St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-20
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.
Tariff Pictures.

HOPS-The duty on hops was eight cents
a pound. Mckinley raised it to Is cents The
price last October was
- - - so Cents.
After ten months operation OF that protec-
ton the price is
- % Cents.
Note-This picture may be safely used in
Minnesota, where few hops are grown and
some beer is drunk-Tarif Editor New York
Press.
One title well earned sticks to a man. but,
when he keeps two and tries to ride both, he
sits down between them. Mr.. Hill, for in
stance is governor of New York; he is also
senator from that state. If he were but one
of these, he would be referred to as Gov.
or Senator Hill. Governor-senator is too
much, though, and he gets mention mostly
simply as Dave Hill.
Tom Reed would like to see Mr.. Mills in
the speakers chair. Mr.. Mills doubtless is
glad that the situation is such that he cannot
give Thomas B. the wish reciprocal.
Secretary Foster thinks the wise farmers
will sell and the foolish ones will hold their
wheat. The farmers wise and foolish, will
mind their own business. Mr.. Secretary
shouldsfollOw suit For instance. where is
that treasury statement which was due
Aug. 1?
SIT is difficult to perceive how any one of
average intelligence could have been sur
prised at the rise in wheat The only re-
markable thing is that it did not come
sooner" says the Chicago Inter Ocean. IRE
publican protectionist.) 1t is remarkable, from
the Inter Oceans point of view, when we re-
feet that the Mckinley raise of five cents
bushel in the tariff took effect last October.
"All accounts agree in representing gen.
eral shortage in other countries goes on
this prodigal advocate of McKinleyism, IN
explanation of.the rise. The marvel is how
it could miss so fine a chance to claim credit
for its pet measure. 1t is sheer waste OF OPP
portunity 10 fail TO point with its index fin
ger to the % cents bUshel protection, and
with its ring finger 10 the rise in wheat and,
beaming philanthropically on the farmer,
ask him to behold how protection helps him.
The average editor of Republican country
papers never lets slip such an opportunity.
The st. Louis Globe-Democrat says it is
well that Mills, of Texas. has stopped talking
for awhile. because 1.-The stock of falsehood
in the United States is not large enough to
last him a month"; The Globe-Democrat is
in a position to speak authOritatively as to
the condition and amount of that stock; it rs
printed IN the neighborhood of NiedriGg-
haus' one-Welshman-an tin plate fac
tory.
On one point Democrats and Republicans
agree; they unite in pralsing Mckinley for
giving us free sugar. Never mind his motive;
twenty-five pounds of tree trade sugar for
a dollar is better than twelve pounds of pro-
tected sugar for the same money and il he
did give it to us so as to give more to other
classes let us put an extra spoonful of the
sweet in our coffee and thank the little Ma
poieon of protection for this merciful con-
cesSion.
But while we are making our eatables and
turntables sweeter than we could afford to
before, let us not forget that the man from
Maine would have kept us OH short allow
ance of sugar ana that he was so mad when
he found out that Mckinley andshis crowd
were actually going to give us free and cheap
sugar, he smashed his 81 plug hat all to
smithereens.
Some things are made palmer by this re-
port from Blaine-no, Bar Harbor-that
there is a man there who is Blaine's double,
and that it is he who is the very sick man
with the pailid face who goes out riding
wrapped in a heavy overcoat with the mer-
curry up i'll the nineties whom correspondents
have mistaken for the robustious Blaine. 1t
is wonder that the fertile and resourceful
Plumed knight hasn't discovered this con-
venient double before. How easy it would
have been to have had it the double and not
James who went down on his knees to Null
ligan. Blaine never speculated on his speak
ers ruling in the Fort Smith road. but it was
that bad double Of his. II was the
double not Blaine, who dabbled in the
French arms contract, and it was
the rascaily double who stopped the seal
negotiations until Blaine's friends could get
their CATCH We have no doubt that it was
this same double who smashed tt at silk tile in
tn esenate committee room because one Nc
Kinley was so foolish as 10 give the people of
this country taste of what free trade is by
taking off the protective tax on sugar, and
not the irate secretary of state.
Secretary Foster insists that the greenback
spite of the assurance of the Pioneer Press
that mo one in the treasury thinks for a
moment of using that fund" On the 18th
inst. Secretary Foster said: There is includ-
ing the Sl0O,00O,00O gold reserve, more than
500, 900 which is available in an emer-
geney." The only difference between this
and his first assertion is the subtitution or
the more Washingtonian phrase, sin any
o-uar,pv - the rT1stip OhiOaO OrpS-
sion, lin a pinch.
Low tariff Republicans whatever that
may mean, have read with pain the changed
tariff leaders in the Chicago Tribune, which
is dishing up the stuff about protection to
our labor which it has so often ridieuled,
and wonder why this is thus. An interview
with Mr.. Wakeman, secretary of the Protect
i've Tariff league, which appeared in a New
York paper last month, betrays the true in
wardness of the flop. He was confident that
Illinois, from whence he had just returned,
would be all right in 90 Il confess, though, :"
said he, that Mr.. Joseph Aedills paper, the
Tribune is doing great harm by its advocacy
Of free trade. I saw Republican who was
out and out for free tIade. l asked him what
was the matter with him. lie said
he had been reading the Tribune for
years" But here is the meat IN this egg. Il
saw Mr.. Medill's son-inlaw, Mr. Robert Pat
terson,'' continued his very fresh young
man from New York, land 1 asked him why
it was the Tribune was Republican only
three months III every four years He said
we were wrong in the East in advocating
protection. l then told him this cold fact:
If free trade president is elected in 1892
the worlds fair Will be a farce. Indeed. the
triumph of Democracy would simply Kill the
fair outright. think Robert Patterson saw
the point Illinois would be bowling viii
derness now and Chicago prairie station If
| it had not been for protection.