St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-04
GLOBE TOWER SEoTS.

Donnelly proposes to launch the Peoples
party in this state. The State Alliance will
not swallow the suD-treasury medicine, and
Donnelly intends to set it aside. There
is fun ahead, but Ignatius will come out on
top in the scrimmage, simply because the pro-
portion of foolish to wise men is as hundred
to ten, and Donnelly knows it. 1t is the fool
ish he is after
Southern politicians are saying that the
question OF first Importance in their section
is money, more money, cheaper money
Southern land boomers are telling big stories
about the marvellous prosperity of the South.
Hadn't the boomers better muzzle the poll
ticians?
Columbus, o.. special. says that Tim
Byrnes is there to see about organizing Re-
publican clubs for the campaign, and that he
thinks it will take $4,000 TO do the job up in
good shape. Foster thinks that the Clubs
should sustain themselves. and sherman
thinks clubs don't amount 10 much. If the
money isn't raised it is safe to say that Tim
will agree with Sherman.
The North Dakota Alliance falls into line
. with the Peoples party and is in favor of
the government supporting everybody. The
funny thing of it all is that the Republican
papers are so severe on these schemes of the
Alliance, which, after all. are but logical
extens sion of NcKinleyism. The farmers
have found out that the provision made by
McKinleyism for them is nothing but chat,
and they propose to have some of the grain.
Mr.. Window once said that if you wished
to make Thoroughbred civil service re-
former of man put him in a cabinet posi-
ton. John Wanamaker went into the cab
met as hearty a despiser of the reform as
Clarkson himself, and now he is extending
the law and applying its provisions to pro-
motions in his department
They imported from Australia a rainmaker
and set him at work in Canton O. He gave
the crank one more tnrn than was needed,
and the result was a flood. He is now getting
up reverse action machine by which he can
stop the rain. He will wait until the next
convention of the Peoples party before
selecting the crank with which to work it.
Senator Plumb has given offense to Kansas
Republican bosses by telling the editors of
that state that the Republicans should go
slow in denouncing the Alliance, and that
they should argue with them and show them
their mistake. This advice is directly op-
posed to the course decided on by the state
central committee, and they are all down
on Plumb. But Kansas Republicanism is in
queer condition when it thinks men are to
be held by thumps and kicks.
Have the farmers stuck to the Republican
party so long that the leaders feel themselves
justified in regarding them as chumps? What
else can it mean when Secretary Foster and
Senator Hansbrough say that with good crops
and prices the discomfort among the farmers
which takes shape in Alliance and Peoples
movements will melt away, and they will be
good Republicans again? 1t does, of course,
argue great degree of stupidity when a
mass of men let themselves be used to rake
the chestnuts from the fire for others as Re-
publican farmers have, but such men as
Foster and Hansbrough should not make their
appreciation of it so plain.
Majah Mckinley makes a very cheap pa
rade of his mpartiality when he claims as a
virtue of his bantling that it makes the gov
ernment pay the same tax on its own prop
erty imported that the citizen has to pay on
his. But it is off the same piece that all pro-
tective arguments are cut Uncle Sam i'm
ports some dutiable article. He taxes the
people to get the money to pay the duty,
putsi into his tax income pocket, pays the
duty and puts the money into his tax outgo
pocket and winks at the boys and says
''Sea how impartial ! am?n Jones, who gets
his support by contributions takes a dollar
out of one pocket as a contribution of his
own, and puts it in the other pocket as
contribution TO the support fund, and says:
Boys you see tax myself just the same as
l tax the rest OF you. I'm squar, am"
Great is Mckinley and his humbug.
The Minneapolis Tribune has its several
eyes so intently set in trying to find the To-
cation of those tin plate factories that it has
been unable to turn them to the question the
GLOBE respectfully and candidly asked it.. 1t
stated that The American housewife pays
IS cents for dishpan that costs the British
maker IA cents, and the American working
man pays so cents for dinner pail that costs
the foreign factory II cents;" and. as the
plain inference that the Tribune wished to
have its readers draw was that the dishpans
and dinner pals are made in England and
imported and sold at such handsome profits
to our housewives and workingmen, the
GLOBE asked the Tribune to give, from the
treasury reports or other official source, the
quantity or value of manufactures of tin
ware imported last year or any year. Can 1t
be possible that the Tribune has been look
ing for the data and has found that there are
absolutely no imports of that kind? And If
So hasn't it the manliness to admit it9