St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
"wEAR YOUR OLD CLOTHES -

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conveyances.
WEAR YOUR OLD CLOTHES"
JAY GOULD is taking hand in the
tariff discussion. He is gleeful over the
passage of the MCKINLEY bill. and in
fit of exuberant levity says that "if the
cost of clothing is increased under the
new tariff law people can equalize mat
tiers by wearing their old clothes a
longer time"
Doubtless Mr.. GOULD thought he had
said very smart thing, and laughed at
his own humor.
Let us see how it is.
JAY GoULD'S amusement is some
what in the line of the sport the boys
had when they were stoning the frogs.
TWAS fun for the boys, but death to the
frogs. Mr.. GOULD can afford to discuss
the MCKINLEY law in spirit of sport
i've jest, because it adds millions to his
pile; but the subject has more mel
ancholy coloring for the Door man who
has to earn his living by hard ticks.
JAY GoULD's daily income is more
than the aggregate earnings of all the
st. Paul workingmen for a whole year.
And yet JAY GOULD never earned
dollar of his hundreds of millions. He
never shed a drop of sweat in honest
toll, and he never realized one cent as
the return for honest labor. His colos-
sal fortune came to him in the line of
speculation and trickery.
1t has come to pretty pass when the
venerable Scoundrel can sit back in his
gOld-lined chair and laugh at the suffer
ingS of the honest toilers and taunt
them with the reminder that they can
wear old clothes if they are not able to
buy new ones. And he does it, too,
with the knowledge that the law which
compels them to wear their clothing
into shreds puts millions into his over
laden pockets.
Mr.. GOULD doesn't realize what a
dangerous direction his humor may
take. 1t may partake of the nature of
the chicken who always come home to
roost. One of the VANDERBLITs once
made remark to show his contempt for
the public, and the result was to awaken
feeling against plutocracy in this
ace to capital. Just such fool utter
ance as Mr.. CLOUD INDUCED is calcu-
| lated to arouse popular arimOsity
against the class to which Mr.. GOULD
belongs; and when popular indignation
| once becomes dashed into fury it is an
exceedingly destructive element. Ii
JAY GOULD keeps on talking on the
tariff question in the way he starts out,
| it will require but little time for him to
stir up a revolution against the tariff
barons that will wipe both them and
their fortunes out of existence.
| Poverty is no disgrace. Yet there is
| no poor man who likes to be tainted on
account of it. He is especially inceEsed
when he is tainted by plutocrat who
never earned an honest dollar.
| Wearing old clothes is not matter OF
choice with the labor classes. They
were compelled to do it under the old
| tariff The necessity for it has been in.
creased by the new law. And yet JAY
GOULD thinks that it is good thing fol
the tired wife of the labOring man tC
have more patching to do. Already hel
eyes hurt from bending over the mid
night oil, sewing on buttons and mend
ing the rents in the old garments which
have to be pieced out to protect the hus
band from the cold. Her aches, and
her pains, and her WEAKNESS are all TIT
subject of the plutocrat's mirth. Tht
luxurious furnishings of his house ar,
scarcely touched by the lew tax law
The velvet upholstery and the damasl
| h,f al Intr
the plain furniture in the laborins
mans home is taxed extortionately.
JAY GOULD doesn't say to his thou
sands of railroad employees: CPL com
pensate you for the increased cost o
living under the MCKINLEY law by rails
ing your wages" Oh, no. That ism
JAY GoULD's idea of justice between
man and man. He says: 'Fll poke
all additional profits l derive from tn
new tariff law, while you can even u
matters by wearing your old clothe
Wear your old clothes.
That is the soJace the plutocrats hav
for the toiling many as balm for tn
wound inflicted by the MCKINLEY bill
We print in this issue of the GLOBE
list of articles of everyday use ON whic
the import tax has been raised. Thi
, will convince the working people of TIL
necessity for wearing their old clothes
They don't have to be reminded of it b.
Mr.. GoULD's haunting remarks. The
have to wear their old clothes becaus
they haven't the means to buy ne,
, ones, and never will have as long as thi
high tariff law is in existence.
Wear your old clothes.'
, Yes, we will, Mr.. GOULD, just Ion
5 enough to get to the polls Oil the st
t day of next month and vote out of powe
:. the party which makes the wearing c
: old clothes a necessity.