St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-20
NOT IN THIS WAY

Mr.. BLAINE, in his one public adj
dress of the campaign, calls on the Irish
to vote for McKinleysm because Nc
kinleyism means the industrial ruin of
England. No tidings are more crafty
ing to the hearts of the Republican
leaders than the news of foreign manu-
featuring establishments gone into
bankruptcy. They rejoice with ghouI-
lsh glee over the story OF starving work
lngmen and of the destruction of capital.
'Glorious in It's achievements is pro-
tectionism," they cry. sit IS Spreading
death and destruction over the face of
the earth.''
God has not so made the world that
any race or nation should prosper by the
sorrows or suffering of its fellows,
Neither the violence of war nor the
violence of legislation can accomplish
any good things in this way. War.
whether waged with bullet and shot or
by the enactment of unwise laws. curses
the victor as well as the vanauished.
The German empire today pays the pen
atty for its conquest of France not less
painfully than its PROSTATE foe. Peace
progress. Cannibals may grow fat on hui
man flesh, but for civilized society there
is no hope of profit in a harvest of blood
and anguish.
Suppose the MCKINLEY bill has
thrown thousands of laborers i'm foreign
lands out of employment, what good
does ii do us? Will the laborers starye?
Not if they can help it. They will i'm
migrate to America. They will come
here with their pnched and hungry
faces, crying for work. They will offer
their services for little or nothing, that
they may not die. Whom will this bene-
lit? VIII it help the Irish peasant to
whom Mr.. BLAINE appeals? Will it
help any wage Garner, whose welfare the
protectionist insists that he has most at
heart? Not at all. 1t will introduce
thousands of new competitors into the
already crowded martS of labor. 1t will
cut down the earnings of every native
workingman already in the land. This
may be the Republican concept ion of
prosperity. But is it the ideal of the
average American?
TIE HOPE OF THE REPUBLIC.
The hope of the Democracy and of
the country is in the young men. For
every mature convert like GRESHAM or
MACVEAGH there are dozen, a score.
thousand men of the new generation
s shaking off the Republican faith of their
fathers and embracing the tenets of
Democracy. Prejudice and the bloody
shirt hold no sway over the gen
Grafton that is now coming for
ward to take the affairs of this
great republic in charge. Reason and a
lively regard for the present emergen-
cies of the country are the mainsprings
OF the political activity of our young
men. They have respect for the sim
certify of their elders, but they elect to
think and act for themselves. Theirs is
the future. and theirs should be the or
dering of it.
There is an uncOmmendablep ertness,
but, at the same time, there is a whole
some significance in the reply of young
SHERMAN HoAR, the first of his notable
family to break away from the tradi-
lions of Republicanism, to the remon-
STRANGE of his worthy sire.
"YOung man," said the father. Isl
have been studying these questions for
forty years. and yet you presume to
know more about them than 1 do"
"Well, you see, sir" responded young
HoAR. 81 began where you left off,"