St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-28

DO CQQdllLCus EOI 1uSlduce,
reduction in the cost of fuel or of cloth
ing would compensate for the rise in
breadStutfS. But instead Of doing this,
the men who frame and execute our laws
have made it their business to raise the
cost of all articles that are necessary
for everyday comfort.
The MCKINLEY bill, which goes into
operation next week, will increase the
prices on dry goods from Is to % per
cent. By the provisions of that bill the
main burthen OF taxation is placed on
such articles as are in most common
use. For illustration, the heaviest
taxes are put Oh cheap woolens and tin
plate. Articles of finer texture such
as the rich only can afford to buy, pay
but nominal tax. Thus the common
people, the working classes, are forced
to contribute mainly to the support of
the government and to the upbuilding
of monopolies, while those. who are
chiefly benefited by the tax pay little
or nothing.
What are you going to do about it?
But 1t is not only an increase in the
price of breadstuffs, and of dry goods,
and of tinware, and of other articles es-
sential to household furnishings, in ad-
dition to the prospect of hard winter,
which makes the prospect gloomy for
the tOilers. There is another hardship
in store.
The Pennsylvania coal barons met in
convention in New York the past week,
and, after careful review OF the situa-
ton and study of the MCKINLEY bill,
decided to put up the price of coal.
There is to be a general advance in
prices, ranging from Is to 25 per cent,
on the LIST of October, and other ad-
vances later on. They Furthermore de-
cided to limit the output, and when the
limit has been reached the mines will
be shut down. This means a hungry
Christmas for the miners, but if they
grow fractions they will be shot down
by the Pinkertons. The coal barons
are lords of all they survey. Their cas-
ties are filled with Winchester rifles,
which are serviceable in stopping the
clamors of the hungry. The increase
in the price of coal will add Is to % per
cent to the cost OF living during the
hard winter that is ahead of us.
What are you going to DO about it?
Let the head OF the average Mime
sofa family make an estimate of what
1t is going to cost him to live this win
ter. He knows what it cost last winter.
Let him add from Is to % per cent to
that for the additional cost of bread
stuffs. Then add to that from Is to 25
per cent for the increase in the cost of
dry goods. Then add from Is to % Der
cent more for the additional cost of fuel.
And when he has figured up this Is to
f5 per cent additional expense, let him
make liberal addition for the increase
Ill the cost of tinware and other articles
that he will have to buy for home use.
And when he is done figuring he will
see where the MCKINLEY bill has
landed him.
What are you going to do about it?
Ii you are partisan you will proba-
bly, do as you have always been doing
vote bllndly against your own interests.
You will continue to support the men
who enact measures for your oppression.
Rather than desert party you will go on
forever impoverishing yourself.
But if you are man possessing the
independence of manhood, you will
rebel against paying tribute to the rob-
Der clans who are eXtOrting from YOU
under cover of tariff taxes the earnings
that honestly belong to you and to your
children.
what are you going to do about it?
THE ALLEGED DISCOVERY.
The story is persisted in by the Chi
cago papers that DR.. HIRscH, German
chemist of that city of some professional
repute, has really captured the secret,
so widely and long sought, of how to
extract aluminium from the earth at
small cost. This is given as less than
Is cents a pound. 1t is the past week
alleged that he has alrea dy made 1000
pounds, getting 100 pounds of the metal
from 600 pounds of clay. 1t is also
stated that he has opened factory oc-
cupYing two fye-story buildings and
will in a short time turn out 1000
pounds per week. Four cars for the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad are to be
manufactured of the metal. If this
Chicago party has really fallen upon the
difficult secret, and has it in his exclu-
sive possession it would be worth more
than any gold mine Oh earth, and he
is not likely to be benefacter of
such magnitude as to abandon
such an opportunity to accumu-
ulate wealth, by giving the public the
metal at any approach to the cost to
him. At Is cents a pound it would al
most entirely take the place of iron. 1t
has even greater strength with less than
half the weight, is easily worked and
| does not tarnish. 1t would be the great
element in building houses, ships, cars.
| and pretty much everything. The dis
coverer prudently warns the public not
| to look for these results at once. Other
| chemists, including some in st. Paul.
| who show Specimens.of pure aluminium
| of their production, discredit the claims
of the Chicago man. Some of them
have known of his process. They as
sert that no such amount of metal can
be taken from the best clay, and there
| is none better than the blue clay found
| in this vicinity. 1t is to be hoped. in
| the interests of the arts and the pub
lie, that HIRSCH is accurate in his state
ments.
WHAT MARY WOULD DO.
DIR. MARY WALKER may be excused
for a somewhat feminine exhibition of
petulance at the refusal of congress to