St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02
p. j. SMALLEY.

1t is reported, Oh what may be taken
as good authority, that p. j. SMALLEY,
the clerk of the house, has moved with
his family from Caledonia, and lighted
a new hearth fire iii ST. Paul. He will
oe valuable addition to our popula-
ton. and we ought to be glad that he is
going TO live among us. 1t is said that
Mr.. SMALLEY was once Republican,
but he is now firmly enlisted under the
banner Of the Democracy. He came
over like so much of the intelligence Of
the country, in the mugwump revolt,
and remains because he is for freedoms
cause in the new war against industrial
slavery anu the domination of monop-
oily. He has been lawyer and news
paper man in his old home in Houston
county, and has, amid many hardships,
spread the doctrines of the modern
emancipatOrs among his neighbors.
1t is only a few years ago that social
0stracIsm and almost personal violence
awaited the ree-trader, and the charge
ofeorruption by British gold was indis-
criminately hurled at every public man
who questioned the wisdom and
the eXpedlency Of protectionism. The
voice OF WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER,
the great free trade professor OF Yale
college, that noble center Of political
and religious liberty, sounded in echoe
less cadenceS for more than decade
over our land, like bell at sea around
which the waves mock and rage. Prof.
SUMNER stood, like WENDELL PHIL
LIPS of an earlier day, and denounced
the American tariff in words of fiery
eloquence because it was a sin, because
it took from one man the fruit of his
robbed the poor and made the plutocrat
king in the land.
When in the fullneSs of time the logic
of events gave new power to his speech
the hirelings of monopoly assaulted him
with shameless insult. They branded
him az the slave power had the abo-
litionists of thirty years ago. They
reyiled him, they threatened the in
stituti0n in which he was an Instructor,
they labeled him as traitor and held
him up to popular contempt and ridi-
Guile. Prof. SUMNER is a handsome
man, of amazing vitality and personal
power. Little by little his warrior
blows have counted. His pupils in
every quarter of the land have
carried the crusade, illumined by
his righteous Indignation against
protection as modern slavery.
In remote hamletS men of stout stuff
like L. j. SMALLEY, in Caledonia, have
been careless of the prejudiceS of their
neighborS, and have Stormed vigorously
the citadel of the fairfield slave own
er of our day. Intoxicated by their
dream of dominion and the defeat of
GROVER CLEVELAND, the monopolists
have worked their own ruin, as did the
hosts of slavery when the election of
PIERCE seemed to put the earth into
their hands. The repeal of the Mis-
souri, compromise made the emancipa-
ton proclamation inevitable, because it
opened mems eyes to the character of
the struggle. The MCKINLEY bill car
ried the sinful tariff into the humblest
mans house, and taught him once for
all that protection was tax which took
from him and gave to another. He had
never realized this before. He knows
it now. The free traders cause is nc
longer despised and eXecrated. Indus
trial freedom is the goal of the best
mems endeayorS. The intelligence and
strength of the nation are banded to-
gether for the new emancipation.