his pauper home?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
POPE AND KING.

A dispatch in Sunday GLOBE reports
the closing discussion in the Catholic
diet at Freiburg, respecting the effort,
backed by Germany and Austria, to re-
store the temporal power of the pope.
In view of the proposed visit of En-
peror WILLIAM TO Rome, and the fric-
ton which this has caused between
church and state. the proposition of the
Catholic diet is in the last degree sig
nifcant.
When the army of Victor EMANUEL.
took possession of the Eternal CITY,"
and the papal states we're absorbed in
united Italy. Of which Rome became
the capital, Pr0testantS, free-thinkers
and religious revOlutionists in all parts
of the world predicted the sudden
downfall or the rapid extinction
of the papal power. When the
government of Catholic France or
Italy clearly showed that it was
unfriendly to this power many thought
that religious revolution like that in
augurated by LUTHER would sweep
over those countries. The same views
were enter tanned when the government
Of the republic of Mexico confscated
all the property belonging to the Cath
ollie church. When DIR. MCGIYNN was
disciplined 10y his superior in New York
many believed that there would be a
serious revolt among his parishIoners
and others who sympathiZed with him.
But apparently the church is going
on, prospecting and to prosper. What it
loses in one country it gains in another.
" hat is more, the losses are in coun-
tries that are declining in power. while
the gains are largest in countries that
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
Merriam Opposed to the In
terests Of the Working
Glasses.
He Supports a High Tax Sys-
tenn Which RObs the
Poor.
The Pauper Wages Paid to
Labor in High-Tax
Districts.
Merriam Makes No Pledges to
Favor Reduction Of
Taxes.

In his speech of acceptance of the
nomination of governor, w. r. Merriam
said not one word as to his opinion on
reduction of national and state taxes.
This candidate of the corporations and
monopoly had no voice for the farmer
or laborer oppressed by burdensome
taxes. The platform herwas nominated
on declares for high taxes, and Mer-
RAMA millionaire, the child of million
aires and the friend and ally of every
monopoliStic industry in this country
that is sworn to oppose labor and agri-
culture-is the friend and ally of high
taxes.
The following statements made by
w. E. WaggOner TO the Chicago Times
fOrcibly tells the story: "Mr. Blaine
(and Mr.. Merriam and the Republican
party say so too says that protection is
the bulwark of the high wages paid in
the United States. that the wages of
the American labOTer cannot be reduced
except with his consent sand his vote.
The Republican orators and editors pro-
pose fighting it out on that line. Is it true,
or merely an idle assertion put forward
to delude and deceive the workman?
Are there any facts making it probable
or even possible? VIII intelligent
Americans accept as divine inspiration
needing no proof improbable state
ments from politicians struggling for
the spoils of Office and using fair means
and foul to attain their ends? Will they
not ask Mir. Blaine and his lieutenantS
for some evidence?
We have 1892 900 wage-earners, of
whom 905, $50 Cat the highest estimate in
1856 are protected" OF these Is, 1885,
514 unprotected wage-earnerS 13,SS6,304
are working for American wages and an
American market, while 2,600,2l0 are
working for foreign wages and foreign
market by producing a surplus not
wanted here, which must be sold abroad
and the payment for which must be i'm
ported.
No prOtectionist. so far as known, has
ever asserted that protection directly
raised the wages of the Is, SS6.304 unpro-
tected workers. 1t is usually said that
workers wages by directly raising the
wages of the protected worker, the
prosperity of the one being shared by
the other.
What protection does for the wage
Garner must then be seen in its best es-
tate by what it does for the highly pro-
tected 905.5S5 workers. The bulwark
must be highest directly in front of
them. What improvement it may make
in the condition of the 13.SSG,304 work
ing for American wages and market is
merely the overflow from the blessings
poured out on the 9O5,5S5. AS for the
2,60O.2l0 American workmen working
for foreign wages and foreign market,
it is not probable that they are sup
posed to have any share in the advan-
tages of the protection afforded the
sos ,585, or to receive any Of the crumbs
gathered by the 13,SS6,304. They are
out in the cold.
~
A general view of sixteen industries,
in which about 50 per cent of the 905,
ss5 protected workers are engaged,
shows the following: ---.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
TO MY MOTHER.

Ginning dream by the way
With oceans rapture and roar,
/ met maiden to- day
Walking along on the shore;
Walking in maiden wise,
Modest and kind and fair,
The freshness of spring in her eyes
An the fuliness of spring in her hair.
Cloud shadow and scudding sunburst
Were swift on the floor of the sea,
And amad wind was romping its worst,
But what was their magic to me?
What the charm of the midsummer skies?
| only saw she was there,
A dream of the sea in her eyes
And the kiss OF the sea in her hair.
watched her vanish i'll space;
She came where walked no more;
But something had passed of her grace
To the spell OF the waves and the shore;
And now, as the glad stars rise,
She comes to me rosy and r.lTe,
The delight of the wind i'll her eyes
And the hand Of the wind in her hair.
w. h. Henley.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10

are increasing in importance. 1t may
be true that fine churches have recently
been erected in Rome or Paris, but
many magnificent and commodious
ones have been built in the cities of
this continent, and on an average the
church is evidently holding its own.
1t may be said that the pope has be
came conciliatory, but this is rather an
evidence of wisdom than lack of power.
Indeed. such disposition in this age OF
the world is indicative of strength.
LEO XIII. is not The first person in au-
thority who has learned that it Is better
to make friends than enemies. The last
pontiff believes that papal blessing is
mightier than papal bull.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
STATE PRESS.
VIII Not Be Active,
Winona Herald.

Winona Herald.
1t is pretty well settled that although Mr..
Scheffer Will not become an independent
candidate for governor, yet he will not weary
himself with work for Merriam. Mr.. Shelf
fer himself does not talk since the conven-
ton, but his friends and managers give vent
TO curses loud and deep, and some openly
threaten to knife the successful nominee.
They openly claim to have indubitable proofs
that Merriams friends and followers used
money freely on the last day of the conven-
ton. 1t is probable that Mr.. Scheffer will de-
vote his time for the next two months pretty
exclusively to his banking business.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10

The protection bulwark of high wages
has evidently been set up in Providence
and can not exceed S6.79. 1t may fall
far below that figure. There is nothing
to show that the Providence workman
has reached the limit. Certainly pro-
lection will not interfere to prevent a
general reduction of wages to that
figure. No wages over s6.79-perhaps
none at all-comes from protection, but
from skill and opportunity alone.
Are you not tired? Is not the strength
of chain llat of its weakest link, and
is not the claim OF protection to be the
cause of ''high wages limited to the
lowest wages paid in any one city or
state in each particular industry? If it
does not protect in Providence does it
protect in New York? If it cannot
cause high wages in Georgia can it
cause high wages in Connecticut?
But why further pursue this delusive
phantom of ''bulwark for high wages
in protection?" If there is such ''bul-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
HELP THE SUFFERERS.

Is it not time for the country to begin
to send aid to the fever-stricken people
in Florida. Those who have never felt
the breath of the pestilence, nor looked
upon the desOlation of a city stricken
with the awful terror, can have no con-
ception of the horrors with which the
sufferers stand face to face, nor of their
helplessness. Surely St. Paul will not
be behind other cities in manifesting a
disposition to a work of charity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
Take Your Choice.
Dawson Sentinel.

Dawson sentinel.
The following gubernatorial candidates
are now in the field. You pays your money
and you takes your choice:
SO00-W. R. MERRIAM-SOO0
Republican Candidate
E. NJ. WILSON-F. F. v,
Democratic Candidate.
]. DONNELLY-Sage
Labor's Candidate.
H. HARRISON-Green Grocer,
Crank's Candidate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
Looking Like a Ghost.

Lewiston Journal.
The other night gentleman visiting
at one of the cottages at Old Orchard
aroused the inmates of the same at mid
night by scudding down stairs under
bare poles and yociferously insisting
that there was ghost in his room. An
exploring expedition was organized,
led by an arm of the law, with about
clothing enough on for the leading
nymph in French opera bouffe. They
cautiously proceeded up stairs, armed
with pokers, parasols, etc. When the
full rays of Kerosene lamp were
turned INTO the room the supposed APP
partition was found to be the young gen.
tleman'S fashionable stand-up collar,
which, standing in the corner alone,
when seen by the moonlight. very nat
urally came to be taken for ghost.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10

United States senate unless he is the poses
sor of what is termed barrel" The NOM
ination of ". Il. Merriam for governor by the
Republicans yesterday is another confrma-
ton of this theory. There is nothing in his
history or service in behalf of the people to
eltitle him to this distinction,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10

Can protection prevent wages in Penn
sylvania and New York from falling to
the level of the wages paid in New Jer-
sey? Are the New Jersey wages the
high wages Of protection, or is the bull
wark in front of Georgia's workmen at
S2.29 weekly? The North Carolina and
Georgia wOrkmen have had their wages
driven below the pauper wages of Eng
land. Protection has interposed no bull
wark in their care.
Only skilled workmen-all males
compete in making edge tools and cut
lery. Let us see how they are paid in
the chief cities, according to the census
(pp. 1030-1097.)
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
Average wages. 1851.

Average wages. .S35l.S5 S6.T6
The buiwark of protection is not so
very high in any of these industries,
even if other causes do not not enter
into the question. But are these the
limits of reduction in wages i'll pro-
tected industries, and must this bull
wark of protection be thrown down be-
fore their workmen are in danger?
The forty-nine sugar refineries, pro-
tected now by 81 cents per pound duty
on refined sugar Cor 81 per cent?, ? cents
per pound going to the treasury as
tax on raw material, paid the highest
average wages-S9.42. Their net pro-
lection of IL cents on every pound of
sugar gives them s45, 100000 yearly. Six
per cent is for wages, 81 per cent for
themselves. Turning to the detailed
report of the twenty leading cities we
find the following facts by picking
them out and bringing them together:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
Merriam, the NIark.

Dulutn democrat.
The Democracy of Minnesota has coed
cause TO rejoice ami be glad to-day. Better
cause than ever before in the history of the
party in The state. Doodle, and Doodle
alone. has placed in nomination on the Re-
publican ticket for governor William r.
Merriam, ST. Paul banker. Mr.. Merriam is
man with but one recommendation to the
people-his money.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
He Made a Change.
Tiu1a

Young Man-l'd like to look at some
thing in the ring line for young lady.
Jeweler-There's nice thing for IS.
Young Man-Can't you make some
difference i'll the price? deliver ice at
your house.
Jeweler-Ah, indeed. Yes, you can
have the ring at $3.50.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
TRYING TO HARMONIZE.

The Republican senators have Obvi-
Ously concluded that it would not do to
antagOniZe Candidate HARRIsON's rec
ord by passing the Chinese bill, and
hence they hold it over for reconsidera-
ton. The working people of the coun-
try will have their opinion about this
shutting on question so important to
their friends on the PACIFIC coast.