St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-18
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One of the juicy fruits of the Ohio cam
paign is Mr.. Shermans desperate plea that
the Mckinley bill is free trade measure, SO
to speak, while Maj. Mckinley lauds its
merits as measure ito check all imports
When Gov. Campbell finds himself called
upon second time to serve the great state of
Ohio what an awful job of reckoning there
will be within the Republican fold.
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Three years ago this fall great many
thousand voters in these United States cast
their ballots to have the little tin god of pro-
lection put upon high pedestal, surrounded
by all the magnificenee that rich trusts and
and money changers could give him and be
worshipped. 1t was done. L wonder how
many of all those thousands have had their
salaries raised by him.
With what remarkable discrimination do
the protection newspapers select unique ex
amples of seemingly encouraging changes in
Exports and imports, which examples
at least amuse ii they do not edify. and toss
up their noses at the report of the mercantile
agency OF r. G. Dun d. Co. made Sept. 30
This latter most reliable authority announces
III cold, merciless way that must send a
chill down the spinal columns of Maj Nc
kinley and the Republican editors, that dur
ing the niue months which the Mckinley
bill has been in force there have been S,s2S
failures in the United Stites as against 7,5Sl
during the same months last year. During
the quarter of year ending Sept. 30. 1891,
there were 2,754 failures. and during the same
months last year there were 546 less failures.
Respectfully referred to Archbishop OF Pro-
lection William Mckinley Jr.: Liabilities of
foil
istence of the Mckinley tariff law. Sl36. co.,
0g0. Liabilities of failures during same
months of $780, 100000 900
Who knows but twenty years from now
Baby Mckee and little Miss Cleveland may
be casting sleeps eyes at each other, and
wondering how in the world their respective
families could ever have entertained cold
and cherries thoughts of each other.
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This is strange world. and locksmiths are
not the only fellows who get laughed at by
the fat, impudent little chap with the bow
and arrows Even politicians and family
pride get knocked into smthereens by him
sometimes.
There is an English writer contributing
some readable matter to foreign journals,
who listens to the walls of the pover.y-strick-
EN- and distressed from various corners OF the
globe without any abnormal degree of char
ity and says that with the productive and
inhabitable portions of the world but
slightly used he sees no reason why all de
| serving people cannot sufficiently provide for
themselves, and the unemployed find en-
pIoyment-if they want to-" Ii this worthy
pen geuns would only open his eyes wide
enough to see clearly, and then stick his nose
into political economy only up TO the bridge,
1t might be OF q little use tor some one to
show him a few choice samples from
large stock of obstacles now on
hand. such as the fact that a perfectly worth
less and scarcely ornamental throne is being
maintained in England at an annual cost of
millions upon millions of doilars that the
car OF Russia is personally holding and
probing from LANDED rights that equal in
area the entire country of France; that the
| maharajah Of Baroda-and Heaven only
knows what earthly use he is-mulcts his
subjects under the guise of government to so
lively tune that snort time ago. when he
wanted mat for the floor of his own partic-
ular room. he felt warranted in having one
made principally of strings of rare pearls,
with borders and rosettes of diamonds at q
cost OF only 81, 100000; that i'll the senate of
this great aud glorious republic there sat last
session nineteen gentlemen who could scrape
up one hundred and forty millions of dollars
and over These little things help out anna
teur philosophers sometimes.
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If the United States warship Yorktown sue
cessfully reaches Chill, and actually haunts
the American flag in the foreign waters of a
nation that fights. one great brilliant piece OF
seamanship end naval maneuvering will
HOY han Il-r..r rxt1~.
navy.
The United States has vice president, all
statements TO The contrary Notwithstanding,
and he is real nice man, too He was dis
covered at fox hunt near Newburgh, n. j.,
the other day. His name is Morton-Levi P
Morton.
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With tariff of 60 per cent ON spectacles. it
is going to be very expensive for the Repub-
licans to see the Mckinley vote in Ohio next
month.
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There is not much in this world but that
can be credited to our beautiful tariff law.
One good Republican paper i'll New York
has been rejoicing that i'll six months the I'M
portation of knit cotton goods has decreased
81, 606,9l7. Now the Chicago Inter-Ocean
anu OIHerS Oh the llK are Hlle0 With gIee be-
cause the imports of eleven months have in
creased about S2o,0OO,OOO. AS jewel con-
sistency ought to be increasing in value on
account of its rarity alone.
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As ticker for the workingmen our friends
of the lofty tariff ideas are sounding poems
OF hilarious joy over The fact that the aver
age price of overalls in 1889 was Sl2O a pair,
and in 1890 20 cents pair; and now. under
the beneficent Mckinley law, ':they are sell
ing for70 cents" What of the din about
cheap clothes making cheap men," which
emanated from the same source only moon
or two since?
The latest and lttlest addition 10 the Cleve-
land party may not wear trousers, but she
will boss the household, her big pa included.
just the same; and at present IL would APP.
pear as if she could have the entire United
States for the asking. COLONEL Boz