St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-09
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.

The prohibition state of Blaine and Dow.
in recognition of the honor conferred in the
naming of one of the new cruisers Maine
presented the vessel with a silver punch bowl
and gobIets. Here's to prohibition; prosit.
San interesting state of things is the way
an evening organ of protection to labor by
taxation characterizes the strike which is on
in the shops of the American AK ard Tool
company. combination which controls half
the ak factories in this country and works
under an arrangement with the other half.
The men went out because the company
would have no union men in its employ. IL
is truly San interesting state Of things when
company which has secured from congress
prohibitory tax on foreign competitors
solely that it may msintain the dignity Of
American labor by paying it higher wages,
and then formed close combination with all
the other Ak factories so as to make its ability
to pay safe and sure, shuts down its shop be-
cause its men also go into combination to
get the wages promised. but forgotten. It
would be still more Interesting were it not
of such frequent occurrence.
The president should set some one of these
numerous commissions which are junketing
over the country at work to ascertain who is
ing down the bars and letting our great
American hog get into Germauy's pastures
Here is Willy Walter Phelps hiding under his
bangs his modest pride over the congratu-
Iatory messages he is getting on his diplo-
matte triumph. Uncle Jerry Rusk says that
he always thought the Germans were sin
cere in their belief that our pork was sickly,
and that he acted on that belief in getting
the inspection laws passed which have con-
WINGED the Teutons that the hogs they get
from us are without trichina. And last
perhaps least. Republican paper headlines
leader on the same topic with "A Triumph
of the American Hog" Now, which did it
Phelps. Rusk or the American hog? This
issue should be settled before the time comes
to nominate Harrison's successor. or it may
raise an ugly side issue
When your peonies are through blossom
ing and the frosts have cut them down you
take up the dubious roots and store them
away in the cellar so that you can have your
little buttonaire next year. And so the proc
ess goes on forever bulbs planted peonies
blooming. bulbs stored You can count OIL
1t as surely as you can on the procession of
the suns. There are some political peonies
too. There's the Golden club" which is O
great ravorite of the red Republicans. When
lHV liOSls ludl lell 50 heavily ana unexpected
ly last November had cut the exotic to the
ground, it was feared that future campaigns
could not be ornamented with it. but its dried
ana withered bulbs were stored away and it
is found that they have vitality enough to
sprout few for use in Ohio and Pennsylva-
MIA this fall. 1t is the same Dubious and rose
ate old blossom with which the country has
grown so familiar and the annual recurrence
OF which ali lovers of the good, the true and
the beautiful have learned to rely on with
bhssful certainty. This year some PennsyI-
Vania ex-congressman, or ex-something, has
Just returned from England, where he learned
on the best authority that the Golden club
was raising 100000 with which to secure Nc
Kinley's defeat. 1t will blossom in all the
newspapers until November, when it will be
put away until next year, when it's reappear-
ance may be safely counted on
The Minneapolis Tribune should be looked
atterby those interested in keeping it within
the ranks of loyal Republican organs. There
are indications that it contemplates a flop
into the Peoples party. Recently it said:
Let the silver miners and the silver specu-
lators stand on level with the farmers
manufacturers and merchants of America,