St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-16
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.

The ''Thud'' party is what Light terms it.
Donnelly will keep it from being a 'dull
| thud," and Doc Fish will preserve 1t from
being ''sickening thud.''
The comments on the baecarat scandal of
the ministers and Liberal press of England
may appropriately be grouped under the
head: prints of Wails.''
Mr.. Quay says that Mr.. Blaine would have
carried New York in '84. eff he had had the
same influences supporting him that Har-
rison had in 49, The New York Tribune
kindly explained what everybody here
I knows were the influences that worked
in 'SS.
The Atlanta Constitution is strenuously ad-
Vocating the free. unlimited and unrestricted
coinage of the white metal just how well
qualified it is to support that cause may be
inferred from the following statement in a
recent article: THE manipulation of the
coinage act of 1873. by which the coinage of
silver dollars was dropped from the list Of
COINS. resulted in the worst panic this country
has ever known" When we consider that
for twelve years prior to 1873 there
had been neither gold nor silver in
circulation in this country, and that there
recalled that from 1879 to 1867 there had been
coined but 100000 silver dollars, it looks as
II our contemporary was attributing a most
wonderful efficacy to mere empty words.
Starting from such premises there is no
proposition, however absurd, but is capable
OF logical demonstration. The constitution
should take better care in the selection of its
foundations beforeitr ears its financial fabric.
At the editorial meet next month the ed
ftors of the Republican state papers should
get together IN some quiet corner and decide
just what they will say about the effects of
the Mckinley bill. Then we may be spared
the pain of having the LIE Sueur News asking
what articles protected by the tariff and
made in this country have not been cheap
ened in price, and the Blue Earth City Post
telling the farmers how the Mckinley bill is
giving them higher prices for eggs, OATS
wheat and live stock. Agree either that the
bill cheapens everything 1t covers or that it
enhances all values, or come out boldly and
declare it to have a see-saw effect, cheapen-
ing everything the farmer buys and making
dearer everything he sells. But be careful
that this latter view is Kept for circulation
strictly IN the rural districts, for it might
raise Hobb if it should get into circulation in
the cities, among the wage earners.
Blaine Republicans should be chary of
connecting the name of their pet and his
reciprocity schemes with any mention of the
gain in the household economies from the
reduction of the tax on sugar, because some
Harrisonian will rise to remark that when
Mckinley was putting sugar OF compare
lively free list Mr.. Blaine was free to de-
nounce the policy and to urge the retention
of the tax so that he could use it as trading
stock for his little game of reciprocity. And
then, too, the voter who has been getting his
twenty instead of twelve pounds of sugar for
dollar since April will question the states
manship of Mr.. Blaine and his considera-
ton for the people when he is told that
Blaine proposed to keep him indefinitely on
twelve-pounds- for-a-dollar sugar diet. 1t
seems to be one Of the beauties of the Repub-
Hcan tariff policy that it has double back
action movement. which makes it dangerous
to let play i'll the party.