St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-04
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Mrs. $50 Eva Med Donald married. She'll
quit lecturing now, suppose.
Mr.. Q.-I don't see why you should think
that 1t looks to me as if she had just begun.
The Mckinley bill is certainly increasing
our exports-of tin pail and screw manu-
factories.
The proposed design of an Indians head
for the new silver dollar is fitting; the fraud
of seventy six cent dollar harmonizes nicely
with the chronic fraud of our Indian policy
The American Screw company is moving
part OF It's plant to England because the new
tariff has killed its export trade Evidently
there is screw loose in the Mckinley ma
chine.
The state of Minnesota is making some
binding Irvine over at Saltwater, and the
superintendent hopes to be able to make all
the farmers of the state want next wear. The
price of Irvine has fallen the country over
several cents pound from last years prices.
Jute. sisal and MANILA fibers, formerly pay
ing duties Of s.. SIS and SIS ton, are on the
Tree list. Sisal Irvine, taxed 3l2, and MANILA,
taxed Pig cents pound, now pay 10 cent a
pound duty. 1t is possible to import Irvine
and compete with the Irvine trust. The state
cannot make the tYine as cheaply as it can
be bought in the markets. And yet Still
water alliance points to the reduction. and
claims it as the effect of the states
embarking in the Irvine business SEN
ator Davis will probably dissent from the
farfetched conclusions of the Alliance and
claim that the reduction of the tax on the
raw material and on the Irvine which he
helped to bring about is the cause, and that
the making of few tons of Irvine by the
state of Minnesota has about the same effect
on the price that the emptying of tub of
water into the Mississippi would have in
causing the spring rise of water in that river.
But won't it be funny to hear the senator
illustrating the happy effect of the tax
Ing off Of a tax, and insisting on the
benefits OF piling on more taxes?
just why Sam Nichols should throw two
hundred month over his left shoulder is
mystery about which there are many guesses,
and here is one more. The Republican state
central committee came out of the last cam
paign with debt that crowded the figures
hard on to $1,000. 1t remains unpaid and
the creditors are pressing. The boys think
Merriam should pay it, and William thinks
they should help tote. Years ago, when there
was from fifteen to twenty thousand year
in the oil inspectorship, it helped out on
campaign expenses, If the oil companies
could be coaxed or dragooned into paying 20
cents barrel whether tanked or not, there
would be a good clear twent5 thousand a
year in it, and out of it the debts could be
paid, Sam make good thing, and q nice
fund provided for 'S2. The Standard, al
ways staunchly Republican, readily assented
The others demurred Then Sam made
cold bluff at them. He called in his stem
ellis so that the employees of the companies
could no longer make the barrel heads mar
rate that pleasant little fiction of how Sam
had inspected the contents and ascertained
the degree at which they would fash There
Will be no inspection until this fee business
is satisfactorily adjusted, and there will be
prosecutions galore if you sell uninspected
oil; so come up to the governors Office and
fix things up" The companies representa-
tives went to the governors. but neither the
awe'of the gubernatorial presence, nor that
of his serene highness, the inspector,
availed, and the recalcitrant companies
stood on their adjudged rights and the bluff
failed, and the two hundred month van
1shed, and the campaign fund of the future
is uncertain, and the debt of last year re-
mains unpaid. The whole move was only a
bob-tailed flush.