St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-15
OPPOSING PRINCIPLES.

It is said that FRANK HATToN. once
a postmaster general. and now the ed
itor of the administration organ in
Washington. was so affected by the re-
turns of the election in his native state
of Iowa that he bandaged his head with
wet towel and sat by pail of ice
water all night. To a friend who called
during the evening TO eondole with him
Mr.. HATTON said: 'This is terrible.
Two more years of HARRISON and even
Pennsylvania will not be safe"
The sketch of MIR. NATIONS pros
trated condition is possibly oyerdrawn.
and it is equally probable that Mr.. HAT
TON himself had worse case of the
dumps than he would now be willing to
admit when he despaired of holding
Pennsylvania in the protection column.
Pennsylvania is there to stay. A
state that can submit to being bosSed by
DoN CAMERON and MATT QUAY will
not be nauSeated by dose of HARRI-
son. PennsylYania's protection stOm-
ach is not of the squeamish order to be
made sick by the little emetics that are
worrying the western end of the Re-
publican party.
Even if the protection diet lay hard
on the Pennsylvania stomach there is
no hope of Pennsylvania going Demo
cratic as long as the Pennsylvania Dem
ocracy continues to be dominated by
RANDALL and WALLACE. They are
sworn enemies and fight each other
with intense bitterness as long as there
is no prospect of Democratic success in
the state, but, whenever the leaven of
tariff reform shows signs of working in
the Pennsylvania lump. Mr.. RANDALL
and Mr.. WALLACE forget their old
time antagOniSmS and Immediately join
hands in their endeayor to swing the
state back to the Republicans. No. in
deed, Mr.. HATToN need not worry
about Pennsylvania going Democratic
as long as RANDALL and WALLACE are
on deck to help the administration
along.
But the very things that are making
Pennsylvania the Gibraltar OF protec-
tion are the very things that are solidi-
flying the Western states in support of
tariff reform. The things that suit the
coal barons. the oil kings. the iron mon
arehs and the railroad magnates of
Pennsylvania are not the things that
suit the sunburnt, horny-handed gran
gers of the West.
Our Western farmers are willing to
render unto the Pennsylvania Caesars
the things that are theirs, bat they are
equally determined to retain for them
selves the things that belong to them
selves.
A Western farmer performs more hon
est work in one day than Pennsylva-
mia coal baron or iron king performs in
a lifetime. And yet the government
taxes the Western farmers labor to sup
port the Pennsylvania coal baron and
iron king in their luxury.
This is the kind of tribute that the
Western farmers are tired of paying.
Human nature is human nature the
world over. As long as our tariff laws
enable the Pennsylvania coal and iron
masters to live in Oar0nial splendor
they are not going to renounce their al
legiance to the party which provides
these luxurious conditions, even though
the HARRISON administration is making
a mess of the party machine.
The same human nature that is oper-
ating in Pennsylvania is also manifest
ing itself here in the West, but in a
different direction. The Western farm
ers are tired of their condition of serf-
dom, imposed by the tariff laws. 1t
isn't IN human nature that they should
like it; and being human beings they
are organizing to regain their freedom.
The first blows of the great revolution
were struck in Ohio and Iowa last week,
and they will be followed up until the
shackles of this tariff slavery are rent
from the limbs of the producing classes.
Let Pennsylvania be joined to its
high tariff idol.
The farmers of the West are welded
to the Goddess of Liberty, and under
her banner they have arrayed them
selves. mo more tribute to monopoly"
is their war cry. In hoe signo yinces.