St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-26
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.
Nichols has resigned the oil inspectorshiI
the public is also resigned.

Singularly, the public is also resigned.
How considerate Of the public veal it was
OF the Duluth elevators to ship out that . O0O.-
900 bushels of damaged wheat without in
spection SO as to save the country from
panic. If the wheat was damaged before it
got to the elevators of course, the world was
Ignorant OF it; the wheat markets of the
world know nothing, of course, of the eondi-
ton of the wheat crop until it is safely housed
in the Duluth elevators and the state in
spectors have told the wheat markets just
what the crop is. If it was, as a witness says,
damaged in the elevators" how did it hap
pen! Ii 1t was Inspected in as damaged why
not inspect it. out the same? Where, in the
law. is there any discretion lodged with the
grain and warehouse commission or the chief
or any deputy inspector to determine whether
he will obey the requirement to inspect out
as we'll as in, if, in their or his opinion, a
panic will be averted by it? The investiga-
ton is developing situations that will require
good deal of explaining not only by the
elevator people but by the grain and ware
house people as well.
It is reported from Washington that the
president contemplates sending Blair as min
lister TO Chilli to replace Egan. Great Scott.
wasn't his reception by China chilly enough?
The Democratic state platforms have de-
nounced the grain inspection laws of this
state as a fraud on the farmers and delu-
sion. The farmers Investigation is furnish
ing proof of the truth of the accusation.
Under the coming dispensation:
Mr.. Donnelly-I wish to make a loan Of
$4,000, and will deposit as collateral my rep
utations as statesman and an author.
Inspector of Securities ub-Treasury De-
partment, United States of Amerca-Iam very
sorry. my dear sir, but your platform and the
law, you know, permit loans to be made only
on lmper:shable property.
1t is rather early to be repeating the tricks
of the campaign of IS, and we take it that
the copying of an article aiming to show the
benefit of the Mckinley bill from the New
York Tribune and credting it to the New
York Times. in which a local evening organ
of McEinleyism recently INDUCED is simply
bitof practice work to keep its joints sup
pie.
r. C. Hodges. a farmer of Delaware
county, New York, asks the New York
Tribune, among other questions, this:
why should not the American farmer
navy thS ilShb W tltidC pibo 1ot IL
products for European manufactures that the
American mill over will have to trade mill
goods for South American ana Asiatic prod
ucts:"
The Tribune has employed Roswell G.
Horr, whom some of our readers will re mem
Der as the funny man of the Republican
campaign of 'SS in this state, to answer the
Hodges whof"want to know you know"
aud the ex-congressman from Michigan thus
deity avoids the>question put:
Answer: know no reason in the world
why the farmers of the United States should
not have precisely the same right to sell
their products i'll Europe or Asia that mill
owners have
Perhaps Mr.. Horr recognizes no dlsti nc
ton between selling and trading; perhaps
he does, but makes them synonymous to
dodge Hodges and perhaps Mr.. Hodges will
be satisfied with the answer, but he will
more likely get an impression that Mr.. Horr
is trying to fool him, which he is.
t
It is bit confusing when one sits down to
try andlearn from the platform Of that Gin
cinnati convention what it is in the way of
money that Mr. Donnelly and his fellow
farmers really do want. They demand that
'encugh treasury notes be issued to transact
the business of the country on a cash basis
That means, of course, wallpaper money
shall be the only currency, for there would
De no room for or need of (and in fact MOI
gold or silver used when their de-
mand is gratified. Then, having abolished
silver, the next demand and its free
and unlimited coinage" What will be the
use of coming silver when there is paper
money enough to transact the business of the
country on a cash basis? Then to do Justice
to the old soldier-even this newparty has to
throw some sop to that Cerberus they want
him paid lin treasury notes. the difference
between the gold and paper values in which
he was paid. But why in treasury notes?'
Why not pay him now in the yellow metal?
Why. too. this tacit admission of the supe-
riority of goldl
the Minneapolis Tribune is perturbed be-
cause there are no indications that the sugar
bounty will be taken advantage of by Min
nesota farmers 1t discovers that the hin
drance is in the expensive machinery now
needed TO the economical production of
sugar, and calls for the invention of some
simple. inexpensive device that will enable
every farmer to be his own sugar maker.
What is the matter with the Mckinley bill?
Has not the hating protection we have here
tofore had been the cause of the invention Of
all the labor saving devices we now have?
VIII the Tribune cast discredit on the stall
wart bill for which its editor-in-chief voted
by even inferentially doubling that it will
create the cheap device needed to make every
farm sugar plantation? Give your old Dill
chance.
Tanner had too much mouth: Raum has
superfluity of pocket. What will be the pc
culiar deprayity of Mr.. Harrison's next pen
sion freak?