St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-25
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.

The telegram which President Harrison
sent to ex-senator Mcdonald casts some
doubt on the authorship of the neat little
speeches which the president fred off from
the rear platforms of his car on his recent
tour, and which gave all the Harrison papers
such spasms of delight. The hand that
wrote them never framed the following am-
biguous Dispatch:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, June
Ito the Hon. Joseph z. Mcdonald: l am
sorry to hear of your Illness. Accept the
sympathy and the best wishes for your re-
covery of an old neighbor and friend.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Bill Hoard thinks that il was only bit OF a
shower they had over in Wisconsin last year,
and that the g. o. p. has not gone out per-
manently and will come out nice and dry
next year. William was always hopeful
cuss. even back in the days when he used to
blow the bass drum in the band of the Fourth
Wisconsin infantry.
There is wild rumor all the way from
Washington that the Peoples party at its ma
tional convention will play the little Jack
Horner act and put in its thumb and pull
out Plumb" for president. But it is about
as trustworthy as that other canard about the
low tariff Republicans of this state organic
ing to capture the next convention.
The Minneapolis Tribune has leader on
brains in Farming" This will 1ncite the
editors of the agricultural papers to say some
thing about brains in editing, by way of re-
prisal.
Silver is on the rise, touching S1.02 an
ounce. That makes standard dollar worth
IS cents to melt. Moral; Don't melt em.
The farmers are crying that there is not
enough money to do the business of the
country. No man, from the millionaire to
the tramp, has enough, and if greenbacks
were as thick as leaves in Vallambrosa no
man would ever have enough of them.
Taking all the varieties OF currency in the
country. there is about 81, SEQ COO 900. The
appropriations of the late unlamented con-
gress require the use of two-thirds of all this
money. That is, $500, 900, 900 of the money of
the country must be absorbed each year TO
pay the expenses of the federal government
Is it not worth inquiring If it would not be
just as well to have less taxing instead OF
more money?
The American Cordage trust have just in
vested S4,OO0,000 in the purchase OF compel
ing mills in Canada. They also have ''ac-
cepted the Mckinley act as the ''settled
policy of the country and ''haye adjusted
their business 10 it,
However dilatory or unappreciative West
ern farmers may be, the Louisiana sugar
planter isn't letting any grass grow under his
feet while getting in his applications for
the bounty of two cents pound on his sugar.
New Orleans papers note the filing of appli-
cations amounting to twenty million pounds,
! and that was the record of one day only.
The New York Press, which urges in and
out OF season the use of the Mckinley yeast
to raise wages, devotes three columns to
showing that, as its headlines put it, there is
IAN army Of woman applicants for work in
New York at So week." and that they can
not live on less than S.. But possibly it was
not the dignity of woman's labor that the
famous bill was designed to preserve.