St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-08

VI 9hO AouSe lol d tliut yesterday LnOrn-
ing.
The house has now before it 456 of its
own bills and nlnty-one senate files.
MEAT INSPECTION BILL.
Why We Who Own Stock Yards
and Packing Houses Want 1t
Passed.
To the Editor Of the GLOBE.
To anyone of ordinary intelligence II
must be evident that the bill worked
through the state senate by that disin-
terested senator. President Shelter. of
the st. Paul Stock Yards and Packing
House company, should not be allowed
to languish and die in the chill air of
the house OF representatives. Of course
the Tribune, President Fletcher, of the
Minneapolis Stock Yards, and all the
rest OF us who own vacant land up
there that ought to rise in value, have a
very vivid idea of its Importance.
The health of the dear people must
be protected, though the heavens fall.
(Ot course, we don't care a tinl1er's ex-
clamation for the health of the people,
but don't, for heavens sake, let anyone
know it,
The great principle of protection is at
stake. Didn't the sovereign people of
this glorious land of the free and home
of the brave swoOp down upon the bal
lot boxes last November like the rush.
ing Of mighty wind and declare for
protection by 100000 minority?
That principle, briefly stated, is this:
That whenever new processes are dis
covered in the art of production or new
inventions made that will enable the
people to buy things cheaper, it is the
first and most sacred duty of the gov
eminent to pass law that will protect
the people from the disastrous effects
of cheaper things.
This great truth has not yet been fully
appreciated by most western nations,
and hence their applications of it to
legislation have been somewhat hating
and unsatisfactory. But time will teach
them its beauties.
Look at China. There for 1000 years
the great principle Of protection" has
been in operation in all its beauty and
grandeur, and with the most remark
able results. BY means of this great
improvement over the laws of God and
nature, the common herd of Cinnamon
have been reduced to a reasonable APP
probation of their true position. There
if gentleman wishes to hire coolie
hO uOCo llOb nave W Suu6I IUC dill
nOyance of advertising in the morning
paper and waiting some hours for fifty
or sixty to apply for the job. He just
takes stroll down the street where he
can always find thousands of coolies
waiting to be hired. He points to the
one he wants and starts for home. The
coolie follows at a respectful distance,
bringing up in time to receive the
masters orders. Another advantage
is that those coolies will work for
reasonable wages. Eight or ten cents
a day is all you have to pay one of
them,an he will dojust as much work as
a naughty Englishman or an impudent
lrishman would want a whole dollar for
doing. In China the chambermaids and
kitchen girls know their places. No
coachman there dare elope with his mas
ter's daughter. He would Immediately
get invited to ascend the celestial lad
der. And yet, with all these blessed
results of protection as PLAIN as day to
any one who will open his eyes and
look, there are still some wicked free
traders who say that the god of protec-
tionists is no god at all, but only devil,
who has borrowed sanctimonious garb
the more completely to deceive his
worshipers. This is little short Of
blasphemy, and ought to be punished
1Uuu-ulOuUIlGu
free traders beware. The abomina-
tons of free speech and free press
will not last forever. Some day we
shall copy another chapter from the
great John Chinaman, and hire a
pioUs Smith to forge law to protect US
from the evils of a free press.
Yes, the meat bill ought to pass. It will
protect US from the ''fiood of choice,
cheap dressed beef with which the
pauper COW killers of Chicago and Kan
sas City are fairly deluging u.s." Our
beef can then be killed at home, where
we can have the privilege of taxing it.
The packing houses of st. Paul and
Minneapolis will then flourish like
green bay tree, thousands of men will
be brought here to kill and pack the
beef, and we who own land around the
stock yards can get higher rents and
better prices for our lots, and can live
more as gentlemen should. We will
destroy the market monopoly of the
Chicago and Kansas City cow killers,
and then we shall be able to so adjust
things that we may protect the people
from the evileffectS of eating cheap meat.
And everybody knows that cheap meat
means cheap man outside the meat,
Harrison said so. We can buy the
farmers beef cattle at our own price
Out don't say a word about that, for
just now we are depending On their
votes to help us through, and sell 1T to
the common herd at such a price that
they will not endanger their health by
Overeating. Too much meat is bad for
poor folks; it makes them too indie
pendent. and they are not likely to
show proper respect for their superiors.
Yes, the meat bill ought to pass, but we
must not regard that as the end of orr
hopes. 1t is weli-known fact that
much pauper Southern fruit is shipped
in here. In fact, at certain seasons we
are fairly flooded with it. Now we
need law prohibiting the sale of any
bananas that have not been inspected
on the tree by our own state inspector.
That would put the price of bananas
where we should have just apprecia-
ton OF their real worth, completely pro-
tect US from the evils of cheap fruit,
and greatly encourage banana-raiSing
in the Fifth congressional district.
But, Mr.. Editor, there is another mat
ter that has been preying on my mind
ever since | left my last boarding house.
1t is well-kn0wn fact that many inno-
cent aud unsuspeeting persons each
night lay themselves between the
sheets, fondly believing that they will
soon be clasped in the arms of Nor
pheus and borne to the land of pleasant
dreams. But how vain are his cher
ished hopes. A crawling sensation
comes over him, accompanied by
painful itching sensation that
drives sleep from his eyes and slum-
Der from his eyelids. When he arises
in the morning and surveys the super
fetal area of his anatomy, he sees the
obvious remedy. We need an efficient
corps of stale bed inspectors, accom-
panied by a proper number of skilled