St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-22
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.

''The Canadian farmer takes his barley to
Buffalo and gels 80 cents a bushel for it. and
takes but 80 cents home. The American
farmer takes his barley 10 Buffalo and gets 30
cents a bushel for it and takes it all home -
Mckinley at Ada.
With all due respect major, neither does
any such thing. The American farmer
who took his barley to Buffalo got. OH the
day you made your speech, 81 cents bushel
for it if it was prime article; the Canadian
farmer who took his to Toronto got SO cents
for it, The American farmer sold his the
same day in Oswego at rs cents bushel, and
still another sold his in Minneapolis for an
upshot price of AZ cents. Ali of which goes
to show that something besides your tax of
30 cents bushel. major, makes the price of
barley.
When, in the progress of his discoveries
the Boswell of the Tribune reaches Lincoln's
Gettysburg address, what spasms of toady-
ism may we not expect when it dawns upon
him that Lincoln could not only spell and
punctuate correctly, but that he could utter
thought SO strong and clear and clothe 1t in
words so fit and simple that ali the world
has gwen it place among the classics of the
language. And what a deft apology it was
for what Boswell deemed the ilIegible scrawl
OF Lincoln that he put at the foot of the
fac-simile letter a translation of it in
type. Were Lincoln living, this would re-
mind him of the negro girl who, after her
mistress had finished writing the letter to
her lover the girl had dictated, said to her
missus: Oats all. 'cept you say please
scuse de bad 'ritin an spellin'.''
The other day the house of Harrison Lor-
inc ~ 10 ono in huildino nr.tis Na
and several tugs for the government made
an assignment stating to their creditors that
they we're obliged to assign because the gov
eminent had failed to make payments due on
the contract.
In 1885 John Roach, also a builder of war
vessels for the government, failed because
the navy department would not accept the
vessel he had built for the reason that it did
not comply with his contract.
Do you not recall the howl of indignation
which went UP from every Republican paper
at the cruelty of Mr.. Cleveland, who had
crushed Roach because he was a Republican,?
Now Harrison Loring & Co. fail because
Charley Fsster has been so cramped between
the Mckinley act for the neither and the APP
preparations of the billion-dollar congress for
the upper milestone that he cannot meet his
contract payments and is Withholding money
solvency of the treasury until after the cleo
TONS and the revelation can do no harm to
the party.
Have you heard in any Republican paper
any comment on the ruin of this Boston firm
by Secretary Foster? No; it is the other fell
/ lows OK which is gored this time
The bottom of these Kuute Nelson-Wash
ington-Minneapoli double back-action inter-
views OH his political future is that Mr. Mel
son said 10 an official in Washington. and
not to reporter, that he was really and
actually out of politics, and that he was not
candidate for anything; that the official
leaked it for to the reporter, who wired il
home as bit of news a piece OF his enter
prise, and that Mr.. Nelson was correct in his
Minneapolis denial that he had any such in
tervIew with the reporter. Like some other
men who have sat in the fierce light which
beats upon the throne" Mr.. Nelson is the
most candid when he is speaking mot for
publication
The Milwaukee Sentinel complains that no
man is considered respectable by the editors
of free trade papers if he believes in a pro-
tective tax on castor oil and shirt buttons.
The Sentinel is mistaken. Their menta
sounulless may De suspected, but not their
responsibility. That line is drawn at tin
plate.
Ignatius Donnelly testified in his Pi-Press
libel suit that he never voted a Democratic
ticket i'll his life. There are a good many
Democrats wondering when Donuelly told
the truth--now. when under oath, or when.
not on oath, he assured them that he was
Democrat; lust as good Democrat as you
are."