St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-26
THE TARIFF sWINDLE.

All 1nCfedS0 I6 I0dll6Q mana was
laid on the followers
in of the administration
so heavily that there
War Duties. was no escape from its
clutch for men not
brave enough to subordinate party to
principle, says the New York Star. And
effect it, it has been decreed that there
shall be an increase i'll war duties after
twenty-five years of peace. fI
The enormity of the tin-plate tax to
create an industry for a favored few at
the expense of all the people escaped
defeat by one vote only. But along
with the rest of the hateful bill, that
eXaction went through by twenty ma
jorlty on the final roll call. This in
stance of utterly indefensible imposi-
ton on every food producer. workman
and householder in the land is fair
sample of the provisions of this monop-
oily fostering act. If finally enacted. it
will soon be more generally eXecrated
than any United States revenue meas
ure has ever been.
What will be the fate of the bill in
the senate? 1t is idle to conjecture, but
there is good ground for hope. 1t is
safe to say that in that branch Of con-
greSS, in spite of the desire to enforce
Reeds methods there, the discussion
will be sufficiently full to avert from
the senators the scandal that rests
upon the representatives of having
passed bill affecting the entire COM
mercial, industrial and financial life of
the country, without having even per-
mltted debate Oh many of its parts.
There is, however, reason to believe
that energetic agitation may prevail to
the extent of securing modification of
the most odious features of Nc
KinIey's monster. The house
and the success of the Democratic
amendments to the jute and wooden
schedules strengthens the demonstra-
ton. Now is the time for the New
York merchants and owners of property
devoted to commercial use to make the
most earnest effort to stay the impend-
ing calamity. Their example will be
followed throughout the country.
Every association devoted to honest
taxation. and every individual who be-
lleveS in that cause, should lend a help
ing hand. If producers. dealers and
consumers will unite now in remon-
STRANGE to the senate. the great log-roll-
ing tariff may yet be beaten, OF at least
so modified as to save the country from
some OF its most oppressive provisions.
American The trainers of the
Mckinley tariff bill
Farmer Hum profess to be the
friends of the farmer,
plugged. and the cackling over
the protection of the
American hen against the pauper hen
of Canada has been enough to welcome
an era of prosperity to American agri-
culturists. says the New York World.
But it has no such meaning. While the
politicians in congress are taxing eggs
and pointing to the dropping plumage
of Canadian poultry, they are, accord
ing to Republican congressman from
Minnesota, increasing by 700 per cent
the tax on Irvine for binding wheat.
While the friend of the negro is filling
the air with assverations that he will
keep foreign wheat and corn out of this
unfruitful land. he is taxing the poor
black man, who raises one little bale of
cotton in year, for the ties that hold
his crop together. Some day the Amerl-
can farmer will learn how he has been
humbugged. and then there will be a
change of policy and very much less
successful deceptiOn